Guides on agentic editing.
How agentic AI video editing, video search and production workflows actually work.
14 guides · Written by the team building Broll
- 02AI Editing
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
AI Video Editing vs. Manual Editing: What Actually Changes
A practical comparison of AI video editing and manual editing — where AI genuinely saves time, where a human editor's judgment still matters, and how the two fit together.
- 03Video Search
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Semantic Video Search, Explained
Semantic video search lets you find a moment in your footage by describing it in plain language, instead of scrubbing a timeline. Here's how it works and why it matters for editing.
- 04Video Search
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Finding B-Roll With AI (and How It's Different From an AI Editor)
AI can help you find b-roll footage fast — but finding supplementary clips is a different job from editing a whole video. Here's the distinction, and how Broll's agentic editor relates to both.
- 05Video Search
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
How to Search Inside Videos (Not Just Their Titles)
Searching a video usually means searching its filename or description. Searching inside a video means finding the exact moment something happens. Here's the difference and how it works.
- 06Video Search
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
AI Clip Finder: Finding Any Moment in Hours of Footage
An AI clip finder locates a specific moment across hours of raw footage from a plain-language description, instead of you scrubbing through every clip by hand.
- 07Video Search
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Video Indexing: How Machines Watch Footage
Video indexing is what lets software search inside footage instead of just around it. Here's what actually gets indexed, and why it's the foundation of AI video editing.
- 08Video Search
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Natural-Language Search for Video Libraries
Natural-language video search lets you type a plain description of a moment and get the moment back, instead of guessing the right keyword or filename.
- 09Video Search
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Search Footage by What's Said vs. What's Shown
Some moments are only findable by what's said out loud; others only by what's on screen. A footage search system needs both layers, not just a transcript.
- 10Video Search
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Video Embeddings 101
Embeddings are the underlying technique that makes semantic video search possible. Here's what they are, in plain terms, and why they matter for editing.
- 11AI Editing
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
How AI Removes Silences and Dead Air
Cutting silences and dead air by hand is one of the most repetitive parts of editing. Here's how AI handles it, and where a human pass still needs to review the result.
- 12AI Editing
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Prompt-Based Video Editing, Explained
Prompt-based video editing means describing the edit you want in plain language instead of manually placing every cut. Here's what it can and can't do today.
- 13AI Editing
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
Auto-Captions That Don't Embarrass You
Auto-captions are only useful if they're accurate and match your platform's style. Here's what actually determines caption quality, and how to avoid the ones that misfire.
- 14AI Editing
Aug 23, 2026 · 1 min read
The Cost of an 8-Hour Edit (and How to Get It to 12 Minutes)
An eight-hour manual edit costs more than the editor's time on the clock. Here's where that time actually goes, and what changes when an agentic editor does the first pass.