Developer releases open-source CLI tool to search video clips using natural language

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A developer has released binquery, a local Python command-line tool that lets users search video clips by typing a descriptive sentence rather than recalling a filename. The tool uses ffmpeg to extract three frames per clip and OpenCLIP ViT-B-32 to build a visual index stored as plain JSON and NumPy files, requiring no database or external service. Results are returned as a ranked shortlist with scoring signals, but the developer cautions these should not be treated as reliable semantic explanations of retrieval quality. The tool is intentionally limited in scope, stopping short of timeline generation or automated editing, and is designed to assist rather than replace human editorial judgment. Version 0.3.0 is available under the MIT license on both GitHub and PyPI.

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