Use case
Real estate and drone video: find the shot.
Hundreds of properties, hours of aerials. Find “twilight exterior with the pool lit” without opening every folder.
In short: Real estate and drone videographers can add property folders to Sift and search by description: “aerial, front of house, golden hour”, “kitchen, wide”. Editor terms such as drone and close-up work.
No editor needed. Sift works on its own as a desktop app on Mac and Windows: search, preview, build Selects and share footage by link without opening an editor. The editor panels are optional.
The problem.
Every property shoot repeats the same shot types, and the footage for last spring’s listing is on a drive next to forty others.
When you don’t need it.
If you deliver one property per project and name folders by address, folder search is enough. Sift helps when you reuse footage across listings.
A workflow that fits.
- Index each shoot
Add property folders as you offload.
- Describe the shot
“Aerial pool at dusk”.
- Reuse for similar listings
Find similar shots from a good one.
- Send for approval
Share a Selects link with the agent.
What helps most.
Drone, close-up and POV are understood.
Find more like this.
Agents can watch on a phone.
Even unplugged.
Questions
Does it read drone metadata or GPS?
No. It searches the picture and speech, not GPS or flight logs.
Will it identify an address?
No. It matches descriptions, not locations.
What does it cost?
$99 a year. Free for 3 days or 25 searches. No card.
Updated 2026-10-22
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Try it on your own footage.
Free for 3 days or 25 searches. No card. Then $99 a year for one computer, Mac or Windows. Everything in Sift, including the optional editor panels and one free link to share footage.