Time-Travel Debugging: Building a Video Evidence Layer with Moment Indexing

Building a Video Evidence Layer: Moment Indexing With Timecoded Retrieval In today's digital age, video has become an essential knowledge source for many organizations. Whether it's training videos, internal demos, walkthroughs, webinars, or support screen recordings, most of the time, video is the only place where a procedure was ever explained end-to-end. However, when we need to revisit a specific step in the video, our requirement isn't a summary of the entire video; it's "Tell me what to do, and show me exactly where it happens." The Problem with Linear Timelines Most systems still treat video as a linear timeline, making it challenging to query and retrieve specific sections. Even when we find the right section, it's hard to verify and share. Text search solved this problem for documents by providing direct and citable retrieval. However, video is harder to handle. Chapters and Transcripts: Not Enough While chapters and transcripts help with navigation, they don't reliably answer