Different shoots, the same sorting problem.
Tabor8 does one thing: after a shoot, it watches every frame, works out who is in it, and gives the footage back to you filed by person. What changes from job to job is what you do with those folders next. Five common ones are below.
Wedding videographers
One day, a dozen moments, forty people in frame, and a couple already asking for their highlights.
A wedding is shot across getting-ready, ceremony, portraits, speeches and the party - multiple cameras, no shot list, no second take. Before an edit starts, someone watches all of it to find every clip of the couple, the parents, the wedding party and the guests who will be asked about later.
Upload every card from every camera in one go. Tabor8 scans the footage overnight and hands back a folder for each person it finds, plus a b-roll folder for the wide and detail shots with nobody in them. Each clip comes cut with a few seconds of lead-in and lead-out, ready to drop on a timeline. If it splits one person into two folders, you merge them yourself in a couple of clicks.
Business impact: The sorting pass - the part between wrapping the shoot and starting the story - is done before you open your editor.
Sports and highlight-reel shooters
Every clip of number 22, pulled from four hours of multi-camera game coverage.
Team and player reels mean finding one athlete across a whole fixture, then doing it again for the next player, and the next. Scrubbing every angle for every name is most of the job and none of the craft.
The full game uploads once. Tabor8 groups the footage by player, so a per-athlete reel starts from that person's folder instead of a raw timeline. Fast motion and side-on angles are where face recognition is weakest, so treat the first pass as a 90 percent cut of the scrubbing, not a final selection - the manual merge tool is there for the folders it splits.
Business impact: A reel per player becomes a selection job from a sorted folder, not a search through the whole match.
Corporate and conference events
A multi-day event, several rooms, and a client who wants "everything with our CEO in it" by Friday.
Conference and corporate coverage produces hours of footage across keynotes, panels, breakouts and networking. Client requests come in by person - the executives, the speakers, the award winners - and each one currently means another pass through the files.
Upload the whole event. Every recurring face - speakers, hosts, sponsors, staff - gets a folder. When the "can we get all the shots of..." email arrives, the answer is already sorted, and you can send that person's folder as its own share link without exporting anything.
Business impact: Turnaround on a by-person request drops from a re-scrub to opening a folder.
Schools and performing-arts productions
A concert or production filmed for the school, and every family wants their own child.
School productions, prize-givings and sports days are filmed once and cut many ways - a full show for the school, and shorter pieces built around individual students for their families. Finding one student across a two-hour recording, repeatedly, is the bottleneck.
The recording uploads once and comes back grouped by student. A per-student share link opens straight to that child's clips, with no account needed at the other end, so it can go to a family directly. Share links open from anywhere - the people receiving footage are not region-restricted the way signing up for an account is.
Business impact: Per-student cutdowns start from a folder that already exists, and delivery is a link rather than a separate upload.
Production agencies and multi-shooter teams
Three operators, five cards, and an editor who has never met the people on screen.
When the person shooting is not the person cutting, the hand-off carries a hidden cost: the editor has to learn who everyone is before they can assemble anything. Footage from several operators also has to be pooled and reconciled before that starts.
All operators' cards upload into one project. Tabor8 pools them and sorts by person across the whole set, so the editor opens a project where the people are already separated and labelled by face rather than by camera or card. A project can be shared with a collaborator, who works from the same sorted folders.
Business impact: The shooter-to-editor hand-off starts from sorted footage instead of a naming exercise.
Whatever the shoot, the boundary is the same. Tabor8 sorts and delivers; it does not search by what was said, run a client approval round, or export a timeline. The full account of what it does and does not do is on Why Tabor8.
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