What you’ll learn
Learn how to quickly find the content you need using Overcast’s powerful search capabilities. This tutorial demonstrates how to perform simple and advanced searches, refine results with filters, search by metadata and AI-generated insights, and use text recognition to locate specific words within media. Whether you’re searching a small collection or a large media library, these tools help you find the right asset faster.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:
- Perform a simple keyword search
- Refine search results using projects, folders and filters
- Filter assets by media type, upload date, file size, resolution and duration
- Use different search types, including Contains These Words, Any of These Words, and Exact Phrase
- Search using AI-powered text recognition within media
- Adjust AI confidence levels to refine search results
- Use AI-generated labels and categories to discover relevant content
Who should watch?
This tutorial is ideal for content creators, media managers, marketers, editors and anyone who needs to quickly locate assets within an Overcast media library.
Prerequisites
- An active Overcast account
- Access to a media library containing searchable assets
- Permission to view the projects and folders you want to search



