I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models

TLDR: I had 2,207 GoPro videos, and I need to rewatch them to find interesting moments from my cycling journey. I built a project to index them locally on my M1 Max using open-source ML models, search for those moments, and send the best clips straight to my DaVinci Resolve timeline. I indexed 628 videos (668.68 GB, 15h 13m 18s of footage duration), more details in the metrics table in the last section of this article.

Full article: https://iliashaddad.com/blog/i-indexed-669-gb-of-my-gopro-videos-using-my-m1-max-computer

114 points | by iliashad 3 hours ago

9 comments

  • robrain 12 minutes ago
    DaVinci 21 has indexing built-in (AI IntelliSearch). Not to diminish the work you did, but this is now available to many users (probably only Studio users since it has AI in the name)
    • iliashad 9 minutes ago
      Yes, I didn’t look at it. But does it upload your videos to the cloud or process them locally? And does it allow to provide custom faces data to help labeling faces in your videos ?

      I think Adobe premiere pro have it as well but cloud processed

  • WarOnPrivacy 1 hour ago
    I was surprised to learn that the

        M1 Max CPU is an ARM/SoC, comparable to an 11th gen Intel i9
    
    Do I have it right? Would Windows ARM performance be similar for those cpu?

    ref: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4585vs4245/Apple-M1-Max...

    • pachouli-please 26 minutes ago
      It's also a bit apples (heh) to oranges for a handful of reasons, but most impactful

      - "unified" ram makes all the system ram available as VRAM - dedicated ai coaccelerator thingy

      Both of these reasons allow the apple silicon chips to crush conventional cpus in these kind of AI model workload stuffs

      No idea about what the windows arm stuff is capable of. I know they use Qualcomm snapdragon chips though.

    • iliashad 11 minutes ago
      To your question, I can’t deny or confirm that because I didn’t tried it this project over a Windows machine yet or a machine with this config
    • owldown 14 minutes ago
      “Comparable” is maybe true if we are talking about single core performance, but for memory bandwidth, the M1 Max is about 8 times faster. Wider bus, lower latency, not even close.
  • Beijinger 2 hours ago
    Does it work for porn collections too?
    • pduggishetti 2 hours ago
      You'll need a lora for this, porn content rejection is heavy. Or you'll need a abliterated model, not sure if vision also works.

      You might want to add something like yolo finetune to detect scenes + face recognition too.

      • vorticalbox 22 minutes ago
        Vision still works perfectly fine in abliterated models.
    • iliashad 14 minutes ago
      Why it’s always the same question? Hahah. I posted my project over Reddit and I got the same one hahah
    • sarjann 2 hours ago
      Asking the important questions
    • lifestyleguru 1 hour ago
      Last time I tried whisper, it hallucinated an elaborate conversation from sounds of slapping and moaning and it took minutes to spit every single line of it.
      • 3eb7988a1663 43 minutes ago
        Parakeet has been trained to detect non-voice sounds and exclude that from identification, so you might have better luck with that family.
    • supertroop 2 hours ago
      Not sure if you’re being sarcastic but I think this is an interesting question. Would deep seek be useful here since it is local?
  • fl0id 58 minutes ago
    it is possible to use apple gpu with containers. either with podman + runkit + recent mesa or with recent vllm-metal from docker https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-model-runner-vllm-metal-m...
    • iliashad 3 minutes ago
      I was looking for a solution for this issue of running docker containers over MPS and utilizing their GPU power. I think this project will be the solution for it, I’ll try it very soon and add support for it. Thank you, much appreciated
  • lgats 2 hours ago
  • iliashad 1 hour ago
    I would love your feedback and suggestions for new improvements or features you wanna have, either in the source available version, the desktop app or blog post itself?
  • rho138 2 hours ago
    This would fit most best as a “Show HN:” post :)
    • iliashad 1 hour ago
      I tried to edit it and add Show HN, but it doesn't show the edited version. Thank you!
    • culi 2 hours ago
      The title should link to the "full article". I wonder if OP's domain name is banned or something and they're doing this to get around it
  • m3kw9 29 minutes ago
    Grab frames, lower res, classify, combine meta data. Write to sql
  • knightops_dev 28 minutes ago
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