In recent years, the popularity of intelligent camera equipment has increased year by year, which has brought the number of videos growing rapidly. It is of practical significance to establish a high-quality video library for the reference of creators. In this paper we describe a video clip retrieval software, which can provide the corresponding video clips according to the needs of video creators such as directors and scriptwriters. The retrieval system is built around the traditional text based image retrieval (i.e. TBIR) method, and on the basis of which many improvements have been made, so that the retrieval speed and accuracy reach a high standard. From the practical experience, it is a successful attempt to apply TBIR to video retrieval.