This paper provides an overview of the tasks submitted to TRECVID 2012 by ITI-CERTH. ITICERTH participated in the Known-item search (KIS), in the Semantic Indexing (SIN), as well as in the Event Detection in Internet Multimedia (MED) and the Multimedia Event Recounting (MER) tasks. In the SIN task, techniques are developed, which combine video representations that express motion semantics with existing well-performing descriptors such as SIFT and Bag-of-Words for shot representation. In the MED task, two methods are evaluated, one that is based on Gaussian mixture models (GMM) and audio features, and a \semantic model vector approach that combines a pool of subclass kernel support vector machines (KSVMs) in an ECOC framework for event detection exploiting visual information only. Furthermore, we investigate fusion strategies of the two systems in an intermediate semantic level or in score level (late fusion). In the MER task, a \model vector approach is used to describe the semantic content of the videos, similar to the MED task, and a novel feature selection method is utilized to select the most discriminant concepts regarding the target event. Finally, the KIS search task is performed by employing VERGE, which is an interactive retrieval application combining retrieval functionalities in various modalities.