Describe a Video: Scene Captions, Timeline & Summary
Turn a video file into text: frames are sampled, repeated shots are skipped for free, and every new scene gets a caption with its timestamp, a timed scene list and a one-paragraph summary of the whole video. For video search, chapters, accessibility descriptions and LLM pipelines. MP4/WEBM/MOV from your storage.
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