Chapter 3. Analyzing Videos

In the previous chapter, we looked at different APIs for processing images. We are going to cover one new API: the Video Indexer API.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • General overview of Video Indexer
  • Guide to Video Indexer using the prebuilt UI

Diving into Video Indexer

Video Indexer is a service that allows you to upload videos and gain insights from the videos that you upload. These insights can be used to make videos (and by extension your content) more discoverable. They can also be used to improve user engagement.

General overview

Using artificial intelligence technologies, Video Indexer enables you to extract a great deal of information. It can gain insights from the following list of features:

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