VideoDB Documentation

Pages
- Welcome to VideoDB Docs
- Quick Start Guide
  Video Indexing Guide
  Semantic Search
  Collections
  Public Collections
  Callback Details
  Ref: Subtitle Styles
  Language Support
  Guide: Subtitles
  How Accurate is Your Search?
- Visual Search and Indexing
  Scene Extraction Algorithms
  Custom Annotations
  Scene-Level Metadata: Smarter Video Search & Retrieval
  Advanced Visual Search Pipelines
  Playground for Scene Extractions
  Deep Dive into Prompt Engineering : Mastering Visual Indexing
  How VideoDB Solves Complex Visual Analysis Tasks
  Multimodal Search: Quickstart
  Conference Slide Scraper with VideoDB
- Examples and Tutorials
  Dubbing - Replace Soundtrack with New Audio
  VideoDB: Adding AI Generated voiceovers to silent footage
  Beep curse words in real-time
  Remove Unwanted Content from videos
  Instant Clips of Your Favorite Characters
  Insert Dynamic Ads in real-time
  Adding Brand Elements with VideoDB
  Elevating Trailers with Automated Narration
  Add Intro/Outro to Videos
  Audio overlay + Video + Timeline
  Building Dynamic Video Streams with VideoDB: Integrating Custom Data and APIs
  AI Generated Ad Films for Product Videography
  Fun with Keyword Search
  Overlay a Word-Counter on Video Stream
  Generate Automated Video Outputs with Text Prompts | VideoDB
  VideoDB x TwelveLabs: Real-Time Video Understanding
  Multimodal Search
  How I Built a CRM-integrated Sales Assistant Agent in 1 Hour
  Make Your Video Sound Studio Quality with Voice Cloning
  Automated Traffic Violation Reporter
- Live Video→ Instant Action
- Generative Media Quickstart
  Generative Media Pricing
- Video Editing Automation
  Fit & Position: Aspect Ratio Control
  Trimming vs Timing: Two Independent Timelines
  Advanced Clip Control: The Composition Layer
  Caption & Subtitles: Auto-Generated Speech Synchronization
  Notebooks
- Transcoding Quickstart
- Director - Video Agent Framework
  Agent Creation Playbook
  Setup Director Locally
- Workflows and Integrations
  Zapier Integration
  Auto-Dub Videos & Save to Google Drive
  Create & Add Intelligent Video Highlights to Notion
  Create GenAI Video Engine - Notion Ideas to Youtube
  Automatically Detect Profanity in Videos with AI - Update on Slack
  Generate and Store YouTube Video Summaries in Notion
  Automate Subtitle Generation for Video Libraries
  Solve customers queries with Video Answers
  N8N Workflows
  AI-Powered Meeting Intelligence: Recording to Insights Automation
  AI Powered Dubbing Workflow for Video Content
  Automate Subtitle Generation for Video Libraries
  Automate Interview Evaluations with AI
  Turn Meeting Recordings into Actionable Summaries
  Auto-Sync Sales Calls to HubSpot CRM with AI
  Instant Notion Summaries for Your Youtube Playlist
- Meeting Recording SDK
- Open Source
  LlamaIndex VideoDB Retriever
  PromptClip: Use Power of LLM to Create Clips
  StreamRAG: Connect ChatGPT to VideoDB
- VideoDB MCP Server
- Give your AI, Eyes and Ears
  Building Infrastructure that “Sees” and “Edits”
  Agents with Video Experience
  From MP3/MP4 to the Future with VideoDB
  Dynamic Video Streams
  Why do we need a Video Database Now?
  What's a Video Database ?
  Enhancing AI-Driven Multimedia Applications
  Beyond Traditional Video Infrastructure
- Customer Love
- Join us
  Internship: Build the Future of AI-Powered Video Infrastructure
  Ashutosh Trivedi
  Playlists
  Talks - Solving Logical Puzzles with Natural Language Processing - PyCon India 2015
  Ashish
  Shivani Desai
  Gaurav Tyagi
  Rohit Garg
  Edge of Knowledge
  Language Models to World Models: The Next Frontier in AI
  Society of Machines
  Society of Machines
  Autonomy - Do we have the choice?
  Emergence - An Intelligence of the collective
  Building Intelligent Machines
  Part 1 - Define Intelligence
  Part 2 - Observe and Respond
  Part 3 - Training a Model
  Updates
  VideoDB Acquires Devzery: Expanding Our AI Infra Stack with Developer-First Testing Automation

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Automate Subtitle Generation for Video Libraries

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Automate Subtitle Generation for Video Libraries

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Goal:

This workflow takes video URLs, uploads them to VideoDB, indexes spoken content, adds subtitle overlays directly to the video, and saves the subtitled videos to Google Drive. It creates professional subtitle overlays that are permanently embedded in the video.

The workflow is useful for creating accessible video content with professional subtitle styling that works across all platforms, unlike platform-specific auto-generated subtitles.

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Prerequisites:

N8N Instance: Running N8N automation platform (cloud or self-hosted)

VideoDB API Key: Obtain from VideoDB Console

VideoDB N8N Node: Install the custom node in your N8N instance

Google Drive Account: With API access for file uploads

Video URLs: Access to video content that needs subtitles

Main Workflow Steps:

Step 1: Video Input and Upload

Form trigger collects YouTube video URL for subtitle processing

Upload video content to VideoDB for processing

Wait for upload completion before proceeding

Step 2: Spoken Content Indexing

Monitor upload status via HTTP request polling

Index spoken words from the video content

Generate timestamped transcript for subtitle creation

Step 3: Subtitle Generation and Overlay

Use VideoDB subtitle operation to add subtitle overlays

Create professional subtitle styling embedded in video

Process video with precisely timed subtitle overlays

Step 4: Google Drive Storage

Download subtitled video from VideoDB

Upload subtitled video to Google Drive folder

Store video with subtitles permanently embedded

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Conclusion:

This workflow creates professional subtitled videos with embedded subtitle overlays, making content accessible across all platforms while maintaining consistent subtitle styling and timing.

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