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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
      • icon picker
        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-light
      Director - Video Agent Framework
      • Agent Creation Playbook
      • Setup Director Locally
    • Workflows and Integrations
      • zapier
        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
        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
    • github
      Open Source
      • llama
        LlamaIndex VideoDB Retriever
      • PromptClip: Use Power of LLM to Create Clips
      • StreamRAG: Connect ChatGPT to VideoDB
    • mcp
      VideoDB MCP Server
    • videodb
      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
      • videodb
        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

Custom Annotations

Enhance your understanding of videos by using our simple annotation and tagging pipeline. To enable this, you can create a new Scene object. Then, pass your annotations in the description field and index them using index_scenes() function.
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VideoDB allows multiple indexes on video objects. This is advantageous as it allows you to attach additional context to each scene, enhancing the search functionality.

Scene:

info
A Scene object describes a unique event in the video. From a timeline perspective it’s a timestamp range.
video_id : id of the video object
start : seconds
end : seconds
description : string description
Each scene object has another attribute, frames, which contains a list of objects. However, we don't need them here for custom annotation pipelines because we are bringing the description from outside.

Create a new Scene

Create new Scene objects and add your custom annotation as description.
from videodb.scene import Scene

# create scene object and patch your description
scene1 = Scene(
video_id=video.id,
start=0,
end=100,
description="Detective Martin is being interviewed by the police.",)


scene2 = Scene(
video_id=video.id,
start=600,
end=900,
description="A religious gathering. People are praying and singing")

# create a list of scene objects
scenes = [scene1, scene2]



Index and search scenes

Index using the list of scene objects and use the index_id for search
from videodb import IndexType

#create new index and assign it a name
index_id = video.index_scenes(scenes=scenes, name="My Custom Annotations#1")

# search using the index_id
res = video.search(query="religious gathering", index_type=IndexType.scene, index_id=index_id)

res.play()

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Custom annotations unlock additional features
Adding application context into the search pipeline.
Generate unique descriptions from your own custom vision model.
Index manual annotations.
Read more about Scene object in

 
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