# Archival footage · VideoDB

> Build agents for archival footage.

Years of games, streams, ads and meetings sit in storage, and most of it can only be found by file name. VideoDB understands every frame, so your agents can find any moment and turn it into a clip or a report.

Canonical: https://videodb.io/archival-footage · Talk to us: https://videodb.io/contact.md · Add to Claude: https://videodb.io/claude

The page opens with a short video of an editor cutting footage at his desk, with three handwritten notes: years of footage, searchable by what happens in it; the ask, "every goal from last season, as one reel"; one reel comes back, with a 9:16 cut for social.

## What teams ask of their archives

Agents search every frame and every word, then cut, caption and publish the moments they find.

| Team | Asked | What comes back |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sports | "Every fourth-down conversion this season." | `search_collection` finds the plays, with game and clock; `compile_clips` makes one reel |
| Gaming | "The clutch rounds from last night's stream." | `search_video` finds the rounds, with timestamps; `generate_clip` makes a highlight for each |
| Social media | "Posts where our logo is on screen and the caption never names us." | `search_collection` finds the posts, with seconds on screen |
| Advertising | "What is on screen before each ad break?" | `understand_video` returns scene labels for each break, as JSON |
| Meetings | "When did we agree on the launch date?" | `search_video` finds the moment, with what was said and shown |

Sports footage, measured: https://videodb.io/blog/nfl-game-analysis-vlm-hallucinations.md · Meetings: https://videodb.io/blog/how-i-built-call-intelligence-with-videodb.md · The tools agents use: https://videodb.io/agents.md

## Claude edited our launch video

Raw takes, a 12-slide deck and our paper went in. A captioned 2:14 cut and three vertical versions came out, and nobody opened an editor.

- **Takes**: the best take for each of the 12 beats, picked from the transcripts.
- **Checks**: the agent indexed its own render again and fixed the cuts that started early.
- **Captions**: in the house style, saved so the next video gets them on request.

The session: https://videodb.io/blog/claude-edited-our-launch-video.md

## Know what your audience sees

The same understanding, as signals for your marketing, content and ad teams. The social listening recording is a real app; the retention and ad break pictures are illustrative, with invented numbers and breaks.

- **Social listening that sees the screen**: find every post where your brand or a competitor is on screen, including the ones whose caption never names it. The page shows a screen recording of Read the Room, a social listening app built on VideoDB: brand visibility across public Bose videos (detected screen time, spoken mentions, on-screen text), a side-by-side comparison with Sony, then the moments where the brand name is on screen, each playing at its exact time.
- **Retention, next to what was on screen**: your analytics show where viewers leave. Line that up with what they saw at each drop, such as a logo card with no face on screen at 0:07, or a sponsor read held on one static shot for 48 seconds at 4:12.
- **Context for every ad break**: describe the scenes before each break, so the ad fits the moment and stays brand-safe. A kitchen with a family at the table fits cookware; a car on a rainy highway fits tires or travel; an argument with raised voices puts the break on hold. The labels arrive as JSON, or as events while the video streams.

## About VideoDB

VideoDB is video infrastructure for agents and devices that see. 1,000+ developers and agents use it every week, and it has processed 300+ TB of video. It runs on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, or in your own cloud, with a SOC 2 Type II report and a DPA for GDPR. https://videodb.io/legal/security.md

## Run a pilot on your own archive

Bring a season of games, or a month of streams and posts. We agree on the signals and the bar with you before we start. [Talk to us](https://videodb.io/contact.md) · [Add to Claude](https://videodb.io/claude)