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Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

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Re: Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

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Cool idea, but keyframes are not videos. Motion, object permanence, are not things Claude can infer from a set of images. Nice demo though!

I have been going through this with claude and qwenvl3:8b this week. Both are pretty decent at inferring context and analyzing contact sheets. Finding high visual interest moments with a mixture of coarse and fine keyframes.

Might be time to check gemma :)

Re: Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

#56
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly this. Gemini is best at this. Just give it video link - YouTube works best - and it will analyse the video.

Really, does this work now? What about NotebookLM? I was using it a lot until i realised it was only analysing the transcripts and not the video because i was mostly using it for technical ones with important charts.

NotebookLM still uses the transcript method I think. But Gemini is wonderful. I have been using it to analyze the youtube videos of wrestling matches (trying to build a fan website for WXM, the best pro wrestling promotion to come out of India in a while). It does move by move analysis, audience reaction based match flow tracking, isolates interesting parts of the video (big moves, botches, story beats etc). I have run some experiments to get video editing plans out of it. I think I can combine it with something like remotion skill to make highlight videos.

Edit: BTW, you can analyze about 8 hours a day on free tier.

Re: Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

#57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Identifying objects in pictures was considered an insurmountable task only a few years ago, like in the xckd comic https://xkcd.com/1425/

In the general case, I guess. But watching gauges and dials like battery capacity only take a little work with a deterministic computer vision library.

Or just using voltage pickups like every system that monitors battery voltage ever, or about a dozen other very simple solutions.

Re: Claude-real-video - any LLM can watch a video

#60

This looks cool but this should be renamed without having Claude in the name.

llm-real-video would be a much better name

Took this — pip install llm-real-video works now, same tool. Kept the original repo name so existing links don't break.
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