Azure AI Video Indexer – Video Analyzer for Media
Overview
Azure AI Video Indexer is a cloud and edge video analytics service that uses AI to extract actionable insights from stored videos. It enhances ad insertion, digital asset management, and media libraries by analyzing audio and video content—no machine learning expertise necessary.
Features
- Multichannel pipeline orchestrates visual and auditory cues and incorporates insights into a shared timeline
- Run video AI indexing anywhere using Video Indexer enabled by Arc, without the need to upload your files to the cloud
- Easy to evaluate and integrate, and available via web portal, web widget, and REST API
- Intuitive customization to train and fine-tune selected AI models, improve content accuracy, and configure your account
- Improve content discoverability and performance
- Enhance search experiences by using video indexing within the metadata to automatically extract data from your content
- Multichannel analysis provides information to perform a more effective search across your media archive and within each file
- Search by person, project, visual text, spoken word, entity, topic, and more
- Enhance user engagement
- Apply the extracted metadata to improve the user experience
- Use speech transcription and translation to easily add closed captioning in multiple languages
- Fine-tune recommendation algorithms based on objects and people that appear in a video, and automatically create clips from sections featuring a particular person
- Reuse the AI Video Indexer widgets or open your own applications without building the underlying infrastructure
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Pricing
- Choose a free trial account or a paid option with no quota limits
- With a trial account, you get up to 600 minutes of free indexing, or up to 2,400 minutes of free indexing if you subscribe to the AI Video Indexer API on the developer portal
- See AI Video Indexer pricing
Resources
- Documentation
- Code samples on GitHub
- Developer portal
- Get started with Azure Video indexer enabled by Arc
- Frequently asked questions about Azure AI Video Indexer
