The Video API Preview ended on October 30, 2017. For previous Video API customers, we recommend you try the new Video Indexer API Preview where you can easily extracting insights from videos and enhance content discovery experiences.
Unlock video insights

Upload your video, and go
Start turning your video into insights right away. No more tedious and error-prone manual indexing. And no need for specialized expertise. With Video Indexer, just upload your video, and start finding insights right away, without writing a single line of code.

Easily create intelligent apps
Now, the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) is within reach of every enterprise with Video Indexer. Simplify your development by using the language of your choice, easily embedding widgets, and eliminating the need for glue code.

Make your content more discoverable
Quickly and easily extract insights from videos using artificial intelligence. Enhance content discovery experiences such as search results by detecting spoken words, faces, characters, and emotions.

Improve engagement with your videos
Metadata extracted by Video Indexer can be used to build powerful engagement experiences with recommendations, highlight clips, and interactive videos.

Trigger workflows and automate tasks
When Video Indexer sees, hears, or detects what you’re looking for, it can set off an automated chain of business processes, without manual intervention. So you can create workflows and automate your downstream tasks easily using the scale and breadth of Azure.

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