What problem does it solve?
Claude cannot natively process video input, making it impossible to ask questions, get summaries, or analyze the visual and audio content of videos without manual watching. This Skill closes that gap by enabling full video analysis directly within Claude.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Universal Video Support: Works with public URLs from yt-dlp supported platforms (YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, etc.) and local video files (.mp4, .mov, .mkv, etc.)
- Smart Content Extraction: Auto-scales frame extraction to video length to optimize token usage, and retrieves timestamped transcripts from native captions first, with a Whisper API fallback for videos without captions.
- Practical Use Cases: Analyze competitor ad creative hooks, diagnose UI bugs from screen recordings, summarize long-form videos, and extract key spoken and visual details for any video content.
Quick Start
Use the watch skill to analyze the content of the YouTube video at https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ and tell me what happens at the 30 second mark.