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/design:video-analyze

Analyze ONE video clip (or a folder / the active canvas's clips) end to end — picture AND sound — in one command. Extracts scene-aware keyframes (skill footage-keyframes / `maude design smart-frames`: scene cuts + action beats + endpoints, not a blind frame rate), transcribes the audio (`maude design transcribe`, whisper local / cloud), then the footage-analyst watches the smart frames with the transcript folded in and writes a FootageAnalysis sidecar (shots, on-screen text, mood, tags, summary, best moment, AND a speech section) plus a human "what is this about" report. Analysis-only — distinct from /design:reel, which goes further and assembles a cut. Wraps `maude design smart-frames` + `maude design transcribe` + the footage-analyst agent + skill footage-keyframes.

PropertyValue
Command/design:video-analyze
Categorydaily (daily)
Argument hint<clip|folder> [--from-canvas] [--engine auto|gemma|ffmpeg|blind] [--frames N] [--no-audio] [--out <path>]
Sourceplugins/design/commands/video-analyze.md

Description

Analyze ONE video clip (or a folder / the active canvas's clips) end to end — picture AND sound — in one command. Extracts scene-aware keyframes (skill footage-keyframes / maude design smart-frames: scene cuts + action beats + endpoints, not a blind frame rate), transcribes the audio (maude design transcribe, whisper local / cloud), then the footage-analyst watches the smart frames with the transcript folded in and writes a FootageAnalysis sidecar (shots, on-screen text, mood, tags, summary, best moment, AND a speech section) plus a human "what is this about" report. Analysis-only — distinct from /design:reel, which goes further and assembles a cut. Wraps maude design smart-frames + maude design transcribe + the footage-analyst agent + skill footage-keyframes.

Invocation

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/design:video-analyze <clip|folder> [--from-canvas] [--engine auto|gemma|ffmpeg|blind] [--frames N] [--no-audio] [--out <path>]

Summary

Understand a video the way an editor would: what happens on screen AND what is said, distilled into structured metadata + a plain-language summary. This is the analysis front-half — it does NOT cut anything (that's /design:reel). The heavy

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