> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.videodb.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> Find and understand video content using natural language queries and multimodal search

## Video Search and Understanding

**Turn video archives into searchable, understandable knowledge.** Find exactly what you're looking for in hours of video content using natural language queries. Extract insights from spoken words, visual content, and on-screen information.

### When to Use This

* You have meeting recordings and need to find "what did the client say about the budget?"
* You want to extract all clips where a specific person appears
* You're building video Q\&A for your content library
* You need to search across both what's spoken AND what's shown
* You want to extract slides, diagrams, or on-screen content from recordings

### What You'll Build

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Keyword Compilations" icon="search" href="/examples-and-tutorials/video-rag/keyword-search">
    Search for specific words/phrases and auto-generate highlight reels
  </Card>

  <Card title="Character Extraction" icon="user" href="/examples-and-tutorials/video-rag/character-clips">
    Find all scenes where a specific person appears using face recognition
  </Card>

  <Card title="Multimodal Search" icon="brain" href="/examples-and-tutorials/video-rag/multimodal-search">
    Combine spoken word + visual search for comprehensive queries
  </Card>

  <Card title="NFL Game Analysis" icon="tv" href="/examples-and-tutorials/video-rag/case-study-nfl">
    Search and analyze sports footage with multimodal understanding
  </Card>

  <Card title="Conference Slide Scraper" icon="presentation" href="/examples-and-tutorials/video-rag/use-case-conference-slides">
    Extract slides and on-screen content from conference recordings
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How It Works

```
Upload Video → Index (Spoken + Visual) → Search → Get Timestamped Results → Play/Export
```

Every search result includes:

* **Timestamps** - Exact start/end times
* **Playable URLs** - Stream the matching segment instantly
* **Relevance scores** - Confidence in the match
* **Text evidence** - What was said/shown

## Related Documentation

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  <Card icon="message-square" title="Natural Language Query" href="/pages/understand/search-and-retrieval/natural-language-query">
    How semantic search works under the hood
  </Card>

  <Card icon="database" title="Collection Search" href="/pages/understand/search-and-retrieval/collection-search">
    Search across your entire video library
  </Card>

  <Card icon="layers" title="Indexes and Search" href="/pages/core-concepts/indexes-and-search">
    Core concepts behind video indexing
  </Card>

  <Card icon="clock" title="Timestamps & Clips" href="/pages/understand/search-and-retrieval/timestamps-clips-streams">
    Working with search results
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
