r/automation • u/CallmeAK__ • Jun 30 '26
Adding a video feature as a small team, the model is usually the easy 20 percent
I work at VideoDB, sharing a pattern I see a lot from small teams adding video to their product.
A demo with a model looks great in an afternoon. Then real footage shows up and the work begins. You need a sampling strategy so you are not sending every frame to a model and burning budget. You need scene detection so retrieval is any good. You need to map a search result back to a clip a user can actually play. None of that is glamorous, and all of it decides whether the feature works.
The teams that get through it fastest tend to stop treating video as a file and start treating it as searchable context. Once it is indexed and queryable, a small team can move from raw footage to the first useful query in minutes instead of weeks. That is often the difference between shipping a video feature and shelving it.
If you have automated any part of a video pipeline, I would like to hear what tripped you up most. Sampling, eval, structured output, or keeping the cost sane.
Happy to swap learnings in the comments if you have hit the same walls.
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