# Programmable Media — VideoDB > One backend for every video moment, from archive to live to delivery. Make every video moment queryable, editable, and streamable by code, from archive search to clip factories, dubs, and recaps powered by the VideoDB Director Agent. **Status:** Programmable Media · In production --- ## Hero One backend for every video moment, from archive to live to delivery. Make every video moment queryable, editable, and streamable by code, from archive search to clip factories, dubs, and recaps powered by the VideoDB Director Agent. CTAs: [Book a demo](/company#contact) · [Try the SDK](https://docs.videodb.io/pages/getting-started/welcome) --- ## Real-world case studies **From dark archives to engagement engines.** OTT platforms, broadcasters, and brand teams are turning their catalogs into engagement, subscriptions, and reach with the Director SDK. - **[OTT creating vertical clips to post on social media.](/programmable-media/case-study-ott)** — OTT · Streaming. A workflow built on VideoDB: the editorial team analyses 2,500+ files, generates platform-native vertical cuts (Shorts, Reels, TikTok), and ships a season's worth of social in a week. Stats: 2,500+ files analysed · Editorial search & edit co-pilot · 9:16 vertical cuts at scale. - **[Brand & marketing agencies producing content at scale.](/programmable-media/case-study-brand-marketing)** — Brand · Marketing. Media-first brands use VideoDB to organise their assets, reuse them across campaigns, and automate stitching of custom assets, generating new content at scale without rebuilding pipelines per launch. Stats: asset library organise & reuse · auto-stitch custom cuts per channel · campaign throughput at scale. Trusted by: CloudPhysician · Voxel · Docket · Wisdocity · FutureSmart AI · Palette · Clario · Paradigm Life · Ezoic · Art of Living. --- ## Capabilities **Search, edit, dub, stream. By code.** The Director SDK is the agentic skill SDK for media editing. Cut, compose, dub, subtitle, reframe, brand. 1. **Connect your library.** Plug in your storage (S3, GCS, drives, existing archives). Cloud storage · Direct upload · Open Media. 2. **AI tags every moment automatically.** AI watches your footage like a producer — logging people, scenes, actions, and emotions so you can find any moment in seconds. Characters · Locations · Camera Angles · Soundbites · Reactions & emotions · On-screen text · Graphics · Music · Logos & brands · Crowd & ambience · + more. 3. **Search, discover, and select.** Use natural language to find moments across years of content using detailed visual, spoken, emotional and contextual understanding. Trailer cutdowns · B-roll locator · Auto chapters · Keyword search · Deep Search Mode · Face Search · Find Similar · Plot & subplot · Chat-based Interface. 4. **Spin up clips, reels, and edits.** Turn media into clips, reels, dubbed cuts, and rough edits powered by AI — export to Premiere/Resolve, or straight to your publishing stack. Intro/outro bumpers · Logos · Watermarks · Transitions · Custom subtitles · Smart vertical (object-tracking) · Effects. --- ## Where teams use it **Pilots that used to take three months run in three weeks.** OTT, broadcasters, archives, and brand teams shipping with Director SDK + custom indexes. - **OTT · Streaming — Catalog search + AI clip factories.** Premium catalogs indexed. Editors search by scene description. Director composes clip pipelines in Python. - **Broadcasters — Live event enrichment.** Match-day recaps, social cuts, and multi-language dubs ready before the production team breaks for dinner. - **Archives · Heritage — Decades of footage, searchable.** Faith, education, and nonprofit archives bring legacy media online, with provenance. - **AI editing · Creator tools — Editor copilots inside Premiere and Resolve.** Catalog search and AI clipping land where editors already work. No NLE replacement project. --- ## Want to start right away? **Bring AI to your media library, your way. Choose the path that fits your team.** Explore with Director, give teams a chat interface over your archives, or partner with our experts to build the full workflow. - **Director: Open Source.** The open-source agentic framework adopted by hundreds of media houses to build their own AI workflows on top of their catalog. [Explore on GitHub](https://github.com/video-db/Director) - **Self-Hosted Chat.** For marketing and branding teams. Drop in our self-hosted chat interface and start working on your archives in plain language. No setup, no pipeline build. [Get access](/company#contact) - **Work With Our Experts.** Want our team to realize your AI vision for your content? We scope, ship, and stand up the production workflow with you. [Book a demo](/company#contact) --- ## Deployment **One SDK. Managed or in your cloud.** Start managed, move to your own cloud later. No code changes. - **[FULLY MANAGED] Run on VideoDB Cloud.** Fastest path. We manage the compute, storage, and scale. You build with the SDK. Best for Media Teams, Agentic Startups, ML Product Teams. CTA: [Build with VideoDB](https://console.videodb.io/auth) - **[BRING YOUR OWN CLOUD] Run inside your AWS, GCP, or Azure.** Sovereign · regulated. Run it in your cloud. Keep videos in your storage. Use the same SDK. Best for Healthcare, Fintech, Defense, Telco, Regulated EU Buyers. CTA: [Talk to us](/company#contact) --- ## Try it yourself **Real notebooks for media workflows. Click any card to open.** Working examples we've published: clip factories, multi-language dubs, recaps, and catalog search. Run them in your browser before you ever pick up the phone. - **[Vertical clip factory for OTT.](/developers#oss)** Auto-surface the most shareable moments from a long-form title and generate 9:16 vertical cuts ready for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok. - **[Multi-language dubs at scene level.](/developers#oss)** Translate, dub, and re-sync scene-by-scene. Ship dozens of language tracks for a single title in hours, not weeks. - **[Live event recap & highlights.](/developers#oss)** Index events as they happen. Director composes recap reels and social cuts before the broadcast ends. - **[Semantic catalog search for editors.](/developers#oss)** Search a premium catalog by scene description, talent, or brand. Every hit a playable clip in milliseconds. --- ## Closing Want our experts to realize your AI vision for your content? CTAs: [Book a demo](/company#contact) · [Try the SDK](https://docs.videodb.io/pages/getting-started/welcome) --- © 2026 VideoDB, Inc. · videodb.io · hello@videodb.io