Sign up for Azure AI Video Indexer and upload your first video - Azure

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03/22/2024

Important

Due to the Azure Media Services retirement announcement, Azure AI Video Indexer announces Azure AI Video Indexer features adjustments. See Changes related to Azure Media Service (AMS) retirement to understand what this means for your Azure AI Video Indexer account. See the Preparing for AMS retirement: VI update and migration guide.

Note

Face identification, customization and celebrity recognition features access is limited based on eligibility and usage criteria in order to support our Responsible AI principles. Face identification, customization and celebrity recognition features are only available to Microsoft managed customers and partners. Use the Face Recognition intake form to apply for access.

You can access Azure AI Video Indexer capabilities in three ways:

The Azure AI Video Indexer website: An easy-to-use solution that lets you evaluate the product, manage the account, and customize models (as described in this article).
API integration: All of Azure AI Video Indexer's capabilities are available through a REST API, which lets you integrate the solution into your apps and infrastructure. To get started, see Use Azure AI Video Indexer REST API.
Embeddable widget: Lets you embed the Azure AI Video Indexer insights, player, and editor experiences into your app. For more information, see Embed visual widgets in your application.

Once you start using Azure AI Video Indexer, all your stored data and uploaded content are encrypted at rest with a Microsoft managed key.

Note

Review planned Azure AI Video Indexer website authenticatication changes.

This quickstart shows you how to sign in to the Azure AI Video Indexer website and how to upload your first video.

When you visit the Azure AI Video Indexer website for the first time, a trial account is automatically created for you. With the trial account, you get some free indexing minutes. You can later add a paid account. With the paid option, you pay for indexed minutes. For details about available accounts (trial and paid options), see Azure AI Video Indexer account types.

Supported browsers

The following list shows the supported browsers that you can use for the Azure AI Video Indexer website and for your apps that embed the widgets. The list also shows the minimum supported browser version:

Edge, version: 16
Firefox, version: 54
Chrome, version: 58
Safari, version: 11
Opera, version: 44
Opera Mobile, version: 59
Android Browser, version: 81
Samsung Browser, version: 7
Chrome for Android, version: 87
Firefox for Android, version: 83

Supported file formats for Azure AI Video Indexer

See the input container/file formats article for a list of file formats that you can use with Azure AI Video Indexer.

Upload

Sign in on the Azure AI Video Indexer website.
To upload a video, press the Upload button or link.

Note

The name of the video must be no greater than 80 characters.
Once your video has been uploaded, Azure AI Video Indexer starts indexing and analyzing the video. As a result a JSON output with insights is produced.

You see the progress.

The produced JSON output contains Insights and SummarizedInsights elements. We highly recommend using Insights and not using SummarizedInsights (which is present for backward compatibility).
Once Azure AI Video Indexer is done analyzing, you'll get an email with a link to your video and a short description of what was found in your video. For example: people, spoken and written words, topics, and named entities.
You can later find your video in the library list and perform different operations. For example: search, reindex, edit.