Guide

Video briefs for AI

A video brief is structured evidence from a recording: speech, on-screen text, visual notes, and selected images, each with timestamps. FrameCast builds it on your Mac so you can hand a self-describing file to an AI without uploading the raw take to a cloud recorder.

Briefs are sampled. Short actions and tiny UI details can be missed, and those limits travel with the export. Use them when you need memory of a demo — not pixel-perfect forensic capture.

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What a brief contains

Open a finished recording in the studio and build a brief from the full original file — including areas outside a preview crop. Analysis stays local.

Speech transcription with original timing
On-screen text, image categories, and face or human locations aligned to the timeline
Selected evidence frames you can preview before export
JSON you can copy, or a compressed bundle with a storyboard

Hand it to an AI

Export the brief yourself. FrameCast does not upload it. Paste the JSON into a chat, attach the ZIP in a project folder, or drop frames into a ticket — whatever workflow you already trust.

Good fits: release notes from a walkthrough, support triage from a bug demo, lesson summaries for course prep, or a Cursor brief that remembers what was on screen.

Honest limits

Sampling means flashes, tiny icons, and one-frame gestures may not appear. If the take matters legally or financially, keep the original video and treat the brief as a companion summary — not a substitute.

Takeaways

• Briefs are on-device evidence packs for LLMs, not cloud host transcripts.
• You export JSON or a ZIP; FrameCast never uploads the brief.
• Sampling limits are declared with the file — plan for missed short actions.

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