Turn long videos into structured text

Tracenode converts video into a dense timestamped text format — indexable, structured, and parseable by LLMs to reason over video content without requiring access to raw footage.

Structured output from real-world footage

TIME VIDEO AUDIO BG ON-SCREEN NOTES
00:12 Speaker enters frame from left, wearing blue jacket, gesturing toward camera "Welcome back to the channel. Today we're diving into..." Office interior, desk, bookshelf Channel logo top-right Intro segment
01:45 Cut to screen recording, cursor moving across interface, clicking toolbar "So if you click here, you'll see the settings menu appears..." Desktop app UI Menu: File, Edit, View, Settings Demo starts
03:22 Return to speaker, close-up shot, nodding, making eye contact with camera "That's the key difference between the two approaches." Same office, slightly blurred Transition point

Real structured output from a long-form video

Why editors use Tracenode

How it works

Three steps to structured video text

1

Upload

Drop your video file. MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV supported. No length limits — built for long-form content.

2

Convert

Each frame is analyzed for visual changes, audio is transcribed at the word level, and on-screen text is captured — grounded in what is actually present in the footage.

3

Find key moments

Review timestamped rows, jump to specific moments, export to JSON. Dense structured text that LLMs and downstream systems can parse, search, and reason over without watching the footage.

Built for anyone who needs to understand long video

Does Tracenode preserve the full detail of the source video?

The format is designed to retain structural and contextual fidelity. Frame-by-frame delta representation captures visual changes incrementally. Word-level transcription preserves timing and speaker context. A dedicated miscellaneous field retains information that does not fit cleanly into visual or audio columns. Output quality can be verified directly by uploading your own footage.

For AI builders and developers

Use structured video text instead of raw footage. Power search, analysis, and reasoning workflows with a canonical text layer for video content.

Start with your own video

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