Lost in the news was their update to gemini video analysis yesterday, dramatically cutting tokens (up to 88%!) needed to analyze videos.
replyhttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...
Interesting side note: although Opus is still image-only, you can still drag videos into Claude Code and it doesn't blink an eye; it just strips it down to a series of images to parse.
replyTrue multimodal support would be way better, but I have no issues pasting in full screen recordings while QA'ing games and having Claude identify and fix issues in the video.
Agree - I do video editing via Claude Code and it does the job just fine. A lot of my tasks involved frame accurate cutting and to do so it will make a composite image of several consecutive frames in a single image and analyse it that way.
replyYeah we use it a lot for analysing streams and clipping content. As well as analysing social content that gets put out.
replyWe transcode everything to 480p before we send it to Gemini batch api. Works great