AI Quick Tips 75: Summarize videos

You probably don’t have enough time to watch all of the online videos that you want to watch.  I know I don’t.

Just on YouTube alone, there are videos to learn just about anything.  But sometimes you don’t want to watch that entire 4-hour video just to find out that they never talked about the thing that you care about.

With modern AI chatbots, you can summarize the videos on most platforms.  Then you can see if it’s worth watching the whole thing or not.

The exact way that you can do this keeps changing because they are constantly changing the platforms, but I think that the general steps will be enough.

1. Navigate to the video
2. Get a transcript of the video
   1. How you do this varies by platform
   2. On YouTube - expand the description and find “show transcript”.  This will open a small window next to the video with the transcription and time stamps (that you can remove if you want)
3. Copy the transcript
4. Paste/Upload the transcript to your AI chatbot of choice
5. Prompt the chatbot to summarize the video

If you are starting with a YouTube video, then Gemini is probably the best choice right now.  This is because YouTube is already integrated with it so you can paste in the address of the video and prompt in one step.