# Video Forge Video Forge turns an uploaded interview, podcast, webinar, or clip into platform-ready content. It handles the media pipeline end-to-end: upload, processing, transcription, transcript analysis, visual enrichment, built-in clipping, and multi-platform post generation calibrated to your Brand Voice. ### The pipeline Every upload moves through five stages. You can watch progress live on the session page; the tracker auto-advances as each stage lands. | Stage | What happens | | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Uploading** | Your file streams directly to Mux via a signed upload URL | | **Mux processing** | Mux transcodes and prepares signed playback | | **Captioning** | Mux generates subtitles; the transcript is fetched, stored, and made available in the session workspace | | **Analyzing** | AI extracts summary, key topics, hooks, strongest quotes, key moments, and follow-up angles | | **Ready** | The session can generate content and visual insights | Long videos are analyzed in parallel windows and then merged, so a 90-minute interview does not time out. ### Session workspace Opening a session gives you a player, transcript, and workspace tabs: * **Player + transcript** - searchable transcript with clickable timestamps and copy controls * **Insights tab** - summary, key topics, strongest quotes with timestamps, best hooks, key moments, and follow-up angles * **Visual tab** - visual summary, alt text, visual chapters, on-screen text, chart or screen references, and clip suggestions when the live video asset is still available * **Content tab** - the video overview and generated posts; returning to a session with generated posts opens this tab automatically * **Generate tab** - multi-select menu of output types; only output types that make sense for the video's duration are shown Visual insights require the live Mux asset. If the source video has already been pruned, transcript and written insights remain available, but visual enrichment and thumbnail remixing cannot use the original frames. ### Built-in clipping and thumbnails The Visual tab can suggest clippable moments. Use **Create clip** to cut a short MP4 from a suggested range, or **Use in X post** to carry that clip context into the Generate tab. This is built directly into Video Forge. The same session can be used to transcribe the source, inspect the strongest moments, cut short clips, and generate platform-ready copy grounded in that material. Generated content cards can also open **Remix Thumbnail**. The remix tool starts from a Mux thumbnail when available, falls back to the cached frame when possible, and lets you refine or download the result. ### Fast vs Best Same toggle as [Content Forge](/thecontentforge-docs/feature-guides/content-studio.md): **Fast** runs a single-pass generation, **Best** runs a deeper evaluation pass. The choice persists per user. ### History The **History** button at the top of a session opens a floating overlay listing every prior video session for the org. Pick one to switch sessions without losing your place; start a fresh upload from the same overlay. ### What the Generate tab writes Each selected output becomes its own row in the [Generation Queue](/thecontentforge-docs/feature-guides/generation-queue.md) and then appears in the Content tab when done. All outputs are grounded in the transcript and AI-extracted insights, then passed through your [Brand Voice](/thecontentforge-docs/feature-guides/brand-voice.md). Video Forge can generate: * **X Post** * **Quote Card** * **Key Takeaways** * **Instagram Caption** * **Facebook Post** * **Telegram Update** * **Teaser Copy** * **Clip Titles** * **Follow-Up Angles** * **X Thread** * **Episode Summary** Short clips show the fastest-fitting options first. Longer videos unlock outputs such as Clip Titles, X Thread, and Episode Summary. ### Publishing Publishable outputs can be copied, revised, remixed when applicable, published now, scheduled for later, or manually logged after posting elsewhere. If your org does not use an approval workflow, any user can publish through an already-connected publishable profile. If approval is enabled, send behavior is gated by the configured minimum approver role. Scheduled, pending-approval, posted, failed, and manually logged posts appear on the [Calendar](/thecontentforge-docs/feature-guides/calendar.md). ### Deletion and retention A **Cancel** / **Delete** button on the session header stops running work and removes the transcript, insights, and drafts. If the session is attached to a pending post, cancel that post first. Transcripts are available for 60 days after upload. Source video assets are retained based on your plan or custom override; the default source-video windows are 48 hours on Starter, 120 hours on Pro, and 288 hours on Enterprise. Pruned sessions stay in history for reference, but visual features that need the live video source are unavailable after pruning. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://thecontentforge.gitbook.io/thecontentforge-docs/feature-guides/video-studio.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. 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