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Video With AI

Hours of video, minutes of your time.

AI Foundations · Beginner · 10 min read · 4 quiz questions

By Ronan Liedmeier, fractional head of growth and course author · Reviewed 13 October 2026

What you will learn

  • The 80% use case: summarizing videos you don't have time to watch
  • YouTube Q&A: "what does this video say about X?"
  • From video to assets: captions, clips lists, key quotes, chapter markers
  • Turning your own talking-head recordings into posts and articles
  • A gentle intro to video generation — what's real, what's demo-ware

Lesson preview

The realistic, everyday superpower with video AI in 2026 isn't generating movies — it's summarizing and querying videos you don't have time to watch, and turning your own recordings into reusable text assets. Video generation exists and is improving fast, but it's still a separate, less mature capability from video understanding. The single most useful thing AI does with video today isn't creative — it's practical. It reads (or listens to) a video and tells you what's in it, so you can decide whether the full watch is worth your time. This matters because most people have a growing backlog of "videos I should watch" — a conference talk, a tutorial, a long analysis — that never actually gets watched. A summary converts that backlog from guilt into decisions: watch, skip, or watch just the relevant part. This is the 80% use case because it applies to almost any video you encounter: work content, learning content, even entertainment you're deciding whether to commit to. It's the video equivalent of reading a book's back cover before buying it. Beyond a general summary, you can ask targeted questions about a specific video: "what does this say about pricing strategy?" or "does the speaker mention timelines?" This turns video from something you passively consume start-to-finish into something you can interrogate. This is especially useful for long-form content like interviews, panels, or tutorials, where the part you actually need might be 10 minutes into a 90-minute video. Instead of scrubbing through the timeline guessing, you ask directly and get pointed to the relevant section. The skill here is being specific in your question. "What's this about" gets a generic summary; "what does the speaker say about hiring internationally" gets you the exact answer buried in minute 47.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is "Video With AI" for?
This Beginner module in AI Foundations is for people who are new to AI tools and want practical, everyday results without jargon. It takes about 10 minutes and ends with a 4-question quiz.
Do I need to code?
No. Everything in this module works in tools like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini through a normal chat window.
What comes before and after this module?
Before "Video With AI", take "Voice & Audio" (module 16 of AI Foundations). Afterwards, continue with "Spreadsheets & Data Cleanup".

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