parsing-video

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By oaustegard/claude-skills (GitHub) · media · 158 stars · scanned at commit 487272b

Interpret video content visually by sampling frames into timestamped contact sheets that can be read as images. Use when: user asks what happens in a video; asks to summarize, describe, review, or QA video content or footage; asks about scenes, actions, people, or objects in a video; needs a storyboard-style overview of a clip; asks to find where something occurs in a video. Triggers on 'watch this video', 'what's in this video', 'summarize the video', 'describe the footage', 'contact sheet', '…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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What this skill can do

Downloads and installs other software

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Found in 3 places.

parsing-video/SKILL.md, line 12Requires ffmpeg/ffprobe (`apt-get update && apt-get install -y ffmpeg` if missing).
parsing-video/SKILL.md, line 83So treat scene-aligned sampling as a **refinement, not a replacement**: run uniform sheets first for guaranteed temporal coverage, then a scene-aligned sheet (o
parsing-video/scripts/contact_sheet.py, line 45sys.exit("ffprobe not found — install ffmpeg first (apt-get install -y ffmpeg)")

Runs commands on your computer

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Found in 10 places.

parsing-video/SKILL.md, line 19ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams input.mp4
parsing-video/SKILL.md, line 27python3 scripts/contact_sheet.py input.mp4 # 1 sheet, 4x4, whole video
parsing-video/SKILL.md, line 54python3 scripts/contact_sheet.py input.mp4 --start 95 --end 125 --grid 3x3 --tile-width 500

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parsing-video/SKILL.md, line 70TS=$(ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "select='gt(scene,0.3)',metadata=print:file=-" -f null - 2>/dev/null \
parsing-video/SKILL.md, line 90python3 scripts/contact_sheet.py input.mp4 --at "$(python3 scripts/dwell_points.py input.mp4 --max 16)"
parsing-video/SKILL.md, line 115python3 scripts/seams.py clip1.mp4 clip2.mp4 ... clipN.mp4 --out seams.png
parsing-video/scripts/contact_sheet.py, line 43out = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True, check=True).stdout
parsing-video/scripts/contact_sheet.py, line 46except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
parsing-video/scripts/contact_sheet.py, line 104result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True)
parsing-video/scripts/contact_sheet.py, line 117result = subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True, text=True)

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Install

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if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'parsing-video' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'parsing-video' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named parsing-video already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '487272b6d1d9a2c5248d9adfa2d7765f8ca2b6af' -- 'parsing-video' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'parsing-video' ~/.agents/skills/'parsing-video' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'parsing-video' ~/.claude/skills/'parsing-video' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`487272b`	80
2026-11-07	`2ef3d1f`	80