🎥 What “video recognition models” really are

Think of them as chatbots that watch videos. Models like those from Moondream literally decode video into text inside their neural layers, describing what they “see” frame by frame, as if narrating a film in a chat window.

You can even try it yourself: upload a clip or turn on a webcam, it detects faces, smiles, and transitions (“ETM” cuts to black) fairly well, though it struggles with software UIs or text-heavy screens.

Why it matters for AI editing: Most “AI video editors” don’t actually see the image, they work through text triggers from auto