All prebuilt tools VIDEO SCENE DETECTION API

Detect Scene Changes in a Video

List the timestamps where the picture cuts to a new scene, then pick trim, split and clip boundaries from real cuts. Run the preset directly on this page or call the same agent-ready endpoint from your product.

Run this tool View API recipe

LIVE TOOL

Run detect scenes

Drop a video, adjust the defaults if you need to, and download the result here.

BEFORE / AFTER

See what the tool changes.

A real example: the after side is the unedited output of a KinoPipe job. Run the live form above to generate the same result from your own media.

BeforeSource video

WebM · VP9

mountain.webm

AfterCompatible MP4

Ready

MP4 · H.264

mountain.mp4

Demo footage: public-domain timelapses (Bureau of Land Management, Oregon · NASA SVS). Processed by the same pipeline the API and MCP tools call.

BUILT FOR AUTOMATION

Useful defaults, typed options.

The tool slug stays stable while your agent supplies named media inputs and a narrow set of documented options.

No encode, analysis only
Adjustable sensitivity
Feeds trim, split and clip calls

What this preset does

01Decode the video stream
02Score every frame for scene change
03Keep frames above the threshold
04Return timestamps as JSON

Stable endpointPOST /api/v1/tools/detect-scenes

Live API request

SYNCED WITH FORM

{
  "inputs": [{ "id": "main", "url": "https://example.com/video.mp4" }],
  "options": { "threshold": 0.3 }
}

Successful output example

{
  "result": {
    "output": {
      "filename": "detect-scenes-output.mp4",
      "contentType": "video/mp4",
      "byteSize": 437021,
      "downloadUrl": "https://cdn.kinopipe.com/…"
    }
  }
}

CONSTRAINTS