The Playground is a sandbox environment specifically designed to provide you with a hands-on experience in exploring and testing the various features of the TwelveLabs Video Understanding Platform. This intuitive web application is a powerful tool for product managers, developers, and AI enthusiasts to familiarize themselves with the platform’s capabilities and experiment with its functionalities.

The Overview page

When you open the Playground, by default, you see the Overview page. From here, you can follow the basic steps for using the Playground described in the Get started with the Playground section below or try out the predefined set of examples to search and generate text based on your videos.

1. Sidebar: Access the pages you use most frequently.
2. Tour TwelveLabs features: Watch a brief introductory video showcasing the key capabilities of the platform.
3. Get started: This section allows you to perform the following tasks:
   • Drop videos or browse files: Quickly upload videos.
   • Personalized quick links: Access customized shortcuts based on your profile, which may differ from the example screenshot shown above. Your responses during the initial setup wizard determine your profile.
   • Explore our examples: Try out predefined examples to search and generate text based on videos
4. My indexes: View your most recently used indexes and use the Create Index button to create new ones.
5. Usage indicator: Displays how many minutes of video you have indexed compared to the total minutes included in your plan. If you need additional capacity, see the Upgrade your plan section.
6. Book a Demo: Schedule a personalized demonstration tailored to your enterprise use case.
7. Invite: Invite your team members to share resources with them. For instructions on setting up and managing this feature, see the Organizations section.
8. User profile: Manage your account settings, such as API key, integrations, and billing. You can also log out of the Playground from this menu.

Get started with the Playground

Consider the following basic steps for getting started with the Playground:

1. Create an index
2. Upload videos
3. Perform one of the following tasks:

• Search
• Analyze videos
• Visualize embeddings