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 Twelve Labs 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. Upload videos pane: Allows you to upload videos quickly.
2. Endpoints pane: Provides quick access to the Search, Generate , and Embed pages.
3. Sample indexes pane: Allows you to experiment without uploading and indexing your own videos.
4. Indexes pane: Allows you to create a new index and shows the most recently used indexes. For each index displayed, you can upload videos and directly access the Search, Generate, and Embed pages.
5. Subscription details: Shows details about your current plan and allows you to upgrade it.
6. User profile menu: 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

Before you start using the Playground, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

• Sign up for a free account, or if you already have one, sign in.
• You're familiar with the concepts that are described on the Platform overview page.

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
   • Generate text from video
   • Visualize embeddings