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, classify, and generate text based on your videos.

Upload videos pane: Allows you to upload videos quickly.
Endpoints pane: Provides quick access to the Search, Classify, and Generate endpoints.
Indexes pane: Allows you to create a new index and shows the most recently used indexes. For each index displayed, you can upload videos to it and directly access the Search, Classify, and Generate pages.
Sample videos tab: Allows you to experiment without uploading and indexing your own videos.
Subscription details: Shows details about your current plan and allows you to upgrade it.
External links: Provides links to the documentation website and the Multimodal Minds Discord server. To ask questions or share feedback, start a conversation with our agents from the Help menu.
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: