> For clean Markdown of any page, append .md to the page URL.
> For a complete documentation index, see https://docs.twelvelabs.io/v1.3/docs/guides/llms.txt.
> For AI client integration (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), connect to the MCP server at https://docs.twelvelabs.io/_mcp/server.

# Guides

> In-depth guides for the core capabilities of the TwelveLabs Video Understanding Platform.

This section provides in-depth guides for the core capabilities of the TwelveLabs Video Understanding Platform.

#### [Search](/v1.3/docs/guides/search)

Search for specific content in your videos using text or image queries.

#### [Analyze videos](/v1.3/docs/guides/analyze-videos)

Analyze videos to create different types of text based on their content.

#### [Create embeddings](/v1.3/docs/guides/create-embeddings)

Create embeddings from your video data for semantic search, hybrid search, recommender systems, anomaly detection, and other applications.

> In-depth guides for the core capabilities of the TwelveLabs Video Understanding Platform.

## Docs

- [Search](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/search.md): Find moments in your videos using natural language, images, or both.
- [Search with text, image, and composed queries](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/search/search-with-text-and-image-queries.md): Search videos using text, images, or both.
- [Entity search](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/search/entity-search.md): Find specific people in videos.
- [Query engineering](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/search/query-engineering.md): Craft effective search queries. Learn techniques to improve relevancy and accuracy of your search results.
- [Grouping](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/search/grouping.md): Retrieve search results organized by video or as a flat list.
- [Filtering](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/search/filtering.md): Filter search results to find more specific content in videos.
- [Analyze videos](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/analyze-videos.md): Analyze videos to generate text based on their content, including quality control of AI-generated video, such as checking a clip against its prompt and detecting visual defects.
- [Structured responses](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/analyze-videos/structured-responses.md): Retrieve JSON responses from video analysis. Define schemas, stream results, and integrate into your applications.
- [Tune the temperature](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/analyze-videos/tune-the-temperature.md): Control the randomness of the output. Balance creativity and determinism.
- [Prompt engineering](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/analyze-videos/prompt-engineering.md): Craft effective prompts for video analysis. Learn techniques to improve output quality, relevance, and precision.
- [Segment videos](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/segment-videos.md): Transform raw video into structured, timestamped data by defining the segments and fields that matter to your application.
- [Create embeddings](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/create-embeddings.md): Create multimodal embeddings for semantic search, RAG systems, and other downstream AI tasks.
- [Embed a query](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/create-embeddings/query.md): Create a single embedding from text, images, video, and audio synchronously.
- [Embed content at scale](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/create-embeddings/at-scale.md): Create embeddings for video, audio, images, and documents asynchronously.
- [Video embeddings](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/create-embeddings/at-scale/video.md): Create embeddings for a video file asynchronously.
- [Audio embeddings](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/create-embeddings/at-scale/audio.md): Create embeddings for an audio file asynchronously.
- [Image embeddings](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/create-embeddings/at-scale/image.md): Create embeddings for an image file asynchronously.
- [Document embeddings](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/create-embeddings/at-scale/document.md): Create embeddings for a document file asynchronously.
- [Embeddings for indexed videos](https://docs.twelvelabs.io/docs/guides/create-embeddings/indexed.md): Retrieve embeddings from previously indexed videos.