## overview
VidSlice indexes third-party video material (photos, clips, B-roll) into a LanceDB vector store, signs every entry with Ed25519 for tamper detection, and serves results over HTTP. Built to plug into the OpenCut short-video pipeline.
Pain → Solution → Value
Every team rolls its own frame extractor and embedding pipeline. Vendors cannot be trusted with raw production assets, yet indexing has to happen somewhere. VidSlice gives the outsourced team a standalone CLI: hand it materials, get back a signed standard index that OpenCut consumes directly.
Pain
Material processing fragmented
Every team rolls its own.
Solution
Standalone CLI + LanceDB index
One tool, one output format.
1
Tool, 408 tests
Pain
Vendors can't be trusted with raw assets
Production credentials at risk.
Solution
Indexed output, no raw access
Signed index flows back, raw stays.
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Raw-asset isolation
Pain
Index format inconsistent
Group A's index doesn't load in B.
Solution
Signed standard index
Every team's index looks the same.
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Deterministic OpenCut input
Pain
Pipeline reinvents vector store
Each partner reinvents ingestion.
Solution
Signed LanceDB output
One integration per partner.
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Integration per partner, forever
What changes for the team
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Pain
Outsourced indexing without leaking secrets
- Every team rolls its own frame extractor and embedding pipeline — formats drift across groups.
- Vendors cannot be trusted with raw production assets, yet indexing has to happen somewhere.
- A clip indexed by group A rarely loads cleanly in group B's pipeline.
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Standard index format across teams
Solution
One CLI, one signed LanceDB output
- Hand it raw materials — VidSlice walks the directory, extracts frames, computes embeddings.
- Writes a signed LanceDB index that OpenCut consumes directly.
- Outsourced teams never touch production credentials, repos, or downstream services.
408
Tests passing on every release
Value
Third parties index, secrets stay home
- Outsourced teams run VidSlice on materials they're given; signed index flows back to OpenCut.
- Index format consistent across vendors — no per-partner normalization layer.
- Production credentials, source repositories, and downstream services stay inside the perimeter.
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Integration per partner, forever
## technical architecture
## product architecture
## capabilities
Vector index
LanceDB-backed, 3-frame extraction, parallel workers.
Ed25519 attestation
Every entry signed; tamper-evident.
OpenCut compatibility
v0.5 read / v0.6 write opt-in.
Streaming pipeline
NDJSON progress events · incremental updates.
## screenshots
## metrics
- 408 tests
- 3-frame extraction per clip
- Parallel workers (configurable)
- NDJSON progress events
- v0.5 / v0.6 compat flags