Create Perfect Summaries of Video Transcripts with AI for free

[Yurcee]

Some other notes and upgrades of interest

You can add to your prompts text like: “Detect when speakers shows slides or drawing on a board and mark these with ==Add screenshot here==.”
Pretty good.

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I tried DeepSeek free API from Openrouter today.
Looked promising but allows maximum tokens that is 1/6th of Gemini Flash Thinking Exp for a context window. May be okay for 1 hr videos or less.

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In this recent writeup, I offered a different YT player to go with your AI summary work:

YouTube Player - pinnable pop-up modal

More of what I call fiddling, but could be useful for some people… At the end of this write-up, I talked about using Page Preview + Hover Editor and Surfing in conjunction to have YouTube auto-play pop-up on our timestamps. My problem with that was that there is no way to resize that pop-up and the window was not draggable or pinnable. There is another method to get a window with YT videos playing: right-click on the url and open the Surfing web view in Hover Editor, which is pinnable, but th…

Useful for adding more details AI may have missed, or learning about the topics with video context available, so you can even jot down some of your own ideas while the video plays. Window can be dragged and pinned.