In this article:
- What is Video Summary?
- Creating a Video Summary
- Adding a Summary to a Note
- Best Practices to Follow While Recording
What is Video Summary?
Encircle’s Video Summary tool helps you turn on-site recordings into clear, structured documentation, without stopping to type. Instead of manually writing notes or relying on raw video, you can generate professional summaries directly from your video transcripts.
Here are some common use cases:
- Site Walkthroughs: A tech records a video while walking through a loss site, narrating damages as they see them.
- Instant Note Generation: Creating a "Cause of Loss" summary or "Damage Assessment" for a report is much easier and quicker via voice and video - especially while holding a flashlight or moving equipment.
- Office Review: Office staff can quickly read a summary of a 5-minute video instead of watching the entire clip to understand what’s happening in the field.
- Multi-lingual crews: Allow crews to create video documentation in their most comfortable, native language
*Language support: Videos can be captured in 100+ languages, transcribed, translated and then summarized into either English or French.
Creating a Video Summary
To summarize a new video:
- Open a room, tap the + button.
- Select Photos & Videos.
- Select Video and record for up to 5 minutes, providing narration throughout.
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End the recording.
- Tap Generate AI Video Summary.
- Select your preferred language for the output (English or French).
- Tap Save.
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The video will need to sync first. If you don’t have an internet connection, it will be queued until you reconnect, at which time your summary will process.
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- Encircle transcribes the audio and creates a structured summary in the background. You are free to close the video during this time. When it’s done, the AI icon will turn dark purple. Open the video.
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Tap Summary to view the summary.
To summarize an existing video:
- Open the video.
- Tap Summarize.
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The AI engine will work in the background - feel free to close the video during this time or keep it open while you wait for the summary to complete.
- If you’ve closed the video, the AI icon will turn dark purple when it’s done processing. Open the video.
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Tap Summary to view the summary.
Adding a Summary to a Note
To make the summary available for your reports, it needs to be added to a note.
- Tap Add to New Note.
- Select General Note or Room Note. *It may take a few moments to create and open the new note.
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Within the note, you can make edits to the summary as needed. You may want to rename the note to something more specific like "Damage Description", "Job Overview", "Day 2 Summary", etc.
Best Practices to Follow While Recording
- Video Summary only uses the audio transcript from your video, so be as detailed/descriptive as you can. Speak as though you’re describing the scene to someone who can’t see it.
- If you’re traveling through or talking about multiple rooms in your video, make sure to clearly state the name of each room before you provide the details or information for that room. You want to be clear about which room you’re referring to at all times.
- Make sure to give it enough info. Summaries from transcripts that are too short (<10 words) result in errors/no summary.
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