Director

Director is an open source framework from VideoDB for building AI agents that work with video. A user gives a plain language instruction, such as uploading a video and sending its highlights to Slack, and Director's reasoning engine orchestrates a set of specialised agents to carry out the task and stream the result back. The hosted version at this address now opens as the VideoDB Console, which turns video files, live streams, cameras and screen recordings into structured, searchable context for AI agents. It is aimed at developers, creators and media teams who want to automate video work through conversation or code. The framework ships with more than twenty prebuilt agents that summarise videos, search for specific moments, create clips, index a media library, dub and edit audio and video, translate and add subtitles, add overlays, extract frames and generate longer videos with voiceovers from a script. Results appear in a chat interface with built in video playback. Developers can customise the agents or write new ones and connect language models and other generative AI services, all running on VideoDB's video as data infrastructure. The framework itself is free and can be self deployed, with one click templates for Render and Railway. The hosted console offers $20 in free credits at sign up with no credit card required. VideoDB's paid usage rates are not shown on the console sign in page. Self hosted installations are configured with the user's own API keys, and the framework is built to run on VideoDB's infrastructure rather than as a standalone video engine.