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Official capability boundary

  • Anthropic’s public API does not expose a dedicated video-generation endpoint
  • Claude is better suited to video understanding than video rendering
  1. Route true video generation to OpenAI video or Gemini long-running video
  2. For video understanding, preprocess frames or transcripts and send them to Claude /v1/messages
  3. Use Claude for script refinement, summarization, or scene analysis

cURL example

Python example

Node.js example

Best practices

  • Keep generation and understanding as separate product workflows
  • Persist preprocessing artifacts for reproducibility
  • Use Claude for analysis, not as a pretend video generator