# Ellie, the AI agent that watches video so editors do not have to.

> Case study: Ellie, an AI agent that watches long-form video, extracts moments, scores quality, and ships clips to production pipelines.

Canonical: https://alexcinovoj.com/case-studies/ellie

Long-form video in, ranked clips out. Ellie analyzes scenes, transcribes speech, scores moments against editorial rules, and ships the best segments to a production pipeline.

## Editors spend hours scrubbing for ten seconds.

Podcast clips, sales-call highlights, security footage review. The valuable seconds hide inside hours of footage. Manual review does not scale, and most 'AI video' tools stop at autoscroll.

## Scene-aware analysis with a scoring rubric.

### Scene detection

Visual and audio change-point detection to chunk the timeline.

### Transcription

Open-weight ASR with speaker diarization for cost-efficient throughput.

### Editorial scoring

Claude scores each chunk against a domain-specific rubric. Highlights surface ranked, not random.

### Clip export

Ranked clips written back into the customer pipeline, ready for human review or auto-publish.

## Hours of footage to a ranked shortlist in minutes.

Used in podcast post-production and internal review workflows. Scales horizontally for batch jobs.

## Common questions.

## Have video your team cannot keep up with?

Scoping the data, the rubric, and the pipeline runs through Systems Decision Audit at TechTide AI. Technical write-ups live on alexcinovoj.dev.