Automated Video Editing with YOU as the Star!

In this lab, you will learn how to combine the capabilities of Amazon Rekognition Video and Amazon Elastic Transcoder to automatically convert a long video into a highlight video showing all footage of a given person.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create a _face collection_ in **Amazon Rekognition**, teaching it the people that should be recognized
• Use **Amazon Rekognition Video** to search for faces in a saved video file
• Collect the individual timestamps where faces were recognized and convert them into clips of defined duration
• Stitch together a new video using **Amazon Elastic Transcoder**

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Architects
• Developers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• None

Course Outline

• Task 1: Connect to a Linux Instance
• Task 2: Create a Face Collection
• Task 3: Perform a Face Search on the Video
• Task 4: Create an Amazon S3 Bucket to Store your Video
• Task 5: Create an Elastic Transcoder Pipeline
• Task 6: Convert Timestamps into Scenes
• Task 7: Check the Result
• Task 8: Perform Label Detection (Bonus!)
• Task 9: Clean up resources