A Summary Analysis opened to a detailed section with its source time range and preview
Why use Summary Analysis
Visual, speech, and people searches are most effective when you already know where to look. A Summary Analysis gives an editor or agent that initial map of the footage. For example, an agent can read the overview of a long interview, open only the sections about a promising topic, and then limit its transcript search to those source ranges. On a documentary archive, it can compare overviews across many files before spending time on detailed searches.A summary is navigation and reasoning context, not final source evidence. Verify exact quotations in the underlying transcript, identities with frames or People analysis, and edit points against the source media before using them in an edit or factual claim.
Before you begin
- Summary Analysis requires Jumper Pro.
- The file must have completed visual analysis.
- Speech analysis and face analysis are optional, but they can add useful dialogue and character context.
- Naming recognized people in the People tab can make the result more useful.
- An AI summarization model must be downloaded to your computer. The available choices are Small, Medium, Large, and Extra large.
Create a Summary Analysis
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Open the Media tab
Open Media and make sure the footage has completed visual analysis.
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Choose a batch or an individual file
For a batch, select the media and use the Summary Analysis document control. For one file, use its configuration gear.
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Name the analysis
Enter a meaningful Analysis name that describes its editorial use, such as “Day 2 interviews — documentary research” or “Championship final — highlight moments.”
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Choose a model size
Select Small, Medium, Large, or Extra large. Download the selected AI summarization model if it is not already available locally.
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Choose what the summary will be used for
Select a built-in purpose to give the analysis an editorial lens, or choose Use only my instructions when you want the analysis guided only by your own directions and priorities.
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Add a Specific goal
Optionally describe the question or deliverable you have in mind. Keep it concrete, such as “Identify the strongest conflict and reversal beats for a 90-second trailer.”
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Set your priorities
Under Pay extra attention to, select the areas that matter most to the edit, such as strong dialogue, reactions, people and relationships, themes, reveals, action, or atmosphere.
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Add optional context and evidence
If useful, add Footage context, choose a Summary collection, include the transcript, select an output language, and allow named-person evidence from face analysis.
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Add and process the analysis
Add the analysis, then start processing the selected media.
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Explore the result
Open Summaries. Start with the overview, then navigate into progressively more detailed sections, source time ranges, and source previews.
Summary Analysis settings for an individual media file
Purpose and Specific goal
Purpose and goal work together, but they do different jobs.
Choose the purpose that is closest to the work you are doing, then use Specific goal to make it particular to this footage and deliverable.
Reuse the same footage for different questions
The first Summary Analysis of a file takes longer because Jumper creates the initial factual observations it needs to describe the media. Later analyses of the same file can reuse those observations and concentrate on a different editing goal. You can create multiple Summary Analyses for one file. A documentary team might create one analysis for story research and another for trailer moments. Give each analysis a meaningful name so collaborators and AI agents can identify the right one without opening every result. Summary collections organize related analyses across multiple files—for example, all interviews from one production day or all reels from one archive box. Collections keep every source file distinguishable, allowing you and an agent to compare related material without losing track of where each observation came from.Practical uses
Documentary development
Understand interviews, observational scenes, characters, relationships, and themes before deciding on a story structure.
Trailers and promos
Surface promising hooks, confrontations, reversals, striking images, and memorable reactions for closer review.
Interviews and podcasts
Locate topic changes, strong statements, personal stories, and sections that may become selects.
Archive research
Survey large collections, compare files, and focus detailed searches on the most relevant source ranges.
Events and sports
Find key moments, crowd energy, turning points, reactions, and sequences worth considering for a highlight reel.
Characters and continuity
Follow characters, relationships, themes, locations, props, or continuity details across related footage.
How AI agents use summaries
When Summary Analysis is available, an AI agent such as Claude or ChatGPT can use it quietly in the background to orient its work:- Inventory the available summary collections and their source files.
- Read concise whole-clip overviews first.
- Drill only into branches that look promising for the task.
- Narrow later visual, transcript, or people searches to the relevant source time ranges.
- Verify selected material against the transcript, frames, People analysis, or source media before creating an edit or making a factual claim.
Analyzing media
Prepare footage for visual, speech, face, and summary workflows.
Agentic editing
Learn how Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agents work with Jumper.