Video processing API for AI agents

Why video quality matters for AI agents

Vision models extract information from pixels. When video is degraded — noisy, soft, compressed, low-resolution — the model works with less information:

• OCR fails on blurry text
• Face recognition struggles with soft faces
• Object detection misses small or unclear objects
• Scene understanding gets confused by compression artifacts

Enhancement is preprocessing that improves downstream accuracy.

How BetterVideo fits in agentic workflows

An AI agent orchestrates multiple tools and APIs. BetterVideo slots in as a preprocessing step:

1. Receive video: Agent gets video from user upload, URL, or storage
2. Enhance: Call BetterVideo API → get cleaned-up version
3. Process: Feed enhanced video to vision model, transcription, etc.
4. Act: Agent uses extracted information to complete the task

The API is stateless and idempotent — it fits cleanly into any orchestration framework.

Privacy for agent-processed video

Agents process user video at scale, often without human review. That makes data handling even more important — you can't manually vet every frame.

• Never trained on: Video your agent processes isn't used to train BetterVideo's models
• Never sold: No data brokers, no third-party sharing
• Auto-deleted: Files removed on schedule or on-demand via API

Your agent's users get privacy guarantees without you building your own infrastructure.

One API call — curl, Python & Node

Submit a video by URL, then poll GET /v1/jobs/{id} until done (or receive a signed webhook), and fetch a time-limited download link:

curl -X POST https://api.bettervideo.io/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"video_url":"https://.../clip.mp4","resolution":"1080p"}'

import requests
r = requests.post("https://api.bettervideo.io/v1/jobs",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"},
    json={"video_url": "https://.../clip.mp4", "resolution": "1080p"})
job = r.json()  # poll GET /v1/jobs/{job['id']} until status == "done"

const res = await fetch("https://api.bettervideo.io/v1/jobs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY", "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ video_url: "https://.../clip.mp4", resolution: "1080p" })
});
const job = await res.json();

Privacy is the default, not an upgrade

• Never trained on. Pre-trained, fixed-weight models — your frames are enhanced and returned, never used to train AI.
• Never sold or shared. No third parties, no data brokers, no "anonymized" resale.
• Auto-deleted. Files self-delete (default 30 days), or delete any job instantly with one call.
• Proof on the Secure tier. Every deletion can return a signed deletion certificate, with a full audit log.