Automated Description for Videos in Google Drive using AI

Product demos, ad creatives, and customer testimonials pile up in shared drives, often with cryptic filenames and no context to help your team find what they need.

I recently implemented a simple automation solution that tackles this problem head-on, and I wanted to share how it could transform your video management workflow.

The Challenge

A marketing team working with Google Drive manages dozens of video assets for different use cases. With multiple team members uploading content, we faced a common problem: videos were being stored with minimal metadata, making it difficult to:

• Quickly find specific videos for campaigns
• Understand what each video contained without watching it
• Maintain organized asset libraries that multiple team members could navigate

The Solution: AI-Powered Video Description Automation

Using n8n (a workflow automation tool) and Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro AI, I built a simple workflow that:

1. Monitors a specific Google Drive folder for any new video uploads (you could easily change the entry point of the workflow to have it search for all videos in Google Drive to do this operation)
2. Automatically sends each video to Gemini for analysis
3. Generates concise descriptions and keywords based on the video content
4. Updates the file's description field in Google Drive with this information

Business Impact

This automation can definitely improve efficiency:

• Videos are now instantly searchable using keywords from their content
• Team members can quickly identify relevant assets without watching each video
• The asset management is more consistent, regardless of who uploads the content

The best part? This solution requires minimal technical knowledge to implement and can be adapted to fit your team's specific needs and workflow.

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