Labelling video
Display, the recommended setting, and what the video editor offers.
A video asset opens an editor of its own: the stage with the label over it on top, the timeline below, settings and the save card on the right.
There are no two editing steps here. The „Zuschnitt“ / „AI-Label“ tabs belong to the image editor; with video everything sits on one screen at once.
The signed-in product speaks German, so its labels and messages are quoted in German throughout, with the English rendering in italics.
Display
The „Einblendung“ (display) toggle on the timeline knows three states:
- „Dauerhaft“ (permanent) — the label stands for the whole runtime.
- „Zeitfenster“ (time window) — it stands within a window you set on the timeline.
- „Ein- und Ausblenden“ (fade in and out) — the same, and the label fades in and out at the window's edges.
The editor starts on „Dauerhaft“, unless the label family's marking rule sets a display — then it starts on the rule's default (see below). While the toggle stands on „Zeitfenster“ or „Ein- und Ausblenden“, a note appears — except under a binding marking rule that does not offer „Dauerhaft“ at all:
Dauerhaft empfohlen für die AI-Act-Kennzeichnung — ein zeitweises Label kennzeichnet das Video nicht durchgehend.
Permanent is recommended for AI Act marking — a temporary label does not mark the video throughout.
Whether, and to what extent, the EU AI Act requires a marking from you depends on your role and on the individual case. This is not legal advice.
The note does not stop you — without a binding marking rule all three versions can be saved.
Switching to a window starts at the full runtime; the „Blenddauer“ (fade duration) starts at one second, but at most at half the window length. The window cannot be dragged arbitrarily small — the floor is a tenth of a second, and the fade duration is at most half the window.
While the video duration is unknown, no window can be set freely. The toggle then does nothing and no message appears — wait a moment for the metadata. Where the marking rule sets the window, the toggle sets it even before that.
Under a marking rule
Where the label family's marking rule sets a display under „Video“ (see Marking rules), the editor starts on the rule's default, for „Zeitfenster“ and „Ein- und Ausblenden“ with the rule's window.
Under a binding rule the toggle offers only the states the rule allows. The window is fixed: it has no handles, and next to the toggle it stands in seconds, such as „Zeitfenster der Markierungsregel: 0–5 s“ (marking rule's window: 0–5 s), for „Ein- und Ausblenden“ such as „Zeitfenster der Markierungsregel: 0–5 s, Blenddauer 1 s“ (… fade duration 1 s). Where the video is shorter than the window, the window is not shortened; the label then stands up to the end of the video. Where the window starts only after the video ends, saving is blocked, and the save card says: „Das Zeitfenster der Markierungsregel beginnt nach dem Ende des Videos.“ (The marking rule's window starts after the end of the video.)
Under a recommended rule everything stays free: all three states, the handles and the fade duration. Choose a state the rule allows, and the toggle sets the rule's window. Depart from the rule, and next to the toggle it reads „Einblendung weicht von der Markierungsregel ab — die Ausgabe gilt dann nicht als nach der Regel erstellt.“ (Display departs from the marking rule — the output then does not count as made by the rule.) Saving still works; the output then does not record the rule in its specification. Where the rule's window starts only after the video ends, next to the toggle it reads „Das Zeitfenster der Markierungsregel beginnt nach dem Ende des Videos.“ (The marking rule's window starts after the end of the video.), and saving stays possible.
As long as verstag has not measured the video's size, the rule does not apply in the video editor, not to the display either — and a binding rule blocks saving.
What the video editor does not offer
No format picker and no crop. A video derivative keeps the source's resolution; there is no target format and so nothing to crop to.
No on/off switch for the label. A video derivative always carries a label; the switch row is not shown at all. It follows that without a label family no video derivative can be saved — there is no valid specification, and the button stays inactive.
No automatic variant selection. The video editor always shows the variant tiles for a manual choice — even for a family with only one variant.
What it does offer
Automatic size calculation. The „Größe & Abstand“ (size & margin) toggle with „Automatisch“ and „Manuell“ is here too, and its canvas is the native video frame — at the size verstag measured with the thumbnail, and until then at the size the browser reports. Under a binding marking rule the toggle is gone, as in the image editor; the rule then computes size and margin.
While the metadata is missing — or never arrives after a playback error — the editor computes with the measured size; where that is not there yet either, the label's stored values apply. While the metadata is missing, the free position disappears as well: with no frame dimensions there is no draggable overlay, so only the grid remains. Saving works once the metadata is in, and after a playback error without it — except under a binding marking rule without a measured size.
For a portrait video the editor turns the label to the vertical orientation by itself — once the video's size is known, and provided your workspace has not explicitly set the rotation otherwise. Where the label family has a marking rule, the editor sets the rule's rotation instead, once verstag has measured the video's size.
Below the stage the timeline shows ten real frames from the clip. Where that fails, a gradient stands in their place — the labelling is unaffected.
When the frame is too small
Where the visible type does not fit the video frame, nothing is burnt in: no specification is produced, the preview shows no label, and the save button stays inactive. "Too small" is a statement about the visible type width, not about a pixel count.
The way out is „Größe & Abstand“ on „Manuell“; the button beside the warning switches exactly that. Under a binding marking rule that way out does not exist: where the rule does not fit the video, saving is blocked.
Prerequisites
Verification has to be through. Until it is, the lock message with a retry button stands in place of the editor.
The processing limits apply at upload already: 3 minutes of runtime and 4K. Both are checked when the file is picked, not at render time.