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The Video Object

PropertyTypeDescription
descriptionstringAdditional information about a Clip
assetsObject

Similar to the images properties, this provides various video renditions with their rendition name as the property:

  • 360p
  • 480p
  • 720p
  • 1080p
  • 4k

The 360p rendition is always present by default. All other renditions will only be present if they are available.

Each rendition contains: width, height, url

captionsObject

This object provides URLs to caption files in Subrip and Webvtt format (if available) based on transcriptions from the clip audio in the native language.

Format of a captions object:

  • "captions": {
  •  "<string: ISO 639-1 language code>": {
  •   "srt": "<string: url to caption file>",
  •   "vtt": "<string: url to caption file>"
  •  }
  • }

Additionally the mp4 assets within the video object contain a captions stream too if available in the clip’s native language

nativestringISO 639-1 language code that is the native language caption for the clip. references property in captions object