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PromptCam

Making videos smaller while keeping the details AI needs.

My phone's high-resolution recordings can turn a three-minute video into hundreds of megabytes. I'm building PromptCam to make those files as small as possible while keeping the detail AI needs to review them.

Context
Personal project
Stage
In progress
Focus
AI tools · Photo & video

The problem

Testing Luna meant recording firmware builds, then opening a separate compression app before I could ask AI to review each video. PromptCam grew out of wanting to remove that repeated step.

The intended workflow

Capture or import a photo or video, mark the detail that matters, reduce the file size, then copy, share or download it. I want to keep those steps together instead of moving through several apps.

For a Luna test video, the important detail might be text on the screen, a change in state, or a problem with a response. A smaller file is only useful if that detail survives. The question is how small the file can be while still showing what I need help with.

What needs to work

The whole flow matters: a ready camera preview, an obvious recording state, a Stop control within reach, and a way to get a playable file into the next tool. Saving a recording is only part of the job if I still have to troubleshoot sharing or compress it somewhere else.

Where it stands

PromptCam is still in development. The video-repair candidate has passed automated checks, but it still needs a real-phone test. Those checks do not establish that the capture-to-share experience works on a phone.

The next milestone is an end-to-end test: record something I need help with, keep the important detail, and get a playable file into the AI tool I intended to use. Full-length imported-video compression and time-range video annotation remain planned work.

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