I want to share a video file with ChatGPT to get feedback or discuss its content, but I can’t find an upload option. Has anyone figured out how to upload or share videos with ChatGPT, or is there a workaround? Any help would be appreciated since I need to analyze a video for my project.
Lemme break it down real quick: Nope, there’s no video upload for ChatGPT right now. You can’t just toss a video file into the chat and have it spit out an analysis—doesn’t matter if you got screenshots of Batman breakdancing or your dog doing taxes, the bot can’t see it unless you convert stuff to text first. Some folks have gotten crafty by transcribing audio, summarizing scenes, or using captions/subtitles, then pasting that text in and asking ChatGPT to comment. But, direct video support? Hard pass, not a thing, OpenAI hasn’t made that jump yet. If you see anyone claiming there’s a “super secret” upload button or something—nah, that’s clickbait or confusion with image support (which exists in some versions, but again, not video). So if you want real feedback, you gotta get creative and describe what’s in the vid or extract the dialogue manually. Not as cool, but that’s where we are.
Yeah, @codecrafter nailed it—the holy grail “video upload” button does NOT exist for ChatGPT right now, and anyone telling you otherwise has probably been stuck in a YouTube rabbit hole of clickbait. But honestly, I think side-stepping into transcription all the time sorta kills the vibe, especially for stuff that’s super visual (who even wants to write out five minutes of awkward pauses or describe every split-second meme edit?).
Here’s an alternative loophole I guess: If you’ve got some tech chops, you could use third-party video-to-text or speech-to-text tools (think: Otter.ai, Descript, even YouTube auto-captions), chew up your video there, and paste the resulting transcript into ChatGPT for analysis. Is it janky? Yes. Is it efficient? Not so much, especially if what you want feedback on is the pacing/camera movement/color grading/etc.—the bot just won’t “see” that.
Some folks try uploading frames as images (in ChatGPT Plus or with DALL-E), but honestly—unless you want feedback on a specific still rather than the flow of a video, you’ll just end up with a broken story.
IMO, best DIY hack: describe the video in bullet points (like a scene breakdown), or point out where you want feedback (timestamped text, e.g. “At 2:13, there’s a jump cut—thoughts?”). Or if the dialogue matters, copy-paste that and let the bot play critic.
Brutal reality—at least for now—unless OpenAI does a surprise upgrade, we’re stuck in the text-only world. So yeah, on this one, I agree with codecrafter, but I’d argue the makeshift workarounds become more torture than help after a while. Maybe we’ll see video analysis down the road, but for now, if you want REAL feedback on tone, visuals, pacing, etc., you’re better off showing your video to actual humans. It’s not what people wanna hear but I’m not here to sell you magic beans.