Guides

Programmatic video, explained

Rendering video from data, content-aware editing, and building video into AI-agent workflows.

Guide
Guide·Jul 9, 2026·10 min read

Video Composition API: The Complete Guide

What a video composition API is, how it differs from video generation and streaming APIs, and how to render production-quality video programmatically from a structured, content-aware edit.

CueFrame
Deep Dive
Deep Dive·8 min

Agentic Video Editing: Definition, Workflow, and Tools

What agentic video editing is, the discover-author-validate-render-verify loop an AI agent runs, and the tool properties that make it actually work.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Comparison
Comparison·7 min

AI Video Generation vs. Video Composition API

The difference between AI video generation and a video composition API: generation synthesizes new pixels from a prompt; composition assembles known inputs into a precise, deterministic edit.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·7 min

Face-Aware Smart Crop for Video: How It Works

How face-aware smart crop reframes video (16:9 to 9:16) by detecting the subject and active speaker and following them, instead of a blind center-crop.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Deep Dive
Deep Dive·8 min

Headless Video Rendering for AI Agents and CI Pipelines

What headless video rendering is, why automation and AI agents need it, and how the author-validate-render loop produces video server-side with no UI.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·5 min

How to Add Captions to Video via API

How to add captions to video programmatically — transcription, timing, styling, and content-aware placement that keeps captions off the speaker's face.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Deep Dive
Deep Dive·10 min

How to Build an Automated Video Creation Pipeline

Architect a video pipeline that produces finished video without a human editor — ingest, perceive, author, validate, render, and deliver, reliably and at scale.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·9 min

How to Evaluate a Video Editing API: A Buyer's Checklist

A criteria-based buyer's checklist for choosing a video editing API — authoring model, free validation, determinism, perception, error legibility, and more.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·6 min

MCP Video Tools: How AI Agents Control Video Editing

What MCP video tools are, how an MCP video server lets an AI agent discover, author, validate, and render an edit, and what to look for in one.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·6 min

Render Video from JSON

How to render video programmatically from a JSON composition — the document model, literal timelines vs. intent-and-derived edits, and the author-validate-render loop.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·8 min

Video API Pricing Models Explained

The common ways video APIs charge — per-render, per-minute, per-second of compute, usage-based credits, and tiers — and how to predict and control spend.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Comparison
Comparison·7 min

Video API vs. No-Code Video Tool: Which Fits Your Workflow

When a no-code video tool beats a programmatic video API, when it stops scaling, and how to tell which one your workflow — human or agent — actually needs.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Comparison
Comparison·7 min

Video API vs. Video SDK: Which to Use

The difference between a hosted video API and a self-run video SDK — operational burden, scale, determinism, cost, and which fits AI agents best.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·6 min

Video APIs for AI Agents: What to Look For

The criteria that matter when the caller is an AI agent, not a human — discoverability, free validation, determinism, explainable errors, content-awareness, and keyless access.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026