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 API for Composition: The Full Guide

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

CueFrame
Guide
Guide·5 min

Add Captions to Video with a Video Editing API

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

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Deep Dive
Deep Dive·8 min

Agentic AI Video Editing: Workflow & Tools

What agentic AI 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

Guide
Guide·7 min

AI Video Editing: Face-Aware Smart Crop

How face-aware smart crop, an AI video editing feature, reframes 16:9 video to 9:16 by tracking the subject and speaker, not a blind center-crop.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Comparison
Comparison·7 min

AI Video Generation vs. Video Composition API

AI video generation synthesizes new pixels from a prompt; a composition API assembles known inputs into a precise, repeatable edit — when to use each.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Deep Dive
Deep Dive·10 min

Build an Automated Video Creation Pipeline

Build an automated video creation pipeline that renders finished video with no human editor — ingest, perceive, author, validate, render, deliver.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Deep Dive
Deep Dive·8 min

Headless Video Rendering for AI Agents

What headless video rendering is, why AI agents and CI pipelines need it, and how a programmatic video API renders video server-side with no timeline UI.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·6 min

JSON to Video: Render Video from a JSON Edit

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

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·6 min

MCP Video Tools for AI Agent Editing

What MCP video tools are and how an MCP video server lets an AI agent do video editing — discover, author, validate, and render — and what to look for.

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

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

What matters when the caller is an AI agent, not a human — discoverability, free validation, determinism, explainable errors, and content-awareness.

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026

Guide
Guide·9 min

Video Editing API Buyer's Checklist

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

CueFrame · Jul 9, 2026