New: AI video - turn prompts into moving b-roll clips inside your renders. Read the announcement

Phil Duong

Phil Duong

Founder at Renderly

Founder of Renderly, the programmatic video API. Builds video rendering infrastructure on Remotion and AWS, and writes about generating video at scale from JSON.

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YouTube API Upload Limit: 100 Videos a Day, Not 6

YouTube API Upload Limit: 100 Videos a Day, Not 6

The YouTube Data API now gives each project 100 videos.insert calls a day in their own quota bucket. The math, the channel limit, and a daily upload job.

Phil Duong

October 26, 2026

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AI Product Videos That Show Your Real Product

AI Product Videos That Show Your Real Product

Send one product photo and Renderly generates an AI clip and AI photos that keep your real product, then renders a finished ad. About 8.4 credits per product.

Phil Duong

October 22, 2026

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Meta Ads API: Upload Rendered Video Ad Variants

Meta Ads API: Upload Rendered Video Ad Variants

Render a video ad variant from a template, hand the MP4 URL to Meta's advideos edge, wait for processing, and create a paused ad. Four calls per variant.

Phil Duong

October 19, 2026

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AI Agent Video APIs: MCP Rendering vs Generation

AI Agent Video APIs: MCP Rendering vs Generation

An AI agent needs two video layers: a generator for new footage and a renderer for the final MP4. How MCP servers cover each, and how to connect one.

Phil Duong

October 14, 2026

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MCP Tasks for Long-Running Video Renders

MCP Tasks for Long-Running Video Renders

How the MCP Tasks extension handles a tool call that runs for minutes, how it maps onto a render job ID, and what to build before your client supports it.

Phil Duong

October 12, 2026

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Renderly Now Renders Motion Graphics From JSON

Renderly Now Renders Motion Graphics From JSON

Keyframe tracks, scene groups, motion blur and beat sync are live in the Renderly API. What shipped, a 3-step tutorial, and the first motion template.

Phil Duong

October 8, 2026

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Wrapped-Style Year-in-Review Video API

Wrapped-Style Year-in-Review Video API

Render a personalized Wrapped-style recap video for every user from one stats row. The request, the fields that clip, the fixed lines, and the batch math.

Phil Duong

October 8, 2026

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Faceless Video API for TikTok and YouTube Shorts

Faceless Video API for TikTok and YouTube Shorts

Turn a script into a 9:16 faceless video with AI voiceover and word-synced captions in one API call. The request, the real cost per clip, and how to post it.

Phil Duong

October 7, 2026

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FFmpeg vs a Video API: When to Stop Self-Hosting

FFmpeg vs a Video API: When to Stop Self-Hosting

We render with FFmpeg in production. Infrastructure crosses over near 2,600 video-minutes a month - and the bill was never the expensive part. The effort is.

Phil Duong

September 24, 2026

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Free OG Image Generator: Make Open Graph Images

Free OG Image Generator: Make Open Graph Images

Design Open Graph images free, no sign-up or watermarks. Six templates at Meta's recommended 1200x630, exported as PNG, JPEG, or WebP in your browser.

Phil Duong

September 7, 2026

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Video API Pricing Comparison 2026: The Real Cost Per Video

Video API Pricing Comparison 2026: The Real Cost Per Video

Five video APIs, every rate card re-checked in August 2026. One finished 1080p minute costs $0.10 to $1.38 depending on who you buy it from - and the credit math hides most of it.

Phil Duong

August 14, 2026

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How to Embed Video Generation in Your SaaS Product

How to Embed Video Generation in Your SaaS Product

Wire a video API into your SaaS as a customer-facing feature. Multi-tenancy, quota metering, webhook routing, and the async UX - with working code. A 30s render costs $0.07.

Phil Duong

August 13, 2026

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Video APIs in 2026: The Developer's Complete Guide

Video APIs in 2026: The Developer's Complete Guide

What a video API costs, how the three architectures differ, and how to ship your first render. One 1080p minute runs $0.10-$0.84 across four verified rate cards.

Phil Duong

August 12, 2026

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Renderly Ships AI Voiceover and Auto-Captions

Renderly Ships AI Voiceover and Auto-Captions

Renderly now turns a script into a narrated, word-synced-captioned video in one API call. AI voiceover (12 curated voices, 992-voice catalogue) + auto-captions, flat credit pricing.

Phil Duong

July 19, 2026

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E-commerce Product Video Automation by API

E-commerce Product Video Automation by API

Google Merchant Center now serves product videos from a video_link feed attribute. Here's how a video API renders one video per SKU from your catalog.

Phil Duong

June 20, 2026

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5 Video Automation Workflows You Can Build in 30 Minutes

5 Video Automation Workflows You Can Build in 30 Minutes

Five battle-tested no-code video automation workflows — personalized outreach, bulk product videos, social cuts, onboarding, and spreadsheet-to-video. Each one is under 30 minutes of setup using Zapier, Make.com, n8n, or webhooks.

Phil Duong

June 1, 2026

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How to Set Up Video Rendering Webhooks

How to Set Up Video Rendering Webhooks

Polling a render burns your API rate limit. Set up video rendering webhooks with HMAC SHA-256 verification, retries, idempotency and the raw-body fix.

Phil Duong

May 28, 2026

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How to Build Automated Video Workflows with n8n (Step-by-Step Guide)

How to Build Automated Video Workflows with n8n (Step-by-Step Guide)

n8n hit 183k+ GitHub stars and 230k+ active users in 2026 — the fastest-growing workflow automation platform. This guide walks through building a video automation workflow with n8n + Renderly's API in under 45 minutes.

Phil Duong

May 25, 2026

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