Course Launch & Enrollment
A six-scene course prospectus for an online school or a solo creator, built to answer the four questions a person asks before paying — what will I be able to do, who is teaching it, what does it cost, when does it start — and then give one place to go. 36 seconds, 16:9 at 1920×1080, 30fps, with a background music bed. The register is deliberately editorial rather than promotional: paper and deep-ink grounds alternate scene to scene, scholar indigo carries the rules, numerals and enroll bar, and Literata, Geist and JetBrains Mono split statement, human copy and furniture. Seventeen fields swap per render — fourteen text and three image. Sixteen belong to the course (course_title, course_category, course_promise, outcome_1/2/3, course_format, instructor_name, instructor_credential, price, price_note, start_date, enroll_url, plus the course_photo, practice_photo and instructor_photo slots) and one, school_name, is set once for the whole catalogue and appears as corner furniture on all six scenes — so a platform with two hundred published courses sends two hundred rows and gets two hundred films, and re-renders a single row when a cohort date or a price moves.
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 · Horizontal
- Duration
- ~36s
- Category
- Educational
What you can customize
This template exposes 17 dynamic fields you can swap per video — edit them in the editor or pass them to the API to batch-render variations at scale. The monospace name is the exact key to send in replacements.
Course Photo
urlcourse_photohttps://images.unsplash.com/photo-1727535647158-67ecbfc7640f?fm=jpg&q=82&w=720&h=1080&fit=crop
School Name
textschool_nameNorthlight School
~31 characters max · 1 line
Course Category
textcourse_categoryPhotography · Intermediate
~53 characters max · 1 line
Course Title
textcourse_titleNatural Light Portraiture
~39 characters max · 2 lines
Course Promise
textcourse_promiseLearn to read a room’s light and shoot people in it — without a flash, a reflector, or a second attempt.
~133 characters max · 2 lines
Instructor Name
textinstructor_nameMarguerite Okafor
~31 characters max · 1 line
Outcome 1
textoutcome_1Read any room’s light in under a minute
~53 characters max · 1 line
Outcome 2
textoutcome_2Direct a nervous subject into an easy pose
~53 characters max · 1 line
Outcome 3
textoutcome_3Finish a shoot with a set you’d publish
~53 characters max · 1 line
Practice Photo
urlpractice_photohttps://images.unsplash.com/photo-1542992933-ce75d0187ec1?fm=jpg&q=82&w=1920&h=1080&fit=crop
Course Format
textcourse_formatSix weeks · Eight live sessions · Lifetime replays
~83 characters max · 2 lines
Instructor Photo
urlinstructor_photohttps://images.unsplash.com/photo-1512813498716-3e640fed3f39?fm=jpg&q=82&w=900&h=1080&fit=crop
Instructor Credential
textinstructor_credentialPortrait photographer, twelve years. Work in The Guardian Weekend, Aperture and Monocle.
~122 characters max · 2 lines
Price
textprice$390
~8 characters max · 1 line
Price Note
textprice_noteor three payments of $130
~55 characters max · 1 line
Start Date
textstart_date14 October 2026
~19 characters max · 1 line
Enroll Url
textenroll_urlnorthlight.school/light
~30 characters max · 1 line
Render it from the API
Copy either call below. Both already carry this template's ID and its real variable keys — swap the values for your own.
1. Preview it — free
Same body as a render. Costs no credits, creates no job. Returns a public URL that plays the video in a browser, plus a list of problems with your payload — a mistyped key is otherwise ignored in silence.
curl -X POST https://renderly.video/api/v1/previews \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $RENDERLY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"templateId": "course-launch-enrollment",
"replacements": {
"course_photo": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1727535647158-67ecbfc7640f?fm=jpg&q=82&w=720&h=1080&fit=crop",
"school_name": "Northlight School",
"course_category": "Photography · Intermediate",
"course_title": "Natural Light\nPortraiture",
"course_promise": "Learn to read a room’s light and shoot people in it —\nwithout a flash, a reflector, or a second attempt.",
"instructor_name": "Marguerite Okafor"
}
}'2. Render it
Change one word in the URL. Keep templateId — it is what links your call to this template, so later improvements reach you automatically.
curl -X POST https://renderly.video/api/v1/renders \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $RENDERLY_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"templateId": "course-launch-enrollment",
"replacements": {
"course_photo": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1727535647158-67ecbfc7640f?fm=jpg&q=82&w=720&h=1080&fit=crop",
"school_name": "Northlight School",
"course_category": "Photography · Intermediate",
"course_title": "Natural Light\nPortraiture",
"course_promise": "Learn to read a room’s light and shoot people in it —\nwithout a flash, a reflector, or a second attempt.",
"instructor_name": "Marguerite Okafor"
}
}'The body above shows 6 of 17 variables. Send any subset — every key you leave out renders its authored default. Read the full contract, with character limits, from GET /api/v1/templates/course-launch-enrollment/variables. See the previewing guide, the rendering guide, or the OpenAPI spec.
Frequently asked questions
How do I customize the Course Launch & Enrollment template?
Open the template in the Renderly editor and replace its 17 customizable fields (such as Course Photo) with your own text, images, or video. Every change previews instantly before you render.
How much does it cost to render this template?
Rendering is credit-based — 1 credit equals 1 minute of 1080p video. You only pay when you export, and credits never expire on the pay-as-you-go plan.
Can I generate this video at scale via the API?
Yes. POST this template's ID and a replacements object to /api/v1/renders — one call per row of data, 17 fields swappable per video. Send the same body to /api/v1/previews first to check it for free. No-code integrations like Zapier work the same way.
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