Any video → a 60-second story reel.
Drop a long talk, demo, or tutorial. Our vision-language model picks the 4 most cinematic windows on sentence boundaries — HOOK → WHAT → HOW → CTA — then renders a broadcast-clean 60-second reel with voice EQ and sidechain-ducked BGM. lower-priced than OpusClip.
Built for creators, founders, podcasters and educators who hate timeline-editing.
Qwen2.5-VL-7B reads both your video frames AND the transcript, then chooses the 4 most viral windows. No randomness, no hardcoded windows.
Powered by whisper-large-v3 — cuts only land at full-stop boundaries. No mid-word edits, no awkward jump-cuts.
Voice stays clear, music breathes underneath. Broadcast-standard loudness (LUFS -16, TP -1.5).
Pick the aspect when you submit. Landscape for YouTube, vertical for Reels/Shorts/TikTok, square for IG feed.
English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Spanish, Mandarin — 99 languages via whisper. Or pin a language hint.
Whisper transcribe + VLM pick + ffmpeg render — fully autonomous. No human in the loop. Webhook callback supported.
Four stages, one API call.
POST a YouTube URL or upload an mp4. Pick aspect (16:9 / 9:16 / 1:1) and BGM (calm / epic / none).
whisper-large-v3 generates sentence-level cues with millisecond accuracy in 99 languages.
Qwen2.5-VL-7B sees your frames + transcript, picks one window per quartile for HOOK / WHAT / HOW / CTA.
ffmpeg cuts each window, fades them together, EQs the voice, sidechain-ducks the BGM, appends PixelAPI logo (optional). 60 seconds out.
Metered credits. An active monthly validity plan is required after the 24-hour free trial. Top-ups add credits but do not replace validity.
| Provider | Cost per reel | Story-arc cuts? | Sentence-bounded? |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpusClip Starter | ~$0.10 | No (engagement-score clips) | No |
| Munch Candy Bar | ~$0.46 / 2-min source | No | Approx |
| Vizard Creator | ~$0.05 / 2-min source | No | No |
| Pictory Standard | ~$0.25 / 2-min source | No | No |
| PixelAPI Reel Director | $0.03 | Yes (HOOK→WHAT→HOW→CTA) | Yes (whisper-large-v3) |
Web, mobile, REST — pick whichever fits your workflow.
One POST. Polls or webhook. Production-grade.
Sign up, get free credits, and run your first reel in under three minutes.
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This is what Reel Director does. Reel Director turns any long video into a 60-second narrative reel with HOOK → WHAT → HOW → CTA arc, sentence-bounded cuts, voice EQ, ducked BGM.
For this, open Reel Director: lower-priced than OpusClip.