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Reel Director

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. 2× cheaper than OpusClip.

What it does

Built for creators, founders, podcasters and educators who hate timeline-editing.

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VLM-grounded picks

Qwen2.5-VL-7B reads both your video frames AND the transcript, then chooses the 4 most viral windows. No randomness, no hardcoded windows.

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Sentence-bounded cuts

Powered by whisper-large-v3 — cuts only land at full-stop boundaries. No mid-word edits, no awkward jump-cuts.

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Sidechain-ducked BGM

Voice stays clear, music breathes underneath. Broadcast-standard loudness (LUFS -16, TP -1.5).

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16:9 · 9:16 · 1:1

Pick the aspect when you submit. Landscape for YouTube, vertical for Reels/Shorts/TikTok, square for IG feed.

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Auto language detect

English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Spanish, Mandarin — 99 languages via whisper. Or pin a language hint.

~2.5 minutes / reel

Whisper transcribe + VLM pick + ffmpeg render — fully autonomous. No human in the loop. Webhook callback supported.

How it works

Four stages, one API call.

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You submit

POST a YouTube URL or upload an mp4. Pick aspect (16:9 / 9:16 / 1:1) and BGM (calm / epic / none).

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We transcribe

whisper-large-v3 generates sentence-level cues with millisecond accuracy in 99 languages.

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VLM picks 4 windows

Qwen2.5-VL-7B sees your frames + transcript, picks one window per quartile for HOOK / WHAT / HOW / CTA.

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We render

ffmpeg cuts each window, fades them together, EQs the voice, sidechain-ducks the BGM, appends PixelAPI logo (optional). 60 seconds out.

Pricing

Pay-as-you-go credits. No subscription required. Free credits on signup.

Per reel
30 credits
≈ $0.03 / ₹2.5 · 60-second story reel from any-length source
ProviderCost per reelStory-arc cuts?Sentence-bounded?
OpusClip Starter~$0.10No (engagement-score clips)No
Munch Candy Bar~$0.46 / 2-min sourceNoApprox
Vizard Creator~$0.05 / 2-min sourceNoNo
Pictory Standard~$0.25 / 2-min sourceNoNo
PixelAPI Reel Director$0.03Yes (HOOK→WHAT→HOW→CTA)Yes (whisper-large-v3)

Three ways to use it

Web, mobile, REST — pick whichever fits your workflow.

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Web

Drop a video at pixelapi.dev/app/#reel-director. Watch the preview before downloading.

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Lensora Android

Install Lensora. Pick a video from your library, choose aspect, share the result.

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REST API

One POST. Polls or webhook. Production-grade.

curl https://api.pixelapi.dev/v1/video/auto-reel \ -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \ -F "source_url=https://youtu.be/abcdef12345" \ -F "aspect=16:9" \ -F "bgm=calm" \ -F "include_logo=true"

Ready to try Reel Director?

Sign up, get free credits, and run your first reel in under three minutes.