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Introduction

Post a snapshot of your data. Get a branded, grounded short video back. Run it as a show, embed a studio for your users, or both.

Lightning Cut turns structured data into short vertical videos. Every number on screen comes from the payload you sent; the renderer draws the numerals itself, so a figure that is not in your data cannot appear in the video. Exchanges, yield protocols and data companies use it to put a video on every listing, pool, wallet and market move, and to let their own users make clips.

  • Quickstart — A token snapshot to a playable MP4 in one call, in under ten minutes.

  • Packages — Video API, Feed + Creator Studio, Data Shows, and the show kit catalog.

  • For exchanges — the one-page brief for growth and product leads: what users see, what it takes, how a pilot runs.

  • Authored scripts — Write the scenes yourself: charts, stat cards, clips from a logo, Giphy loops, sound design, transitions.

  • Embedded studio — Put the full studio inside your app so your users create videos on your data.

Not only crypto: the same calls cut from a URL, your footage or stocks, FX and weather.

How it fits together

Three ways in, one engine underneath:

Surface
What you send
What you get

from-data

A JSON snapshot, a brief, or a full script

A video, rendering in the background, with a webhook when the file is ready

Tool catalog

POST /v1/tools/{name} with the tool's arguments

Everything the studio can do: sources, quotes, edits, channels, shows, series, library, publishing

Embedded studio

An embed token for one of your users

The chat studio inside your page, billed to your account, tagged with your user id

Live examples

  • Six runnable examples: exchange listing, yield rate split, portfolio recap with the embedded studio, your own footage indexed and cut, a weekly stocks brief, and URL to video. Each with a rendered sample and the script that made it.

  • tokenslop.fun runs a feed of token videos on Robinhood Chain: house shows on a schedule, user-paid promos, and an embedded creator studio, all on this API. See the tokenslop example.

  • nansen-shows is an open-source starter that turns Nansen smart-money data into seven authored shows. See the Nansen example.

Base URL and auth

Make a key in the studio under Settings → API. Save a card in Settings → Credits and you get 500 credits for your first videos. One credit is one cent. Every paid call returns charged. With a card on file, a call that runs short tops up $10 and goes through (pay-as-you-go).

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