Showcase: five steps, five colors, one 9 second video

This one is short on purpose. Five words, Brief, Script, Voice, Render, Ship, each on its own full color card, with a hard cut between them. It is the whole Second Studio workflow in under nine seconds, and it is the kind of sequence I want an agent to be able to drop into the middle of a longer explainer without anyone opening an editor.

How we made it

Every frame in a Second Studio video is a real HTML page, rendered in the cloud and captured frame by frame. For this piece that meant one page with five full bleed sections. Each section has a single word set in a heavy sans serif, a small "step one" label under it and a solid background color. The timeline shows one section at a time for about 1.7 seconds and cuts on the beat, with a slight scale on each word as it lands.

There is no generated footage here and no voice. It is type, color and timing, which is why it renders in seconds and looks identical every time you render it.

How your agent can make one

The public API does not take raw HTML today. The closest built in scene is steps, which renders a numbered sequence in your brand colors. A script with one steps scene, or five short title scenes with captions on and no voice, gets you most of the way there:

POST /v1/explainers
{
  "brandId": "<your brand kit>",
  "aspect": "16:9",
  "captions": true,
  "script": {
    "title": "How it works in five words",
    "scenes": [
      { "id": "s1", "type": "title", "durationSec": 2, "headline": "Brief", "subline": "Step one" },
      { "id": "s2", "type": "title", "durationSec": 2, "headline": "Script", "subline": "Step two" },
      { "id": "s3", "type": "title", "durationSec": 2, "headline": "Voice", "subline": "Step three" },
      { "id": "s4", "type": "title", "durationSec": 2, "headline": "Render", "subline": "Step four" },
      { "id": "s5", "type": "title", "durationSec": 2, "headline": "Ship", "subline": "Step five" }
    ]
  }
}

Over MCP it is the same thing in plain words: ask your agent to call create_explainer with those five scenes. The colors and font come from your brand kit, so the result looks like your product rather than ours.

What it costs

If you would rather have the studio write the five steps from a sentence of brief, add a write_script call first for 2 more credits. On the $10 starter pack that is between $1.20 and $1.40.

Get started if you want your agent making these.

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