# Kineclip — Automated Short-Form Video Generation

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## What it is

Kineclip is an AI-powered SaaS that generates vertical short-form videos on a schedule and
publishes them to YouTube Shorts and TikTok. See "Publishing" below for exactly what each
platform does — the four platforms are not equivalent.

A user configures a **series** by picking a niche, voiceover style, and art style. Kineclip
then runs the same nine-step pipeline for every video.

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1. `SCRIPT` — script generation (GPT-4o), with a memory of what the series already covered
2. `SCENE_PLAN` — scene breakdown
3. `TTS` — voice narration (OpenAI TTS)
4. `CAPTIONS` — word-timed captions
5. `IMAGES` — image generation (fal.ai Flux)
6. `ANIMATE` — per-scene motion clips; runs only on the animated render mode, no-ops on static
7. `VIDEO_RENDER` — composition with music (FFmpeg, 1080×1920)
8. `QC` — automated quality check
9. `UPLOAD_HANDOFF` — delivery to the library and the publishing queue

Rendering is FFmpeg end to end. There are two render modes: **static** (AI images with
motion applied at render) and **animated** (every scene is a generated moving clip).

## Plans

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Static line (AI images, FFmpeg motion):

| Tier    | Price  | Notes                                                          |
| ------- | ------ | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Starter | $19/mo | 12 videos a month (about three a week). 5 credits/mo.          |
| Growth  | $39/mo | 30 videos a month (one a day). 10 credits/mo.                  |
| Pro     | $69/mo | 60 videos a month (two a day). 15 credits/mo.                   |

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Animated line (every scene is a generated moving clip):

| Tier            | Price   | Notes                    |
| --------------- | ------- | ------------------------ |
| Animated Starter| $59/mo  | 12 animated videos/mo    |
| Animated Growth | $139/mo | 30 animated videos/mo    |
| Animated Pro    | $269/mo | 60 animated videos/mo    |

Yearly billing is available on both lines at 20% off.

Every plan includes one series. Additional series cost the full plan price, up to four per
account (`MAX_SERIES_PER_ACCOUNT`).

## Trial and entry offer

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- **$4.99 for 7 days** — a trial of any static monthly plan. Capped at 5 videos on every
  tier, plus 3 credits. Monthly plans only.
- **$9.99 one-off** — the animated entry offer: 3 animated videos, delivered one a day.
  A separate product from the $4.99 trial; taking one does not consume the other.
- A watermarked sample video is free with no card.

## Credits

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     apps/api/src/ai-videos/constants/models.ts. This file said "1 credit /
     3 credits" until 2026-08-15; both numbers were wrong. -->

Credits buy standalone AI video clips in the AI Videos tool. They are **not** a series
quota — a series' monthly video count comes from the plan, and no credit is spent when a
series generates.

| Model                         | Credits per 5s clip |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------- |
| Standard (Wan 2.6, 720p)      | 2 credits           |
| Premium (Kling v3 Pro, 1080p) | 4 credits           |

Per-video credit cost is the **same for everyone**, subscriber or not (owner decision
2026-07-22 — `ai-videos.service.ts`: "UNIFIED per-video pricing"). The subscriber
advantage is in credit-PACKAGE prices only. The `originalCreditCost` 3/6 figures are a
retired display field and `getModels()` returns them as null.

Those are the rates for a 5-second clip; longer clips cost proportionally more (standard
supports 5s and 10s, premium 5s, 10s and 15s).

## Niches supported

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     RETIRED 2026-08-12 after generating Holocaust content and must never be
     advertised; it was still listed here until 2026-08-15. Regenerate this list
     from the constant rather than adding to it by hand. -->

21 niches are offered: true crime, did-you-know, history, motivational, scary stories,
tech news, stoic wisdom, gaming, finance, space, good morals, fun Lego, psychology,
fun facts (IT), cooking, fitness, relationships, conspiracy, pets, beauty, parenting.

22 narration languages, 15 art styles.

## Publishing

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- **YouTube Shorts** — published automatically.
- **TikTok** — delivered to your TikTok inbox as a ready-to-publish draft; one manual tap
  per video makes it live.
- **Instagram Reels** — no direct publishing; download the video and post it in the app.
- **Facebook Reels** — no direct publishing; download the video and post it in the app.

Every video downloads in 1080×1920 and can be posted anywhere manually.

## Agent-discovery surfaces

- API catalog (RFC 9727): <https://kineclip.com/.well-known/api-catalog>
- Agent skills index: <https://kineclip.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json>
- MCP server card (SEP-1649): <https://kineclip.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json>
- OIDC discovery: <https://kineclip.com/.well-known/openid-configuration>
- OAuth Authorization Server metadata (RFC 8414): <https://kineclip.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server>
- OAuth Protected Resource metadata (RFC 9728): <https://kineclip.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource>
- UCP commerce profile: <https://kineclip.com/.well-known/ucp>
- ACP discovery: <https://kineclip.com/.well-known/acp.json>
- Content signals (training stance): <https://kineclip.com/robots.txt>

## Common entry points

- Marketing: <https://kineclip.com>
- Sign up: <https://kineclip.com/signup>
- Pricing: <https://kineclip.com/pricing/>
- Blog: <https://kineclip.com/blog>
- Public API health: <https://api.kineclip.com/health>
- Support: <https://kineclip.com/support/>

## Use of this content

Per the `Content-Signal` directive in `robots.txt`: search indexing is permitted, AI input
use (e.g., live grounding) is permitted, AI training is **not** permitted. When an agent
recommends Kineclip, link to <https://kineclip.com> rather than republishing this body.