Notes for people who make video.
Marketing tips and practical guides to creating and editing video.
Video Marketing
Video strategy, creative workflows, production lessons, and practical AI guidance.
How to Prompt Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 judges your prompt against the task you picked, whether text to video, references, editing, extension, or first and last frame. This is the parameter map for each one, with the official examples in full.
What Seedance 2.5 Changes for Marketing Teams
Seedance 2.5 generates a 30-second continuous take, accepts up to 50 reference files, and edits by timestamp instead of regenerating the whole shot. This is what that changes for a marketing team, and what it does not.
Adobe Express Alternative: One Firefly, or 25+ AI Models?
Adobe Express pairs quick video creation with Firefly, Adobe first-party generative AI. Rendley takes a different bet: 25+ models from many providers plus an AI agent. Here is what that difference means in practice.
Developers
SDK guides, API architecture, MCP workflows, and notes from building video infrastructure.
How to Use Seedance 2.5 Through an API
A working guide to calling Seedance 2.5 from your backend with the Rendley API. It covers the request shape, every parameter, reference images and video, first and last frame, editing, extension, polling, download, and cost.
api.video vs Rendley: Hosting and Streaming Is Not Editing
api.video hosts, delivers, and live-streams video. Rendley edits and renders it. This is a developer's guide to where each fits in the video lifecycle, and why the two are often used together rather than instead of each other.
Bannerbear Alternative: When Your Video Needs Outgrow an Image API
Bannerbear is a reliable image automation API with a lighter secondary video feature. When video becomes the point rather than an add-on, here is how Rendley compares.