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Render the FREE steps of the flatlay-product-reveal video format — composite each flat product cover onto the dressed tabletop plate to make the Veo start frames (build_start_frames), speed-and-hard-cut concat the i2v beats plus the HTML end card and mux the music (build_master), and screenshot the brand end-card HTML to a static-dwell clip (render_endcard). Deterministic, FREE (Playwright + PIL + FFmpeg), no paid calls, product covers and end-card text stay pixel-crisp. The paid steps (flat covers, Veo beats, music) are separate capabilities; the recipe orchestrates them. Use for the flatlay-product-reveal format.

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render-flatlay

Renders the FREE composite/assembly steps of the flatlay-product-reveal video format: a top-down tabletop listicle where, beat by beat, a product lies flat on a dressed linen plate, two hands cup and lift it, then hard-cut to the next product, closing on an HTML brand end card over a music bed.

Three FREE scripts, no paid model calls:

  • build_start_frames.py — PIL: composite each true-top-down flat product cover, centered at a natural size, onto the dressed tabletop plate → one Veo start frame per beat.
  • build_master.py — FFmpeg: speed each Veo beat by beat_speed (~1.5x, 4s → ~2.67s), HARD-CUT concat all beats (no dissolves — the listicle snap), optionally append the insert/greeting card, append the end-card clip, then mux the music bed. All clips are normalized to one fps/codec so concat-copy is safe.
  • render_endcard.py — Playwright screenshots the brand's own end_card.html (wordmark + trust icons + CTA) → an ffmpeg static-dwell mp4. Deterministic; the end-card text is the brand's real HTML, never AI-rendered.

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build_start_frames.py --config config.json --run-dir # composite flat covers → start frames render_endcard.py --config config.json --run-dir # brand HTML → end-card clip build_master.py --config config.json --run-dir # speed + hard-cut concat + mux → master-final.mp4

Output: 1080x1920, ~14-16s h264 (+ aac music). All FREE, $0.

Contract

  • Deterministic + FREE (PIL + Playwright + FFmpeg); no paid calls, no AI-rendered text.
  • Hard cuts between beats (no dissolves); camera stays locked top-down (a property of the paid beats, preserved here).
  • Product covers stay pixel-identical through composite + concat; the end card is the brand's own HTML.
  • The paid steps — flat-cover transform, Veo 3.1 i2v beats, ElevenLabs music — are separate capabilities (create-image-fal, create-video-fal, create-music-elevenlabs); the recipe orchestrates them and gates the spend.