Make a talking-actor video
make_ugcCreate a lip-synced UGC ad video by submitting a script and choosing an actor. Starts rendering and returns a run ID to track until the video is ready.
Instructions
Start generation of a lip-synced UGC video. Give a script within the selected speech model's text limit; the actor comes from actor_id (a saved actor from list_actors) or image, otherwise the default actor is used. Format and resolution follow the request and the source, defaulting to 1080x1920. Captions are OPT-IN: ask the user first. Fields the renderer does not honor yet carry a NOT HONORED YET note in their own description — read it instead of guessing. Call quote_ugc before generating and show the cost. This does NOT wait for the video: it starts the run and returns a run_id IMMEDIATELY. You MUST then poll get_run with that run_id until the state is 'succeeded' (video_url) or 'failed'. A 'failed' run whose paid vendor job we still hold can go back to 'queued' and reach 'succeeded' later; whenever that happens it is named in warnings[]. Pass attempt=2,3,… to deliberately start a NEW run for the same input (retry after a failure).
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| look | No | NOT HONORED YET: look is not honored yet: it does not reach the renderer | natural |
| name | No | NOT HONORED YET: name is not honored yet: it does not reach the renderer | |
| image | No | Public https url of the actor's photo (PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 10 MB). A file on disk goes through upload_image (POST /v1/uploads) first — pass the url it returns. A source we cannot use — private or loopback host, http, unreachable, redirecting, over 10 MB, or not one of those image types — is refused (unusable_source) before any charge. We do not detect the face's gender: pass actor_gender or voice, or the default male voice is used with a warning. | |
| voice | No | Voice name from list_voices. Curated presets: owner_ru_clone | sarah | george | eric | daria_ru_female (owner_ru_clone is the Russian cloned voice). The API refuses a name list_voices does not return, before any charge. Omitted means the default voice for the actor's gender: the gender of actor_id, actor_gender with image, or george for the default actor and for image without actor_gender. Mutually exclusive with voice_id. | |
| person | No | NOT HONORED YET: person is not honored yet: this request uses the default actor; choose actor_id from list_actors or provide image to select a different face | |
| script | No | The words the actor says; required unless segments supplies the spoken text. Segments and text-anchored inserts require long-form qualification on the server. Script limits by speech model: eleven_v3: 5000 characters; eleven_flash_v2_5: 10000 characters; eleven_turbo_v2_5: 10000 characters. Count includes spaces, audio tags and stress marks; emoji may count as two characters. There is no word-count limit. Duration and price are estimates until measured. Russian stress: write the stressed vowel as a capital inside a lowercase word ("потОм", "зАмок") and eleven_v3 receives it as the stress mark U+0301 ("пото́м"); a mark typed directly is kept. A capital at the start of a word stays a capital, and a word with a second capital or a capital consonant inside (all caps, "ВУЗы") is left as it is. A single capital vowel inside a word is always read as stress, so write "Яндекс Еда", not "ЯндексЕда". Tell users writing in Russian that they can mark stress this way. eleven_flash_v2_5 and eleven_turbo_v2_5 cost less but misread stress marks: capitals reach them unchanged. | |
| attempt | No | ||
| inserts | No | Text-anchored image inserts over full narration, each covering cover_words spoken words from its anchor; requires long-form qualification on the server, captions=false, 1080p and explicit broll_policy=anyone. | |
| actor_id | No | Saved Clipwright actor ID from list_actors. Choose actor_id, image, or person; do not combine them. Without voice or voice_id the voice follows the actor's gender. Do not combine with actor_gender. | |
| captions | No | NOT HONORED YET: captions requested but not rendered in this prototype (stage-B) | |
| segments | No | Ordered actor and image segments; requires long-form qualification on the server, captions=false and 1080p. Image media requires explicit broll_policy=anyone. | |
| voice_id | No | Raw vendor voice id (16–32 letters and digits) for a voice outside the catalog. Checked lazily: an unknown id fails the run, not the request. Mutually exclusive with voice. | |
| tts_model | No | Speech model: eleven_v3 | eleven_flash_v2_5 | eleven_turbo_v2_5. Omitted means the model of the chosen preset (list_voices shows it; every preset speaks eleven_v3) or eleven_v3 for a raw voice_id. eleven_v3 is the most expressive and the only one that reads stress marks (a capital vowel inside a Russian word, "потОм", becomes one; see script); eleven_flash_v2_5 and eleven_turbo_v2_5 are cheaper alternatives for languages other than Russian. Script limits by speech model: eleven_v3: 5000 characters; eleven_flash_v2_5: 10000 characters; eleven_turbo_v2_5: 10000 characters. Count includes spaces, audio tags and stress marks; emoji may count as two characters. There is no word-count limit. Duration and price are estimates until measured. | |
| background | No | ||
| resolution | No | Output resolution: 720p | 1080p | 4k (short side 720 / 1080 / 2160 px). Omitted means 1080p. | |
| actor_gender | No | Gender of the face in image: female | male. Only with image: picks the default voice of that gender (female: sarah, male: george). Refused with actor_id (its gender is known) and without image. An explicit voice or voice_id wins and the response warns that actor_gender changed nothing. | |
| aspect_ratio | No | Output format: 9:16 | 1:1 | 16:9. Omitted means 9:16, and a source of another shape is snapped to 9:16 with a warning — pass it explicitly whenever you pass image. A mismatch above 15% between the request and the source is refused (aspect_conflict) before any charge. | |
| broll_policy | No | STORED ONLY: Saved policy for B-roll: anyone allows people including the actor; no_actor excludes the actor; no_people excludes all people, including hands. Segmented media generation is closed. This setting is stored only and has no effect on actor-only videos. Run override wins over the account actor default; otherwise no_people. | |
| caption_style | No | NOT HONORED YET: caption_style is not honored: captions are not rendered in this prototype (stage-B) | hormozi |
| disclosure_overlay | No |