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Nexrender Cloud is a hosted API platform for rendering Adobe After Effects templates at scale. You upload your .aep, .zip, or .mogrt file once, then drive every render - swapping text, images, audio, and video - through a simple REST API call or visual interface. Built for:
  • Developers building video personalization and automation pipelines
  • Product teams that need dynamic video generation to power user-facing experiences
  • Studios and agencies running high-volume or batch rendering in the cloud

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What You Can Do

  • Submit render jobs via REST API and visual interface- define your template, composition, and asset overrides in a single JSON payload
  • Inject dynamic content - replace text, images, video, audio, and solid colors declaratively per job
  • Custom scripting - run scripts for advanced template manipulation and programmatic control
  • Highly customizable output settings - control codec, bitrate, quality, frame range, output format, and delivery destination per job
  • Batch up to 1,000 jobs at once - submit large volumes in a single request and track them as a group
  • Nest jobs - render child compositions first and automatically inject their output into a parent job
  • Stitch videos - combine multiple rendered clips into a single output using the join job API
  • Manage fonts - upload custom .ttf files once and reference them across any job
  • Inspect templates - discover available compositions and layers before submitting a job
  • Push outputs to your own storage - send rendered files directly to an S3-compatible bucket
  • Clean room mode - operate with zero data retention on Nexrender’s side; job assets, payloads, and outputs are never stored after rendering completes

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Prerequisites

Before you start, you’ll need:
  • An active Nexrender Cloud account - start a free trial to get access
  • Your API key - available from your team dashboard if you plan to use API
  • An After Effects template in .aep, .zip, or .mogrt format
Custom fonts must be in .ttf format. Upload them once via the Fonts API and reference them by filename in your render jobs.

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Deployment Options

Nexrender is available in two configurations: Nexrender Cloud is the fully managed option - infrastructure, workers, and updates are all handled for you. This is the product these docs cover. Nexrender Enterprise Private Cloud is a self-contained deployment that runs entirely on your own infrastructure. It’s designed for organizations with strict data residency requirements, compliance constraints, or the need to integrate with internal systems. Get in touch to learn more.

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Coming from Nexrender OSS?

Nexrender Cloud is the managed counterpart to Nexrender OSS. The core rendering model is the same - templates, assets, jobs - but Cloud removes the need to self-host workers, manage infrastructure, or run a CLI. Everything is controlled through the REST API or visual dashboard.

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Getting Started

Use the cards below to navigate to the right place for your goal.

Quickstart

Step-by-step instructions to submit your first render job using curl or Postman

Core Concepts

Understand how templates, jobs, batches, and nested jobs fit together

Template Setup

Learn how to structure your AE projects and upload them via the API

Submit a Render Job

Create and trigger a render job using compositions and asset overrides

Fonts Management

Preload fonts to preserve brand identity across renders

API Reference

Interact with Nexrender Cloud programmatically using our REST API