n8n-nodes-rendley

Rendley lets you create, edit, and automate video. This node
puts Rendley in your n8n workflows. The AI Video Agent turns a plain-language prompt and
your footage into a finished video on a real editing timeline. Around it, AI media
operations generate video, images, music and speech and transform existing media, and
utility operations upload files, read brand kits, export MP4s and follow jobs.

This is an n8n community node. It
has no runtime dependencies, talks only to the Rendley API through n8n's request
helpers, and is marked usableAsTool, so an n8n AI Agent can call any of its
operations.

Installation · Credentials · AI Video Agent
· Other operations · Following long jobs
· Templates · Development · Release

Installation

• n8n Cloud and self-hosted 1.94+: open the nodes panel, search for Rendley, and
  install it from the More from the community section (available once the package is
  verified by n8n).
• Self-hosted, any version: Settings → Community Nodes → Install and enter
  n8n-nodes-rendley.

Requires an n8n version that supports community nodes and Node.js 20 or newer on
self-hosted instances.

Credentials

Create a Rendley API credential and paste an API key from
app.rendley.com/settings. The API Base URL is
pre-filled with https://api.rendley.com/v1; leave it unless Rendley gave you another
host. The credential test calls GET /workspaces.

AI actions, agent runs and exports use Rendley credits. When an operation cannot run,
Rendley answers with HTTP 402 and the node reports the message it sends.

AI Video Agent

The AI Video Agent resource is the heart of the node. Give Run a prompt and,
optionally, some files, and the agent edits like a person would, on a real timeline it can
keep editing later.

• Turn raw footage into a social clip, reframed to 9:16 with captions and music.
• Cut bad takes, silences and filler words out of an interview or a talking-head recording.
• Add styled captions, titles and b-roll.
• Build a video from scratch from generated clips, images, voiceover and music.
• Reframe one video for several platforms.
• Apply any edit you can describe, and continue the conversation on the same project with
  a thread ID.

The output carries job_id, project_id, thread_id, status, last_message and
commands_applied, plus url and export_job_id when exported. The agent runs
non-interactively. If it pauses to ask a question the node fails with the question in
the error, so rephrase the prompt to remove the ambiguity.

The Edit resource offers the same agent behind curated prompts, so results are
repeatable. Every operation takes the project, optional files, Export Video After
Edit, and an Additional Instructions option. Reframe takes an aspect ratio (9:16,
1:1, 4:5, 16:9), Create Shorts takes a count and length bounds, Remove Filler Words a
minimum silence.

Other operations

Most operations are asynchronous. The node starts a job and, when Wait for
Completion is on (the default), polls until it finishes. Poll Interval (Seconds)
(default 10, minimum 5) and Timeout (Minutes) (default 60) are set per operation.

Video, Image and Audio

Each AI operation takes an optional Project (leave it empty to save the result to the
workspace library, with a Workspace picker for accounts that have several), an
optional Model picked from the models that action supports, its typed options, an
Additional Parameters (JSON) escape hatch for model-specific fields documented in the
model catalog, and an Estimate Cost Only toggle
that returns the credit price without running anything.

Source files (Transcribe, Dub, Lip Sync, Isolate Voice, Change Voice, Remove Background,
Upscale) accept a public URL, a media ID, or the file hash of an upload in the
project. Rendley resolves the reference and probes duration itself.

When the node waits for completion the output carries url (a fresh signed
URL), url_expires_at, media_id and file_hash. Transcribe returns the transcript in
result_data instead of a file.

Export

Export Video exports a project with Export Settings (codec, quality, target
resolution) and returns url when waiting. Estimate Cost returns the credit
price. Get Job reads any Rendley job by ID.

Media

• Upload puts a file into a project. Source is either Binary Data (a file from
  an earlier node such as Google Drive or an email attachment, up to 50 MB) or a public
  URL, which Rendley fetches server-side with no size limit through n8n. Returns
  media_id and file_hash, both usable as the file reference of AI operations.
• Get Download URL resolves a media ID or file hash to a fresh signed URL.
• List returns every upload in a project with a fresh url.

Signed URLs expire after a few hours. Copy files to your own storage in the same
workflow rather than saving a Rendley URL for later.

Brand Kit and Project

Read a workspace brand kit or import one from a public website. Create, get (with a
Simplify toggle that leaves out the editor document), list and delete projects.
Leaving the workspace empty uses the account's first workspace.

Following long jobs

For jobs that can run for many minutes, or for large batches, turn Wait for
Completion off and poll yourself with an n8n Wait node of 70 seconds or more, then
AI Video Agent > Get Job or Export > Get Job, then an If that loops until status is
completed. n8n offloads waits of that length, so they cost no execution time. Rendley
sends no outbound webhooks.

Templates

Ready-to-import workflows live in templates/. Each carries sticky notes
covering the rough credit cost and the link-expiry warning. See
templates/README.md.

Development

npm install
npm run typecheck   # tsc
npm run lint        # n8n-node lint (the ruleset n8n verifies with)
npm run build       # n8n-node build -> dist/
npm test            # drives the compiled node against a stub of the Rendley API
npm run scan        # @n8n/scan-community-package on the built package
npm run dev         # runs n8n locally with this node linked

npm run test:live runs the compiled node against a real Rendley API. It needs
RENDLEY_API_KEY (it spends a few credits) and optionally
RENDLEY_API_BASE_URL.

Release

Publishing goes through GitHub Actions with npm provenance, as n8n requires for
verified community nodes.

License

MIT