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Create a Tella Motion document

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

API key obtained from your Tella account settings

Body

application/json

A blank document, owned by a video for an overlay or b-roll you build in place, or by you until a video takes it over. It is not put in the media library. Its canvas is 10 s long until a canvas.set op changes it.

name
string
required

What it shows.

Minimum string length: 1
Example:

"Lower third"

height
number

Canvas height in pixels. Defaults to the video's, or 1080 without a video.

Required range: 16 <= x <= 7680
videoId
string

The video (vid_…) that owns the document. Leave it out for one of your own that no video plays yet: the first video it is placed in takes it over.

Example:

"vid_abc123"

width
number

Canvas width in pixels. Defaults to the video's, or 1920 without a video.

Required range: 16 <= x <= 7680

Response

Created

A Tella Motion document

document
object
required

A Tella Motion document: a render timeline (a tree of media, sound, text, shape, sequence and composition nodes) that a Tella Motion clip, overlay or b-roll plays live, so edits show in the video at once.