Moda Video Clip

moda-video-clip

PREREQUISITE — load moda-core once per session (step-0, write contract, free/metered map). Already loaded? Skip ahead. If you cannot load it, the non-negotiables: run moda doctor --json before anything; moda brand list before creating; writes that pin a revision use your last read's — on stale_revision, re-read and retry once (it heals); send the canvas link the moment it exists; stuck or failed? moda ask "<question>" — free and fast, never guess.

Cards before knobs

--model is REQUIRED on every call and there is no "auto". Read the capability cards FIRST and copy values verbatim — guessing a duration, ratio, resolution or --model-params value is how a call 422s.

1. moda media models — one card per model: modes (prompt→video, image→video, reference→video, extend), duration and resolution envelopes, aspect ratios, audio behaviour, billing basis.
2. Pin the knobs on EVERY call: explicit --duration (omitting it reserves the model's LONGEST clip) and the resolution the pass needs. Knobs snap server-side — read applied and adjustments on the result, never assume.
3. Nothing is charged until a finished render is collected, so --no-wait + moda task status [TASK_REF] --wait is how several drafts run at once. A re-run of the same call replays the existing render instead of paying twice; a deliberate retake needs a changed knob (--seed, or a new prompt).

Sizes and defaults

Hard edges, facts not preferences: video models mangle text, prices and logos — real type and brand marks go on the canvas, never in a prompt (that is moda-video-motion's job). There is no free-form video-to-video edit: a source clip is a generation reference, an --extend-video base, or the subject of upscale-video / reframe-video.

Recipe — the draft ladder (the DEFAULT for anything a user will see)

1. Start assets, if any: moda brand show [BRAND_REF] --json for durable logo refs (LOOK at them first); a canvas frame via moda export [CANVAS_REF] --format png --page [N] --pixel-ratio 2 -o frame.png; user footage via moda file upload [clip.mp4].
2. Draft. moda media generate-video --prompt "[one complete instruction: subject, motion, camera, style, mood]" --model veo-3.1-lite --duration 4 --resolution 720p --no-generate-audio -o draft.mp4 — it comes back while you can still change your mind.
3. Look at it. moda media video-frames draft.mp4 --count 4 -o frames/ — FREE, and the only way to SEE a render. Judge the frames against the brief; never present a clip you have not looked at.
4. Fix, don't escalate. A draft that missed is nearly always a PROMPT problem: change the prompt, re-draft on the fast lane. Stepping up a tier buys a sharper version of the wrong clip.
5. Commit. Only the surviving direction, at the length and resolution the deliverable needs, on the model the ask deserves: moda media generate-video --prompt "[revised]" --model [HERO_MODEL] --duration [N] --resolution [TIER] -o hero.mp4.
6. Frame-check the hero the same way, then enhance the WINNER only: moda media upscale-video hero.mp4 --resolution 1080p -o final.mp4, or moda media reframe-video hero.mp4 --aspect-ratio 9:16 -o vertical.mp4.
7. Deliver: the result is a durable file_…. Fetch it with moda file download [FILE_REF] -o [name].mp4, hand over the path plus the usage receipt. Going on a canvas instead (type, a price, a logo, a cut)? Hand off to moda-video-motion — <video> markup is the only way clips land on a canvas.

Examples

• "a 10-second product video" → ladder: draft, frames, hero render.
• "animate our logo into a stinger" → image-to-video with the logo as --image.
• "make this 6s clip longer" → --extend-video on a model whose card shows it.
• "make the 16:9 into a story cut" → reframe-video --aspect-ratio 9:16.
• "animate this quote / this headline" → not this lane: moda-video-motion sets real type on a canvas; a model would mangle it.

Errors

Any typed error → load moda-core and read its recovery reference. 422 = a guessed parameter: re-read the model card and copy the value verbatim. Empty frames (no_frames_decoded) means Moda could not DECODE the file — never regenerate on it.

Make it recurring

Pin the model and brand defaults for this repo → moda-context; a recurring product-clip cadence → moda-automate.

See also: moda-video — the lane fork, canvas motion, mp4/gif export · moda-core — the contract, recovery, everything Moda can do.

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