Ad Video Generation
Tool to generate a custom advertising video of a vehicle from photos.
- Allows you to generate a promotional video of a vehicle from a set of photos.
- Proposes multiple formats and durations adapted to listings and social networks.
- Offers the possibility of customizing the music, the captions and the brand elements.
Photos in, finished clip out. Sibling to 360 generation: both synthesise motion from stills, but that one returns a turnable spin and this one returns an edited clip.
Bills per video produced, not per photo submitted. A ten-photo input that yields one
thirty-second clip is one billable unit. wait=true is rejected.
Authorizations
Organisation API key, sent as Authorization: Bearer chk_live_….
chk_live_…— real inference, real credits,livemode: true.chk_test_…— identical pipeline against the fixture backend, test credits,livemode: false.
Keys are stored hashed; only the prefix (chk_live_a1b2…) is ever displayed again. A key
may be scoped to a subset of endpoint families — calling outside its scopes is a 403.
Headers
Client-generated key (a UUID is ideal) making this POST safe to retry. The first request
is executed and its response stored for 24 h; any replay with the same key returns that
stored response with Idempotent-Replayed: true and bills nothing. Reusing a key with a
different payload is a 409 idempotency_key_reuse.
8 - 255Steers the fixture backend. Ignored by live keys, 400 test_scenario_not_supported if the
scenario is unknown to the endpoint. Common catalogue:
Some endpoints add their own scenarios; unsupported common scenarios (for example
empty_result on a generation endpoint) are rejected rather than silently ignored.
"empty_result"
"low_confidence"
"model_error"
"slow"
"insufficient_credits"
Body
Repeat the images field once per file. 10 MB each.
1 - 30 elementslisting_30s, social_15s, story_9x16, showcase_60s Overrides the preset's duration.
5 <= x <= 12016:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:5 Licensed track identifier. none renders a silent clip.
"trk_upbeat_02"
Response
Job accepted, credits reserved, work queued.
The unit of work of the API. Every inference call creates one, and every result is read
back from one — synchronously through wait=true, or later through GET /v1/jobs/{id}
or a webhook.
result is populated only in succeeded, error only in failed / expired.
stages is present on inspection jobs only.
Job identifier — job_ followed by a base58 string.
^job_[1-9A-HJ-NP-Za-km-z]{8,32}$"job_3ZxK9pQr7TnW"
"job"Dotted slug of a CarHub endpoint, the identifier used for jobs and usage.
vehicle.analyze, vehicle.segment, vehicle.identify, vin.read, plate.read, document.read, dashboard.read, engine.detect, video.onboard, damage.detect, damage.severity, tire.read, tire.detect, parts.recognize, parts.segment, parts.decompose, pricing.vehicle, pricing.repair, render.background, render.enhance, render.plate, render.360, render.video, viewer.hotspots, inspections Lifecycle of a job. queued → processing → one of succeeded | failed; expired
when it was never picked up in time, canceled when it was cancelled before starting.
The three settled states are terminal.
queued, processing, succeeded, failed, expired, canceled false when the job was created with a chk_test_ key: fixture result, test credits.
Epoch seconds, UTC.
1755300000
When the job left the queue. Null while queued.
1755300000
When the job settled. Null until then.
1755300000
Exact model build that produced the result, as <model>@<release date>. Null until the job starts. Pin your regression tests to it.
"plate-reader@2026-08-01"
Credit accounting for the job. One credit equals one USD cent. reserved is held at
admission and charged is the real cost after settlement; unused credits are released.
One edited clip built from the submitted stills, plus the cut list that produced it. Bills per video produced, not per photo submitted.
Populated when status is failed or expired, null otherwise.
Per-stage progress. Present on inspections jobs only, absent everywhere else.
The X-Carhub-Test-Scenario that produced this job. Present on test-mode jobs that were steered by one, absent otherwise — a live job never carries it.
"low_confidence"