> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://www.nexrender.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Nexrender Cloud Introduction

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

## 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

## Prerequisites

Before you start, you'll need:

* An active Nexrender Cloud account - [start a free trial](https://www.nexrender.com/get-trial) to get access
* Your API key - available from your [team dashboard](https://app.nexrender.com/settings/api-tokens) if you plan to use API
* An After Effects template in `.aep`, `.zip`, or `.mogrt` format

<Note>
  Custom fonts must be in `.ttf` format. Upload them once via the Fonts API and reference them by filename in your render jobs.
</Note>

## 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](https://www.nexrender.com/contact) to learn more.

## Coming from Nexrender OSS?

Nexrender Cloud is the managed counterpart to [Nexrender OSS](https://github.com/inlife/nexrender). 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.

## Getting Started

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

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="bolt" href="/docs/cloud/quickstart">
    Step-by-step instructions to submit your first render job using curl or Postman
  </Card>

  <Card title="Core Concepts" icon="map" href="/docs/cloud/concepts">
    Understand how templates, jobs, batches, and nested jobs fit together
  </Card>

  <Card title="Template Setup" icon="upload" href="/docs/cloud/templates/register_template">
    Learn how to structure your AE projects and upload them via the API
  </Card>

  <Card title="Submit a Render Job" icon="play" href="/docs/cloud/jobs/initiating_renders">
    Create and trigger a render job using compositions and asset overrides
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fonts Management" icon="font" href="/docs/cloud/fonts/upload">
    Preload fonts to preserve brand identity across renders
  </Card>

  <Card title="API Reference" icon="terminal" href="/docs/api-reference">
    Interact with Nexrender Cloud programmatically using our REST API
  </Card>
</CardGroup>