# Crest Deployment Systems Video Render

> Crest Deployment Systems Video Render is a paid API for AI agents from crestsystems.ai, paid per call via x402, $1.5/call, status down (last checked 2026-10-20).

Renders a video output from an AI agent action, returning a hosted video URL, poster image, and duration with a tamper-evident receipt.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://crestsystems.ai/v1/render?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $1.5/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-10-20
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/crest-deployment-systems-video-render-0bd6ee8b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_lhtqI1B4qqi_AlfPSPDXd

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability crest-deployment-systems-video-render-0bd6ee8b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Render a video from my agent's latest action output using Crest's tamper-evident system, and give me back the hosted video URL, poster image, and duration.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to render AI agent action output into a hosted video with a tamper-evident receipt — especially in workflows where auditability and proof of agent actions matter alongside media delivery.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or missing request payload returns a 400 error
- Insufficient USDC payment (below $1.50) results in payment rejection
- Render job failure due to unsupported input format
- Service unavailability returns a 503 or timeout
- Receipt generation failure if audit log service is down

## How this service works

Deploying scalable intelligence. We build AI agents with tamper-evident records of every action they take.

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing a receipt object (tamper-evident record of the action), a video_url (hosted URL for the rendered video), a poster_url (thumbnail/poster image URL), and duration_seconds (length of the video in seconds).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "required": [
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "receipt": {
   "type": "object"
  },
  "video_url": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "poster_url": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "duration_seconds": {
   "type": "number"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/crest-deployment-systems-video-render-0bd6ee8b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from crestsystems.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/crestsystems.ai/llms.txt)