AI avatar explainer video, quoted before it renders

Avatar explainer with a credit quote

The agent drafts a presenter video from your script, gets the final price for that exact draft, and renders only after you accept it.

Credits: 346 — A planning estimate for 30 seconds. quote_avatar_session sets the price for your script, and that quote is the one you approve.

The task

A quoted avatar explainer

Prompt

Write a 30-second explainer script about our new export feature, make it an avatar video with one of my avatar profiles and that profile's default voice, and show me the quote before rendering.

Calls it leads to

  1. 1read shotmatic://avatar-profilesLists your presenter profiles and their default voices.
  2. 2plan_videoWith script, avatar_profile_id and voice_id it returns a full-presenter session payload.
  3. 3create_sessionCreates the Avatar draft.
  4. 4get_session_previewShows the draft for review.
  5. 5quote_avatar_sessionPrices this exact revision and returns the approval arguments.
  6. 6approve_and_renderAfter you accept: renders with the quote's approval arguments.
  7. 7get_render_statusFollows the render.
You get
A presenter-led explainer you priced before it rendered.
API key scopes
avatar_profiles:read, sessions:read, sessions:write
Limits
  • You need an avatar profile on your account; the agent reads them from shotmatic://avatar-profiles.
  • A quote belongs to one revision of the draft. Edit the draft and the agent must quote it again.
  • Quoting reserves nothing and renders nothing.
Recorded run

No recorded run of this recipe yet, so there is no output to show. The steps above follow the server's tools and instructions; this page will show a completed run and its video once one is recorded.

A quote, not a render

Made on October 4, 2026 with Shotmatic's hosted MCP server (shotmatic.com/mcp) and an API key for Shotmatic's internal account. This run stopped at the quote, so nothing was reserved, charged or rendered.

Script, for Ginna with the Nora voice

Before Shotmatic renders a video, it shows you the price. Write your script, pick a presenter and a voice, and you'll see an itemized credit quote for that exact script. Change a word and you get a new quote. Nothing renders, and nothing is charged, until you approve. And the presenter is billed only for the seconds the narration actually lasts. Try it on your next explainer.

Calls the run made

  1. plan_videoWith the script, a featured presenter from shotmatic://avatar-profiles and its default voice: a full-presenter payload estimated at 346 credits.
  2. create_sessionCreated the Avatar draft.
  3. get_session_previewShowed the draft, priced "from 105 credits" until it is quoted.
  4. quote_avatar_sessionPriced this revision at 327 credits and returned the approval arguments; nothing was reserved or rendered.
Final presenter video render
100 credits
Voice synthesis, six segments
28 credits
Presenter speech, 27.5 s at most, charged on the seconds spoken
199 credits
Quote
327 credits
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