Dub: How attribution works
Click, lead, sale and commission tracking, last-click versus first-click, the attribution window, direct sales, deferred leads and troubleshooting. Every code snippet on screen is copied from the page.
1 min 12 s, 9:16
Documentation video
Your docs, explained in one minute.
A documentation video is a short, narrated and captioned explainer of one docs page. VIDEO AI ME turns a brief of the page into that video in 16:9 or 9:16, and your agent or CI can regenerate it through the API when the docs change. Agents keep reading the text. People get the model in a minute.
16:9 + 9:16Captions includedAPI · CLI · MCP
docs.yourcompany.com/concepts/attribution
1 min · captions onCC
SEC 01Demos
What does a documentation video look like?
Two public docs pages, each turned into a full 16:9 walkthrough for the docs page and a short 9:16 cut for social. Captions are burned in, and a caption file ships with every video.
Algolia: Get started with Algolia
What Algolia is, how records, indices and events flow, the dashboard, the four starting points, the three build steps, and what to check before going live.
54 s, 9:16
Independent demos built by the VIDEO AI ME team from the public documentation, to show the format. Dub and Algolia are trademarks of their owners, who did not commission or endorse these videos. The self-serve explainer templates produce illustrated explainers in their own styles.
SEC 02Why video
Why add video to documentation if AI agents read the docs? Because the people who buy and approve your product still skim.
Agents read the text
Coding assistants and answer engines pull your pages, llms.txt and markdown. They do not need a video, and a docs video does not replace any of that.
People decide
The CTO comparing vendors, the CEO signing the contract and the senior engineer who owns the integration still open the docs themselves. They skim, and they rarely read every page.
Video explains the model first
A one-minute walkthrough shows how the pieces connect before anyone reads a reference page. Concepts like an attribution flow or an indexing pipeline land faster when they move.
SEC 03How it works
How do you turn a docs page into a video with VIDEO AI ME?
One page, one concept, one brief. You approve the storyboard before any video credits are spent, and each aspect ratio is its own run.
- 01
Docs page
one concept
- 02
Brief
600 characters
- 03
Storyboard
you approve
- 04
Render
narration + captions
- 05
Video
16:9 and 9:16
- 01
Pick one page and one idea
One video explains one documentation page. Choose the concept a new reader struggles with most, such as a data flow or the order of API calls.
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Write the brief, or let an agent draft it
Paste the key steps of the page as a brief of up to 600 characters. From Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, an agent can read the page with analyze_website and draft the brief for you.
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Choose the template, length and format
Pick an explainer template, a duration and 16:9 or 9:16. Each format is a separate run, so make the 16:9 for the docs and the 9:16 for social.
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Approve the storyboard, then render
You approve the frames before any video credits are spent. The narrated video renders in minutes, and add_captions burns word-level captions into it.
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Regenerate when the docs change
Call the same flow from your CI or your agent through the REST API, the CLI or MCP, and receive a signed webhook when the new video is ready.
SEC 04Distribution
Where does a documentation video get shared?
A docs page lives on your site. A one-minute video travels: it is the version of the page people forward. VIDEO AI ME publishes the social cut to 15 platforms from the same workspace.
dev-platform · 11:02
New attribution flow, 1 min:
docs.yourcompany.com
How attribution works
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Your company
Posted the 9:16 cut
Click, lead, sale, commission. One minute.
Docs embed
Team Slack and Discord
A link to a one-minute video gets watched in a channel. A link to a long reference page gets bookmarked.
LinkedIn, X and YouTube
The 9:16 cut posts natively, so a feature explanation travels where your buyers already scroll.
Blog posts and changelogs
Embed the 16:9 cut at the top of the post or the docs page it explains, with the captions file as a transcript.
SEC 05Keeping it current
How do you keep documentation videos up to date?
Treat the video like any other build artifact. Save the explainer as a flow once, then call it again when the page changes: from a CI step after a docs deploy, from the CLI, or by asking your coding agent over MCP.
ci / docs-deployrun
$ videoaime flows run docs-attribution --aspect 16:9run queued · flow "docs-attribution"storyboard · waiting for approvalrender · narration + captionswebhook · 200 video.ready- Docs deploy triggers a CI step
- The step calls your saved flow through the REST API or CLI
- You approve the storyboard, the video renders
- A signed webhook reports the new video URL
VIDEO AI ME does not watch your docs for changes on its own. Your pipeline decides when a page changed enough to re-render, and every run still asks for storyboard approval and confirms the credit cost.
SEC 06Limits
Which explainer template fits a docs page?
One credit equals one cent. Costs depend on length and are always quoted before you confirm a run.
| Template | Length | Formats per run | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vox-style explainer | 10 to 40 s | 16:9 or 9:16 | 110 to 1,920 |
| Microsoft Paint explainer | 10 to 60 s | 16:9 or 9:16 | 110 to 2,880 |
| Chalkboard explainer | 30 to 120 s | 16:9 or 9:16 | 330 to 5,760 |
Want a longer walkthrough of a whole page? Make one short video per concept, or see the AI explainer video and examples.
Frequently asked questions
What is a documentation video?
A documentation video is a short narrated explainer that covers one docs page: the concept, the flow and the key calls, with captions. It sits at the top of the page for people who want the model before the reference, and it can be shared on its own in Slack, on LinkedIn or in a blog post.
If AI agents read documentation, why make a video?
Because agents and people read docs for different reasons. Agents need complete, structured text, and your pages, llms.txt and markdown already serve them. The people who choose and approve a tool, such as a CTO, a CEO or a senior engineer, skim. A one-minute video gives them the mental model first, so the text they do read makes sense.
Can VIDEO AI ME turn a docs URL into a video automatically?
Not in one click today. The explainer templates start from a written brief of up to 600 characters. From an MCP client, an agent can read the page with analyze_website, draft that brief and start the explainer for you, and you approve the storyboard before the render spends credits.
Does the video update itself when the docs change?
No. VIDEO AI ME does not watch your docs for changes. You regenerate the video by calling the same flow again, from your CI after a docs deploy or from your coding agent, through the REST API, the CLI or MCP. A signed webhook tells your pipeline when the new video is ready.
How long should a documentation video be?
About one minute for a single concept, and no longer than two for a full page. The self-serve explainer templates run from 10 seconds up to 120 seconds for the chalkboard style. Split a long page into several short videos rather than making one long one.
Can I get both 16:9 and 9:16 versions?
Yes, as two runs from the same brief. Each run renders one format, so the 16:9 version for the docs page and the 9:16 version for social media are generated and charged separately.
Are captions and voiceover included?
Narration is part of every explainer render, with a male or female narrator. add_captions transcribes the audio and burns word-level captions into the video on paid plans. For a separate voiceover track, make_voiceover generates speech in 70+ languages with your plan voice minutes.
Were the Dub and Algolia demos made with a template?
No. The VIDEO AI ME team built both demos from the public documentation pages to show the format: one page, a clear visual model, verbatim code, captions and a 16:9 plus 9:16 pair. Neither company commissioned or endorsed them. The self-serve templates produce illustrated explainers in their own styles.
Give your hardest docs page a one-minute video
Start with the concept your new users ask about most. Plans and credit costs are on the pricing page.