Local News Update
City-specific bulletin with a location chip; swap city, headline, summary and reporter, toggle the around-town strip.
- Type
- Video
- Format
- Instagram Reel · 9:16
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Duration
- 8.5s
- Scenes
- 2
- Render cost
- $0.00213 / render
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Customize Local News Update
Local News Update is a ready-to-render News / media video design formatted for Instagram Reel · 9:16 with 2 scenes and support for variables, conditional scenes. Open it in the editor to replace its copy and media, then render variations through the Zvid API.
12 variables: Every value below is a variable you can override — send them in the variables field of the render request (or edit them in the editor) to generate on-brand versions at scale.
stationTextcityTextkickerTextheadlineTextsummaryTextreporterTextshowStripTogglestripLabelTextstripTextTextcityImageMedia URLaccentColorColormusicUrlMedia URLThe exact JSON payload
This is the full render config — POST it to the API, or open it in the editor to tweak.
{
"name": "news-local-update",
"resolution": "instagram-reel",
"frameRate": 30,
"backgroundColor": "#100B06",
"outputFormat": "mp4",
"variables": {
"station": "CHANNEL 7 LOCAL",
"city": "AUSTIN, TX",
"kicker": "YOUR CITY TODAY",
"headline": "New light-rail line breaks ground downtown this fall",
"summary": "Phase one connects the airport to the capitol with nine stations, cutting the commute to 18 minutes by 2028.",
"reporter": "Reported by Dana Ruiz",
"showStrip": true,
"stripLabel": "AROUND TOWN",
"stripText": "82° & sunny · I-35 clear · Festival closes 6th St. tonight",
"cityImage": "https://images.pexels.com/photos/26851069/pexels-photo-26851069.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=650&w=940",
"accentColor": "#F2A93B",
"musicUrl": "https://cdn.pixabay.com/audio/2025/04/21/audio_ed6f0ed574.mp3"
},
"scenes": [
{
"id": "open",
"duration": 3,
"backgroundColor": "#100B06",
"transition": "smoothleft",
"transitionId": "story",
"transitionDuration": 0.5,
"visuals": [
{
"type": "IMAGE",
"src": "{{cityImage}}",
"width": 1080,
"height": 1920,
"position": "center-center",
"resize": "cover",
"zoom": true,
"track": 0,
"enterBegin": 0,
"exitEnd": 3
},
{
"type": "SVG",
"width": 1080,
"height": 1920,
"track": 1,
"enterBegin": 0,
"exitEnd": 3,
"svg": "<svg width='1080' height='1920' viewBox='0 0 1080 1920' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'><defs><linearGradient id='locShade' x1='0' y1='0' x2='0' y2='1'><stop offset='0' stop-color='#100B06' stop-opacity='0.6'/><stop offset='0.5' stop-color='#100B06' stop-opacity='0.25'/><stop offset='1' stop-color='#100B06' stop-opacity='0.9'/></linearGradient></defs><rect width='1080' height='1920' fill='url(#locShade)'/></svg>"
},
{
"type": "TEXT",
"x": 540,
"y": 1080,
"anchor": "center-center",
"track": 2,
"enterBegin": 0.15,
"enterEnd": 0.55,
"enterAnimation": "circleopen",
"exitEnd": 3,
"style": {
"fontFamily": "Archivo"
},
"html": "<div style='display:inline-block; background:{{accentColor}}; color:#100B06; padding:14px 34px; font-size:30px; font-weight:900; letter-spacing:6px;'>◉ {{city}}</div>"
},
{
"type": "TEXT",
"x": 540,
"y": 1240,
"anchor": "top-center",
"track": 3,
"enterBegin": 0.5,
"enterEnd": 0.95,
"enterAnimation": "smoothup",
"exitEnd": 3,
"style": {
"fontFamily": "Archivo"
},
"html": "<div style='text-align:center; color:#FFFFFF; font-size:36px; font-weight:800; letter-spacing:8px;'>{{station}}</div><div style='margin-top:16px; text-align:center; color:rgba(255,255,255,0.7); font-size:28px; font-weight:600; letter-spacing:6px;'>{{kicker}}</div>"
}
]
},
{
"id": "story",
"duration": 6,
"backgroundColor": "#100B06",
"visuals": [
{
"type": "SVG",
"width": 1080,
"height": 1920,
"track": 0,
"enterBegin": 0,
"exitEnd": 6,
"svg": "<svg width='1080' height='1920' viewBox='0 0 1080 1920' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'><defs><radialGradient id='locBg' cx='0.32' cy='0.3' r='1.05'><stop offset='0' stop-color='#241708'/><stop offset='1' stop-color='#100B06'/></radialGradient></defs><rect width='1080' height='1920' fill='url(#locBg)'/><rect x='90' y='300' width='12' height='150' rx='6' fill='#F2A93B'/><path d='M90 1580 H990' stroke='rgba(242,169,59,0.4)' stroke-width='2'/></svg>"
},
{
"type": "TEXT",
"x": 130,
"y": 300,
"anchor": "top-left",
"track": 1,
"enterBegin": 0.1,
"enterEnd": 0.5,
"enterAnimation": "smoothright",
"exitEnd": 6,
"style": {
"fontFamily": "Archivo"
},
"html": "<div style='color:{{accentColor}}; font-size:30px; font-weight:900; letter-spacing:6px;'>◉ {{city}}</div><div style='margin-top:10px; color:rgba(255,255,255,0.55); font-size:26px; font-weight:700; letter-spacing:4px;'>{{station}}</div>"
},
{
"type": "TEXT",
"x": 130,
"y": 520,
"width": 860,
"anchor": "top-left",
"track": 2,
"enterBegin": 0.35,
"enterEnd": 0.85,
"enterAnimation": "smoothup",
"exitEnd": 6,
"style": {
"fontFamily": "Archivo"
},
"html": "<div style='color:#FFFFFF; font-size:82px; line-height:1.04; font-weight:900; letter-spacing:-2px;'>{{headline}}</div>"
},
{
"type": "TEXT",
"x": 130,
"y": 940,
"width": 860,
"anchor": "top-left",
"track": 3,
"enterBegin": 0.7,
"enterEnd": 1.15,
"enterAnimation": "fade",
"exitEnd": 6,
"style": {
"fontFamily": "Archivo"
},
"html": "<div style='color:#D6CBBB; font-size:36px; line-height:1.45; font-weight:500;'>{{summary}}</div><div style='margin-top:28px; color:#9A8B72; font-size:28px; font-weight:700; letter-spacing:2px;'>{{reporter}}</div>"
},
{
"type": "TEXT",
"condition": "{{showStrip}}",
"x": 130,
"y": 1640,
"anchor": "top-left",
"track": 4,
"enterBegin": 0.9,
"enterEnd": 1.35,
"enterAnimation": "smoothleft",
"exitEnd": 6,
"style": {
"fontFamily": "Archivo"
},
"html": "<div style='color:{{accentColor}}; font-size:26px; font-weight:900; letter-spacing:5px;'>{{stripLabel}}</div><div style='margin-top:12px; color:#EFE6D8; font-size:32px; font-weight:600;'>{{stripText}}</div>"
}
]
}
],
"audios": [
{
"src": "{{musicUrl}}",
"volume": 0.15,
"track": 0
}
]
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