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Stacked on #149.

A template belongs to the account, so signing in on a laptop should mean --template "Bold cuts" cuts the way the studio cuts. It didn't: templates existed only behind the web app, and the CLI had a growing pile of flags with no way to name a set of them.

The boundary

  • Core, free, offline: the primitives, as flags. --caption-style --crop --format --logo --name-card --motion --bookend-fade --thumbnail-placement. Nothing here changes.
  • Pro: a name for a set of them, and the builder that composes it. Available anywhere you are signed in, which now includes the CLI.

This is also why the last two PRs landed as flags rather than as a template format in the engine.

What's here

podcli templates lists the account's looks. --template <name|id> on process and studio fills the render config, applied before the flags so anything typed still wins. Signed out it says templates are Pro and points at the flags.

$ podcli templates
  Default default
    subtle · speaker · vertical

  Use one: podcli process video.mp4 --template "Default"

Verified against a real API with a Pro token: resolves by name and by id, fills crop / format / caption style / the default logo asset / thumbnail behaviour.

The rest of core catches up

The capabilities from #148 and #149 only landed on process. Now:

  • studio takes --logo, --name-card, --name-card-sub, --name-card-seconds, --motion
  • MCP create_clip and batch_create_clips carry name_card, motion and bookend_fade

Drawing a thumbnail is no longer the same decision as welding it on

--thumbnail-placement off keeps the pictures and leaves the video alone. It has only ever done both, so "I want the picture, not in my video" had no answer. The default is unchanged (start).

A template belongs to the account, so signing in on a laptop should mean
`--template "Bold cuts"` cuts the way the studio cuts. It said nothing of
the sort: templates existed only behind the web app, and the CLI had a
growing pile of flags with no way to name a set of them.

`podcli templates` lists what the account has. `--template` on `process` and
`studio` resolves one by name or id and fills the render config from it,
before the flags, so anything typed still wins. Signed out, it says
templates are Pro and points at the flags, which are the same flags a free
render has always taken. Nothing about an offline render changes.

That is the boundary: the primitives are core and always will be, and Pro
sells the named bundle of them plus the builder that composes it. Which is
also why the last two changes went in as flags rather than as a template
format in the engine.

The rest is the same capabilities reaching the rest of core, since they only
landed on `process`: `studio` takes --logo, --name-card and --motion, and
the MCP create_clip and batch_create_clips carry name_card, motion and
bookend_fade through.

And drawing a thumbnail is finally a separate decision from welding it onto
the video: --thumbnail-placement off keeps the pictures and leaves the file
alone. It defaulted to welding it on because that was the only behaviour
there had ever been, and "I want the picture, not in my video" had no
answer. Default unchanged.
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