Add Overlays to Videos via API
Use the Bannerbear REST API or SDKs to add overlays to videos
Overlays
With the Bannerbear API it is easy to add overlays to videos in your app or script.
Simply send a JSON payload of text, external file urls and other attributes to our API and we do the rest. There are also official libraries in Node, Ruby and PHP to make integration even faster.
API ReferenceHelp Articles
Knowledge Base articles on how to add overlays to videos via API
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