# inlife/nexrender

📹  Data-driven render automation for After Effects

Repository: https://github.com/inlife/nexrender
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nexrender
Homepage: https://www.nexrender.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: video, adobe, render, js, api, after-effects, automation, farm, machine, scheduling, cli, nexrender
Last push: 2026-06-03T16:56:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 89/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 85, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3857, "days_push": 91, "days_rel": 91, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 52}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1854, forks 348 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:44.584444+00:00)

## What it is
Nexrender is an open-source, data-driven render automation framework for Adobe After Effects, built on Node.js. It lets you define render jobs as JSON to swap text, images, audio, and layers in AE templates and render thousands of personalized or batch videos via a self-hosted render farm or the hosted Nexrender Cloud.

## Use cases
- generate thousands of personalized videos from an After Effects template
- automate After Effects rendering pipelines
- create dynamic video ads from product feed data
- batch render videos by swapping text and images per row of a spreadsheet
- set up a self-hosted render farm for After Effects
- build a video personalization API for my app

## When to choose
- you need programmatic, data-driven rendering of After Effects templates at scale
- you want to self-host rendering on your own machines with no per-render cost
- you need to inject dynamic text, images, audio, or scripts into AE projects via API
- you want batch or personalized video generation integrated into an existing data pipeline

## When to avoid
- you don't use Adobe After Effects or don't have AE licenses on render machines
- you need simple video transcoding or editing without AE templates
- you want a fully managed turnkey solution without any infrastructure work and prefer not to use the paid cloud offering
- your workflow depends on other motion graphics tools like DaVinci Resolve or Blender

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, workflow-automation, scheduling, api-framework, cli, templating
- domain: media, developer-tools, apis
- platform: cross-platform, cli, self-hosted
- tags: after-effects, render-farm, video-automation, personalized-video, template-rendering, render-pipeline, video, automation, nodejs, docker

## Member repositories
- inlife/nexrender (main) score 89

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:44.584444+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:16:48.822057+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/inlife/nexrender (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:44.584444+00:00, sha 1c148ef09512)
  - homepage: https://www.nexrender.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:56:03.757482+00:00, sha a2c4cf6824b6)
  - site_page: https://www.nexrender.com/features/personalized-videos (fetched 2026-08-29T10:56:03.766764+00:00, sha 8ae6f075d70d)
  - site_page: https://www.nexrender.com/features/dynamic-video-ads (fetched 2026-08-29T10:56:03.768849+00:00, sha 4d0739bf0daa)
  - site_page: https://www.nexrender.com/features/personalized-sales-videos (fetched 2026-08-29T10:56:03.770746+00:00, sha 905679cd770b)
  - site_page: https://www.nexrender.com/features/bulk-video-editor (fetched 2026-08-29T10:56:03.772587+00:00, sha 70917a7dd2e6)
  - site_page: https://docs.nexrender.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:56:03.776123+00:00, sha 72e3fd1bc3f6)
  - site_page: https://www.nexrender.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:56:03.779923+00:00, sha 6b4f7b9180c2)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/nexrender (fetched 2026-08-29T10:56:03.781718+00:00, sha c7a68c7aeb32)
  - site_page: https://www.nexrender.com/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T10:56:03.774363+00:00, sha d5ecf8599d75)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.