All prebuilt tools ADD PROGRESS BAR TO VIDEO API

Add a Progress Bar to a Video

Overlay a thin animated bar that fills over the duration, the TikTok-style retention cue. Run the preset directly on this page or call the same agent-ready endpoint from your product.

Run this tool View API recipe

LIVE TOOL

Run add progress bar

Drop a video, adjust the defaults if you need to, and download the result here.

BEFORE / AFTER

See what the tool changes.

A real example: the after side is the unedited output of a KinoPipe job. Run the live form above to generate the same result from your own media.

BeforeSource video

No retention cue

AfterWith progress bar

Ready

Animated bar · bottom · 8 px

Demo footage: public-domain timelapses (Bureau of Land Management, Oregon · NASA SVS). Processed by the same pipeline the API and MCP tools call.

BUILT FOR AUTOMATION

Useful defaults, typed options.

The tool slug stays stable while your agent supplies named media inputs and a narrow set of documented options.

Custom color and height
Top or bottom placement
Accounts for trims automatically

What this preset does

01Probe the effective duration
02Draw a bar that fills with time
03Composite it top or bottom
04Encode the finished MP4

Stable endpointPOST /api/v1/tools/add-progress-bar

Live API request

SYNCED WITH FORM

{
  "inputs": [{ "id": "main", "url": "https://example.com/clip.mp4" }],
  "options": { "position": "bottom", "height": 8 }
}

Successful output example

{
  "result": {
    "output": {
      "filename": "add-progress-bar-output.mp4",
      "contentType": "video/mp4",
      "byteSize": 437021,
      "downloadUrl": "https://cdn.kinopipe.com/…"
    }
  }
}

CONSTRAINTS