Clipwave Video & Image Maker

Description

Clipwave Video & Image Maker connects your WordPress site to Clipwave, an AI media generation service. Describe what you need, pick a style, a mood and a format, and the plugin generates an image or a short video with your Clipwave account. The result is previewed in wp-admin and can be added to the Media Library in one click, or set straight away as the featured image of the post you are editing.

What you can generate

• Images (photorealistic, cinematic, 3D render, flat illustration, watercolour, bold graphic, minimal, retro print) and five kinds of logo marks, in 1:1, 16:9, 9:16, 4:3 or 3:4, one to four variations at a time.
• Short videos (cinematic, handheld UGC, product showcase, animated explainer, timelapse, aerial) of 4 to 15 seconds, 480p or 720p, with or without generated audio, in 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4 or 21:9.

Where you use it

• Media > Clipwave: a full page to compose a brief, generate, preview and import.
• The editor: a “Clipwave Video & Image Maker” box in the sidebar of posts and pages (any public post type with a featured image), with the option to set the result as featured image.

Before you start: a Clipwave account and credits are required

Generations run on Clipwave’s servers and are paid with Clipwave credits; there is no free tier through the API. You need an account on clipwave.io, credits on that account, and an API key created under Dashboard > API keys. At the time of writing an image costs 50 credits and a video costs from 404 credits (4 seconds, 480p) to 3,405 credits (15 seconds, 720p); the exact cost is shown on the Generate button before you spend anything. Credits and pricing are managed on clipwave.io, not in the plugin.

The plugin itself is free software (GPLv2 or later) and every feature in it works with any Clipwave account that has credits.

How it works

1. A site administrator pastes the API key under Settings > Clipwave. The key is stored in your WordPress database, shown masked, and can be removed at any time.
2. Any user who can upload files (Authors and above by default) opens Media > Clipwave or the editor box, describes the subject, chooses style, mood and format, and presses Generate.
3. Your server sends the brief to the Clipwave API, then checks the job every few seconds until it is complete.
4. The result is previewed. “Add to Media Library” downloads the file to your server and creates a regular attachment; for a post, “Set as featured image” does exactly that. Videos are imported as MP4 attachments when your site allows that file type; otherwise a download link is offered.

Every result is also kept in your Clipwave dashboard, so nothing is lost if you close the page while a video is still rendering.

External services

This plugin is a client for the Clipwave API, a paid third-party service operated by Clipwave (https://clipwave.io). It is required for the plugin to do anything: without a Clipwave account, credits and an API key, no image or video can be generated.

Endpoint: https://clipwave.io/api/v1 (requests are made from your web server with the WordPress HTTP API, never from the visitor’s browser). Generated files are downloaded from https://clipwave.io (or from the storage Clipwave uses for a freshly finished job) when you press “Add to Media Library”.

What is sent, and when

• When an administrator presses “Verify key” in Settings > Clipwave: the API key (as an Authorization header). Nothing else.
• When a user presses “Generate”: the API key, the prompt composed from the brief (subject, style, mood, format), and the generation settings (aspect ratio, number of images, duration, resolution, audio on/off).
• While a generation is running: the API key and the job id, every few seconds, until the job completes or fails.
• When a user presses “Add to Media Library”: the API key and the job id, then a download of the generated file.

No data about your site, its URL, its users, its content or its visitors is sent. Nothing is sent until an API key has been saved and a user explicitly performs one of the actions above. The plugin contains no analytics, no tracking and loads no external scripts, styles or images in wp-admin.

• Terms of Service: https://clipwave.io/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://clipwave.io/privacy

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