Everything we have written about templates, motion and AI video.

HyperFrames is free. HeyGen released it under the Apache 2.0 license, so it is free to use, modify, self-host, and ship commercially, with no per-render fees and no revenue thresholds. The catch is not a license fee but the real cost of running it: developer time to author each scene and compute to render. This guide explains the license in plain terms, what 'free' does and does not cover, how it contrasts with Remotion's paid business-source tiers, and the no-code alternative that prices the finished video instead of the toolkit.

AI video stopped being one thing in 2026. This field report maps how it split into three distinct camps — Avatar Agents that synthesize a presenter, Generator Agents that sample footage from a prompt, and Motion Agents that call branded templates and render deterministic video — and documents the state of each with sourced market and company data. It covers the market's ~20% CAGR, Synthesia's $4B raise and HeyGen's enterprise base, Sora 2's launch-and-shutdown arc against Kling's revenue and Runway's world-model pivot, and the deterministic-vs-generative divide that decides which camp fits branded, repeatable video.