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url: /orchestration/reference/operations/InvokePreprocessVideoStepTemplate.md
description: 'POST /v2/consumer/recipes/preprocessVideo — POST /v2/consumer/recipes/preprocessVideo'
---

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# POST /v2/consumer/recipes/preprocessVideo

`POST https://orchestration.civitai.com/v2/consumer/recipes/preprocessVideo`

Operation `InvokePreprocessVideoStepTemplate` · Recipes · Civitai Orchestration API, generated from the published OpenAPI spec ([v2-consumers.json](https://developer.civitai.com/openapi/v2-consumers.json)); the interactive HTML page is this URL without `.md`.

## Authentication

Send `Authorization: Bearer <token>` (the spec's `ApiKey` scheme); this operation documents `401 Unauthorized` for a missing or invalid token. See [Authentication](https://developer.civitai.com/orchestration/guide/authentication.md).

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `experimental` | query | boolean | no |  |
| `allowMatureContent` | query | boolean | no |  |
| `whatif` | query | boolean | no |  |
| `ephemeral` | query | boolean | no |  |
| `tier` | query | `WorkflowTier` (one of `paid`, `free`) | no | How a workflow is paid for. |

## Request body

Optional. Content types: `application/json`, `text/json`, `application/*+json`.

Schema `PreprocessVideoInput`.

Polymorphic: the `kind` field selects the concrete type — `canny` → `PreprocessVideoCannyInput`, `mlsd` → `PreprocessVideoMlsdInput`, `depth-anything-v2` → `PreprocessVideoDepthAnythingV2Input`, `hed` → `PreprocessVideoHedInput`, `dwpose` → `PreprocessVideoDwPoseInput`, `sdpose` → `PreprocessVideoSdPoseInput`, `scribble` → `PreprocessVideoScribbleInput`, `gray` → `PreprocessVideoGrayInput`, `layout` → `PreprocessVideoLayoutInput`.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `kind` | string | yes |  |
| `video` | string (uri) | yes |  |
| `resolution` | integer (int32) | no | The target resolution of the video's shorter edge. (default `512`, minimum `64`, maximum `4096`) |
| `preprocessorType` | string | yes |  |

## Responses

### 200 OK

Content type: `application/json`.

Schema `PreprocessVideoOutput`.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `blob` | `VideoBlob` | yes |  |

### 400 Bad Request

Content type: `application/json`.

Schema `ProblemDetails`.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `type` | string, nullable | no |  |
| `title` | string, nullable | no |  |
| `status` | integer (int32), nullable | no |  |
| `detail` | string, nullable | no |  |
| `instance` | string, nullable | no |  |

### 401 Unauthorized

Content type: `application/json`.

Schema `ProblemDetails` — fields as listed above.

### 403 Forbidden

Content type: `application/json`.

Schema `ProblemDetails` — fields as listed above.