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NVENC commands run on NVIDIA L4 GPUs, billed per second, on the Pro plan.","date_published":"2026-06-13T00:00:00Z","tags":["new","API","Dashboard"],"_rendobar":{"type":"new","components":["API","Dashboard"],"breaking":false,"version":null}},{"id":"https://rendobar.com/changelog/#2026-06-13-machine-metrics","url":"https://rendobar.com/changelog/#2026-06-13-machine-metrics","title":"Live machine metrics on every job","content_text":"Watch live CPU, memory, and network use while a job runs, replay the graph after it finishes, and read the series from the API.","date_published":"2026-06-13T00:00:00Z","tags":["new","API","Dashboard","SDK"],"_rendobar":{"type":"new","components":["API","Dashboard","SDK"],"breaking":false,"version":null}},{"id":"https://rendobar.com/changelog/#2026-06-10-caption-longer-videos","url":"https://rendobar.com/changelog/#2026-06-10-caption-longer-videos","title":"Caption longer videos","content_text":"captions.animate no longer caps input length. Your plan's job time budget is the only bound, so you can caption as much video as that allows.","date_published":"2026-06-10T00:00:00Z","tags":["improved","API"],"_rendobar":{"type":"improved","components":["API"],"breaking":false,"version":null}},{"id":"https://rendobar.com/changelog/#2026-06-10-file-uploads","url":"https://rendobar.com/changelog/#2026-06-10-file-uploads","title":"Upload your own files","content_text":"Upload local files to Rendobar and use them as job inputs, no public URL needed. 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