Create a video

Anything you teach with, turned into video.

Documents, slides, links, notes, recordings and audio: 18 ways to make a finished lesson, all running on the same engine, with the same effects, captions and quizzes.

From documents

Files you already have: notes, slides, books, pages, sheets.

From recordings

Footage and audio you have already recorded.

Do more with a video

Turn one finished video into more.

The engine

160 effects, one engine.

Every conversion draws on the same engine. This is all of it.

Layouts and presenters 17

  • Automatic edit planDecides, sentence by sentence, whether the screen shows you, your slides, or a picture, within fixed limits.
  • Presenter Plus - CaptionsYou on one side, your words as live captions on the other.
  • Presenter Plus - AnimatedYou in a frame beside your animated slide.
  • Animated Lecture (full screen)Your slide fills the screen and builds itself in time with what you say.
  • Presenter CentredYou in the middle of the frame with captions underneath.
  • Academic or fast paceChoose a calm academic pace or a faster pace with more picture changes for trailers and openers.
  • In-RoomYou stay in your own room or classroom and the teaching graphics are laid over the real shot; no green screen needed.
  • In-Room overlaysKey-word tags on the wall, note cards, round badges, a lower bar and a side panel that appear as you speak.
  • In-Room full-screen cardsShort full-screen hook, section, question and scene cards that cut in for a few seconds.
  • Punch-in camera movesThe camera pushes in on moments of emphasis so a single fixed camera never sits still for minutes.
  • PodcastA podcast-style film: you stay on screen, carried by big word-by-word captions and a few designed moments.
  • Podcast designed momentsTitle card, emphasis line, question or definition box, items that arrive as spoken, a percentage ring and a name strip.
  • Smartboard and classroom footageFor lectures filmed in a real room in front of an interactive panel: you are cut out and every slide is rebuilt clean.
  • Teacher LedA talking teacher in a small frame on the right while the lesson material plays on the left.
  • Teacher-Student ConversationThe lesson taught as a conversation: a teacher and a curious student side by side, the speaker's name lit.
  • Automatic scene designEach slide is turned into the best scene type (slide, diagram or story picture) by readable rules.
  • Scene editorChange any slide with plain commands like 'slide 7: make this a table' and see a preview.

Teaching visuals 59

  • Clean slides rebuilt from the panelRebuilds each slide from the classroom panel with nobody standing in front of it, so no deck file is needed.
  • Chapter openerA small kicker and one big title that opens a chapter.
  • Chapter headerNames the chapter at the top and stays while the rest builds under it.
  • Spoken listA list that arrives line by line as you say each point.
  • CardsTwo to four panels, each a point with its consequence.
  • Fill-in slotsEmpty slots that fill one by one as you name each item.
  • DefinitionA term and its definition filling in word by word as you read it.
  • Comparison columnsTwo or three ideas side by side, each lit when you reach it.
  • QuoteA line worth stopping on, set large on its own.
  • Key lineOne strong sentence across the screen with the key phrase lit.
  • Sequence chainLinked panels with arrows for anything that happens in order.
  • Agenda railA numbered roadmap with a marker on the current item.
  • Counting numberA number that counts up so it is felt, not just read.
  • Title slideProgramme, course and topic with you cut out beside it.
  • TimelineA line that draws as far as the lecture has reached, with dated events.
  • MatrixA grid comparing every pair across two lists.
  • Bar chartBars that grow while their figures count up.
  • Share barOne bar split into shares of a whole.
  • Trend lineA line that draws itself to show a trend.
  • Venn diagramOverlapping circles showing what ideas share.
  • Flow diagramNodes, decisions and branches drawn in turn.
  • CycleA process that loops back round.
  • StackLayers that build a whole from the bottom up.
  • FormulaAn expression built term by term with a note on each part.
  • Annotated pictureA picture with pins and labels pointing into it.
  • Labelled layoutA place or structure with its zones named.
  • Drawn scene: row of cardsA row of icon cards that arrive as they are named.
  • Drawn scene: versusTwo sides held apart with a verdict across the middle.
  • Drawn scene: focusOne big icon with what follows from it.
  • Drawn scene: chainPanels linked by arrows for a process or history.
  • Animated slide pagesYour own slide deck comes alive part by part: text, cards and pictures arrive on the words that introduce them.
  • Camera that follows the voiceThe view moves in on each part of the slide as it is spoken and pulls back at the end.
  • Highlighter on spoken textA highlighter stroke runs under the line being spoken.
  • No crowded screensA busy slide is shown a few items at a time instead of as a wall of text.
  • Code walkthroughThe line of code being explained is lit, the rest dimmed, with a note on what it does.
  • Data tableRows arrive as they are spoken; a row, column or cell lights on cue.
  • Traced flow diagramNodes and arrows drawn in turn, with dots travelling the route.
  • Labelled illustrationA picture with leader lines drawn out to its named parts.
  • Mind mapThe main idea in the middle with branches growing as they are named.
  • Lesson title slideTitle, course pills and 'what you will be able to do' arriving as they are read.
  • Big statementA statement in big type, its key words lit as they are said.
  • Number revealA number that counts up on cue; a percentage also fills a ring.
  • Icon reasonsA row of cards, each with an icon that draws itself on cue.
  • Flow storySomething travels from one place to another, like a document into a public tool.
  • Lesson timelineA line draws across and events drop onto it.
  • Traffic lightEach lamp lights on its cue with what belongs to it beside it.
  • RedactionNames and numbers in a realistic note are marked, then swapped for placeholders.
  • Two jurisdictionsTwo places' rules stamped in side by side.
  • Fake video callA video call where every face turns out to be fake.
  • Voice waveformA waveform recorded against a timer, then how close a copy gets.
  • Phone chatA moment shown as a call transcript on a phone.
  • List sceneNumbered rows arriving one at a time.
  • Two-column comparisonTwo columns compared side by side.
  • StepsNumbered steps arriving in order.
  • LevelsStacked levels building up.
  • Prompt boxA typed prompt shown as it would look on screen.
  • Self-drawing iconsLine icons that trace themselves on when they arrive, then gently move.
  • Decorative shapesBig flat shapes that pop in at the edges and drift.
  • Circle-wipe slide changeEach new slide is revealed by a circle growing from a corner.

Classroom board 3

  • Classroom Board - WhiteboardA whiteboard that writes itself, stroke by stroke, on the words you say.
  • Classroom Board - BlackboardThe same board in chalk on a blackboard, used where the screen around it is light.
  • Classroom Board - Template StyleShort drawn scenes written in your course's own typeface and colours, with no board frame.

Pictures and footage 10

  • Image B-RollsA picture made for your exact sentence, shown with a slow zoom or pan.
  • Video B-RollsA short moving clip made for the moment you describe something in motion.
  • Video B-Roll (Animated)Short drawn illustrations of the idea, free and unable to invent facts.
  • Stock B-RollsReal free footage of places and things, used only where the sentence plainly names them.
  • Characters that stay the sameA person in your case study looks the same in every picture.
  • No-people picturesKeeps faces and hands out of every generated and stock picture.
  • No invented logos or fake documentsGenerated pictures never show a real brand, institution, public figure, chart or document.
  • Slow zoom and pan on picturesStill pictures drift gently so the screen never freezes.
  • Shot libraryEvery picture made is kept and reused, alongside 2,000+ free clips.
  • Story pictures and clipsFull-screen pictures or clips for stories and scenarios in a lesson, slowly pushing in.

Learning and quizzes 7

  • Takeaways sceneThe lesson's takeaways arriving one by one.
  • Learning Objectives and Key TakeawaysOpens with what students will learn and closes with what they should remember.
  • Quick CheckFive multiple-choice questions after each concept, with a countdown and the answer explained.
  • Get the most / Make it stickTips at the start and end: take notes, say it in your own words, practise, tell someone today.
  • Key insightAbout every 1.5 minutes, a key line from the lesson's own summary with a chime.
  • Quick revisionAbout every 3.5 minutes, the points taught so far, with its own music.
  • Read-aloud quizThe ebook's own questions read aloud with every option, a 10-second countdown, then the answer and why.

Voice, sound and music 7

  • Music under the cardsA music bed under the opening and closing cards, kept well under speech.
  • Background music under the lessonSoft music under the whole lesson, dipped at each chapter change.
  • Narrated cardsWelcome, objectives and takeaways read by a narrator matched to the lecturer.
  • Narrator voice-overYour lesson script read aloud by a natural narrator, slower and expressive, word-timed to the screen.
  • Teacher and student voicesTwo distinct voices for a conversation-style lesson.
  • Talking teacher and studentLifelike presenters whose lips follow the voice and who never freeze after speaking.
  • Quiz music and clockLow game-show music and a soft clock while learners answer.

Captions and access 3

  • Transcript and CaptionsBurned-in captions that light each word as it is said.
  • Captions locked to your scriptWherever you read your script, captions use its exact words and spellings, not the speech recogniser's guess.
  • Caption check before deliveryA film whose captions misspell a name, show a slate or an unknown word is not delivered.

Cleanup 9

  • Video CleanupTakes out dead air, long pauses and false starts so the lecture flows without you editing it.
  • Retake removalWhen you say 'cut, take one' and repeat a line, only your good take is kept.
  • Slate and recording-talk removalRemoves the camera slate ('unit 3, script 5'), slide numbers read aloud and other talk that is not the lecture.
  • Recording-talk check before deliveryListens to the finished film and holds it back if any recording talk slipped through.
  • Studio SoundCleans room noise, hiss and boxy microphone sound and evens out the loudness.
  • Green-screen removalRemoves the green cloth behind you cleanly, measured for each recording.
  • Presenter lighting liftGently brightens the shadow side of your face and evens out exposure changes during the recording.
  • Automatic presenter framingMeasures where you stand and move so you are never cropped at the head or hands.
  • Checks on every filmRe-listens to the finished film, checks lip sync to one frame and refuses mismatched files before delivery.

Branding 9

  • Brand cardsWhen you name a real company, a clean name card over a picture of its world appears instead of a fake logo.
  • Logo (eight corner styles)Your crest in the corner all the way through, as a watermark, bug, glass badge or one of five other styles.
  • Plain corner logoA simple light or dark logo in the corner of the lesson.
  • Intro and outro video logoYour institution's video logo at the start and end of every film.
  • Welcome and end-note cardsA welcome card naming the course and topic, and a closing thank-you card.
  • Title CardAn opening slate naming programme, course and topic with the presenter cut out beside it.
  • Team CreditsA closing credits card for the faculty and production team.
  • Lesson end cardA closing card with the course name and what comes next.
  • Slide counter footerA footer with the course and 'slide 3 / 12'.

Styles 32

  • Background (style stage)Puts you on a clean stage in your course colours instead of the green cloth.
  • ScholarA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • LatticeA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • FolioA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • BeaconA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • SlateA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • RegaliaA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • GarnetA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • VellumA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • LedgerA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • VibranceA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • LilacA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • CobaltA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • BlossomA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • CrayonA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • AzureA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • OnyxA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • BulletinA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • TangerineA complete look (typefaces, colours, background, shapes and motion) applied to every screen of the film.
  • StickerA complete look applied to every screen, made first for In-Room films.
  • VoltageA complete look applied to every screen, made first for In-Room films.
  • AtelierA complete look applied to every screen, made first for In-Room films.
  • GroveA complete look applied to every screen, made first for In-Room films.
  • TempoA complete look applied to every screen, made first for In-Room films.
  • CircuitA complete look applied to every screen, made first for In-Room films.
  • PrismA complete look applied to every screen, made first for In-Room films.
  • PrimerWarm cream, ink black and a lime highlighter; the look of lessons made from documents.
  • Podcast theme: KeynoteOne of the four looks for a Podcast film.
  • Podcast theme: AuraOne of the four looks for a Podcast film.
  • Podcast theme: StudioOne of the four looks for a Podcast film.
  • Podcast theme: SpotlightOne of the four looks for a Podcast film.
  • In-Room overlays in everyEvery template style also dresses In-Room overlays in its own colours and shapes.

Delivery 4

  • SCORM exportPackages lesson films for your LMS with captions, resume and 90%-watched completion.
  • Chapter to seriesTurns every chapter of a module into a series of films and one SCORM package.
  • Whole courses at onceA whole course queued as one batch across render machines, every lecture in the same style.
  • 1080p full-length filmThe finished film at 1920x1080, full length.