From recordings · Raw footage to video

Raw lecture in. Studio quality out.

Upload a lecture recorded on a phone, a webcam, a green screen or a classroom camera. Lecture Studio cleans it, plans the edit, adds the teaching visuals, captions and branding, and sends back a finished film.

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What you put in

Raw lecture footage

  • Phone, webcam or camera footage
  • Green-screen recordings
  • Classroom and smartboard recordings
  • Long lectures and short clips

What you get back

A finished video lesson

  • Pauses, retakes and set-up talk removed
  • Studio sound
  • Animated teaching visuals matched to what you say
  • Captions, branding and a quiz

How it works

Three steps. No timeline to edit.

  1. 1Upload the recording

    Any length, any camera. Or paste a cloud link.

  2. 2We plan and produce

    Cleanup, sound, the edit plan, visuals, captions and branding, all in one pass.

  3. 3Get the film

    Review the plan, change anything, and download the finished lecture.

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Every effect in the engine

53 effects, applied for you.

Everything below is part of a Raw footage to video conversion. You can switch any of it off before the video is made.

Layouts and presenters 11

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Academic or fast paceChoose a calm academic pace or a faster pace with more picture changes for trailers and openers.

Teaching visuals 12

  • DefinitionA term and its definition filling in word by word as you read it.
  • Spoken listA list that arrives line by line as you say each point.
  • Comparison columnsTwo or three ideas side by side, each lit when you reach it.
  • Flow diagramNodes, decisions and branches drawn in turn.
  • TimelineA line that draws as far as the lecture has reached, with dated events.
  • Bar chartBars that grow while their figures count up.
  • FormulaAn expression built term by term with a note on each part.
  • Annotated pictureA picture with pins and labels pointing into it.
  • Sequence chainLinked panels with arrows for anything that happens in order.
  • CycleA process that loops back round.
  • MatrixA grid comparing every pair across two lists.
  • 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.

Classroom board 2

  • 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.

Pictures and footage 4

  • 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.

Learning and quizzes 2

  • 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.

Voice, sound and music 2

  • Music under the cardsA music bed under the opening and closing cards, kept well under speech.
  • Narrated cardsWelcome, objectives and takeaways read by a narrator matched to the lecturer.

Captions and access 4

  • 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 files (VTT, SRT)A separate caption file for your LMS or video player.
  • 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.
  • Studio SoundCleans room noise, hiss and boxy microphone sound and evens out the loudness.
  • Automatic presenter framingMeasures where you stand and move so you are never cropped at the head or hands.
  • Presenter lighting liftGently brightens the shadow side of your face and evens out exposure changes during the recording.
  • Recording-talk check before deliveryListens to the finished film and holds it back if any recording talk slipped through.
  • Checks on every filmRe-listens to the finished film, checks lip sync to one frame and refuses mismatched files before delivery.
  • Green-screen removalRemoves the green cloth behind you cleanly, measured for each recording.

Branding 5

  • 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.
  • Intro and outro video logoYour institution's video logo at the start and end of every film.
  • Title CardAn opening slate naming programme, course and topic with the presenter cut out beside it.
  • Speaker name stripThe speaker's name and role shown as a strip while they talk.
  • Team CreditsA closing credits card for the faculty and production team.

Delivery 2

  • 1080p full-length filmThe finished film at 1920x1080, full length.
  • Whole courses at onceA whole course queued as one batch across render machines, every lecture in the same style.

Made for

Who uses Raw footage to video.

Questions

Before you start.

Do I need a green screen?

No. In-Room keeps you in your own room and lays the teaching graphics over the real shot.

Will it cut my words?

No. Only silence, retakes and set-up talk are removed.

Which camera should I use?

Any. A phone with good light and a clip-on microphone is enough.

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