From recordings · Live class to video

Turn an hour on Zoom into a lesson worth replaying.

Upload a recorded Zoom, Teams or Google Meet class or webinar. Lecture Studio keeps the teaching, cuts the waiting and the chatter, and turns it into a tight lesson plus short clips.

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What you put in

Zoom / Teams class

  • Zoom, Teams and Meet recordings
  • Webinars
  • Hybrid classroom recordings
  • Recordings from your LMS

What you get back

A finished video lesson

  • A 60-minute class made into a focused lesson
  • Waiting, tech checks and side talk cut
  • Shared slides rebuilt sharp
  • Short clips for each key moment

How it works

Three steps. No timeline to edit.

  1. 1Upload or paste the link

    A recording file, or a share link from your cloud recording.

  2. 2We keep the teaching

    Teaching moments stay; set-up, waiting and off-topic chat go.

  3. 3Get the lesson

    One focused lesson, plus short clips if you want them.

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Every effect in the engine

26 effects, applied for you.

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

Layouts and presenters 4

  • 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.

Teaching visuals 4

  • 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.
  • 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.

Classroom board 1

  • Classroom Board - WhiteboardA whiteboard that writes itself, stroke by stroke, on the words you say.

Pictures and footage 2

  • Image B-RollsA picture made for your exact sentence, shown with a slow zoom or pan.
  • Video B-Roll (Animated)Short drawn illustrations of the idea, free and unable to invent facts.

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.

Captions and access 2

  • Transcript and CaptionsBurned-in captions that light each word as it is said.
  • Caption files (VTT, SRT)A separate caption file for your LMS or video player.

Cleanup 5

  • 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.
  • Checks on every filmRe-listens to the finished film, checks lip sync to one frame and refuses mismatched files before delivery.

Branding 3

  • 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.

Delivery 3

  • Chapter to seriesTurns every chapter of a module into a series of films and one SCORM package.
  • Vertical cutdownA 9:16 version for social media.
  • 1080p full-length filmThe finished film at 1920x1080, full length.

Made for

Who uses Live class to video.

Questions

Before you start.

What happens to students' faces and voices?

Students can be removed or blurred, and questions can be kept as text.

Can it fix blurry shared slides?

Yes. Slides shared on screen are rebuilt sharp from what was shown.

How short does it get?

Usually a third to a half of the original, depending on how much was teaching.

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