Synthesia Updates

Giphy, direct cut, shortcuts: 3 editor updates ✏️📹

2024-07-22T09:01:35.008Z

Today, we’re excited to share some amazing editor updates in Synthesia: now you can use Giphy, add seamless transitions and edit videos quickly.

Watch the video created in Synthesia and use it as a template. Just duplicate it and start creating! ✏️

📹 Direct cut: Create fast-paced videos easily with the new Direct Cut transition. It removes delays between scenes, keeping your viewers engaged without losing the context.

⌨️ New shortcuts: Speed up your video creation process with keyboard shortcuts. With just a few key combinations, you can quickly change the order of layers or make text bold. Find out more about shortcuts and start using them today.

🖼 New stock library: Access over 40 million media assets, including Getty Images, Giphy gifs, Pexels content, and Soundstripe music. Our new media library enables you to create diverse and engaging scenes.

Use this video as a template to create simple yet captivating videos [✔️duplicate and start using].

🚀 Introducing Synthesia 2.0

2024-06-24T17:58:53.469Z

Synthesia 2.0 is here — and you’re the first to see a glimpse into the future of AI video communications for business!

Watch our CEO & Co-Founder Victor Riparbelli introducing updates on personal avatars, translations, video player, and…a glimpse into the future of interactive video 🪄

🔥 Watch the event here🔥

What are you most excited about? 👀

🧠 AI video assistant gets smarter: 3 exciting updates

2024-06-14T14:07:16.990Z

We want to share with you three exciting updates of AI video assistant (available for Starter, Creator and Enterprise plans):

📹 Turn .PPTX into an engaging video

What changed:

You can now upload your PowerPoint files to AI video assistant. It will create a script inspired by your deck and analyse all speaker notes and images.

Why that's cool:

Every company creates hundreds of presentations each month, many of which go unused afterwards. Turn decks into videos: repurpose valuable content and share the knowledge hidden in these presentations with a wide audience in an easily watchable format.

How to try:

Open AI video assistant. Choose template. Upload your PowerPoint to the AI video assistant. It will analyse the slides, including speaker notes and images. Generate the script based on you PowerPoint.

🖼 Auto Image Extraction

What changed:

The AI video assistant now finds charts, diagrams, and other essential images from your source material (document, deck or weblink) and includes them in your script, followed by a video.

Why that's cool:

Extracting important images from links and documents allows you to fully convert files into videos without losing crucial illustrations and context. This will enable you to create relevant, high-quality videos in minutes.

Example: AI video assistant extracted a few charts from the deck.

🚨 Important note: The AI video assistant will extract only important charts, diagrams, and screenshots. Other images might be replaced with stock ones.

📷 Adding stock content automatically

What changed:

AI video assistant will automatically add media (photo, video) to the generated script based on your content.

Why that's cool:

Now, you can turn any text-heavy file into an AI video assistant and generate a visually engaging and nicely designed video. Adding visuals helps us consume information and remember more.

Example: AI video assistant turned this Wikipedia article into a script with lots of stock content.

📌 Triggers: script-driven animation 2.0

2024-05-13T16:47:38.982Z

Monday — official day for feature releases. Today, we are excited to introduce Triggers.

What's New? ⚡️

We replaced Markers with Triggers. Now, you can smoothly and easily animate texts, elements, media, and avatars based on script.

How Does It Work? 🖥

It's so simple!

Select an element:text, media, shape, and avatar
Grab the trigger in the video and drag where the animation should start and finish.
Choose the animation effect: from fade to zoom.

Why You'll Love It 💕

Animation makes your videos come alive. By animating elements precisely when needed, your message becomes clear and captivates your audience.

Tips on how to use:

📝 Sync words: key phrases pop up when mentioned by the avatar.
👀 Illustrate points: media elements appear to enrich the context.
💡 Step by step: display instructions one at a time as explained.
➡️ Point: highlight something on the slide with an arrow, circle or line.

Check the video about Triggers and learn how to use it

🗣 Voice Cloning: your voice in 29 languages

2024-05-07T16:00:28.287Z

New week — new feature. We are happy to introduce Voice Cloning to our corporate clients.

What's new?

Clone your voice in English and use it in 29 other languages. The recording takes only 5-10 minutes, giving you a multilingual voice clone. Here are the languages that you are now able to speak:

Why is it cool?

🌍 Global reach: your digital twin can now speak fluently in languages you've never learned – from Spanish to Japanese.

🤝 Personal touch: create personalized content in your own voice, ensuring you connect with your audience in the language they understand.

🛠 How to use?

Go to Voices
Create New Voice.
Start recording your voice. You will read a few scripts. It will take 5-10 minutes.
Finish recording with consent. Submit your voice.
Find your clone in the list of voices and start using it in 29 languages.

Happy creating! ⚡️

👩🏼💗 Expressive Avatars: try them now

2024-04-29T14:55:48.227Z

We are thrilled to announce that expressive avatars are now live in Synthesia.

What are expressive avatars?

Our latest generation of AI avatars understand what they are talking about and follow the sentiment of the text. It means they deliver their scripts like real actors, with the appropriate tone of voice, body language, and lip-syncing. For example, they can appear and sound sad if the script is sad or energetic and positive if the text is inspiring. Expressive avatars are paired with expressive voices.

Which languages are available with expressive voices?

With a new generation of avatars, we released expressive voices in 28 languages. Here is the list:

What emotions can avatars show?

It entirely relies on the script. Avatars can be excited, sad, confident, grateful — a massive spectrum of emotions.

Here are a few tips on how to make avatars emotional:

🥹 Use expressive words: to show enthusiasm, add something like: “Fantastic!“, “Great job!“.
❔ Use punctuation: exclamation for excitement or urgency, question marks showing curiosity or frustration, and ellipsis to show uncertainty.
🙁 Try using old-school emojis: :) and :(.

How to find expressive avatars and expressive voices?

All expressive avatars and voices are marked with a purple star icon.

How to use expressive avatars?

Sensitive topics: for many videos you need the speaker to be empathetic, understanding, patient, helpful and serious. 📹 See an example.
Complex topics: expressive avatars can be engaging, supportive, and inspiring. When you need to explain something step by step, they will help guide your audience through the process. 📹 See an example.
Sales/marketing: new avatars can be really excited talking about your product or service you provide.
📹 See an example.

Why are expressive avatars cool?

People instinctively seek visual and auditory cues to engage with and understand video content. Our new avatars accurately replicate these cues, making communications not only more engaging but also more effective. Expressive avatars improve information retention and enhance the overall impact of your message. Your content will be watched and remembered.

Happy creating! ⚡️

😍 Event: Introducing Expressive AI Avatars

2024-04-24T15:55:53.935Z

The world's first expressive AI avatars are (finally) here! They frown, smile, furrow their eyebrows, and more — all automatically. And you can be the first to try them out.

So mark your calendars and join the official launch event on April 25! 💥

Synthesia CEO @Victor Riparbelli will dive into the underlying AI technology, share tips and tricks, and most importantly — give all attendees a chance for a hands-on test.

So, what makes our Expressive AI Avatars different from other AI avatars available on the market?

🧠 They predict expressions automatically from just the script
🗣️ They have more natural facial features and head movements
🫦 They all come with matching voices and amazing lip-sync

In short, with this new avatar technology you can create even better and engaging videos for existing and dozens of new use cases.

⚡️ Join us on the event ⚡️

P.S. Check Joshua, one of our amazing expressive AI Avatars:

✂️ Trimming UX update

2024-04-23T15:47:00.167Z

We're excited to share that our new Trimming UX update is now available for all Synthesia users.

What’s new:

Split videos: easily divide any uploaded or stock video into segments.
Create scenes: transform segments into separate scenes.
Edit freely: modify each segment according to your needs.
Duplicate & rearrange: copy segments and change their order for optimal storytelling.

Why is this cool?

This update makes editing videos in Synthesia simpler and faster. You can:

💻 Upload a screen recording and split it into scenes for a perfect voiceover.
📹 Choose only the best parts of a stock video to use, and easily cut out the bits you don’t need.

Plus, it really cuts down on editing time and makes your workflow much smoother.

How to Use It?

First — select the video and click on Trim.
Splitting: move the slider to where you want to split and click Split at Time.
Moving Segments: just drag and drop it where it needs to be placed.
Creating Scenes: to make a new scene with a piece of the video, right-click on it and select Add to New Scene.

🎨 Create your first Brand kit

2024-04-04T12:33:26.337Z

Exciting new update in Synthesia for corporate plan users: now you can create and apply your company's Brand Kit.

🎨 What is a Brand Kit?

Your corporate colors, logo, fonts, and custom (or just favorite) avatars.

🖊 How to create a Brand Kit?

Find a new tab in the sidebar labeled Brand Kit.
Click Create Brand Kit.
Add corporate fonts, a color palette, select your favorite avatars, and upload your logo.

👨🏼‍💻 How to apply the Brand Kit?

When you start creating a new video, simply choose the Brand Kit. Every time you open the color picker, add an avatar, or type in some text, Synthesia will suggest elements from your Brand Kit.

💘 Why is this cool?

With the Brand Kit, you can easily apply your company's style to all videos created in Synthesia. Create a Brand Kit once, use it every day.

⚡️ Is it available for me?

Brand kit feature is available just for enterprise plan users.

👥 Live Collaboration: co-edit, comment, share

2024-03-06T11:35:00.370Z

We are happy to introduce Live Collaboration to our corporate plan users. This feature transforms how teams create videos together. Say goodbye to endless feedback loops and countless versions of the same video, and hello to a more efficient way of collaborating.

💡 Live Collaboration is about

Co-creating: you will see your teammate’s cursors, the scenes they are working on right now.
Feedback: you can share your opinion on every element of the video while editing.
Sharing: anyone with "Can comment" permission can now enter a comment-only mode, making feedback loops quicker and more efficient.

⚡️ Why it's worth trying: working together within a single app allows each team member to contribute, leading to better content quality and streamlined workflows.

✍️ You will notice, that script editing is currently limited to one person at a time. We're excited to expand this functionality in future updates.

We recommend you watch the 20-minute event with our CEO, Victor Riparbelli:

👨‍🎨 Happy creating!