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VIDEO STUDIO

Accounts are handed out by invitation. There is nothing to sign up for here.

Make a video

Paste your script. The title comes from the first line; a blank line starts a new paragraph, and a short line with no period becomes a chapter heading.

Channel style
each one runs on its own — start the next as soon as you like

Your videos

Everything you have made. Carry on with the ones that stopped early.

WhenVideoStatus

Add a presenter

Already have a finished video — footage, edit and voice-over done elsewhere? Drop it here and one of your cast will present it. They lip-sync to the voice-over that is already in the file: nothing is re-voiced and the sound is left exactly as you mixed it.

The finished video

Stays on this machine. The picture is rebuilt once, the sound is copied across untouched.

Who presents it
How they appear

They come in where the voice-over pauses, opening and closing the video — the same rhythm as your own videos: about one appearance a minute and a seventh of the running time.

Scene editor

Change a scene here, then make just that scene again. Nothing is generated until you press a button.

Video

Your cast

The people who can front a video. Each one needs a face HeyGen can drive and a voice. Nothing is generated until you press a button.

Bodycam

Each episode gets its own cast: faces, wardrobe passports and voices. Review them here before the expensive stages run — listen to a voice, change it, and the video will use your pick.

No bodycam videos yet.

Setup

The keys the tool works with. They stay on the server — this page can put one in, but there is no way to read one back out, not even for you.

Keys
The person on camera

Signing in spends the credits in your HeyGen plan. An API key would bill per video instead — that is why this is a sign-in and not a key.

Who writes the script

Both speak the same Claude API. Saved with the button above.

What makes the clips

Applies to the next video started, not to one already running.

Sharper wide shots

Nature and wide shots get their detail spread over the whole frame, so the normal setting turns brush and grass into mush. Close-ups, hands and screens are untouched — they look the same either way. Applies to every channel, from the next video started.

Editing a host
New host
Portrait
no portrait yet
Age
Gender
Who they are
How close
Behind them
Where they are — leave empty and the room below decides
The room

Close and blurred is what the talking presenter needs — the bigger the face, the cleaner his speech comes out. The wider frames keep the hands out of shot and empty: this stays a portrait, not somebody showing you a thing. The room runs from their own cluttered workroom to a well-off house: clutter makes a person believable, but on a money, pensions or law channel it reads as poverty rather than truth.

One picture, about 20 seconds. This one costs money.

Name
Voice
Voice engine · how it reads
Character · optional, blank = voice defaults
Clone a new voice · from your recordings

Clean quiet recordings only — the clone copies the recording quality, not just the voice. Uses a voice slot.

On camera · how much of them moves

Avatar III is the cheap one and suits most faces. If it looks wrong on this one, move them up — only they get pricier.

Notes · optional — how they sound
Fronts these channels
Who is drawn from a face

A face keeps the person the same in every shot. Without one they are written out in words each time and come out a little different. The presenter's face is his avatar's — it costs nothing.

Also in these pictures

Adding writes them into the channel's world, so the script can put them in scenes. Their face comes after.