We are super excited to announce the release of a new, faster, and sleek text format editor. This editor is a result of the amazing feedback that we've received from you and our continuous focus to simplify your video-creation workflow.
The new text editor solves several limitations of our previous editor. You can now
- Adjust text formats at a scene-by-scene level. 'Brand Settings' is now not the only place to change the text fonts, sizes, and colors.
- Align text to the left, right, or center!
- If you are happy with the text styles, you can apply them to the entire video.
- Change the position of text on one scene and apply that position to the entire video.
September 25, 2021
Today we are excited to announce a much-needed capability in the video creation workflow you have asked for.
Scene Duration Adjustment: For the text-to-video scenario with no voice-overs, you can now easily change the timing of each scene from the default 5 second duration. Please find the Scene Duration stepper control on the top right side of the Storyboard screen.
Note that this adjustment is not available when you have a voiceover since the voiceover duration controls the scene duration.
As always, we continue to quash other bugs in our journey towards a much better user experience for you.
September 17, 2021
We've been working hard to continuously improve Pictory based on your feedback. We'd like to highlight some of the key improvements that we have enabled recently:
- Improved voiceover UX - While we have made some improvements to our voiceover synchronization algorithm, more importantly, we have built a new user interface to help you rapidly make any synchronization adjustments.
- Improved stock video search results - We’ve made some improvements to our stock video search algorithm, so you should now see more visual options to select from.
- Ellipses for sub-scenes removed - Long sentences are still split into sub-scenes, but you won’t see the annoying ellipses anymore.
We also quashed several other bugs in our journey towards a much better user experience for you. Please try and share your feedback. Stay tuned for many more exciting capabilities in Pictory coming soon.
September 4, 2021
We are very excited to announce the release of our much awaited feature -- automatic synchronization of voice-over with all scenes in the video.
Under the Audio tab, you will now see a new option to apply a voice-over to the entire video. Any uploaded voice-over file or even one recorded with Pictory can be applied to the entire video now.
Our AI will automatically determine the appropriate scene boundaries and synchronize the voice-over. In case the AI synchronization is not accurate, you can easily adjust the scene boundaries by looking at the waveform display.
August 2021
We are excited to announce a new update of Pictory today with several much-asked-for features. Here is what's included in this new update in addition to the many bugs that we've squashed along the way:
1. Volume control: Control the volume of music track v/s the voiceover track. Customize your videos more thorough this slider in a new Audio Setting section of the Audio Tab of Pictory.
2. Text download: Now you can download the text file (in TXT, SRT, or VTT format) of the transcript immediately after the transcription of a video is completed. Save time with this new Download text button on the transcription page.
3. Adjust number of lines in captions/subtitles: Now you can adjust the maximum number of lines which show the captions on-screen. Simply set the Max number of lines settings on the transcription page to the number of lines desired.
4. Optimize speed v/s size: Now you can make your video generation go a little bit faster if you are okay with slightly larger sized videos. Find a new setting under the Format tab of the Storyboard screen where the default is set to make the video generation faster.
In addition to these new features, we have squashed several bugs and made many usability improvements.
May 2021
We have just upgraded your Pictory with a few major enhancements. These are again based on the wonderful inputs we are getting from marketers and content creators such as you.
- Multiple short videos from one lengthy video - You can now easily select the portions of transcribed text and download them as video snippets. Thus, generate dozens of short videos from one long video such as a webinar, video podcast, customer interview. You can post these videos on social media to amplify the visibility of your video contents. Learn more here
- Download videos from transcription text itself - This is perfect when you want to just edit or clean your video without a lot of customizations. You can edit the videos using transcribed text and download the videos at this step itself without going to next step i.e. storyboard
- Undo video deletions inline - You can undo your text and video deletions by just clicking the undo icon in the transcribed text itself. You no longer have to guess and click project-level undo multiple times to undo undesired deletions
Stay tuned for another bumper release next week!
April 2021
We are super excited to launch these new capabilities based on our continuous customer engagement.
➡️ Edit videos in multiple languages. You can now edit videos in Italian, Spanish, German, and French languages. Just indicate the language while uploading your video and Pictory's AI will automatically transcribe the video into that language and add subtitles. You can search the video by searching for text, plus delete sentences and words that you wish to cut out of your final video
➡️ Detect silences in the video automatically. Pictory now shows silences in the video as a part of the transcript. Easily review and delete any awkward silences in the video just like deleting a word or a sentence
➡️ Faster video editing and rendering. We have fine-tuned our algorithms to enable you to edit and summarize long videos faster. We now leverage the backend computing power even more to accelerate your overall workflow including video upload, transcription, and final video rendering.
We are excited to announce several improvements in Pictory that we made in the second half of September. Here are the new capabilities we added based on our continuous customer conversations.
Custom Voiceover - You can now record your own voice-over for a video or upload a professional voiceover. Look for the new Add Audio button under the scene visual on the Storyboard page. See an example video here.
Custom Music - You can now upload custom music tracks for your video as well. Check out the new Upload tab in the Audio section.
Scene Transitions - We now offer many exciting new scene transitions options that you can select from under the Styles section.
Visuals to Video - Check out our brand new use case where you can start directly from your own images or videos and rapidly create a slideshow type video. Simply upload the visuals in the first screen of Pictory and go. You can add text to every scene in the Storyboard step.
Vimeo Integration - After the video is generated, it is now automatically uploaded as a private video to Vimeo. You can get the URL by clicking on the Share button after the video generation is completed.
These capabilities were added in the last release in mid-September.
New scene types - We now support many different kinds of scenes. You can now add (1) a blank scene with a solid or textured background, (2) a text-only scene with a solid or textured background, or (3) a scene with only an image or a video clip, but no text.
Trimming of video clips - You now have a choice to trim any scene video clip to the desired length. This trimming can be done on any of our stock videos or on videos that you import.
Watermarks removed - We have now removed most watermarks from the visuals in the storyboard section as well as in the video preview.
Music fade-out - In the last scene of the video, we've added a fade-out of the music when there is no outro scene.
In addition to these new features, we have squashed several bugs and made many usability improvements.