Federal agencies can now use Vyond’s comprehensive video creation solution to craft engaging, relevant videos. With unparalleled security assurance, and industry-leading ease of use, Federal customers can quickly transform their critical information into powerful visual communications for employees, partners, and constituents — effectively and at scale.

Vyond for Government is available now and will soon be listed with an “In Process” designation with a listing on the FedRAMP marketplace. Connect with our team to learn more.

Accelerate your business outcomes

Vyond for Government unites powerful tools including proprietary visuals, a brand management suite, and team collaboration tools into an easy-to-use, comprehensive solution that lets Federal agencies:

• Create engaging, business-relevant videos at 10x the efficiency, cost savings, and scale compared to legacy video production methods
• Empower users across their organization to create videos with our easy-to-use software that puts a powerful production studio at their fingertips
• Achieve measurable results — Vyond customers have seen 130%+ increases in engagement rates, an 80% reduction in onboarding course times, and millions of dollars of savings

Rest secured

Rest secured, that with Vyond for Government, your data is protected under the FedRAMP framework, which:

• Requires passing a comprehensive security assessment
• Establishes stringent federal government standards for security requirements
• Relies on an independent third-party assessment to ensure the controls are implemented in adherence to FedRAMP standards
• Subjects Vyond for Government to rigorous continuous monitoring

High speed, low drag video creation

Vyond for Government brings drag-and-drop simplicity to make video creation as easy, if not easier, than creating a slide presentation — with a far more engaging and professional result. Anyone, regardless of experience, can start creating videos within minutes. Users can even jump-start videos with hundreds of templates that cover almost every situation, quickly editing any of them to make it their own.

Application for nearly every situation and use case

You have critical information to communicate, and with Vyond for Government, you can quickly and easily create videos for any situation or use case. Choose from a vast array of characters, over 40,000 props depicting nearly every job role and situation, and thousands of animated actions and expressions. Even create character-free videos with dynamic charts and visuals, or your own uploaded assets. Our expansive visual versatility means you’re sure to find yourself creating videos across use cases.

Our world-class support is with you

With Vyond customer satisfaction scores consistently greater than 94% and NPS scores in the impressive mid 60s, your team will gain the valuable support of the most creative, supportive and experienced team on the block. Get access to:

• Extensive Resources: create content quickly and easily with access to a variety of tutorials and resources through a dedicated Vyond for Government Help Center
• Help Where You Need It: industry-recognized support from knowledgeable customer support specialists via email & chat
• Dedicated Point of Contact: teams with 10+ seats will be on a first-name basis with a customer success expert

Ready to get access to Vyond for Government? Contact us. 

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Featuring unparalleled security assurance, and industry-leading ease of use, Vyond for Government is the perfect solution for federal agencies and contractors looking to quickly transform their critical information into powerful videos for employees, partners, and constituents — effectively and at scale. Connect with our team to learn more. 

Accelerate your business outcomes

Vyond for Government unites powerful tools including proprietary visuals, a brand management suite, and team collaboration tools into an easy-to-use, comprehensive solution that lets Federal agencies:

• Create engaging, business-relevant videos at 10x the efficiency, cost savings, and scale compared to legacy video production methods
• Empower users across their organization to create videos with our easy-to-use software that puts a powerful production studio at their fingertips 
• Achieve measurable results — Vyond customers have seen 130%+ increases in engagement rates, an 80% reduction in onboarding course times, and millions of dollars of savings

Rest secured

Rest secured, that with Vyond for Government, your data is protected under the FedRAMP framework, which:

• Requires passing a comprehensive security assessment
• Establishes stringent federal government standards for security requirements
• Relies on an independent third-party assessment to ensure the controls are implemented in adherence to FedRAMP standards
• Subjects Vyond for Government to rigorous continuous monitoring

High speed, low drag video creation

Vyond for Government brings drag-and-drop simplicity to make video creation as easy, if not easier, than creating a slide presentation — with a far more engaging and professional result. Anyone, regardless of experience, can start creating videos within minutes. Users can even jump-start videos with hundreds of templates that cover almost every situation, quickly editing any of them to make it their own.

Application for nearly every situation and use case

You have critical information to communicate, and with Vyond for Government, you can quickly and easily create videos for any situation or use case. Choose from a vast array of characters, over 40,000 props depicting nearly every job role and situation, and thousands of animated actions and expressions. Even create character-free videos with dynamic charts and visuals, or your own uploaded assets. Our expansive visual versatility means you’re sure to find yourself creating videos across use cases. 

Our world-class support is with you

With Vyond customer satisfaction scores consistently greater than 94% and NPS scores in the impressive mid 60s, your team will gain the valuable support of the most creative, supportive and experienced team on the block. Get access to:

• Extensive Resources: create content quickly and easily with access to a variety of tutorials and resources through a dedicated Vyond for Government Help Center
• Help Where You Need It: industry-recognized support from knowledgeable customer support specialists via email & chat
• Dedicated Point of Contact: teams with 10+ seats will be on a first-name basis with a customer success expert

Ready to get access to Vyond for Government? Contact us. 

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There are lots of video types out there and even more tools. In this post, we’ll show you how to make three of the most in-demand types of AI videos. And we’ll focus on one all-in-one video creation platform, Vyond, where you can make these videos effortlessly with a simple text prompt. 

How to create animated AI videos

AI makes it easy to create animated videos in a variety of styles with a simple prompt or even an exact script. And if we’re talking about Vyond Go in particular — Vyond’s AI-powered instant video maker — the output you’ll get is fully editable. Here’s how it works in Vyond Go.

Step 1: Enter your prompt

You have a few options here: you can enter a short description of a topic you want to cover; cut and paste specific content you want the script to pull from; or upload a document with your full script (in .doc, .ppt, .txt, or .pdf formats).

Step 2. Choose layout, vibe, format, and language

Next, pick the look, feel, and tone of your video in the interface. Then sit back for a few seconds while Vyond’s AI generates your one-of-a-kind video. Watch the output and be amazed!

Step 3. Edit video text, audio, and characters

Now you’ve got two options for making edits to your new video. Along the sidebar, within the Vyond Go video window, the Quick Edit panel lets you easily replace characters, change on-screen text, and adjust text-to-speech settings. 

Or, take your video into Vyond Studio, Vyond’s robust video editor, to customize nearly every aspect of it. In Vyond Studio you’ll find even more AI tools. 

For example, the Text to Image feature uses generative AI to create visuals and backgrounds from your text prompt, in six different style options. The Video to Action feature generates new actions for your animated characters based on a video clip sample of the action you upload (to demonstrate, say, a worker moving in a particular way on an assembly line). 

Step 4. Export and share 

Got your video exactly as you’d like it? Great! Download the file or get a shareable link to it from either Vyond Go or Vyond Studio.

If you prefer a blend of styles in your videos, you’ll like the mixed-media approach. Let’s get into that next.

How to create mixed media AI videos

When it comes to storytelling and reflecting diversity, animated videos can’t be beat. And they’re uniquely effective at conveying complex ideas in a simple, visual way. But in some contexts, you might want to take a mixed-media approach for your videos, incorporating photorealistic and other elements. 

An AI video maker like Vyond Go can also help you create videos in a mixed-media style.

Let’s say you’ve got a data-filled PowerPoint deck explaining project results and you’d like to make it into an engaging video. Or maybe you’d like to turn your digital notes from a meeting into a video summary.

The process to create a mixed-media video in Vyond Go is similar to the steps above for creating an animated video, with a few key changes:

Step 1: Enter your prompt

Upload your existing .ppt, .doc, .txt, or .pdf document. If you’d like, add any additional directions in the prompt field about content from the document. For example, if you’re uploading a .ppt file but only certain slides are relevant, you might add, “Reference slides 5-7.”

Step 2. Choose the “Narration” layout and your display text preferences 

Next, pick the Narration layout to see your mixed-media choices. Then, browse the “Optional settings” dropdown for any other settings you’d like to specify, like whether you want your video’s display text to be just the “Key phrases” or full “Dialogue.” 

Now click “Create video” and grab yourself a snack (but make it quick!).

Step 3. Edit video text, audio, and characters 

Once your video is created, use Vyond Go’s Quick Edit panel along the sidebar to easily change on-screen text and adjust text-to-speech settings. For changes like adding custom imagery, take your video into Vyond Studio.

Step 4. Export and share

Download the file or get a shareable link to it from either Vyond Go or Vyond Studio, and go circulate that project retro! 

Finally, many videos benefit from having a human presenter to draw your viewers in. In some cases you might opt for actors or real people from your company, though that can become a stumbling block when you need to make updates. 

AI avatars offer a flexible new way to feature a friendly face in your videos. 

How to create AI avatar videos 

AI avatar videos have been on the rise, thanks in part to how simple they can be to create at scale, and how much easier to translate and update. 

Avatars are a good option for content where you want a personal touch beyond audio and text, but the specific messenger doesn’t matter as much. For example, you might include an AI avatar in your explainer video about a new user interface, but not for an all-company message from your CEO.

Here’s how you’d create an AI avatar video in Vyond:

Step 1: Pick an avatar

Choose an avatar from the library of 100+ options (as of launch), across a range of character options with different backgrounds and various layouts, like a “phone selfie” format. 

Step 2:  Enter your script and choose text-to-speech settings

Add text for what you’d like your avatar to say (within 1,000 character limit, at the time of writing). Then choose from over 2,700 voices and accents from 70+ countries and click “generate text to speech” to create your text-to-speech audio. 

Tip: As with all text-to-speech tools, sometimes the AI pronounces words differently than expected. When that happens, spelling a word out phonetically can help (like “Ve-yond” for our company’s name). 

Step 3: Generate your video

Once you’ve generated your text-to-speech audio, the “Create video” will light up. Click it to generate your AI avatar video. It may take a few minutes.

As with any video style, AI avatar videos are most effective when they feature a diverse mix of media, like screen sharing, photorealistic backgrounds, and animated elements. And the rules of good video editing definitely apply: your content will be most engaging when it includes a range of layouts, formats, and camera techniques. 

For example, in a tutorial you might take an AI avatar from a full-screen, “talking head” view into a scene where the avatar appears in a small inset window, alongside a screenshare video of a software interface. (In other words: endless “talking head” videos still don’t cut it!)

Simplify your video creation with AI 

Advances in AI have brought many benefits, and video creation is a big one for great business communication. 

Like all tech, the world of AI videos is moving fast. Rather than try to cobble multiple one-off video tools into a tech stack, consider exploring an all-in-one video creation tool like Vyond, with AI capabilities that can help you make videos in any style you need — like animated, mixed-media, AI avatar or anything in between — easily and instantly.

Vyond’s AI avatars. Your professional spokesperson on demand.

AI tools for video creation.

Instant, effortless video. AnyStyle. Every audience.

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AnyStyle. Every audience.

With Vyond AnyStyle, you have an ever-expanding variety of style options ranging from animation to photorealistic and everything in between. So now, getting the right look for the right audience is convenient and effortless.

AI Avatars

Availability: All plans with the purchase of avatar access; available now

Add a human element with AI avatars. Choose from 30 avatar templates (with more on the way) representing diverse age groups, genders, and ethnicities. Perfect for training videos, customer service messages, and personalized sales and marketing content.

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Screen Recording

Availability: All plans; available now

Now you can easily capture motion and actions on your computer screen for use in videos right in Vyond! Ideal for tutorials, demonstrations, and walkthroughs, screen capture and recording allow you to create detailed, instructional content that guides your audience step-by-step.

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Webcam Recording

Availability: All plans; available now

Smile for the camera! Add a personal and direct connection with your audience when you capture and incorporate audio and video recorded with your device’s microphone and camera into your Vyond videos.

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Dual Video

Availability: All plans; available now

Open up a new world of style possibilities with the ability to combine two different video elements within a scene. Inset a webcam recording within a screen recording for an easy tutorial or instructional video. Split screen an AI avatar and animated video for a unique look.

Text to Image

Availability: Professional plans and above; available now

We’ve enhanced Text to Prop to become Text to Image. Now you can generate any visual or background you can imagine in six distinct visual styles: Block print, Paper art, Gradient vector, Colorist, Photorealism, and Concept art — with more coming soon!

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More options to protect your brand.

Applying Logos

Availability: Vyond for Enterprise; releasing September

Turn any (or every!) character into a brand evangelist with the ability to apply your logo to character clothing tops and hats. You can now more easily represent and enhance your company brand and culture across videos.

Accessibility enhancements.

Caption Translation

Availability: All plans; available now

Instantly translate your caption text into any of our 70+ languages to match your TTS translation. Make your videos more accessible to a global audience right from your workflow.

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Enhanced input capability in Vyond Go.

Document to Video

Availability: All plans; releasing September

Unlock the information stored in already existing documents to help shape your Vyond Go video! Upload a .doc, .ppt, or .pdf document for reference by Vyond Go’s generative AI. Further shape how Vyond Go uses the document or add additional input with your text prompt.

Script to Video

Availability: All plans; releasing September

Get ready to have Vyond Go repeat after you. Literally. With Script to Video, you can create a video that follows your uploaded script verbatim. Now you can get the exact dialogue you want while still using Vyond Go to instantly create your video for you!

Vyond Mobile: Capture, create, edit, and share on the go.

Availability: All plans; available now

Now, video creation can happen whenever, wherever with Vyond Mobile. Capture, create, and edit text, characters, and voices right from your mobile device and have your edits sync seamlessly across devices.

Sign up here to learn more about our latest features and enhancements and start your free trial today.

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In training circles, Vyond’s a mainstay. But as thousands of Enterprise companies know well, Vyond is way more than a tool for creating great eLearning and training content. It’s also a silver-bullet solution to enabling your entire company — yes every team — to communicate better everyday with easy-to-create, on brand, and engaging GIFs and videos. 

Before Vyond, making professional-quality videos was second nature to maybe…five percent of the people at your company? Ten? With Vyond, now everybody can effortlessly make the video content so many people prefer in our screen-first world. 

The possibilities for using Vyond are endless, but here are five business communications use cases that benefit our customers the most.

To see how effortless video creation is with Vyond, sign up for a free trial.

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What do companies mean when they say they offer AI videos? In this article, we surveyed the top vendors in this rapidly evolving space to find out.

On one end of the spectrum we found tools that use bleeding-edge generative AI to create video content from a prompt—but that aren’t ready for business use. On the other end, we found business-friendly platforms that feature traditional AI functionality focused on streamlining production tasks and making it easier to repurpose video content. And in the middle, we found an exciting category that successfully pulls from both.

If you’ve been frustrated by the promise of generative AI video (only to find it wasn’t really like that after trying out the tool), this article will help you navigate the 5 main categories in the AI video ecosystem.

The 5 types of AI video platforms

• Generative AI video
• AI-powered stock media search
• Synthetic AI video
• AI-powered video editors
• AI-powered video creation (Vyond)

How we wrote this article

To explore the video creation ecosystem, we’ve partnered with Miguel Rebelo, a software writer who covers the AI video category.

For this article, Miguel analyzed industry trends, researched over 30 AI video platforms and ran in-depth experiments on 10 of these to ensure we have the most accurate, hands-on and up-to-date view of the current landscape.

A brief history of AI videos

Since its inception in the 1950s, AI and machine learning have been used for an increasing number of specific tasks. Narrow AI deals with image recognition and basic natural language processing, enabling smart features in digital assistants such as Siri or Alexa.

Beyond narrow AI, reactive machines perform an action or decision based on a starting stimulus. Having no memory to rely on, they’ve been widely used to keep spam out of your inbox, increase the quality of Google Search results and defeat human chess masters.

One step above, limited memory AI helps models make decisions based on stored information, powering technologies such as self-driving cars and the first chatbots.

And then, ChatGPT entered the market in late 2022, representing a new category: generative AI, models that can create original responses to a prompt. It shocked the world with its high-quality responses and wide applications in various tasks.

How does this work? After training on a massive amount of text data, large language models like GPT-3 take a prompt and find the words that are more statistically likely to appear in response to your input, based on its experience and tuning.

Generative AI image and audio models work in a similar way. These sectors grew significantly throughout 2023, with plenty of powerful apps available in the market today. Generative AI video is still catching up due to its data-heavy nature and the high computational power required to create video content. But at the rate this technology is evolving, generative AI will be central to video production before we know it.

Why should you invest in AI video now?

According to a study by the Nielsen Norman Group, generative AI tools can increase employee productivity by 66%.

This means that the earlier you invest in video tools that use traditional and generative AI, the more time you’ll have to identify the best use cases for your business, and create efficiencies before your competition does. And as you become more familiar with these AI video tools, you’ll be able to adopt other AI platforms and features earlier and faster, too.

Generative AI video platforms

Generative AI video feels like magic. Starting from a text prompt, the AI model uses its experience—the videos it processed during the training stage—to create original footage that no one has seen before.

Runway is the best generative video option for individual creators and artists right now. When you input your prompt, it generates four seconds of video, with a range of settings for changing visual style and controlling camera movements. If you like the first four seconds, you can keep extending your creation at four extra seconds each time.

Runway’s output to the prompt “a castle in the mountains,” no other controls applied.

The first hours are fun, but Runway becomes complicated to use and control over time. The model occasionally fails to understand that you want subjects to move, instead generating a static image with camera movement. When it finally picks up on the intent, the movement doesn’t look believable. This demands a lot of trial and error until you get an output close to what you need. And since each attempt costs credits, it can get expensive both to learn and get results.

There’s one redeeming use case for Runway: it’s a great match for abstract, dream-like projects. Fitting the output into any realistic-looking video will be a challenge, making it a niche tool.

The second option is the OpenAI Sora model. It’s currently in limited preview, only available for AI red-teamers—experts who attempt to break the system to reveal safety issues—so we didn’t have a chance to test it. However, the preview videos show a lot of promise.

OpenAI Sora’s preview output of the prompt “A movie trailer featuring the adventures of the 30 year old space man wearing a red wool knitted motorcycle helmet, blue sky, salt desert, cinematic style, shot on 35mm film, vivid colors.”

Based on the technical specifications, it generates a 60-second video without audio. At first glance, it looks better and is more believable than Runway’s output. It has a good grasp of camerawork in scenes with movement, offering smooth panning while keeping the core of the action in the frame.

Some preview videos also show that Sora has a good sense of editing and that it can understand content types. In the astronaut movie example above, it generated a sequence with frequent cuts and intense close-up shots to convey the excitement and epic feel that a trailer should have.

OpenAI Sora’s preview output of a birthday party scene highlights the limitations of interactions between subjects and objects.

The cracks start to show when you get over the initial excitement of these previews. If you look closely, you’ll notice imprecisions especially where movement is involved. In scenes with multiple subjects and objects, it fails to understand how they should move or behave as a result of actions. For example, in the birthday party above, the subject blows out the candles but they stay lit.

Generative AI video deserves at least a few hours of experimentation. It’s fun and opens up your mind to future possibilities. Artists and individual creatives can use the unique look and feel to bring variety to their projects. For businesses, this category is not ready due to the lack of realism, low control over the output, and limited branding tools.

Pros of generative AI video platforms:

Ideation. If you need visual inspiration for a project, be it diving into a new mood or visual style, getting a generated video will provide a fresh new angle.

Unique look. Generative tools can put out videos that may be very hard (or even impossible) to recreate or shoot in the real world.

Low-cost special effects. Depending on the prompt, you can create video that would otherwise cost millions and require computer generated imagery (CGI) video experts to produce.

Cons of generative AI platforms:

Low editability. Most of the control over the output lies in changing the original prompt and regenerating the video over and over. The other existing controls are hit-and-miss.

Low brand control. When creating branded content for your audience, you want to be able to control the style and visual elements connected to your products and services. Due to limited editability features, generative AI doesn’t offer a good kit of branding tools.

High time investment. The complexity, learning curve, and adjusting prompts can make projects more unpredictable from a time perspective.

Unclear privacy standards. Depending on the policies of each app, your prompts and brand assets may be used for fine-tuning or training new models. This means that your original assets could end up being remixed and appear in someone else’s output.

AI-powered stock media search platforms

While the user experience is similar to generative AI video, AI-powered stock footage search platforms don’t actually use a generative AI video model. Instead, they use a combination of text/voice generation with agent software to:

1. Understand your prompt, generate a text script and build an audio voice-over with AI.
2. Search stock media databases for music and video content matching the topic.
3. Assemble everything into a video that you can quickly publish.

invideo AI is an example of such a platform. When you enter your prompt, it generates a script for the video, offering a voice-over and a sequence of matching stock footage to kick off the project. You can then swap out the suggestions for your footage, and use text prompts to delete scenes or edit parts of the script.

invideo AI lays out the result of your prompt in a single sequence, offering basic controls to replace the suggested media with your own.

The limited controls can seem like a shortcoming, but these platforms are all about speed. They’re designed to take an idea to video in the shortest time possible, making them a good match to support your social media content production if you’re tight on time.

Pros of AI-powered stock footage matching platforms

Quick results. You don’t have to spend hours scouting and collecting stock footage. You get workable suggestions faster.

Useful for social media content. You need to keep posting on a schedule to ensure you stay visible, so you can plug gaps in your publishing calendar as you produce other content types.

Cons of AI-powered stock footage matching platforms

Inconsistent stock footage quality or content. For more niche prompts, the clip sequence may not make sense from a visual or content perspective. You’ll have to adjust your prompt.

Limited editability. This depends a lot on the platform, but most focus on speed, meaning they don’t offer deep video editing controls. If you want to create custom transitions or do precise trimming, you’ll have to take your video to another app.

Not actually generative video. You’re just getting a composition of stock media footage, which may or may not be editable.

Gated or limited access to stock libraries. Depending on the video platform, they may have access to different libraries, or even gate access to premium stock footage. If you want to see everything and get access to the very best, you’ll have to hop on the priciest paid plans sooner.

Synthetic AI video platforms

Synthetic AI video platforms come in two flavors: deepfake generators and AI avatar apps.

In the first one, the sole purpose is to take the image of a real human and help the user embed it into an image or a video, offering controls to make it look as realistic as possible. Then, the user uses this image for blackmail, manipulation, or public shaming of the real person.

The fact that these platforms endorse this kind of unethical behavior is a clear signal that your business should stay away from them. If they have this kind of ethical flexibility, they may display the same disrespect for your business data.

The second category is more helpful and well within the parameters of legality and ethics. AI avatar platforms make talking-head videos easier to produce. Select your AI avatar, upload your script and hit generate: these platforms will quickly pump out a result you can add to your knowledge base. There are multiple business use cases here, as you can turn static text into a presenter-style video without investing much time and effort.

A popular option in this category is Synthesia. Pick an avatar from a deep library of people that could’ve been born anywhere in the world. Then upload your script and line up your scenes, positioning your avatar in each slide, like in Google Slides or PowerPoint.

Synthesia’s editor screen, where you can input your script and configure how the AI avatar should read and act it out.

When you hit play, the app will generate the speech and animate the avatar to replicate the expected movements when saying those words, moving through the slides you set up.

Synthesia also offers the possibility of training an AI model with your likeness and voice. This is a good option if you want to leverage your identity to quickly create talking head videos by just writing the script. Just be careful to keep your account secure, as anyone with unrestricted access to this tool could steal your identity and create deepfake content.

Pros of synthetic AI video platforms

Lower production cost for talking-head videos. Instead of hiring an actor and crew, you can simply write and generate the video. This also makes these kinds of projects more predictable, as there are fewer people involved and fewer steps from brainstorming to publishing.

Better than text-based content. Create content that’s a bit more engaging for most training and explainer video use cases by using AI avatars.

Cons of synthetic AI video platforms

Triggers uncanny valley reactions, especially on bigger screens. When something looks almost human, it can trigger feelings of eeriness and unease in viewers. This greatly impacts realism.

Low engagement format. Talking head videos are easy to produce, but they’re seriously limited in terms of their engagement value. This is especially true if you’re trying to explain complex ideas in a memorable way–or get an audience emotionally invested in your topic.

Low flexibility. These platforms usually focus on AI avatars, exclusively. If you want to create other kinds of video content, you’ll have to look elsewhere.

AI-powered video editors

This category is broader and more varied than the others we’ve explored so far. Here, AI video platforms have 3 objectives in mind:

• Speeding up video production by automating parts of the workflow.
• Adding special effects easily without needing to learn and use more advanced tools.
• Repurposing video for multiple channels (for example, webinar to TikTok).

In the Descript editor, editing the script automatically trims the video.

Descript is an example of a tool that speeds up production by saving time in the editing stage. It transcribes uploaded videos, placing the transcription and the preview window side by side. When you edit the text, the video is trimmed and cut to match those edits, a much faster experience than timeline-based editing. If this creates problems in the voice-over, you can use your voice to train an AI model within the platform, letting you use text-to-speech to patch parts of the video as needed.

In addition to generative AI, Runway includes AI tools to manipulate video and speed up workflows.

As for special effects and simplifying production workflows, two options stand out. Runway lets you isolate subjects to remove background, detect scenes to automatically split the video or create a super smooth slow-motion video by generating more frames based on the original footage.

Wondershare Filmora offers a wide range of AI tools in the editor, from special effects to motion tracking.

Wondershare Filmora, a long-standing option in the market, can generate video thumbnails, cut out objects from the background and animate visual elements with AI. The feature set is a great match for YouTubers and creative marketing teams, offering plenty of colorful effects and transitions.

Lastly, AI content repurposing platforms aim to break down long videos into snackable tidbits ready to post on any social media channel, offering robust branding features. Peech is a prime example: after adding your brand assets, you can start uploading your videos. You can then break them down into multiple assets, customizing captions, aspect ratios and video frames to match the requirements of each channel.

Pros of AI-powered video editors

Higher quality with less effort. Instead of learning more advanced tools or going through dozens of hours of training, you can quickly implement motion tracking or create complex scenes.

Saves time. Some of these features automate parts of the video creation workflow, so you don’t have to deal with the repetitive work.

Cons of AI-powered video editors

Diverse feature sets. Each platform has its unique approach to video editing, so it may not have all the tools you need. You may still have to subscribe to other AI video software solutions for their niche features, which can get costly depending on your needs.

AI-powered video creation (Vyond)

How does Vyond compare with these subcategories? As an AI-powered video creation platform for business use, it has all the tools you need to create content consistently, with outstanding results—all without spending hours learning how to use every tool.

Here’s how our combination of generative AI, AI-powered video editing, and stock media search helps you produce better video.

Vyond Go

With Vyond, you can generate a professional quality script and video draft by entering a simple text prompt and choosing from a range of controls, including layout, vibe, format, and language. These options allow you to create scenario-based videos with characters, scenes, and transitions on any topic; videos featuring an animated talking head narrator; and character-free videos built from mixed media templates that feature narration, text, and stock images and videos. (Notably, animated narrators don’t suffer from the “uncanny valley” problem synthetic avatars do.)

Changes to the text and imagery can be made directly in Vyond Go, with the tool’s Quick Edit function. Or if you want to make more involved changes, you can bring your video file into Vyond Studio, the company’s flagship video creation platform (subscriptions to Vyond include both). Translating content into 70+ languages is also simple, with the platform’s AI Auto Translate feature.

What’s unique about Vyond is that it brings together a variety of powerful AI technology to give video creators both the freedom to make videos on any topic they can imagine–and the control they want over the final product.

Text to Prop

Vyond has a deep library of props and assets you can use in your projects. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, you can use the Text to Prop AI tool to generate net-new assets in the Vyond style.

Video to Action

With AI Video to Action, you can record yourself carrying out a complex action in the real world. When you upload it to Vyond, their AI engine will automatically transpose that action into the characters in your video, both saving you time—and boosting the realism of your animated characters.

Choosing an AI video platform for your business

Adding a new niche video creation tool to your tech stack every time you want to try something new is the perfect way to quickly dry up your software budget. And when you need to use multiple apps to produce each video, you’re adding complexity (and additional learning curves) to your workflow, not simplicity.

This is why Vyond hits the sweet spot: by incorporating all the best features in this category, users are able to quickly create videos for any business use case in a wide variety of styles within a single platform. More specifically, Vyond:

• Offers more control over your content than generative AI (ability to edit, update and brand content easily)
• Helps you create more engaging content than synthetic AI platforms
• Provides access to Shutterstock for stock media (one of the highest-quality libraries available)
• Features a range of AI editing tools that cover the most common business use cases.

Getting started with AI video

Viable generative AI video isn’t ready for prime time yet, but there are plenty of powerful AI video creation tools on the market that can help you create content relevant to your business. Keep the above five groups in mind as you explore this exciting new category, looking for the best AI video tool to introduce into your company’s content workflows.

For a more detailed look at the leading AI video tools, check out this comparison piece. And to see for yourself how Vyond can help you create more engaging videos faster, sign up for a free trial.

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But the leaders our beloved creators report to love Vyond too. Why? Four leaders from across L&D, compliance, sales enablement and internal communications break it down:

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Top 10 ranking in 14 new reports

Vyond received 63 awards across five different categories, including Video Creation, Presentation, Content Creation, Animation, and top 10 ranking in 14 new reports within the new Video Content Creation category.

• #1 Leader for Enterprise in Content Creation
• #1 Best Usability for Enterprise in Content Creation
• #1 Users Most Likely to Recommend for Animation
• #1 Leader for Enterprise in Animation
• #1 Best Meets Requirements for Enterprise in Content Creation

Also, this quarter, Vyond has again received “Leader” recognition for Enterprise in Content Creation and Animation categories for the EMEA and Europe regions. 

No better reward than results

Recognition from Vyond users and sites like G2 are the ultimate confirmation of our efforts to directly help improve business outcomes — driving efficiency by streamlining workflows, relevancy through infinitely customizable props and actions, and breadth and versatility in content creation.

From training sales teams to better understand and sell into key customer profiles with 5x more efficiency, to creating micro-learning videos that help service agents answer live customer phone questions quickly and accurately, enterprise companies across the Fortune 500 are enthusiastically integrating Vyond into their communication strategy and quickly realizing real benefits. 

“We’re Vyond enthusiasts. It’s a tool we really enjoy using. It’s so easy for everyone
to jump right in and it’s really fast to put together a high-quality product.”

Laurel Schulert, Senior Director of Learning Experience

Learn more about our awards and recognition on our awards web page.

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You can watch the following brand management and AI features in action in our Spring 2024 Release Webinar.

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Protect Your Brand With Vyond’s Brand Management Suite

Plan type: Enterprise and Agency

Your brand is critical to your business: ensure that it shows up cohesively across your video content with our suite of brand management features. Quickly and easily share brand assets, create watermarks, and even require approvals to distribute content — with Vyond, brand management is built in. 

Brand Kit

Help creators represent your company consistently across videos by uploading your company logo, fonts, and other assets into a single brand kit that all of your company’s users can access. 

Company Watermark

Turn your logo or other branded image into a persistent visual element within your videos. Account owners can create watermarks for easy access to users across teams.

Approval Management

Prevent brand erosion from improperly branded videos with our new Approval Management feature. Account owners can add an additional layer of brand protection by restricting video download and distribution to approved videos only. 

Color Shuffler (coming soon!)

Achieve color coordination at the push of a button! Color Shuffler adds instant brand personalization by applying up to five brand colors to any of our video templates — even shuffling them to achieve the exact look you want. 

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Vyond Go Gets More Powerful And Easier To Use

Availability: All plans

Manual is so last year. Enter a Vyond Go prompt in any of 70+ languages and this latest evolution of our AI-powered video maker will generate visuals for your videos inherently and dynamically — you might say, automagically. (Multilingual translation available to Professional plans and above.)

Even More Character Styles

Vyond Go’s template library continues to grow, with fresh options for diverse character styles, non-animated charts and infographics, narration, and Shutterstock templates. 

Auto-Adjust Scene Duration

Don’t give changes a second thought. Now, scene length is automatically adjusted to fit any edits you make to a character’s TTS, thanks to our AI-powered Auto-Adjust Scene Duration feature. Getting your video script *exactly* how you want just became even easier!  

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Simplified Character Creation And Editing

Plan type: All plans

Quickly and easily create more diverse characters directly within Vyond Studio! Now you can update the color and tone of characters’ skin and clothing without having to create them first in Character Creator! Currently available for Business Friendly and Contemporary character styles.

Making Accessibility More Accessible 

Plan type: All plans

Direct Caption Editing

Edit and update captions directly within your workflow, reducing editing time and improving accuracy. 

Caption Language Selection

Get more accurate captions in other languages by specifying the output language first. See our complete list of supported languages here. 

If you’ve been meaning to give Vyond a whirl, now’s a great time! Try it now, for free and explore many of these new enhancements. Want to get your whole team involved? Try it as a group! Chat with us about a team pilot.

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