- Using Pictory, you're able to convert your scripts into videos, convert articles into videos
by simply pasting the URL. You're also able to edit
your videos using text, so, no editing software required. And you can very well upload
your own media and photos and turn that into videos too. For example, in a matter of minutes, I converted my script
into a video like this. It converted my script into a video, and using the power of AI, it found relevant videos
that would go with the text. It also found a relevant music background that would go with it, and also captioned it. All that can be done using Pictory, and I'll show you how in
this tutorial plus more. Hey, it's Aurelius, welcome
back to the channel. In this video, I'm going
to walk you through and give you a tutorial on a pretty cool AI video
editing tool called Pictory. To get started with Pictory, simply use the link in
the description box below. That'll take you to this page right here and you can click on get started for free. If you wanna still be able
to create sales videos, marketing videos, social media videos, and perhaps you wanna
start posting on YouTube, but you don't wanna show your face and just don't want to be on camera, then it might be an
ideal solution for you. 'Cause, as you saw, you could easily convert
your texts into videos and use all sorts of
media, pictures and videos, or even if you are a course creator and you want to make educational videos, but simply you want to present
it in that kind of format. Some other uses and people
who would want to use it include marketers, you've
got agencies, bloggers, and I mentioned course
creators and coaches too. With that said, let's get started, and I'll show you how to use Pictory. Once you've signed up,
you'll see a page like this where you can start creating your content and it will ask you which content would you like
to repurpose into videos. Now, the first option is script to video, and that's the tool that I use
to create that example video that you saw at the
beginning of this video. And as listed, Pictory recommends
it for educational videos, listicle or compilation style
videos, coaching videos, and step-by-step guides. The next option is article to video, where you can see simply
copy and paste the exact, let's say, press release or
blog posts into this field here, and then proceed. And then that'll basically
gather some key areas and key texts from your blog
and convert it into videos. The next tool that Pictory offers is editing videos using texts. Now, don't get this mixed
up from script to video. It's actually the other way around. So, let's say you already have
a video recorded, created, or if there's an existing video online that you've already posted, you can easily edit that using text, and I'll show you how exactly it works. And the final option is visuals to video, where you can upload your own media such as photos and videos that
you may have lying around, and then make videos out of those. So, it's kind of more of a flexible option as opposed to these other three. Let's now create our first video, and I'm going to demonstrate how to convert your script into a video, so, let's go ahead and proceed. This is where you can paste your text, and the first thing you need
to add is your video name. So, what is the topic of your video? I've got my script ready, and I'm simply going to copy
and paste this from Word, that's the title there. And right here you can either
start typing your script or if you've got it ready somewhere else, simply paste it in. Once you've written your script
or you've pasted it over, the next thing is to proceed. But, before we proceed, I just wanna give you a little rundown in terms of some of the
options that you have here. First is pasting from clipboard, and that's quite self-explanatory. I'm not sure why they've got this button, because you can simply
copy and paste it over. The one below it called highlight, this one's really handy, because you want to allow the AI to be able to find relevant videos and media that will go with this text. Something like five quick
tips how to stay positive. So, I would highlight something like this, and then it'll find or try
to at least find something that would best fit this
particular text here. So, go through your script and anything that you see that would help the AI
find better visuals, that's where you go in
and click that highlight, and, basically, just bolds it. But it'll tell the AI find
something that is relevant. But I've gone ahead and
highlighted some keywords here that I want the AI to find
relevant media and visuals for. Below the area where
you enter your script, it has spell check and it says yes, and there's no mistakes here. I know, because I've already checked and gone through this particular script. On the right, you'll see characters, so 3,436 characters for this script. However, I do wish they
had a word count as well. Just that little extra
tool would be handy. Above all that, you've got scene settings, where there's an auto
highlight keywords option, and you can enable or disable that, or automatically select
the visuals for you. And right here you've
got create new scenes based on sentence breaks or line breaks. So, you've got line breaks. That's a line break right
here, line break right here. So, you can customise this in a way, so that it'll create a new
scene based on a sentence break or a line break as you saw, or you can select both where
it'll create new scenes based on sentence breaks
and also line breaks. So, you've got sentences here, and ones where there's line breaks too. Apart from that, that's all
you need to do at this point. And what we're going to
do is click on proceed to move on to the next step. Here, you'll choose a template based on the library of templates. You've got one that is
based on the lemon theme, you've got corporate, red ink, sunrise. Let's go down the bottom and
see what else we've got here. We've got a retro style here, orbit. So, feel free to look
through these templates to see which one would be
most suitable for your topic. There is an option to
create custom templates. However, you need to first edit a video, and then you can save that as a template, and then it'll be under my templates. I'm going to select the sunrise theme, since it goes with this topic, and I'll click on select. Next, choose an aspect ratio. Do you want landscape,
portrait, or a square format? So, depending on the platform that you are going to be posting and publishing your video on, that'll determine which
aspect ratio to go with. So, let's say you are
going to post on YouTube, then you wanna go for that 16:9 ratio. Whereas with TikTok,
Instagram Reels, and Shorts, you wanna go with that 9:16 ratio. But, let's go with 16:9 and
we'll click on continue. Depending on the length of your script, that'll determine the time that it'll take to complete the job and process this video. All right, so it completed
in under a minute, and this is what you'll see
next once it's completed. And the first thing you
may see is the video. And we can easily preview this and this particular scene
by clicking preview, or we can preview the entire video if we just wanna go through it firstly. And this itself may take some time, but let's do that later. And the first thing I wanna go through is the scene selection, right? We've got our scenes, and we specified that we
want to create a new scene based on a new sentence and line breaks. So, we've got this first one saying, "This video will go
over the five quick tips on how to stay positive
while under pressure," and it's found kind of a
background that would go with it. If you wanna move on to the next scene, it's as simple as clicking, and there we go. And you may notice that
the video that it found may not be relevant to what
this is actually about. That's where you can
actually go in and create or, more so, replace it
with a different video. But more on the customizations
later in this video. On the left you've got
the different options that you can play around with. We've got visuals where you can go through the
library of existing images and videos that the Pictory website has. There are different textures as well that you can play around with. You can upload your own media too. You can add your own elements
by going to elements, and there's different
things like stickers, you got GIFs and emojis. In the audio section, you can choose a custom background music, you can also add voiceovers, and this is powered by AI. Under my uploads, you can upload your own
background music or voiceover, and there's recent as well. Some text options too
where you can add headings and subheadings and body
texts, some styles as well. And this has to do with
things like the captions, and you can see what the default style is, and you can use that and apply it to any scene that you want. Under branding, you can add your own logo or intro, stinger video. Under format, you can change
your video's resolution from a 720p video to a high quality 1080p, or optimise your generated video for size. And, once again, you can
change the aspect ratio of your video from 16:9, 9:16, to 1:1. But, let's go back to story, and this is where we can
go back to the scenes and edit and delete anything we want, also, customising each of the scenes. When you select the scene, you can go directly to the text and edit or add anything you want. So, let's say, this can even lead to
added amounts of pressure, then that'll update in real time. On the video interface, what you can do is edit the
text and drag it where you want. So, let's reposition it
somewhere in the centre or middle right there using the guides. You can change the font by going here, and let's say we want this font instead, and there we go. Let's say this video here isn't relevant to this
particular sentence. We can easily add our own
visuals by going to visuals, search something like
stress instead of pressure. Let's use this first
one here of this lady, and we'll click once
and that'll replace it, and that looks much better. There's an option to
preview this specific scene by clicking on preview, and that'll only play this
scene right here, nothing else. You can trim this particular
scene by clicking on trim video and using these little
scrubbers right there. So, if you wanted to start
here instead of here, then you can do so. In addition, you can add
a voiceover in this scene by clicking on add voiceover, and upload your own voiceover
if it's already recorded or you can record it directly on Pictory. So, if I click on record voiceover, you can see the little record button, and that's where you can go
ahead and record your voiceover. Some other settings
that you may want to use include visuals and texts
where you can loop the video in case that video is short, but your text is quite long, so you just keep looping that same video. You can even hide the text
for this particular scene, add a visual zoom and pan
effect if you wanna do so. And one particular option that you will definitely play around with is the scene duration where
you can change the timing. This is five seconds, but if you have shorter text, then you may wanna just use
two seconds as opposed to five. So, you need to play around
with it and preview it yourself, and that's where you can go
ahead and simply customise it. So, go ahead and go through
each of your scenes, and anything where you feel
like you need to customise and add particular elements, audio, text, then feel free to click that. Let's say elements. And we can add a sticker. Let's say, this right here,
just to play around with it, and you can drag it where you want, and that's already inserted. The handy option you may want to use if you don't want to use your voiceover, is simply going to audio. And then, under the voiceover tab, you've got options to add
different voice talents and based on AI voice, you
can filter by male or female, and different speeds as well. So, let's say you want
to preview Eva here. - [Eva] Welcome to Pictory. It has been shown that video in- - And let's say you
like the voice of that, we can apply it to this particular scene. Essentially, it will read out what you have here in this sentence, and let's see how it sounds. - [Eva] However, we need to
stay positive in these moments. - On the subject of audio, you may also want to
play around with volume where you can control the
amount of background music and the voiceover volume. And, there we go. That's how you can add an
AI voice to your scenes. Next, you can add transitions
in between these scenes by looking in between the actual scenes. So, you'll see here, add
transition, click it once, and then it'll give you some options in terms of transition effects. Let's say, we will do a wipe left. So now, when we go from
the scene one to scene two, it'll use that wipe left effect. To see the total duration of your video, you can go to estimated video
duration, take a look there, and you'll see it's
five minutes 39 seconds. And once you're happy with your edit, simply click on preview, and that'll give you an idea of what your video will look like. As a little side note, depending on the length of your video, that'll determine how long
that preview will take. And, this in particular,
this five-minute video, so far it's been about two
minutes and we're still going. All right, so it's generating the preview, and if I play it right now- - [Eva] We'll go over the five quick tips on how to stay positive
while under pressure. - Once you're ready to
download your video, simply click on download, then to video. Next, let's briefly go over
the article to video option. And, what I'll do first is
go to one of my articles, and it's this one here on medium.com. Simply copy the link at the
address bar, go back to Pictory, and then paste it in. And what it has try to best do is find those key areas of your article. So, you've got the title "Don't Give Up, Keep Going," by myself, and you've got different scenes and you have found a relevant video. So, we always have the moment in our lives when we feel that thrill of excitement, so I just found that. Now, some of the things
may be a little cheesy. That's where you can go in and customise it as you saw
in the previous example. So, at the end, we've got, "Work hard and work smart
and success will follow." So that's the article to video option. Now, if you want to start creating short videos from long videos, then you wanna select
edit videos using text or, simply put, if you want
to edit your existing videos, then you wanna use this option here. So, let's go ahead and try a demo video, which is this option here, because this is actually a
pretty good video to use. Okay, so in this example,
we've got Barack Obama, and we've got the text here,
the transcript of the video. What you'll see is the option to, basically, remove these uhms and uhs. In other words, the filler words. Let's go and skip ahead
to this point right here. All right, the start of it, and you'll see Barack
Obama here saying, "Uh." - But it is not interfering with the rest of our
bilateral relationship. - If we click on remove filler words, you'll see it's removed. And, let's play it from somewhere here. And you'll see that the AI
removed the filler words. - Agreement on hockey, but it is not interfering with the rest of our
bilateral relationship. - There we go. So, it's removed it, and that will perhaps
save you a heap of time in finding those and
editing those yourself. The next option is removing silences. You can specify how
many seconds of silence you want to remove. So, let's say there's a scene where there's at least
a two-second silence, you can automatically let
Pictory know by clicking enable, and click on okay here, and now, it has basically
gone through the whole script and found any of these scenes where it has more than
two seconds of silence. Another option you definitely
wanna play around with is the highlights option. So, if you go to auto highlight, you can select the number of seconds to find those highlights and important points in the video, and basically download
those clips individually. So, let's say, we want 23
seconds of the clips, right? And then it'll try to find
the highlights for you. Now you can see the highlights. If you go to highlights, you
can see what you can select and what would be relevant
to create those clips. But, let's say, you want
this particular highlight. So, "Our countries are no different, but in terms of our
interests," we click that, and we can download the
video clips right there. What you can also do is
change the aspect ratio. So, let's say, you're wanting
to repurpose this video into TikToks and Instagram Reels, you can go to landscape right here, and change it to something like portrait, and drag the particular subject or person that'll keep that frame there. Below, you'll see subtitles, where you can enable or
disable the subtitles, and choosing the maximum number of lines, so if you want one or two. And then you've got templates library, where you can choose the
styling of the captions. By going back to the highlights, if you find a particular area or scene that you find interesting and you wanna actually extract, then you simply highlight it,
click on add to highlights, and then that'll highlight it and add it to the highlights list. Once you're ready to
download your highlights, click on download highlights video or customise the highlights
video so you can go and dive deep into each
individual highlight video, and then customise it just
like in the previous examples. And the last tool that you
can use is visuals to video, where you can simply click on proceed, and then upload any photos that you want to include
in your custom video. And once all your media
files have been uploaded, you can go ahead and simply
customise it the way you want by adding additional visuals,
you can add elements, texts, and so on and so forth. In terms of pricing and plans of Pictory, there's a few options. When you sign up, it's just a free trial and there will be a
watermark on your video. So, it's not so good if you're going to, obviously, upload it
for commercial purposes, or if you're uploading it on YouTube, you wanna definitely go on
at least a standard plan, where you're given the option to create up to 30 videos per month, and each being 10 minutes or less. You also are given 34 AI voices, which may be more than enough. But, if you're looking to create more than 30 videos per month, then, obviously, you wanna
go onto the premium plan. And, by the way, these prices
are based on a yearly option. If you're looking to simply
pay on a monthly basis, go to monthly, and now you see the pricing there. If you're finding Pictory a
little overwhelming to use, they've got this knowledge base where you can go through
some of the guides. For example, if you wanna learn how to generate multiple short
videos from one long webinar or a video podcast illustrating
the points right here and how to actually do that. But, hopefully, this
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