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BeyondWords transforms written articles into videos and distributes them across your websites, apps, and third-party platforms. It allows you to scale video production efficiently, unlocking new opportunities for engagement and monetization. You can create video articles and video summaries using advanced AI voices, relevant visuals, immersive captions, and custom branding.
You can also generate and distribute audio content.

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Generate videos by default

1

Enable video generation

Go to Content → Preferences → Videos in your project dashboard.Enable one or both of the following toggles:
  • Convert articles into videos
  • Convert scripts into videos
2

Select video sizes

Use the dropdown to select which video sizes you would like to generate: 16:9 (horizontal) and/or 9:16 (vertical).
Need a custom video size? Contact support to discuss your requirements.
3

Choose a style template

Choose a style template to control the visual style of your videos.Click Choose template to choose an existing template or click + Create to create a new one.Once complete, click Save changes.
4

Publish as usual

Create content items as usual. BeyondWords will automatically convert your articles and/or scripts into videos, as per your settings.

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Generate or edit videos manually

1

Open the Editor

Go to Content → Items in your project dashboard.Click an existing content item to open it in the Editor, or click + Item to create a new item.
2

Select video sizes

Use the dropdown to select which video sizes you would like to generate: 16:9 (horizontal) and/or 9:16 (vertical).
3

Enable video generation

Go to the Video tab in the left-hand sidebar.Enable one or both of the following toggles:
  • Convert article into video
  • Convert script into video
4

Choose a style template

Choose a style template to control the visual style of your videos.Click Choose template to choose an existing template or click + Create to create a new one.
5

Generate or regenerate your content

Click Generate or Regenerate.BeyondWords will (re)generate the video and audio versions of your content, as per your latest settings. This should take no more than a couple of minutes.

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Style templates

Style templates control the visual style of your generated videos. When you create or edit a template, you can configure the following settings:
  • Name: Used for your internal reference only
  • Slug: Used to specify the template when using the Video settings templates API
  • Preview: Preview your template in 16:9 or 9:16 format
  • Background: The background color used when no feature image or feature video is selected
  • Entrance animation: Choose how visual media animates as it enters the frame (None / Fade / Zoom in / Zoom out / Slide up / Slide down / Slide left / Slide right / Pop)
  • Exit animation: Choose how visual media animates as it exits the frame (None / Fade / Zoom in / Zoom out / Slide up / Slide down / Slide left / Slide right / Pop)
  • Pan and zoom: Enable to add subtle movement to visual media
  • Visual timing: Control how images and videos are timed throughout the video:
    • Cycle continuously: Images will loop through continuously, repeating the sequence when reaching the end
      • Seconds: Sets how long each image or video is shown before transitioning to the next
    • Space evenly: Images will be distributed evenly across the video duration, showing each image for an equal amount of time
    • Follow article: Images will change based on their order in the content, syncing with the corresponding text segments as they are narrated
Text:
  • Generate captions: Enable to display captions that follow the audio
  • Animation: Choose how captions appear (Classic / Reveal / Karaoke / Pop)
  • Font: Choose a font or upload your own
  • Font size: Choose a preset size or set a custom size (in pixels from 1 to 90)
  • Casing: Keep as is, UPPERCASE, or lowercase
  • Primary: Main caption text color
  • Secondary (optional): Alternate caption color (will alternate scene-by-scene)
  • Shadow (optional): Shadow effect color
  • Outline (optional): Size in pixels and color
Background (optional):
  • Color (optional): Enable to set the background color behind the caption text
  • Radius (optional): The radius of the background color (0px / 8px / 24px)
Word highlights (optional): Highlight the active word as it’s being spoken
  • Active word color:
    • Primary (optional): Main highlight color for the active word
    • Secondary (optional): Alternate highlight color (alternates scene-by-scene)
  • Active word background color:
    • Primary (optional): Main background color for the active word
    • Secondary (optional): Alternate background color for the active word (alternates scene-by-scene)
  • Horizontal placement: Sets where captions sit horizontally (left / center / right)
    • Offset (%): Offset captions horizontally from the selected alignment position
  • Vertical placement: Sets where captions sit vertically (top / middle / bottom)
    • Offset (%): Offset captions vertically from the selected alignment position
  • Max lines: Maximum number of caption lines per scene
  • Max words: Maximum number of words per caption scene
  • Text width (%): Maximum width of the caption area
  • Logo (optional): Upload an image to add a logo overlay to your videos
    • Logo position: Select whether the logo appears in the top-right or top-left of the video
  • Waveform color (optional): Show a dynamic waveform to visualize the audio in your videos. Set the color of the waveform using a hex code (e.g., #000000).
Click Save changes once you’re happy with your template.

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Visual media

Visual media are images and videos you can add to generated videos. These help add visual interest and contextual information. There are four main types of visual media, all of which are optional:
  • Feature image: An image used as the video thumbnail and a fallback video background
  • In-line images: Images that appear in the video background if no feature video is set
  • Feature video: A video used as the video background
  • Video segment: Videos that play as standalone clips in generated videos
Images may be automatically imported from your webpage. You can upload your own media or insert pre-licensed assets from our Getty integration in the Editor.
The feature video takes precedence as the video background, followed by in-line images and then the feature image. If none are added or enabled, the media background color set in your style template is used.

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Customize video

Text

The text in your article and script are used to generate audio and captions.

Voices

Choose premade, cloned, or generated voices for your voiceover.

Customize speech

Customize the speech output with pronunciation rules, pauses, and more.

Visual media

Add image and video backgrounds to your generated videos.

Style template

Customize your video layout, captions, colors, animations, and more.

Insert videos

Insert standalone video files into your generated videos.

Background music

Use background music to add atmosphere to your video.
The audio generated for your audio article is also used in your video article. Likewise, the audio generated for your audio summary is used in your video summary. This means any changes to the audio will affect both formats.

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Distribute video

Player

Automatically or manually embed videos in the BeyondWords player.

Playlists

Keep viewers watching for longer with customizable video playlists.

Download

Download your videos as MP4 files for distribution across any platform.

Share via URL

Get a shareable URL featuring your video alongside your written content.

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Monetize video

Ads

Serve direct or programmatic video ads through the BeyondWords player.

Access tiers

Customize the player experience for users on different access tiers.

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Analyze video

Analytics dashboard

Analyze video engagement metrics in the analytics dashboard.

Analytics integrations

Send video performance metrics to your preferred analytics platform.

Analytics API

Use the API to retrieve analytics for an organization, project, content item, or ad.