Video Puppet

Edit video as easily as editing text

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Edit video as easily as editing text

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Video Puppet will automatically create video clips from images, align audio and video segments, add captions, and even create a life-like narration audio from your text. To top it off, you'll be able to update the video easily when your content changes

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Video Puppet

Maker

Thanks for posting this. Here's a bit of a background story on Video Puppet: Three years ago some friends and I released an opensource tool and wanted to make nice demo and tutorial videos. When creating videos, I ended up spending most of my time doing things that have nothing to do with the content, but with the boring tasks around synchronisation and alignment. Recording voice narration turned out to be particularly problematic. It usually took six or seven attempts to record something without mistakes, and even then it just sounded bad. We paid a professional voice artist to narrate our videos, but that was expensive, slow, and when we wanted to change just two pictures in videos a few months later, everything had to be done again because video and audio were out of sync. Based on that, I started looking for ways to automate tasks that don't have to do anything with content, and that's how Video Puppet came to be. Video Puppet will automatically create video clips from images, align audio and video segments, add captions, display text on top of videos, apply transitions between scenes, and even create a life-like narration audio from your text. This means that changing things in the future becomes trivially easy. Just edit a text file to reorder scenes, change narration or update assets, and leave all the synchronisation tasks to the Puppet. The idea is to edit videos as easily as editing text. Scripted video also allows teams to rebuild tutorial and demo videos automatically when their application changes, using a CI/CD pipeline. For a quick demo of the key features, check out this video:

- it's generated by Video Puppet. There are plenty of nice voices and languages you can use to provide translated versions of your content easily - here's the list https://www.videopuppet.com/docs... Although generated voice might not be for everyone, I found it amazingly good for iterations and experiments. Once you are happy with the content and the flow of the story, you can easily replace the generated narration with your own voice, or a professionally recorded audio. Video Puppet will take care of synchronisation, so the picture aligns perfectly with your voice. For people not used to working with scripts (eg marketing, sales, product people), there's also an option to use PowerPoint and just type up narration into speaker notes. Here are a few more links to get you started: * How to create videos from scripts https://www.videopuppet.com/docs... * How to create videos from Powerpoint presentations: https://www.videopuppet.com/docs... * How to integrate video builds into CI/CD: https://github.com/marketplace/a...

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6yr ago

Video Puppet

Maker

You can now give your videos a unique look by customising slide visuals using CSS, for example to apply your corporate brand visuals or fonts. Play the video below to check out the new feature in action:

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6yr ago

Oh, we might be able to use this to produce animated book summaries for StoryShots: https://www.getstoryshots.com

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6yr ago

Video Puppet

Maker

@theoceanfire we have an API that's not fully ready for public use, but if you want to give it a go, please get in touch (https://videopuppet.com/contact/), and we'll help you set it up

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6yr ago

Great innovative! Aligning audio and video segments with adding captions option simply superb. Congrats on the launch.

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6yr ago

Video Puppet

Maker

@stevendixonn thanks for posting about video puppet. would you mind adding us as makers, looks like you have to do it.

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6yr ago

GrowSurf

I am experiencing the same pain you described. Version-controlled, generated voice, and markdown script are really exciting. Testing out the product and seems really solid so far. The video builds take a long time, but I can understand that it's a lot of processing power. Couple other things: - When I first landed on the homepage, I didn't quite understand the concept. The bottom "Video Puppet is great for" was the part that was very helpful - We're planning on using Video Puppet for our SaaS product tutorials. If all goes well, would be happy to provide a testimonial :)

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6yr ago

It's great product and feels like a labor of love with lots of attention and real concern from the makers. Really makes it much easier to produce tutorial screencasts. With Video Puppet, instead of dreading video production, I look forward to it.

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6yr ago

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