How to turn documents into dynamic presentations using VideoPlus Studio

Can you turn a plain old PowerPoint presentation into an interesting online course? Let's try the following:

• Use an attractive AI voice to narrate the contents;
• Add some sound effects;
• Ask a chatbot to generate some fun question/answer pairs according to the contents;
• Add question/answer slides presented by avatars;
• Assemble everything together and generate a video.

Learn how to turn your static content into dynamic presentations without the need for voice recording in this step-by-step tutorial.

1. Click 'Presenter' in the menu, go through your presenters and decide which one to use to present the document. 

2. If you need to create a new presenter or update an existing one, select the right gender and language, listen to the audio samples of predefined voices to decide which one you like. To clone voice, select a voice good for cloning, use the 'Clone Voice' option then choose your audio file. The voice can also be fine-tuned by adjusting audio properties (pitch, speed and volume). 

3. If you also want an avatar to speak the text, select 'Use Avatar' for the presenter and define properties for the avatar. First the image, select a predefined one or use your own; then select the shape, location and height, for example, use shape circle to center-crop and surround the avatar in a circle, location 4 to occupy the top right corner, height 20 to occupy 20% of the video height; last decide if you want to use slightly moving head, that may look more natural for longer speeches, and whether or not to hide the avatar when not speaking.

4. Click 'TTS for Document/Image' in the menu then open your document file.

5. Upon opening a document, the app will divide the document into pages and extract text from each page, then show the original pages as images in the left panel and text in the right panel.

6. The text may not be exactly what you want, it may contain some weird symbols and characters due to non-text contents like graphics on a page. You should clean up the text and make adjustments as appropriate, as false characters can cause the speech synthesizer to malfunction.

7. Select a presenter for each page. If you want to use multiple presenters, for example, you need a presenter of a certain voice, image and location for page 1, but another presenter of different voice/image/location for page 2, you can do so by defining multiple presenters and selecting the proper one for each page.

8. You can add or remove a page, move the pages up and down, and change the image of a page. You can always undo a change using the 'Undo' button in the top toolbar if you changed your mind.

9. A subtitle usually is a text, but here you can also use an audio, by toggling the subtitle input type. When an audio is used for a subtitle, it can be driving or background. Driving audio will be used to drive the lip-syncing of the presenter avatar (if defined), for example, let the avatar sing a song. Background audio will be simply played in the background, for example, play background music while showing an image.  

10. Go over the whole document until you're happy with the contents showing in both the left and right panels, then use the export function button in the top toolbar to save the subtitles to a local file in json format, so that it's easy to make adjustments later if needed.

11. Click 'Submit Task' button in the top toolbar, review the options and set the values as appropriate. If the video is not short, you may want to specify a short Output Length first, for example, 10, to generate a 10 seconds video as a preview, before generating the whole length video.

12. Submit and wait till the task is done (notified by email), or check its status in the task history, check back if not ready.

13. Find the task and download the resulting video when available, see if you should adjust some text, presenter, etc., if yes, submit the task again after making changes, repeat the process until getting the desired result.

Following is the sample resulting video: