Tools of the Trade (Video Content Edition)

As a content creator/visual designer working remotely and mainly dealing with video and motion graphics there are a plethora of useful AI tools I integrate into my daily workflow. Here I will break them down into their respective verticals and uses but as you well know, this space moves extremely fast and new tools of the trade are coming out not daily but hourly. Its hard to keep up and blink and you may miss the next helpful tool you should be integrating into your workflow. Some of these tools are free, some paid but they are all at the cutting edge of making your video creation workflow flow that much better.

Lumen5 is a drag-and-drop platform whose AI tools also allow the convenient editing of talking head videos. Its other core strength is its ability to convert blog posts or articles into videos. It enables marketers to quickly and easily create engaging, personalized videos with custom themes, watermarks, fonts, and brand colors.
Lumen5 divides your content into segments, depending on the amount of text your transcript or article has. It can identify keywords and suggest where to position callouts and overlays. The software can work with any file format. You can later upload your final output onto your website or social channels.

https://lumen5.com/video-editor/

Synthesia is an AI video creation platform. Thousands of companies use it to create videos in 120 languages, saving up to 80% of their time and budget. Synthesia is an AI video generation platform that enables you to quickly create videos with AI avatars, in over 120 languages. It includes templates, a screen recorder, a media library, and more.

Video Highlight is the fastest way to summarize and take notes from videos. Using Video Highlight means removing hours and hours from your research time allowing timestamp and transcription as well as summarizing videos. Less time spent transcribing, pausing and rewinding. More time for exploring, analyzing and absorbing that beautiful content.

Video Highlight - AI Video Summarization and Note Taking Tool. Quickly summarize and take notes from videos.

Video Highlight

Elevate your YT content with AI generated shorts. Maximize reach by turning long videos into shorts that are more likely to be watched and shared. Save editing time by letting AI extract the best moments from your videos, so you spend more time doing what you love.

2short.ai - AI YouTube Shorts generator

Easily turn your long form YouTube content into performing shorts that drive views and subscribers

AI YouTube Shorts generator

summarize.tech Get a summary of any long YouTube video, like a lecture, live event or a government meeting. Powered by ChatGPT.

summarize.tech: AI-powered video summaries

summarize.tech

RunwayML.com. Everything you need to make anything you want. Runway is a new kind of creative suite. One where AI is a collaborator and anything you can imagine can be created. Dozens of creative tools to edit and generate content like never before.

GetMunch. Munch extracts the most engaging, trending and impactful clips from your long-form videos, using state of the art generative AI and marketing analytics. Munch extracts the most engaging, contextual nuggets from your long-form content and present you with coherent, shareable clips. Under the hood, Munch powers the most advanced AI capabilities - GPT3, OCR, and NLP - to analyze your clip's content with social and marketing trends from the leading platforms.

Vidyo.ai. Make short videosfrom long ones instantly. Create social ready short clips from your long videos with AI ✨ Save 90% time and effort.

CapCut. All-in-one free video editor for everyone to create anything from anywhereFlexible editing, magical AI tools, team and asset collaboration. Create videos like never before.

Captions App. The all-in-one AI powered creator studio. Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you. Hit record. Speak your mind. Shoot videos up to a minute long or record in short segments. Watch your words magically appear on screen. Super accurate. Timed to your voice. No typing needed. Change up the color and style of your captions. Built-in editor automatically cuts out dead space and stitches clips together into one seamless video. Voila, it's done! No separate editing app needed.

NVIDIA Broadcast. A tool for livestreaming and video conferencing that turns your room into a home studio — is updating today with two exciting effects, Eye Contact and Vignette, drastic enhancements to Virtual Background and more. The new Eye Contact effect moves the eyes of the speaker to simulate eye contact with the camera — achieved by estimating and aligning gaze. The eyes retain their natural color and blinks, and there’s even a disconnect feature in case you look too far away, to transition smoothly between simulated and real eyes.

Adobe Pocast. Enhance voice recordings for free. Speech enhancement makes voice recordings sound as if they were recorded in a professional studio.

Enhance Speech from Adobe | Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio

This AI audio filter improves spoken audio to make it sound like it was recorded in a soundproofed studio.

Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio

Beatoven.ai. Create customisable royalty free music that elevates your storyBeatoven.ai uses advanced AI music generation techniques to compose unique mood-based music to suit every part of your video or podcast.

SOUNDRAW is an innovative composition tool for creators.
Create songs that match your content perfectly in minutes and with no music composition knowledge!

ElevenLabs. The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever. Eleven brings the most compelling, rich and lifelike voices to creators and publishers seeking the ultimate tools for storytelling.

ElevenLabs || Prime Voice AI