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Have you found a way of working that totally changed the game for you? Do you have a technique you think is super cool that you wish you’d known sooner? Tell us about it!
Show off your expertise and share your best tips and tricks, and be sure to include a screenshot and examples when possible (or, y’know, a Synthesia video).
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Modern cinematic business reel, fast-paced social media edit, premium startup aesthetic, vibrant Indian FMCG visuals, clean typography animation, motion graphics, energetic pacing.
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✍️ Create a copywriting style guide
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In this guide, you’ll find:
A simple process to create your own copywriting style guidelines
Examples of guidelines from other companies (and ours!)
If your team creates content, you need a copywriting style guide
Not because you’re doing something “wron...
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Checklist: This 2-Minute Tidy Will Make Your Videos Better
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It’s tempting to hit Generate and Share as soon as your script’s in place. But a single preview pass can save you rework and make your video feel noticeably smoother, polished, and professional to your viewers.
This takes about two minutes—and it’s us...
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🎙️ Create emotional voice clones: a practical guide + character script pack
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This guide is designed to help you record emotionally expressive source audio for voice cloning in Synthesia. It includes both practical guidance and character scripts to show how your performance choices directly shape the emotional tone of the voic...
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🍌 Nano Banana Pro Prompt Pack
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When it helps, when it doesn’t, and how to use it well
If you’re making narration-first instructional videos in Synthesia and want visuals that support the message (not fight it), Nano Banana is your friend.
If you need UI accuracy, motion timing, or s...
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✨🎥 Think like a cinematographer: camera movement
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What this guide is
This guide is designed to help you prompt with cinematic intention when using Synthesia’s third-party AI integrations, with a focus on camera movement terminology and the impact of each type of movement.
Video models are trained on m...
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Think like a cinematographer: camera movement
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👕 Outfit Starter Kit (Athletics, Wellness, Fitness)
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This post includes 13 starter prompts you can edit, tweak, or use outright to generate avatar outfits for athletic, wellness, and fitness scenarios. Whether you’re creating a look for a yoga instructor, a marathon runner, or a gym coach, these exampl...
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🪄 Hide Player Controls in Your Synthesia Videos
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Ever wish you could stop viewers from skipping ahead? While there’s no official setting to hide playback controls (yet!), there’s a clever workaround using interactivity that does the trick.
Perfect for compliance or “watch-to-the-end” training videos.
🎓 We just dropped a new 2-minute Academy Tips & Tricks module showing exactly how to set it up — step-by-step.
Give it a try and let us know how you’d use it!
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🤖 A-Roll & B-Roll Prompt Assistant Instructions (Custom GPT Template)
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If you’ve ever stared at the outfit prompt box thinking “How do I even describe this outfit???”…this one’s for you.
I’ve put together some instructions for a Custom GPT that’s designed to help you:
👕 Generate outfit prompts from uploaded reference ima...
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👕 Outfit Starter Kit (Medical, Construction, Hospitality)
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Getting started with customizable outfits but not sure how to phrase your prompts? I’ve got you covered!
This post includes starter prompts you can use (or tweak!) to generate avatar outfits for medical, construction, and hospitality scenarios. Whethe...
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Visual guidelines and useful shapes
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Hi everyone! I wanted to share some resources the Design Solutions team at Synthesia uses to create clever animations and make sure elements are aligned and spaced out in a clear and logical way.
In this video, you’ll find a layout grid that you can temporarily set as the background or overlay of a scene to help arrange elements, as well as some custom vector graphics that you can recolor and animate as you would any shape element in Synthesia.
If you’re curious about how to use those shapes in animations, I recommend checking out the following templates:
Get your copy of the resource video
Click the button above to access a duplicable version of the video! 👆
Guides + useful shapes from Aga
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✨ Tips & Tricks ✨ Blur animations
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Here’s a quick one for setting up blur animations, where an image will start either in focus or blurred, and then become blurred or come into focus with a fade in animation! It’s a subtle visual effect that I think adds a nice level of polish (but you can definitely be silly with it too!).
[Community] Blur animations
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✨ Write better prompts for generating clips with AI
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📌 Sora 2 is no longer available on the Synthesia platform. Any videos currently using Sora 2 assets will not be affected, but you will not be able to generate new assets with Sora 2.
The latest video generation models from OpenAI and Google are avail...
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✨ Tips & Tricks ✨ Screenshot highlights
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Want to draw attention to a specific part of a screenshot in your video? In this quick tip, you’ll learn how to crop, animate, and layer screenshots so your viewers stay focused on exactly what matters—super handy for tutorials, explainers, and product walkthroughs.
[Community] Screenshot highlights
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✨ Tips & Tricks ✨ Custom thumbnails for video embeds
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Tired of default thumbnails that don’t do your video justice?
In this quick video, I’ll walk you through how to use a little HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to set a custom thumbnail for a Synthesia video embedded via iframe. Don’t worry, I’ve included a te...
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✨ Tips & Tricks ✨ Data visualization (bar and pie charts)
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My favorite chart type is whatever convinces leadership fastest 😎 what’s yours?
In this video, I’ll guide you through the process of creating animated bar charts and pie charts in Synthesia—use them in your videos wisely and remember to stick to best...
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Voice Accents in Synthesia
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When using Synthesia, the default voice of an avatar might not always reflect the accent you expect or need for your target audience. If you encounter this issue, here are several steps and recommendations to address it:
1. Check other voices
If the default voice don’t meet your requirements:
Try out other voices. Synthesia includes more than 1,000 voices to test from.
If no voice matches, contact Your CSM or Account Team, they may provide a curated list of stock voices and stock avatars with accents suited to your target country or region.
2. Record Your Own Voice
For the most accurate accent and pronunciation:
Consider recording your own voice.
This approach gives you full control over tone, inflection, and regional accent.
To record your own voice:
Record a personal avatar, a voice clone will also be included
For a focus on your voice only, create an independent voice clone: in the Synthesia interface, go to the left panel → Voices → New Voices. https://docs.synthesia.io/docs/custom-voices#create-a-new-voice
3. Use a PVC from ElevenLabs
If this is still not working, check this doc to create a Professional Voice Cloning in ElevenLabs https://help.synthesia.io/en/articles/9770805-why-is-my-accent-not-being-captured-in-my-voice-clone
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✨ Tips & Tricks ✨ Directional zoom and scale animations
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Ready to push the limits of what’s possible with animations in Synthesia? Check out our latest Tips & Tricks video to learn how to change the direction of zoom and scale animations so that elements don’t just zoom in from the center of the element.
Now you’ll be able to have elements zoom or scale in from the left to the right, from the bottom-right corner to the top-left corner, from bottom to top…wherever you want (so have some fun with it!).
Plus, this trick comes with a video you can duplicate and experiment with for some hands-on learning, so please be sure to try it out and share your results!
[Community] Directional zoom and scale animations
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✨ Tips & Tricks ✨ How to create colorful offset box shadows
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Listen…I know we’re living in the flat design era, where single-color containers and huge margins rule the internet. Gone are the shadows, bevels, embossing, and gradients of the Web 2.0 era.
And frankly…I’m sick of it! Where’s the depth? Where’s the personality???
I’m here to tell you that:
- gradients are forever
- shadows are not our enemies
Embrace them! But also…we should probably still try not to overdo it 😜
[Community] How to create colorful offset box shadows
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✨Tips & Tricks✨ How to set a standard size for screen recordings
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Does it drive you up the wall when the screen recordings for your product demos, how-to guides, and tutorials all have different dimensions because they were recorded on devices with varying monitor sizes?
Personally, I can’t stand it. Plus, I want to make sure my audience can see the details–I don’t want my screen recordings to be super tiny just so they can fit in my videos! That’s why I use this tip basically every single day, and it’s a total lifesaver (because I am, indeed, making several videos every single day)! Dev tools to the rescue, forever 😎
P.S. I’ll be switching to an every-other-week schedule for these Tips & Tricks videos after today–so the next one will be posted in October. We’ve got some big stuff in the works (…and maybe I do need a little time to cook up more tips and tricks ideas… shhhh 🤫)!
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✨Tips & Tricks✨ How to make chyron-style animations
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Got some breaking news to share? Or maybe you just like scrolling text (I’m a fan too).
Learn how to make chyron-style animations in this week’s tips & tricks video, and then see how far you can run with it! There are tons of directions you could take this in–you can use this process to do some wild stuff with images, videos, shapes, and, well, anything else you can think of!
As always, I’d love to see what you come up with, so please share your results!
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✨Tips & Tricks✨ How to animate text letter-by-letter
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It’s time to learn how to animate text in your videos…
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We’re going to get a bit creative with triggers and delays, so open up your editor and play along. As always, I’d love to see what you create with this animation trick!
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✨Tips & Tricks✨ How to take the perfect screenshot (every single time)
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Have you ever wanted to show just one little product feature with a simple menu, or show an abbreviated visual example of a process without having to include a whole screen recording?
Are you sick of manually taking, editing, or cropping screenshots, or otherwise… downloading suspicious plug-ins and add-ons to do it for you? 👀
Your browser has an app a built in tool for that! 😉
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Use Cases: How to use Sound Effects with Impact! 🚀
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Following on from Lousine Boyakhandjyan Tips & Tricks last week around adding ambient sounds to your videos, I honestly was so excited by the potential, that I have put together some Use Cases in which you can bring Sound Effects into your videos today!
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