AI avatar generator

How long does it take to create a video with an AI avatar?

Rendering an AI avatar video takes about five minutes for every minute of audio. For example, a two-minute audio clip will take roughly ten minutes to process. During rendering, you can’t edit the project in Audiate. You’ll get a polished, professional video ready to use as soon as it’s done.

Do I need to appear on camera?

Not at all! AI avatars let you create professional-looking videos without ever stepping in front of the camera. This is perfect for users who want to stay off-camera, save time, or don’t have the tools for live video recording. With avatars, you can focus entirely on your message and let the technology handle the presentation.

Can I customize AI-generated videos to add brand identity?

Yes! With Camtasia, you can seamlessly incorporate your brand’s identity into AI-generated videos. Add custom backgrounds, logos, and text overlays to ensure your videos align with your brand’s style. Use Camtasia’s templates to match your organization’s colors and style. Your brand, your way—elevated with the power of AI.

Is this feature available in all Camtasia plans?

The AI avatar generator is a feature within Camtasia Audiate that is exclusively available as part of the Camtasia Pro plan.

I’m already a Camtasia customer. How do I get access to AI avatars?

Current Camtasia customers have a few options for moving up to the Camtasia Pro plan for avatar generation. Customers on a current Camtasia Essentials or Create subscription can upgrade to Camtasia Pro in their TechSmith account by following these steps. Camtasia customers on a perpetual license or with active maintenance can contact our Customer Care team for assistance moving their license to a Camtasia Pro subscription.

I’m already an Audiate customer. How do I get access to AI avatars?.

Customers with a standalone Audiate subscription can contact our Customer Care team for assistance with converting their existing Camtasia license and Audiate subscription to a Camtasia Pro subscription.

Flip Boxes

Use these to make short-ish text content look better. Very good for short useful bursts of information. Very bad for crucial information. Avoid overusing them in the same page as it's bad UI/UX. Do not change their settings.

The things you should change or play around with are:

1. Add/Edit items: this will increase flipbox amount (try to not have more than 4)
2. Edit individual flipbox settings

• "Flip Box Frontside Heading"
• "Flip Box Frontside Content"
• "Flip Box Backside Content" (this is where you put in the bulk of the text you want to display when the box flips
• "Icon": (try to find something as related to the box content as possible) Do not change any of the settings.
• Under the Design tab: Change "Background Color Frontside" and "Background Color Backside" for each box to make sure they're different. Colour theory is important, use this website to generate colour codes for you https://coolors.co/ 

If something is not mentioned in the things above, do not touch it.

If you need to credit an original source, use this template without changing any of the sizing or settings, it is made to be subtle but present: This post will highlight only the key takeaways, it is based on the original report by Stanford University, found here: https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/

Images

Note: All images you upload on TELBLOG must be optimised beforehand. I have shown you how to do this using Squoosh, it's a free tool and simple to use. Just set to WebP as the output and run the images one by one. No image should be over 200kb if possible, even that's way too much. You can tweak the strength of Squoosh without losing almost any quality in the image. If you're not sure, run it by me.

If you need to place an image in a post do this:

1. Insert new element inside a container (not here)
2. Choose Image

Under the image settings, after uploading an image, change only the following:

1. Image link URL (if you want the image on-click to lead somewhere, if you do this, make sure to set it Open In New Tab)
2. Under the Design tab, change only:
   1. Alignment if needed
   2. Border Radius to 10px (this will give it rounded corners, do this for every image anywhere in the existence of mankind as long as the setting exists)

If you want to put text next to an image like this, you will have to put the image inside this editor, as opposed to the method above. I would avoid doing this often, as you can't actually change almost any of the image settings. But if you do put it like this, make sure to resize it by dragging the corners, and to remove the URL from the text you write in this area (it often sets it as a link for some reason) by selecting the text and then using the button in the tab above to link - deleting the url in the box and pressing Enter.

Please note, using this method while in back-end does not show you the final size, so make sure to preview accordingly before you actually publish it.

Please note, putting an image this way enables its own URL and leads directly to the file on TELBLOG, disable this by mousing over it and going to edit and then setting the Link to None (if it isn't already).

Note to Konstantinos: If you can figure out how to automatically set Border Radius of images put in this way to 10px that would improve quality of these inserted images a lot.

Featured Image (the one that shows up at the top of article)

This image is taken directly from the Featured Image box in the sidebar, that's where you upload them. These are the most important part of the post, a bad image will look amateurish and put off anyone from reading the post or taking it seriously. I have a very high standard for these, and I use a combination of tools to design them. (To save time, currently: Midjourney-Illustrator-Squoosh. Sometimes they're designed from scratch in Illustrator.)

As there's no way to automate this process and make sure you don't upload images that are even 1px different in size, I will be doing this step until I can find a way to automate this more. The current workflow is:

1. Finish your article, save as draft.
2. Send me the preview link
3. I'll send you an image
4. You run it through Squoosh
5. Upload into Featured Image
6. Done!

Side note: This how rounded corners look like (method 1)

Videos

If you need to embed a video, do this:

1. Click on "Add Media" above
2. "Insert from URL" and paste video link
3. Click insert

Problem 1: Size

Doing this will often leave you with a video that isn't sized properly, in order to resize it, you will have to navigate to "Text" in the top right corner of this text editor window, next to "Visual".

Your video code will look similar to this:

<p style="text-align: center;"><iframe title="HeyGen video player" src="https://app.heygen.com/embeds/93bdd0bb1c754f5da7097b6f7e06c67d" width="860" height="500" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>

What you need to do is change the values between the quotation marks after width and height. The ones in the example are decent for the video they're for, but you might need to experiment with yours to get it right.

Problem 2: Source

Sometimes you might need to embed a video from the S3 server of UNIC, the process is the same, but you might need to tweak the resulting code (after you do "Insert from URL").

Note: Embedding videos from the S3 means they won't have a thumbnail image, they will either look black at the first frame, or have some of the video's elements visible, there is no way around this until the S3 itself has that function.

Note: Embedding from Stream has no access control, it will only work/show for users that are logged in the Microsoft environment. There is currently no way to change this on our end - it's on Microsoft's side. However, Stream has powerful integrated tools like transcripts, chapters, translations, thumbnail and more.

Categories

Currently, I have set up 2 categories which you can set for posts. You can see these in the right sidebar of the page.

Do not create new categories. There are two pages that currently draw posts automatically from these 2 categories, creating a new one means your post won't be automatically pulled.

• For AI stuff: tick "Artificial Intelligence"
• For anything that is not AI, tick "Moodle".

Do not tick both even if your post fits both categories - it will create duplication in the 2 pages I mentioned above, there's no need, pick one or ask Chris or Vlad.

Tags

Tags are important but not crucial, they're used by scrapers, such as Google's algorithms, to determine page visibility in search results.

I have set up existing tags for many things, you can choose multiple ones (try to keep it 8 and below) by clicking "Choose from most used tags". If you need to create a new tag, simply type it in the text box and press Enter - but for the love of god user proper capitalization, preferably Like This and NOT LIKE THIS.

If a page needs to be excluded from showing up in search results, tick the box.

Testing and Previewing

This is a good workflow for testing and previewing your post without risking publication:

1. Save draft (do this a lot so you don't lose changes)
2. Tick "Enable Public Preview" on the right sidebar
3. Copy link from that box, paste it into Incognito Window. (this makes sure everything works for all users regardless of access or cookies).