A design canvas made to crank out videos.

We offer 12 types of animations. To add an animation to an element on the scene, select the element and then press the Animate button on the toolbar. This opens up the Element Animation panel. The default applied to each element is the Fade In animation which gradually fades the opacity of the element from 0 to 100% over a short duration. You can choose to have the element slide in, zoom in, zoom out, bounce in or other choices you want. These are the specific animation types you can add to elements in your video scene: Fade In, Fade Out, Slide Left, Slide Right, Slide Up, Slide Down, Zoom in, Zoom Out, Bounce In, Bounce Out, Elastic In, Elastic Out.

You can use the video canvas just like you use the infinite canvas to make digital/print designs by making a design on the artboard. You can place videos on the background of the artboard (place a video on the artboard scene, right click it and choose: Make Artboard Background) or images (static images can be animated later using Ken Burns animations), text, shapes and .svg (vector logos, graphics). Each element on the canvas can be animated by selecting it and then clicking on the Animate button on the top toolbar. You can choose how the element enters and exits the scene. Once you have your scenes ready, you can render the videos using the StyleForge Video Editor. Look on the timeline at the bottom of the video project and you will see a purple Render button. Press this button and it opens up a modal that lets you choose settings for the video you are about to create.

We created a very simple way to achieve element enter times on scenes so you don't have to work with keyframes or easing. Select the element on the video scene, move the playhead on the timeline to the point on that scene where you want the element to enter. You will see on the playhead a small green button that says: Set Entry. Click on this and the element you have selected will now enter the scene at that exact moment on the timeline. This makes it easy to time elements to appear when an AI Avatar is speaking. For example, to have a title appear when an actor says a line, select the title, define the animation style (slide left for example) and preview the scene to listen to the audio. Pause the playhead when you want the element to appear. Click the Set Entry button. That's all you have to do. Now the title will show when the actor says the line. Note: you can shift+click to select multiple elements on a scene (title and subtitle together for example) and use the Set Entry button to apply the same time to each. This makes it easy to animate groups of elements at the same time.

To add a new scene to the timeline, select the scene you want to have the new scene added after. You then click the Green Plus button on the left side of the video timeline. A new video scene will now appear after the selected scene. If you want to add a scene after 2 but before 3, select scene 2 and click the Green Plus button and now a new scene will appear after scene 2.

We have setup the duration/length to automatically set based on the longest element on the scene such as audio or video. In this way scenes are always timed to change at the end of the script or video. If you want to force a scene to be longer or shorter, you can drag to right side of the scene on the timeline. You can also directly edit scene timing once you are in the StyleForge Video Editor.

Yes, in fact this is a very good way to design video presentations. Create your first scene design, setup the animation and add in an AI Avatar, and setup the scene like you want. Then on the timeline, make sure the scene is selected and active and the press the Duplicate button. A copy of all elements and videos are made and added sequentially to the right of the scene (i.e. the duplicate is added after the original). Note, any audio or script used on the scene is also duplicated along with the voice actor settings. This makes it easy to duplicate a scene, change the script, and regenerate the audio.

The video canvas project is where you can easily create designs without hassling with keyframes, timelines and a traditional video editor interface. It is fast and easy to work with and is how you can rapidly setup the project to then render in the editor. The StyleForge Video Editor is where you actually render the project. We have this separated as it gives the best user experience while still offering advanced features for those that want them. For example, you can use generative AI captioning in the StyleForge Video Editor or create Variations (for A/B testing) to swap out any text (hook lines for marketing) or assets (visuals for A/B testing) without affecting the original video canvas project.