The new Clevera: start from one sentence, social clips, Record with AI and credits

This is the biggest update Clevera has had. You can now start any video from one sentence on Home, make motion-designed social clips, let the AI research your website or record your product for you, and pay for what you make with credits. A Free plan replaces the trial. The editor, exports, sharing, analytics and notifications were rebuilt as well.

New#

Creating videos#

• Start from one sentence on Home. Type what you want in the box under What do you want to make?. A short setup chat picks the right type, asks only what it needs and opens Compose with everything filled in. Planning in the chat is free. See Make your first video from the Home prompt and Plan a video with the setup chat.
• A new Home. It has the prompt box, four start cards, the videos that are still being made, and a summary of what your workspace made, how often it was viewed and how many credits it used. See Find your way around Clevera.
• The Create gallery. Video types are grouped into families: How-to, Product demo, Social & promo, Article and Polish. Cards play a short sample when you hover, and Describe your own starts a custom video. See Pick a video type in the Create gallery.
• Compose, one page for every video. Write the brief, attach material with the + button and set the options with the pills under the box: format, voice, look, AI avatar, language, music, tone, captions and AI rules. Each pill starts on a recommended choice. See Set the video's options with the pills.
• Several materials in one video. Attach recordings, video files, pictures, PDFs and links. The AI reads pictures and PDFs as soon as you add them, says what it sees, and asks once if it isn't sure how to use a file. See Add materials and Tell the AI how to use a picture or PDF.
• A recording library you can search. The picker shows your recordings and your teammates' (Everyone / Mine), AI recordings and uploads, with search and a full preview. See Find and reuse your recordings.
• A credit estimate before you generate. Every form shows Est. cost ~X–Y credits beside the Generate button. See Read the credit estimate before you generate.
• Follow your video while it's made. The page We're making your video shows five stages with a short feed of what the AI is doing. A chime plays and the tab title changes when it needs you or the video is ready. You can close the tab, and the video keeps going. See Follow your video while it generates.
• The AI asks when it needs to. If something is unclear, or a video type needs a fact your material doesn't give (an offer's terms, an event date), a question card appears on the generation page. See Answer the AI's questions during generation.
• Stop a generation at any point. A failed or stopped video shows a plain explanation, Try again where it can help, and Discard. See Stop, retry or clear a generation.
• Short tips point out the main controls the first time you meet them.

Social clips#

Social clips are on the Starter and Pro plans.

• Motion-designed social clips. Make short videos for feeds, ads and launches from a link, pictures, a PDF, a video or just a description. The AI director writes and animates every scene, records the voice-over, adds music and sound effects, checks its own work and gives the clip a title. Types include feature spotlight, hook reel, launch teaser, product tour, offer, event and customer story. See Make your first social clip and Choose a social clip type.
• Effort levels. Choose Medium, High (the default) or Extra beside Generate to trade credits for polish. See Choose an effort level.
• Pick a look. Leave the look on Automatic, or pick a design style with a live preview and use its own colors, a named palette or up to five colors of your own. See Pick a look: styles, palettes and colors.
• An AI avatar. Add a presenter, pick a look and choose how much screen time they get: Opening, Hook & close, Most or Whole video. See Add an AI avatar and set its screen time.
• Your logo, found for you. The AI uses the logo you attach, the one on your website, your workspace logo, or a mark from your footage, and never recolors it. See Get your logo into a social clip.
• Music and sound effects. The AI picks a track that fits the mood and keeps it under the voice. Sound effects are subtle and spaced out. You can swap either in the editor. See Understand music and sound effects in clips.
• Your footage, used well. The AI watches a recording or video you attach, plays the moments that show each scene's point, and follows the pointer with the camera. A video's own speech can play as a sound bite. Emails, card numbers and similar text it reads on screen are masked.
• Translate a clip into up to five languages at once. The voice-over is re-recorded and fitted to each scene, and captions draw every script properly, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Thai. See Translate a finished video.
• A clip editor with an assistant. Ask for a change in plain words, such as new music, a different picture or shorter text, and the assistant applies it. Each change can be undone in one step. You can also click any scene or text on the preview to edit it. See Edit a social clip.

Website research and Record with AI#

• Research a website. Give the AI a link and a note on what to look for. It reads the site and brings back screenshots, pictures, videos and facts for your social clip. Earlier research can be reused from the Previous research tab at no new cost. See Research a website for a social clip and Understand how website research works.
• Record with AI. The AI drives a browser and records your product while you watch. It shows where it's pointing, clicks deliberately and produces a recording with a smooth cursor that you can turn into a how-to, demo, article or clip. See Let the AI record your product with Record with AI.
• Take over at any time. Press Take over to do a step yourself, such as a sign-in or a one-time code, then hand the browser back. You can also send the AI notes while it records. See Sign in or take over during Record with AI.
• Saved sign-ins and safe mode. Record with AI can remember a sign-in for a site; you can forget it at any time. Unless you turn on Allow changes, it is told not to create, change or delete anything in your app. See Keep your accounts safe during Record with AI.
• Both use credits, and Clevera tells you so before they start. See Understand what website research and Record with AI cost.

Videos from your recording#

• Combine several sources in one how-to or demo. Use up to three videos plus pictures and PDFs, with a note on how to use each. See Use several recordings, pictures and PDFs in one video.
• Make a video from pictures or a PDF alone. No recording is needed: the pages become the video in order, and the narration talks about the page on screen. See Make a video from pictures or a PDF alone.
• Captions for how-to and demo videos can be switched on from the Captions pill on Compose.

Editor#

• An assistant in the video and article editors. Ask for changes in plain words. It shows its reply as it writes, and you can stop it or undo its change. See Ask the assistant to change your video and Ask the assistant to change your article.
• Motion backgrounds for title cards and scenes, with light and dark themes and adjustable colors and speed. See Edit scenes and cards.
• Idle animations for elements. Alongside the entrance and exit animations, an element can drift, float, pulse or tilt while it's on screen. See Add and edit elements.
• A placement grid. Press G to show it and hold Alt while dragging to snap to it.
• An info button beside the title shows the video's type, who made and edited it, its source, length, languages, exports, views and the credits it used.

Credits and plans#

• Credits. Each workspace has one balance made up of included, bonus and bought credits. Generations show an estimate first and are charged for what they actually use. Exporting is always free, and you can keep editing and exporting when you run low. See Understand credits and See what each kind of video costs.
• A Free plan replaces the 7-day trial. It includes 100 credits a month, videos up to 3 minutes, 1080p exports with a watermark, and one generation at a time. See Know what the Free plan includes.
• New plans. Starter and Pro, with Pro covering 2–10 creator seats, plus Custom. The plan picker compares what each plan's credits make. See Choose a plan.
• Buy extra credits when you need more, and opt in to a low-credit reminder by email. Nothing is charged automatically. See Buy extra credits.
• A Usage page with your balance, a forecast, usage by activity, member and video, a full credit history and CSV export. See Check where your credits went.
• Invite friends and earn credits. Your friend gets 250 credits and you get 500 once their workspace pays. See Earn credits by inviting friends.
• Add a seat while you invite. Inviting a creator when every seat is taken offers to add one there and then. See Understand workspaces, roles and creator seats.

Sharing and analytics#

• An Analytics page for the whole workspace. It has a period picker with comparison, views, completion and watch time, a 25/50/75/100% funnel, breakdowns by collection, creator, content type and country, and CSV export. See Read video analytics.

Notifications and email#

• A notification inbox. The bell opens a panel of updates about your videos, exports, team and billing, and there is a full Notifications page. Choose On, Quiet or Off for each type, in the app or by email. Results are emailed only if you haven't already seen them. See Choose which notifications you get.
• Email reports. A workspace report, your own recap and a "needs your attention" email, each on a schedule you set. See Get workspace reports by email.
• Refresh after an update. When Clevera is updated, it asks you to refresh, and waits until unsaved edits, exports, uploads and recordings are finished. See Clevera asks me to refresh the page.

Improved#

Videos from your recording#

• Smarter automatic zooms. Zooms are anchored to real clicks, frame what the click affects, land just before it and stay at a readable depth. Typing gets its own short zoom. See Understand automatic zooms and cursor effects.
• Better pacing. Dead time is cut or sped up, long typing plays faster, and clicks and typing are never cut. The cursor glides across cuts instead of jumping.
• Clearer structure. Videos open with a short narrated preview, chapter cards appear only at major changes, and demos close with a call-to-action card. See Make a product demo from a recording.
• From the desktop app straight to Create. When a recording finishes, the browser opens Create with it attached, and it turns ready in place. See Find your recording after it uploads.
• PDFs as background. On how-to and demo videos, attached PDFs are read for facts the narration can use.

Creating and editing#

• Voice picker. Every voice for each language, with a sample you can play before choosing, and All, Female and Male filters. See Choose a voice and preview it.
• AI rules and templates are chosen right in the create flow. See Create and apply AI rules.
• Revision history opens in a side drawer with a preview. You can restore everything or only parts (captions, music, look or layers), and name or pin versions. See Restore an earlier version of a video.
• Translation. One window for every entry point lets you pick several languages at once. Switching language keeps your place in the video. See Translate a finished video.
• Element animations have Entrance, Idle and Exit tabs with new moves. Element settings are grouped into clearer cards, and the alignment picker works.
• Articles. Choose the depth, tone and the color of screenshot markers on Compose. Articles in right-to-left languages read right to left everywhere. See Turn a recording into an article.

Exports and sharing#

• One Render button. Pick 1080p, 2K or 4K (up to your plan's limit). Clevera renders on your device when it can and moves the job to our servers when needed, and All renders lists every export. See Export a video as MP4 and Understand on-device and cloud rendering.
• Exports match your settings. They come out at exactly the resolution you chose, captions keep their size at 2K and 4K, and an unchanged video isn't rendered again.
• A rebuilt Share window with Link, Embed, Download and Publish, the latest render first, and an export in progress that stays visible after you close the window. See Share a video with a link.

Workspace#

• The content library has grid, table and list views, filters by video type, multi-select with bulk actions, keyboard shortcuts and Trash. See Find, filter and sort your content and Move, share or delete several items at once.
• Collections are redesigned, with a clearer Who can open it page. Private collections stay hidden from people outside them. See Organize videos in collections and folders.
• Settings for your account and workspace are split into tabs, and a pending invitation can be resent. See Invite teammates.
• The sidebar has one workspace menu at the top, your account at the foot and a credit meter. On phones and narrow windows it slides in from a top bar.
• Search (⌘K) also finds settings pages. See Search everything with ⌘K.
• The support chat is redesigned. See Contact support.
• Emails have one clean layout that works in light and dark mail apps.
• Sign-in is better protected. Sign-in is paused after repeated wrong passwords.

Fixed#

• English (UK) voice-overs now speak with a British accent.
• The logo reveal uses your workspace's real brand, and template placeholder text never reaches a finished video.
• Article screenshots no longer load forever or repeat frames.
• An upload that's refused now says why, instead of "Please provide a valid file."
• Switching workspace now takes you to the new workspace.
• Clicking a small element on top of a full-screen one selects the small one.
• Picking a color format no longer closes the color picker, and clicking inside a dialog no longer closes the one behind it.