Creating videos

Pick a video type, write the brief, add materials and follow the AI while it makes your video.

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Pick a video type in the Create galleryUse the Create gallery to choose exactly what kind of video to make: browse the five families, preview each type, start from scratch with your own brief, and see why a card is locked.6 min read Write a brief that gets a good videoThe brief is what you tell the AI in the "Tell us about it" box. Learn the length rules, what a brief changes for each kind of video, and see weak and strong examples for every type.8 min read Add materials: recordings, footage, pictures, PDFs and linksGive the AI something to work from: record your screen, upload or reuse a video, add pictures and PDFs, or let the AI record your app or research a website. Includes every limit per video type.7 min read Tell the AI how to use a picture or PDFOn how-to and product demo videos, each picture or PDF can be shown on screen or only read for facts. Learn what the AI suggests, how to pick PDF pages, add a note, and answer the "A few quick questions" sheet.5 min read Set the video's options with the pillsThe row of pills under the Compose box holds every setting for your video: format and length, voice, captions, look, AI avatar, language, music, tone, template and AI rules. See every option and its default, per video type.6 min read Make a video in another languageClevera makes videos and articles in 74 languages and variants. Set the Language option before you generate, or translate a finished video later. See every language, which voices speak it and what translation costs.4 min read Choose a voice and preview itPick who reads your video's script: one of 30 built-in voices that speak all 74 languages, a voice from your own ElevenLabs account, or an AI avatar's voice. Preview each one for free before you generate.5 min read Use your own ElevenLabs voicesConnect your ElevenLabs account to narrate Clevera videos with your own ElevenLabs voices, including voices you cloned. Learn what the key needs, where to add it, and how the speech is billed.5 min read Read the credit estimate before you generateBeside Generate, Compose shows an estimated credit range for your video. Learn what moves it, what the low-balance lines mean, which work is billed on top, and why it's an estimate rather than a limit.4 min read Fix what's missing when you press GenerateWhen something is missing, Generate points at the control that fixes it and says why. Here is every message you can see on the Compose page when you press Generate, what it means and how to fix it.7 min read Follow your video while it generatesAfter you press Generate, a page shows your video being made: five stages, short notes from the AI, heads-up warnings, a live preview of social clip scenes and alerts when it needs you. You can close the tab at any time.6 min read Answer the AI's questions during generationSometimes the AI needs one fact or decision from you while it makes your video. Learn which questions it asks, how to answer each kind of card, the 10-minute deadline and what happens if you don't answer.4 min read Stop, retry or clear a generationStop a video that's being made, try a failed one again, or clear it off your dashboard. Learn what each button does for social clips, videos from a recording and articles, and how credits work when a run stops or fails.5 min read Create and apply AI rulesAI rules are reusable sets of instructions the AI follows on every video: your product context, audience, tone, do's and don'ts, words to use or avoid, pronunciations and custom rules. Create a rule set, apply it, and make it your workspace default.5 min read Find and reuse your recordingsWhere your screen recordings and uploaded videos live, how to find one on the Recordings page or in the Compose library, how to make another video from it, who can see it, and when unused recordings are deleted automatically.8 min read