Instant Video Creator is a video creation app developed by Vidon.ai. With the app, you can generate a video from a blog article link (using AI) or manually create a video using a template.
After creating your video, you can promote an article, embed the video for your blog post, or reach new audiences on social media (e.g., TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram).
Instant Video Creator offers various templates to generate videos, including:
- Blog Posts
- AI Prompt
- FAQs
- Customer Reviews
- Case Studies
- How-Tos
- Announcements
You can also create unique videos from scratch using a blank template.
The Benefits of Instant Video Creator
Instant Video Creator is ideal for marketers who utilize the content marketing channel and want to improve page rankings.
The most common ways to use these videos are through social media promotion or as embedded videos on your website.
Here are some of the main benefits of using Instant Video Creator:
- Create branded videos in minutes
- Improve Google rankings
- Win featured snippets
- Position videos in Google Search Videos
- Catch more attention in social media posts
- Get organic content pushed through to user feeds
- Share across multiple social media channels
Utilizing videos more—whether on social media or on your website—helps increase time on page, engagement, reach, click-through rate, Google rankings, and audience growth.
Pricing
Marketers who use Instant Video Creator can make high-quality videos for an affordable price.
The base subscription is $24 a month for five credits. You will be charged one credit for each video you export by pressing the "Export Video" button. Exported videos can be downloaded unlimited times.
If your posting frequency increases each month, you can add monthly credits to create more videos.
The pricing add-ons are as follows:
- Pro plan: $60/month
+15 more credits
+ Pro features (ability to upload your own music and avatar)
- $24/month
+5 credits - $100/month
+30 credits
Without a base subscription, you have one credit to try out the app, which allows you to export one created video in three ratios - Landscape (16:9), Portrait (9:16), and Square (1:1).
How To Use Instant Video Creator
Instant Video Creator is easy to use. Here’s how to start making your AI-generated videos. For this demonstration, we’ll use a blog post template.
Step 1: Choose Your Template
Before you start creating your video, you’ll need to choose a template to work with.
For the blog post template, you’ll need a URL from the blog post to generate the video’s information automatically. Please note that information is automatically pulled only from the posts written in English.
For all other templates and articles in other languages, you’ll need to add information manually.
To get started, click on the “New Blog Post” template.
Step 2: Add Your Information
For the blog post video, you’ll want to add your desired URL and then click “next.”
After you add the URL, wait a few moments for the information to generate.
Step 3: View Your Rough Video Draft
After your upload is complete, Instant Video Creator will display the information pulled from your blog post.
You can “Click to unmute” to listen to the video and see the end result.
If you are happy with the video, you can leave the content as is, or you can manually change the generated information to customize your video.
There are a few ways to customize your video, and the next few steps will show you how to do that.
Step 4: Change the Face, Voice, Style, and Music of Your Video
In the left sidebar of Instant Video Creator, you can change the avatar, voice, style, and music in the video. We will demonstrate how to change the video content in Step 5.
To change the visuals, style, and music, click any icon on the left sidebar.
Clicking on each icon will bring up a prompt that allows you to change the face, voice, style, and music bed.
When selecting your avatar, you can choose from the provided avatars, upload your own or disable it.
To change the voiceover, click on the voice icon. From here, you can choose the language, the accent, and the gender of the voice to suit your ideal persona. You can also disable the voiceover.
To change the appearance, click on the “Style” icon.
This will allow you to choose one color (this could be a primary brand color). It also allows you to choose a font that closely matches your brand.
When changing the music bed, you can select from the music already provided by Instant Video Creator, turn the background music off or upload your own MP3 file.
If you choose to upload your own music, make sure the song is royalty-free to avoid any legal issues or that you have purchased the rights to the song.
You can also search a library of royalty-free images to add to your video in the “Media” section.
Any edits you make will be autosaved as you work on your video.
Step 5: How To Change the Content of Your Video
For the blog post templates, the content in your video is automatically generated from the article you’ve written. However, you can adjust the content in your video in a few steps.
Start by locating the settings that allow you to change each block in your video. They appear as your cursor hovers over each block.
If you want to add another block, you can click the “+” and choose from these types of blocks:
- Title
- Text
- Image
- Call to action (CTA)
- Quote
- List
To change the block’s style, pattern, color, voice, and face, click on the cog icon.
When editing content, hover over the Title or Text blocks to directly edit the auto-generated content.
Some words/phrases can be shown and not spoken. To do this, you need to write a word/phrase in square brackets [...]. For example: write [Semrush] to show “Semrush” in subtitles but not pronounce it.
To change how a word/phrase is pronounced, you can write it like this [text]{text spelled phonetically}. For example: [Microsoft]{Micro soft}. "Microsoft" will appear in the subtitles, but it will be pronounced "Micro soft".
You can also add a pause in your text. Type "<0.5s>" to add a 0.5-second pause or "<5s>" to add a 5-second pause. These can be placed anywhere in the text. Pauses can be up to 10 seconds long.
Hover over the orange call to action (CTA) block to change the text and the logo that displays at the end.
Finally, if you want to rearrange the blocks in the video, click on the six-dot icon and drag the block to its new position.
Once you’ve altered your video to your liking, play your video a few times to make sure everything appears correctly.
Be sure to “Click to unmute” to hear the voiceover and the music playing.
Step 6: Download Your Video
Once you have perfected your video, you can download it using one credit from your plan. If you don’t have credits yet, you can easily purchase them upon downloading your video.
To download your video, click the blue button labeled “Export Video (1 Credit).” The exported video will be available for download in three ratios - Landscape (16:9), Portrait (9:16), and Square (1:1).
Videos are saved indefinitely. We recommend you save the link to be able to download the video in the future. You can find all your videos in “Your Videos”.
You can also download videos in a batch. You can change Video Title, Face, Voice, Style, and Music in a spreadsheet-like editor.
“Add translation” will automatically translate your video into other languages.
About the Other Instant Video Creator Templates
Blog post videos may be the most commonly used template, but there are other templates you can use to suit certain aspects of your content.
These templates allow you to create content manually with the guidance of pre-selected blocks.
AI Prompts
This template is powered by AI. Just enter a prompt, and the AI writes the script for you.
You can create Explainer, Top 3, Pros/Cons, and How to videos this way.
FAQs
This template is already structured for FAQs and allows you to input one frequently asked a question and its answer into a short video.
You can add multiple FAQs to make this longer or address one FAQ at a time.
Customer Review
This template is ideal for showcasing customer testimonials. You can simply copy and paste the quote into the template, upload a photo (if one is available), and mark the rating received.
Case Study
Similar to a testimonial template, you can add case study details, quotes, or excerpts as well as a rating.
This template also gives suggestions for the kind of details you should put in your titles and body text if you need extra guidance.
How-To
This template is structured to help you build a how-to video very easily. It starts with a brief introduction and the first few steps to help you get started. Once you have created those, you can add more blocks to keep your how-to going.
This template is great for those who want to promote their ebooks and how-to articles quickly.
There isn’t currently an option to duplicate blocks, so additional steps are needed to create them manually.
Announcement
The announcement template allows you to create a short video to showcase a recent announcement. It could be a new staff member at your job, the launch of a new product, or a thank-you for gaining new followers on social media.
Blank Template
If your ideas don’t fit the provided templates, you can create your own using a blank template. The blank template gives you some brief instructions on how to add a new block to get started. When you click on the “+” you will see some options for what kind of block to add.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can find all videos you created in the “My Videos” section.
If you have other questions about the App Center or the Instant Video Creator app, please email us directly at app-center@semrush.com.