🎬 Building Slides & The Builder Layout

Once your script is ready, one click turns it into slides. This guide explains the Create Video screen from top to bottom, and how to edit your slides without starting again.

Where to find it:

Open AI Video, then Create Video. At the top, Open a VSL lets you pick any saved video or New VSL. Below it, choose Slides Video. The left column holds your script, the buttons and the look controls. The right column is the Preview. Your slides appear full width at the bottom, under Slides.

Step by step:

1. Paste or write your script, one line per slide.
2. Click Build Slides. Each line becomes a slide card under Slides, and the count shows next to the heading.
3. Click any slide card to show it in the Preview.
4. Click Generate Voiceover to narrate every slide. See Generating The Voiceover.
5. When every slide has a voice, Preview VSL and Export MP4 switch on.

The action buttons:

• Build Slides: turns the current script into slides. If you already have voices or images, it asks before it replaces them.
• Generate Voiceover: narrates every slide that has no voice yet.
• Test Style (1 Image): makes just one image, for slide 1, in your current look, cast and mood, so you can check the style first.
• Generate Images: illustrates every slide that has no image yet. If every slide already has one, it asks before it makes them all again.
• Save: saves the whole video. Ctrl or Cmd plus S does the same.
• Recover This Video: re-attaches this video's narration and images from your Media Library. It shows once the video has been saved.

The status bar under the buttons tells you what is happening, for example Saved. 12 slides, 4 with images, 12 with voice.

The Save button:

The Save button shows its state. It reads Save Changes and turns amber when you have unsaved changes, shows Saving while it works, and settles on a green Saved tick. Narration clips are also stored on the server the moment each one is made.

The working bar:

While a long job runs, such as a voiceover, images or an export, a bar slides up at the bottom of the screen with the step and the percentage. Keep the tab open until it finishes. If you try to close or reload the page during a job, or with unsaved changes, your browser asks you first.

Editing your slides:

Each slide card shows its number, a voice chip with the length (or no voice), an image chip (or no image), and small buttons on the right.

• Type in the slide to change its words. That clears the slide's old voice so it can be narrated again.
• Use the up and down arrows to move a slide.
• Use + to add a blank slide after this one.
• Use the times sign to delete the slide.
• Use + Add Slide under the last card to add one at the end.
• Under each slide: an image note, Generate Image or Regenerate, Upload Image or Replace Image, and, once there is an image, Full Frame and Clear.

A real example:

Yoursite Studio builds 12 slides from its course script. Slide 2 reads This is for you. She decides it needs more punch, types This is for you, even if you have never stretched in your life, and the voice chip on that slide changes to no voice. She clicks Generate Voiceover again and only that slide is narrated.

How long will my video be?

Each slide lasts as long as its narration. The voice chip on every slide shows its length, and My Videos adds them up on the video's card. Before narration, My Videos estimates the length from the words, with a ~ in front. As a guide, about 150 spoken words make a minute.

Working on a long video:

• Build all the slides first, then narrate, then add images. Each step only works on slides that still need it.
• Use + on a slide to add a new line in the right place, rather than editing the script and rebuilding.
• Keep the Preview in view: it stays on the right while you change the theme, font and text position on the left.

Tips:

• For small changes, edit the slide cards. Build Slides rebuilds everything from the script.
• Click a slide card any time to check it in the Preview.
• Videos open with their voice and images already restored. Recover This Video is there for the rare time a reload leaves a saved video without them: click Build Slides from the same script first, then click Recover This Video.