Add images, videos, GIFs, icons, Lottie animations, and vector graphics to your scenes—your own uploads, stock content, or assets generated with AI directly in the editor. Once added, style, trim, and fine-tune each one to fit your video.

Create with AI (third-party model integrations)

Use AI to generate custom visual assets from text prompts, with or without an avatar:

• Video generation: Create high-quality, cinematic 8-second video clips with Veo 3.1 (Google), Veo 3.1 Fast (Google), or Gemini Omni (Google).
• Image generation: Create 1080p images (1920 x 1080) with FLUX.2 (Black Forest Labs), Nano Banana Pro (Google), or GPT-Image-2 (OpenAI).

Once generated, outputs are saved to your user account, not your workspace. The asset stays in your Media panel for reuse in any project via the Library tab. You can download images and videos and upload them to your workspace library if you'd like your teammates to be able to use them freely.

From an asset's ••• menu, you can also:

• Copy ID
• Reuse prompt: generate a new variant using the same prompt. Only available for assets generated with Create with AI.
• Download
• Delete

In the Media panel, open the Create with AI tab, then choose whether to create a video or an image.

Video

Choose a starting point: Presets or Prompt.

Presets

Generate a ready-made b-roll shot, for example an avatar talking, walking, or working. No prompt required. Presets are only available when creating a video, not an image.

1. Select an avatar (optional).
2. Select a space (optional).
3. Select a brand kit (optional).
4. Select a video generation model: Gemini Omni, Veo 3.1, or Veo 3.1 Fast.
5. Turn audio generation on or off. Turning it on doubles the credits consumed.

Prompt

Set up the shot yourself and describe it in a prompt.

1. Select an avatar (optional).
2. Select a space (optional).
3. Select a style (optional) to pick a preset look, or a Brand kit if you're on an Enterprise plan.
4. Select a video generation model: Gemini Omni, Veo 3.1, or Veo 3.1 Fast.
5. Write your prompt. For example: "A diverse group of employees brainstorming at a conference table." Select the prompt box and press Tab to auto-fill a prompt based on your scene's script.
6. Select an aspect ratio: 16:9 or 9:16.
7. Select a duration: 4, 6, or 8 seconds. Gemini Omni supports up to 10 seconds.
8. Turn audio generation on or off. Turning it on doubles the credits consumed.

Image

There are no presets for images—set up the shot and describe it in a prompt.

1. Select an avatar (optional).
2. Select a space (optional).
3. Select a style (optional) to pick a preset look, or a Brand kit if you're on an Enterprise plan.
4. Select an image generation model: FLUX.2, Nano Banana Pro, or GPT-Image-2.
5. Write your prompt. Select the prompt box and press Tab to auto-fill a prompt based on your scene's script.
6. Select an aspect ratio: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 3:4, or 4:3.

Generating your asset

Select Create. You can close the Media panel while the asset is generating—you'll be notified when it's ready.

Your asset appears in the panel, ready to use:

• Videos: Generation takes approximately 3 to 5 minutes.
• Images: Generation is faster, typically under a minute.

Convert an image to a video

Convert any image into a video, using it as a reference frame for the generation. This isn't available for stock footage from third-party providers, like Getty.

1. Open your Library, or select In this video to convert an image that's already in your video.
2. Hover over the image you want to convert and open its ••• menu.
3. Select Convert to video.

Model costs

Each generated asset consumes the amount of credits indicated in the editor. You'll see this displayed next to the Create button before you generate.

• FLUX.2: 3 credits per image (free for Enterprise plans)
• Nano Banana Pro: 9 credits per image
• OpenAI GPT Image 2: 9 credits per image
• Gemini Omni: 48 credits per video, with or without audio
• Veo 3.1 Fast:
  • 48 credits per video with audio disabled
  • 60 credits per video with audio enabled
• Veo 3.1:
  • 96 credits per video with audio disabled
  • 192 credits per video with audio enabled

Stock content

We make certain types of stock content available as part of the Synthesia service offerings. These assets are generally referred to as "Synthesia Content" in our terms of service, and include:

• Videos and images from Getty
• Icons from Icons8

We also offer integrations with third-party services, so you can enrich the content and video creation capabilities of the service offerings beyond what Synthesia makes available as Synthesia Content. These are "Non-Synthesia Products," and are subject to separate terms between you and the third parties. They currently include:

• Videos and images from Pexels
• GIFs from Giphy
• Brand logos from Brandfetch

Library

Select Library to access all media assets in your workspace and user library, combined. Your user library includes any media assets you've generated with Synthesia's third-party integrations, whether from the editor or in the AI Playground.

Upload new media for use in just this video with the Upload media button, or upload media directly to your library with the Upload media to library button—that way, you'll have access to it from your library when you create new videos.

To the right of the search bar, filter what's shown:

• All media
• Images
• Videos
• Vector (SVGs)

In this video

Select In this video to access media elements already in use in the current video.

AI labels

Labels are available under Media. There are two pre-created labels to help with video compliance on EU AI Act Article 50.

The labels are added to the top-right of the scene by default. These labels can be added to all scenes in a video in bulk.

They're added as shape elements, so you can edit their text styles, font, colors, size, border radius, and position. If you translate your video using one-click translation, the label text is translated too.

Editing media

To control the style of your imported media on your scene, select it, then adjust the settings in the inspector panel on the right side of the editor.

Editing images

After selecting an image in your scene, use the right-side menu to:

• Replace the image with another one.
• Adjust the image's opacity.
• Apply a blur filter to the image.
• Specify a border radius for the image.
• Add a drop shadow to the image.
• Add a border to the image or GIF, positioned inside, outside, or centered, and combine it with rounded corners.

Image settings

To access all of the available image settings in the inspector panel, select the three-dot icon in the top-right of the Image section.

From there, you'll be able to:

• Crop: Crops the selected image to only display a subset of it when playing within its borders on the scene.
• Contain: Contains the selected image when playing within its borders on the scene.
• Cover: Covers the selected image to only display a subset of it when playing within its borders on the scene.
• + Add variable: Add a variable to the image. In a video, all images that share the same variable name have their style updated together.

Editing Lottie animations

After selecting a Lottie animation in your scene, use the right-side menu to:

• Change the Lottie animation's opacity.
• Change the Lottie animation's colors.
• Loop the Lottie animation, or not.

Editing vector graphics

After selecting an SVG in your scene, use the right-side menu to change its colors. Synthesia supports editing colors on SVGs with up to 10 colors. If an SVG has more than 10 colors, you can't change its colors.

Editing videos

To access all of the video editing options in the inspector panel, select your video in the canvas. You can also add a border to the video, positioned inside, outside, or centered, and combine it with rounded corners and/or a shadow.

Video playback

Trim

To trim a video, select the Trim button in the inspector panel. This opens the video editor:

The seek bar at the bottom is where you'll make your edits:

Select the preview button to preview your edits, and drag the zoom slider to increase or decrease the specificity of the timeline, making it easier to make more precise edits to the clip.

You can undo any edits you make to the video by selecting the undo button in the toolbar, or by using the keyboard shortcut.

Once you're satisfied, select Done to return to the scene.

To trim:

• Click and drag the trim handle on the left to the right, to trim the beginning of the video.
• Click and drag the trim handle on the right to the left, to trim the end of the video.

In either case, you can restore some or all of the trimmed content by dragging the handle back in the opposite direction.

Split

Splitting divides your video clip into segments. You can then duplicate a segment, add it to a new scene, or delete it.

To split your video clip, either:

• Drag the blue seeker handle along the timeline to where you want to split it, then select Split at time.
• Hover where you'd like to split the video in the timeline, then right-click. The seeker jumps to that time and opens a menu—select Split at time to create a segment.

After splitting a video into segments, you can trim the beginning and end of each segment.