We replaced our entire internal training video process with Synthesia and here is an honest account of that

I run L&D for a mid-sized company. Our training video backlog had been growing for two years because producing them properly required booking a studio, coordinating with subject matter experts, editing, re-recording when something changed. The turnaround was weeks and the cost per video made us selective about what we even tried to produce. We switched to Synthesia six months ago and I want to give an honest account of what that change actually looks like.

The AI Video Assistant is the starting point for most of what we produce now. You give it a web link, a PDF, a Word document or a text description of the topic and it generates a full script, selects appropriate scenes and produces a draft video. That draft always needs editing but it is a usable starting point in minutes rather than a blank slate.

The avatar library covers over 150 options with genuine diversity across age, gender and ethnicity which matters for internal training that reaches a global workforce. The Micro-Gestures feature lets you insert specific expressions at points in the script, a nod, a head shake, a raised eyebrow, which makes the avatar feel less robotic in longer pieces.

One-click translation into 120-plus languages with automatic lip-sync adjustment is the feature that changed things most dramatically for our international teams. A training video we produce once in English is available in the languages our regional offices need without a separate production run.

Custom Avatars let you create a digital version of a specific person from a webcam or professional recording. We use this for content where a specific leader's presence matters.