Making a Video from Help

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Ray Rippey
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Making a Video from Help

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My goal is to take a PDF that I've created from H&M and have a smart AI make a video, reading the text, while displaying the screen. I can have H&M make a PDF, then I take a part of that PDF and make another PDF that has just that subject.
However, I've not found an AI that is smart enough to just take the PDF, use the screenshots and text, and make a simple video. It seems simple enough but I haven't found an AI that can do that...yet. If anyone has any ideas or can recommend an AI to do this, thank you!. Otherwise, I'll have to just use Snagit to make a video myself, which does work. Or make a slideshow with HelpXplain. I just thought how simple :? it would be to just take a pdf and have AI read it and make a video.
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Camtasia is even better than Snagit for that kind of video. But working with HelpXplain is actually a lot quicker, because you can just remake individual slides when you make a mistake instead of having to re-record the whole thing. And you can also add individual audio objects within each slide, with different triggers for when and how they start. You can also use lots of different AIs to make the audio clips you need from text, which can also speed things up compared to recording if you don't have much practice with that. 8)
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I've used Xplain before for setting up Gmail App passwords. I did have to change it because Google changes things.. they just can't leave things alone. I think I'll try an Xplain and see how that goes.. Great idea using AI to replace the text to voice. I'll try that out. Thanks.
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