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The Basics - Customize your first video with our fundamental features
The Basics - Customize your first video with our fundamental features

More basic features to customize your first video on AI studio

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Written by Avi Yaffe
Updated over a week ago

Here we can walk you through more of our fundamental features of the AI studio experience-

Let's customize your video!

Avatar Video preview- Why cant I preview my avatar video?

Creating your avatar on video takes a lot (we mean A lot!) of computing power, so we can only render the actual avatar on video after you submit the video to be created (that's what the credits are for). You can, however, preview the background video, images, voices, music and everything else on the Studio platform to get the best final result!

How to add transition effects-

If you click on the 3 dots on your avatar video track, you can add Transition effects to help make your videos transition more smoothly between scenes and from different directions.

How to use more than one avatars (+2 avatars) in your video-

If you'd like to have more than one avatar in your video, you should know that they would have to be in separate scenes- only one avatar can exist in a single scene. You could switch between avatars as you add more scenes to your video same as the example below-

Click on the + button on your timeline to add a new scene

Then select the avatar you like to use from the left menu of available avatars.

QuickStart Tip- you can use the button on your timeline to "Add Avatar" - this will add the latest avatar you used.

How to set the background for your video -

That part has more than a few options so we created a separate article here--

Let's customize your Audio!

"It's all about the music, man" - How to add your own music/audio into AI Studio-

Using Heygen AI Studio, you have three main options to add audio to your video.

1. Write a script in any language and choose different voices to narrate it as your avatar.

That feature is rich with options so we've made a separate article here -

2. Record/Upload your own audio to be narrated by the avatar.

This can be achieved in two places in our studio, both on the timeline and under Scripts-

3. How to add & customize your background music-

You can find a few background music styles under the Elements section, all the way to the bottom of the menu. You can preview-listen to the music by click the Play button next to them, and click on the title to add that to your script.

If you click on the 3 dots or simply Right-click on the music track that's on your timeline, you can see some options to customize your music-

Ease in/ Ease out - these options are available for you to have your music fade more naturally into the video.

Volume - Here you can adjust the volume of your background music in relations to the other audio you might have, like your avatar's voice volume.

Delete - Here you can delete the track all together from your timeline.

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