Four updates. Four tracks. One stickman with an electric guitar.

We let one stickman play the release like a gig

Four new things shipped this month, so rather than a feature tour we made a release video that treats them as a setlist. One stickman, one electric guitar, four tracks, and an encore.

The soundcheck opens on the numbers, because they are the part we are quietly proud of: 5,000 creators, 7,500 videos made, 600,000 scenes rendered, and 7,200 edits made inside the editor. Then it works through the four releases in order.

The video is embedded at the top of this post. Here is the written version of the same setlist.

• 0:00 Soundcheck - the numbers
• 0:16 Track one - the Documentary template
• 0:31 Track two - Auto-Adjust
• 0:48 Track three - Avatars (Beta)
• 1:05 Track four - custom templates from your brand
• 1:24 Encore - blog2video.app

1. The Documentary template - a 1960s film finish

This is a brand new look, and it is the least software-shaped template we have built. It is a period film grade rather than a filter dropped over the top of a modern layout.

Hard grain, gate weave so the frame breathes the way a projected print does, sprocket edges down the side, bold archive-style titles, and a proper black and white grade rather than a desaturation pass. Everything is rendered programmatically, which is why the grain sits under the type instead of over it and the weave moves the whole frame together.

Point it at any story and it plays like it was shot decades ago. It suits history explainers, origin stories, obituaries and tributes, brand founding myths, and anything where the subject deserves weight rather than motion graphics. It is available in 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 like every other template.

Browse the template catalogue

2. Auto-Adjust - every headline and image sized to its frame

This is the least glamorous item on the list and probably the one you will notice most.

Every headline and every image is now sized automatically to fit its frame. No more text spilling past the edge because a heading ran three words long. No more images that land slightly wrong because the aspect ratio of the source did not match the slot. What you see in the editor is exactly what renders.

It works across all three orientations, which is the part that actually mattered. A headline that fit comfortably in 16:9 used to be the same headline that broke in 9:16, so a vertical cut of a finished video needed a second pass by hand. Auto-Adjust resolves the fit per orientation, so the same project exports cleanly to landscape, vertical and square without you re-checking every scene.

• Headlines resize to fit their frame instead of overflowing it
• Images are scaled and framed to their slot automatically
• Resolved independently for 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1
• The editor preview matches the rendered output

3. Avatars (Beta) - upload a photo, get a presenter

Upload any photo and Blog2Video brings it to life: your presenter, speaking your script, lip-synced to the narration, scene after scene. Or pick one of ours if you would rather not put your own face on it.

The lip sync is driven by the narration track that already exists in the project, so the avatar follows whatever voice you chose - a prebuilt voice, your cloned voice, or a recording you made yourself. It carries across scenes rather than being a single talking-head clip bolted to the front.

It is in beta, and we are calling it that honestly. It works well on clear, front-facing, well-lit portraits and gets less reliable as the source photo gets further from that. Try it, tell us where it breaks.

4. Custom templates, generated from your brand

Give it your website, a prompt, or a brand document. It reads your colours, your fonts and your whole feel, and designs a template around them.

The output is not a colour swap on a stock layout. It is a template - type scale, layout logic, accent treatment, motion - built from what it found, and it is fully editable afterwards, right down to the accent colour. If the generated palette is close but the accent is one shade off, change it and every scene follows.

A brand document is now a first-class input alongside a URL. If your brand lives in a PDF rather than on a website - which is true for most agencies working on behalf of a client - you can hand it the PDF instead.

Generate a template from your brand

The numbers behind them

The soundcheck at the start of the video is not decoration. Those are the counts as of this release: 5,000 creators, 7,500 videos made, 600,000 scenes, and 7,200 edits.

The edit number is the one we watch most closely. It is the count of times somebody opened a generated video and changed something - a headline, an image, a scene order. A tool that generates video you never touch is a tool producing video nobody cares enough about to fix. Every one of those 7,200 edits is somebody deciding the video was worth getting right.

Got a PDF instead of a blog post?

Everything above works the same way when the source is a document rather than a URL. If PDFs are your main input - reports, whitepapers, lecture decks, research summaries - there is a dedicated build for exactly that job at pdf2vid.com.

You upload the PDF, it reads the structure, and it turns the pages into narrated scenes with the same templates, the same Auto-Adjust sizing, and the same export options. It is the shortest path from a document nobody opens to a video people actually watch.

Turn a PDF into a video at pdf2vid.com

Somewhere to put the video once it exists

Making the video is half the job. The other half is getting it in front of somebody, and that is a distribution problem rather than a production one.

If you publish a blog or a newsletter, bloghub.app is a directory built for exactly that - a place to list the publication, get discovered by readers who are browsing rather than searching, and pick up a real indexed link back to your site while you are there.

List your blog on BlogHub

Try it

All four are live right now at blog2video.app. Go make something worth watching.

Made with love, by Firebird Technologies.

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