Product updates

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PowerPoint Animated Slides

• New guide: PowerPoint to Video with Animated Slides — covers animatePPT, feature combinations, and best practices for when to apply animations.
• Existing PowerPoint AI Voiceover and Speaker Notes guides now document animatePPT.
• The field is also documented in the Create Storyboard Preview API reference.

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Multilingual PowerPoint Narration — Translate Decks at Render Time

• 14 supported languages: Chinese (zh), Dutch (nl), English (en), French (fr), German (de), Hindi (hi), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Marathi (mr), Portuguese (pt), Russian (ru), Spanish (es), and Tamil (ta).
• One deck → many language outputs: ship the same source PPT to multiple international audiences without maintaining translated copies.
• Works with both narration sources: whether the AI is reading the slide text or the speaker notes (useSpeakerNotes: true), the output is translated into the target language.
• Combines with animatePPT: add slide animations on top of multilingual narration in the same request.
• Documented voice per language: each language has a default male STD voice you can use straight away (e.g., Martin for English, Gabriel for French, Wilbur for German). See the End-to-End Recipes guide for the full language → voice mapping.

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LLM-Friendly Documentation

• OpenAPI 3.1 specification — Available at docs.pictory.ai/openapi.json. Covers the five most-used endpoints (Create Storyboard Preview, Render Storyboard Video, Render Project, Get Job by ID, Get Video Brands) with 34 component schemas. Use it for SDK code generation, Postman or Insomnia import, or as a structured tool schema for LLMs.
• End-to-End Recipes guide — Ten complete, ready-to-run JSON payloads for the most common use cases, including text-to-video, multilingual narration, PowerPoint, avatar walk-throughs, template-based renders, brand kits, webhooks, previews, and job polling.
• Use Pictory with an LLM guide — Recommended system prompt, example natural-language to API-call mappings, and Pictory MCP server pointers.
• AI Tools setup guides — Project rules and configuration templates for Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. Each guide teaches the tool the Pictory API conventions, including the raw-key authentication pattern and mutually-exclusive field constraints.
• llms.txt and llms-full.txt — Mintlify auto-generates these at docs.pictory.ai/llms.txt and docs.pictory.ai/llms-full.txt. Hand either URL to any LLM to make it Pictory-aware in one shot.

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AI Credits — Unified Currency for Generative AI Features

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Account and Usage API

• Retrieve real-time usage for video minutes, transcription minutes, ElevenLabs voice-over minutes, and AI credits.
• Each metric shows used and limit values for the current billing term.
• Use this to display usage summaries, gate features based on remaining quota, or verify capacity before launching jobs.

• Retrieve a per-transaction ledger of AI credit activity with date, amount, source, and direction (credit or debit).
• Filter by year and month to query specific billing periods.
• Transaction sources include AI Avatar, Text-to-Image, AI Video, Add-on Purchase, and Promotional Credits.
• History available for the last 12 months.

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ElevenLabs Voice Auto-Discovery

• No manual voice registration — the Add Voiceover Track endpoint is no longer needed for ElevenLabs voices.
• Pass any ElevenLabs voice ID as the speaker field (e.g., "pNInz6obpgDQGcFmaJgB").
• Automatic library addition — once discovered, the voice is available by name or track ID in future requests.
• Premium voice settings — fine-tune stability, similarity boost, style, and model selection.

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AI Visuals: Visual Continuity, Reference Images, and Creative Direction

• Enable visualContinuity to create seamless transitions between consecutive AI-generated scenes.
• Works with both video clips and images.
• The system uses the output of each scene as a reference for the next, producing a cohesive visual flow.
• Continuity applies within the same story and across consecutive stories when enabled.

• Use firstFrameImageUrl to control the starting frame of an AI-generated video clip.
• The AI model generates a video that begins from your provided image and transitions into the motion described by the prompt.

• Use referenceImageUrl to guide the style and composition of AI-generated images with a reference image.
• Influence the color palette, lighting, and visual tone while generating new content from your prompt.

• Use referenceImageUrls to provide 1–2 reference images that guide the style of AI-generated video clips.
• When using veo3.1 or veo3.1_fast with reference images, the video duration is automatically set to "8s".

• When a story is split into multiple scenes, the prompt field acts as a creative direction for the entire video.
• The system uses your creative direction to guide the auto-generated prompts for each individual scene.
• Recommended structure: [Action/Movement] + [Scene/Environment] + [Camera Technique] + [Visual Style].

• Job responses now include aiCreditsUsed when AI visuals are generated, reporting total credits consumed across all scenes.

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AI Studio: AI Image and Video Generation

• Generate images from text prompts with your choice of AI model and visual style.
• Use a reference image to create variations, replace subjects, or apply transformations.
• Choose from models including seedream3.0, flux-schnell, nanobanana, and nanobanana-pro.
• Apply visual styles such as photorealistic, artistic, cartoon, minimalist, vintage, and futuristic.

• Generate videos from text prompts with configurable duration and aspect ratio.
• Start a video from a specific image using the first frame input for precise visual control.
• Extend an existing video with new AI-generated content that continues from the original.
• Provide up to three reference images to guide subject appearance and scene composition.
• Choose from models including veo3.1, veo3.1_fast, and pixverse5.5.

• Retrieve paginated lists of all your generated images and videos.
• Results are sorted by creation date with the most recent items first.

• Every completed job reports the number of AI credits consumed.
• Image generation is charged per image, and video generation is charged per second of output.
• See the rate card in each model’s documentation for exact pricing.

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Dynamic Captions with Word-Level Timing

• Set maxSubtitleLines to a value from 1 to 4 to control how many lines of subtitles are displayed at a time.
• Word-level timing is applied by default when dynamic captions are active.