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Hey everyone, we have added support for the following features in our Storyboard API:

  1. Ability to add Brand-logo.
  2. Support for 9 Positions of Text in API. Till now we only supported subtitle positions in API.
  3. Apply more Text-Styles.
  4. Ability to add Intro/Outro.

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Sample Storyboard Request Object

1. Add Brand Logo

Now you can add brand-logo to your videos by adding brandLogo object to the Storyboard API. 

"brandLogo": {
    "url":"https://pictory.ai/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/logo-new-fon-2t.png", 
    "verticalAlignment": "top" ,  //Supported values: top, center, bottom.
    "horizontalAlignment": "right" //supported values: left, right, center.
}

2. Add Text Styling

With this new release, we support multiple text styles, Sample textStyles object is mentioned below:

"textStyles":{
    "fontFamily": "Roboto",
    "textColor": "#7000FD",
    "fontSize": 32,
    "textBackgroundColor": "#FFFFFF",
    "verticalAlignment": "bottom",  //Supported values: top, center, bottom. Default value: bottom.
    "horizontalAlignment": "center", //supported values: left, right, center. Default value: left.
    "fontStyle" : "italic",
    "textDecoration: "underline" //underline,strikethrough
 }

Just provide textStyles object to the Storyboard API.

2.1 Adding Text Style to Scene

You can also choose to modify the text style of any particular scene. The sample scene object is mentioned below:

"scenes": [{
            "text": "Thank You for watching the video. This video demonstrated the Pictory API capability add Brand Logo and multiple Text Stylings",
            "voiceOver": true,
            "fontSize": 40,
            "splitTextOnNewLine": false, 
            "splitTextOnPeriod": true,
            "horizontalAlignment": "center",
            "verticalAlignment": "center",
            "fontFamily": "Roboto",
            "textColor": "#7000FD",
            "fontSize": 32,
            "textBackgroundColor": "#FFFFFF",
            "verticalAlignment": "bottom",  //Supported values: top, center, bottom. Default value: bottom.
            "horizontalAlignment": "center", //supported values: left, right, center. Default value: left.
            "fontStyle" : "italic", //supported values: italic, normal
            "textDecoration: "underline" //underline,strikethrough
 }]

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With the verticalAlignment and horizontalAlignment for text, we now support 9 positions for Text inside the video.

Supported text positions are Top-Right, Top-Center, Top-Left, Bottom-Right, Bottom-Left and Bottom-Center. Center-Left, Center-Center, Center-Right

3. Intro / Outro Scene

With this feature, you can now bring your own visuals and add them as an Intro scene and an Outro scene using Storyboard API.

"scenes": [
    {
     "backgroundUri": "www.INTRO_SCENE_URL.com",
     "minSceneDuration":"6"
    },
    {
     "text": "text.com",
     "minSceneDuration":"6"
    },
    {
     "backgroundUri": "www.OUTRO_SCENE_URL.com",
     "minSceneDuration":"6"
    }
}

Just remember, the intro-scene shall be the first scene of the Scene Object and the outro-scene shall be the last object of the Scene object.

Updated 7 months ago