Storykit released these product updates in 2023, listed newest first. Each entry links to the help article with the current steps. For later updates, see Product Updates 2024.

30 November 2023 – Content Campaigns

Content Campaigns were released, turning one piece of content into an entire series of videos for better reach and more traffic.

You chose a ready-made video kit with the right videos for your goal.
You entered a URL or pasted text from content you already had.
Storykit AI wrote the scripts and added assets, slides and music for you.

Learn more: How Do I Create Several Videos at the Same Time?

31 October 2023 – Four New AI Creators for Shorter Videos

Four AI Creators were added to the AI Script Creator menu, designed to deliver shorter scripts and punchier videos:

News Summary Short: turns a news item into a snappier video with the main facts.
Three Takeaways Medium: communicates three ideas from your content in a more condensed way.
Three Takeaways Short: a quick 3-point list that teases your audience to find out more.
Animated Headline: says it all on one slide to grab attention in feeds and drive traffic.

Learn more: News Summary Short Creator, Three Takeaways Creator for Articles (Medium), Three Takeaways Creator for Articles (Short), Animated Headline Creator

17 October 2023 – Live Previews of Every Slide

Live previews were added, one of the top feature requests. You could watch how each slide would play out in both the Script Editor and the Storyboard Editor, without creating a preview video.

Learn more: How Do I Preview a Slide?

17 October 2023 – Intro – Logo Plate Slide

The Intro – Logo Plate slide was added. It directs attention to your logo and brand colors right away, to maximize brand recognition in a busy feed. You can move the logo and text.

Learn more: Intro – Logo Plate

11 October 2023 – Improved AI Asset Selection

Storykit AI got better at adding assets to your video. With the AI Script Creator, you got more relevant image and video suggestions that matched the source content. At the time, access to the AI Script Creator was free on request from [email protected].

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Learn more: How Do I Create a Video With the AI Script Creator?

11 October 2023 – Import a Webpage

The AI Script Creator could import content directly from any webpage. You added the website URL and Storykit AI fetched the content and added it to the field for you. This worked for text on any webpage, not only blogs and articles.

Learn more: How Do I Use the URL Scraper?

19 September 2023 – Quick Script Previews

Quick script previews were added to the Project folder. Hovering over a script thumbnail showed a high-speed preview of the video the script contains.

Learn more: What Is a Script?

29 August 2023 – Three New Slides

Three slides were added:

Dynamic List: a list slide with a selection of bullets and precision animation controls, to make any type of information easy to digest.
Dynamic Number: counts up or down from one number to another, to show progress.
Info Pointer: draws attention to a precise point in a background asset and offers a quick explanation, for anything from charts to product shots.

Learn more: Dynamic List, Dynamic Number, Info-Pointer

28 June 2023 – Rule Set Controls for Automatic Script Creation

Rule Sets could centrally manage all Automatic Script Creation features, for users with access to Rule Sets. You could set defaults for:

Which library the AI selects assets from.
Whether stock media and music can be selected and added automatically.
Whether branded theme effects and transitions can be applied to slides automatically.

Learn more: What Is a Rule Set?

28 June 2023 – Stock Media and Music in Automatic Script Creation

Automatic Script Creation was upgraded. Besides adding your uploaded assets, Storykit AI could analyze your text and add stock media, and select a track from the music library to match the mood of the text. This helped you:

Save time browsing the stock libraries.
Fill gaps with stock media when you had too few uploaded assets.
Add relevant images and video clips when your asset libraries weren't organized.

Learn more: How Do I Include Stock Assets and Music Automatically?

9 June 2023 – Fine Print

The Fine Print field was added to slides, for a small disclaimer, reference, legal text or terms and conditions. You could scale the text so the details stay visible without distracting from your message.

7 June 2023 – New Workflow Design

Major design updates were made to the workflow to make video production faster and easier.

Learn more: How Do I Create a Video?

31 May 2023 – AI Script Creator

The AI Script Creator was released. It writes video scripts for you in seconds, and helped with:

Brainstorming fresh angles on content you already had.
Translating your source content into other languages.
Producing video scripts without writing a word.

It also chose the slide type for each block of text, added animations and effects, and set the duration of each slide.

Learn more: How Do I Create a Video With the AI Script Creator?

8 May 2023 – Easier Text Highlighting

The highlighting feature was updated to be simpler to use, and became available in the Storyboard Editor sidebar for every slide.

Learn more: How Do I Highlight Specific Words?

3 May 2023 – Premium Music Library

The Premium Music Library was released, with over 27,000 audio tracks. You can filter by genre, mood or tempo.

Learn more: What Is the Premium Music Library?

27 April 2023 – Outro – CTA and Indicator Blocktext Slides

Two slides were added:

Outro – CTA: shows viewers where they can click to learn more at the end of the video, to drive traffic to your content. Especially useful for social media.
Indicator Blocktext: a slide sequence with a progress bar and a step-by-step approach that helps your audience stay on track.

Learn more: Outro – CTA, Indicator Blocktext

22 March 2023 – Filters

25 filters were added to give your video a consistent style. With filters you could:

Give uploaded images or videos a professional touch-up with one click.
Make uploaded content look good next to stock media.
Emphasize your brand colors with additional effects.

Learn more: How Do I Add a Filter to an Asset?, What Do the Theme Effects Look Like?

March 2023 – 4:5 Format and Renamed Formats

The vertical 4:5 format was added. Recommended by Meta, it covers more of the mobile screen, which makes it the format of choice for posts in Facebook and Instagram feeds. At the same time, the Square, Portrait and Vertical formats were renamed after their aspect ratios.

Learn more: What Is the Optimal Size for an Uploaded Asset?, How Do I Change the Storyboard Format?

March 2023 – Longer Text in Callout Slides

Callout Slides could hold up to 45 characters in the large font size, enough for long compound words in languages such as German and Finnish.

Learn more: Callout Slides

March 2023 – Customizable Credits

Asset credits got updated fade-in and fade-out controls, so the credit text could run smoothly over multiple slides. You could also fully customize what the credit says.

Learn more: How Do I Add and Edit Asset Credits?

March 2023 – Alternative Logo on a Slide

You could upload an alternative logo to any slide where the logo was hard to see. For example, you could switch a dark logo on a dark background image or video to your light logo.

Learn more: How Do I Hide the Logo on a Slide?

8 March 2023 – Automatic Asset Inclusion

Automatic Asset Inclusion was released. It matched your uploaded images and videos to your text and added them to your script. An Auto-fill option also appeared when you clicked an empty asset field in a new script, in case you didn't switch the feature on in the previous step.

Learn more: How Do I Add Assets in the Script Editor?, How Do I Auto-Fill Assets?

8 March 2023 – Enhanced Previews

Slide previews became more accurate. They showed your content in the right positions, without the guidelines and with the correct fonts.