It’s time to bring your slides to life. Say hello to our PPT-to-Video feature that transforms your slideshows and PowerPoint presentations into videos in just a few clicks! Now, you can turn your slides into stunning videos, perfect for engaging your audience. Whether you’re a pro presenter or a content creator, this feature will help you take your presentations to a whole new level. Read more.
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Finding the perfect visuals just got a whole lot more precise! With the new filter categories, you can quickly narrow down your search by filtering visuals based on categories, styles, and—yes—orientations too. These new filters will enhance your search experience, helping you find exactly what you need faster and more efficiently.

Take your videos to the next level with our 17 stunning new text styles. With just one click, you can instantly enhance your videos and with the option to customize the styles, you can make them uniquely yours. So go ahead and try them out in your next video!

We're thrilled to unveil our new and improved homepage. The sleek redesign comes with smoother navigation, vibrant graphics, and intuitive features designed to make your time on the app more seamless than ever.

To help new users get started, we’ve included handy demo projects right on the homepage—perfect for a dose of inspiration. Whether you’re just joining us or have been here for a while, the new homepage puts everything you need right at your fingertips.

Now you can get your content to sound just right! These enhancements give you greater control over the quality of your voiceovers, ensuring that your message is delivered exactly as you intend.

Start using the new Pronunciation and Pauses feature today.

Our Article to Video tool just got a boost. Our smart feature now generates abstractive summaries of your articles, blogs, webpages, and everything in between. Just enter your URL, and let our summarizer transform your links into video-ready content, with no extra work on your part. Read more about this AI-powered upgrade. 

You can now create more localized content for diverse audiences. We've added 25 new Premium voices from ElevenLabs, tailored for Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. These multilingual voices excel in their primary languages, offering authentic accents and natural intonation.

We've transitioned from a "number of videos" to a "number of video-minutes" pricing model. Your quota is now displayed in minutes, allowing you to create any number of videos within your allotted minutes. This update simplifies quota management and maximizes the value of your plan.

We are thrilled to introduce an expanded collection of elements for our video toolkit. With over 100 options, you can now add customizable shapes, including squares, circles, and various other design elements to enhance the aesthetics of your videos. Creating unique and visually stunning videos is now more fun than ever before.

Hello, Pictorians! Another month, another round of updates. Here are some of the amazing things we worked on this month to improve the quality of videos you make on Pictory.

Say goodbye to large blocks of text on your scenes! With this improvement, we will automatically split your text at logical breaks in sentences and at line breaks. This means less time spent adjusting text and more time designing your scenes.

Now you can copy and paste scenes effortlessly within the same project or across multiple projects. Why spend time recreating a scene when you can easily copy and paste using Ctrl/Cmd+C and Ctrl/Cmd+V or instantly duplicate it with a single click? See it, like it, and replicate it.

We've fixed numerous bugs to improve your experience and make the app more stable and reliable.

May was an exciting month and we’re thrilled to bring you new features and improvements designed to make your videos more engaging and impressive. Read on to discover what’s new and how it can enhance your videos!

Not only do you get an improved UI for your text animations, but we've also added a variety of new and enhanced options for your video needs. Want your text to drift in and fade out? You got it! Our new animations will help you create engaging and professional-looking videos effortlessly to make your text stand out.

Looking to give your videos and images a unique look and theme? Need to highlight certain visuals or make text pop? Maybe a light pink hue here, a grey tint there? You can do all that with the color overlay feature! An overlay can really up your game by improving image text readability while ensuring a consistent look for your videos.

We've fixed lots of bugs to ensure your experience remains smooth

Hello, Pictorians! New release went live today. As always, we'd love to hear what you think, join our Facebook Group and have your voice be heard!

Our latest update introduces an innovative layering feature, enabling users to overlay multiple visuals within a single scene, including videos and images. This feature will elevate your video production, creating more dynamic, complex, and professional-looking videos.

We've taken your feedback to heart! In response to user requests, we have rolled back the recent update to our Voiceover (VO) generation feature, implemented via ElevenLabs, to its former iteration. Now, it's back to the old implementation you know and love.

We've optimized the loading times for the "My Projects" page. You can now expect quicker access to your projects and a more responsive application experience, giving you more time to work on what truly matters - creating amazing videos.

Of course, we fixed some pesky bugs in the app to ensure the performance and experience are as smooth and reliable as possible.
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Welcome back! We have a lot to share in this installment, so we'll keep it brief. It's been a busy month (and change) here at Pictory, and we've shipped some exciting new features that we're sure you'll be itching to try out. Check out this video for the highlights and read the full post below for all of the details.

We've updated premium voiceover generation to eliminate the speed, tone, and pronunciation inconsistencies that held users back. In short, we're now generating voiceover using context from a project's entire script, which produces vastly improved results. To make the most of your quota, wait to apply a premium voice to your project until your script has been finalized. Learn more here.

We're excited to finally offer a sticker library that can support the wide variety of videos our users make. The long-awaited subscribe sticker is here, along with a vast library of animated and static elements designed for a wide variety of audiences.

When you're in a rush, every second matters. We've shaved a few off of your workflow by saving your preferences on the script editor. Next time you start a project, your previous selections for highlighting and scene breaks will be automatically applied.

Users can now upload hundreds of visuals at a time without crashing the app. Once those uploads are in Pictory, we've added preview thumbnails to the My Uploads section to make it easier to find what you're looking for.

📝 API Updates

We now support the Japanese language for standard voiceover in our Public API. Along with the 29 languages of ElevenLabs voices, we now offer support for 8 languages using our standard voices through the API.

We're also excited to announce that Pictory’s transcription services are available as a white-labeled solution as part of our public API. Learn more in the Documentation Hub.

🐜 Squashed bugs!

Happy New Year! We jumped straight into 2024 with an ambitious launch and important product improvements. The year is already off to a bold start, and we're not planning to slow down any time soon.

✨ Pictory GPT for Videos

We've launched Pictory GPT for Videos in the ChatGPT Store. Check it out here!

ChatGPT Plus subscribers can create Pictory videos starting with a prompt, script, link or document—right in ChatGPT. Learn more on our blog.

🧑🏽‍🎨 Brand Kits Get More Powerful

With the latest update, you can add visuals from our stock library to your Brand Kit. Save your favorites for easy access or set stock footage as your intro or outro. We've also added more text formatting options on the Brand Designer, including text spacing and alignment.

🎙️ Premium Voiceover Updates

This month, we said farewell to three voices that ElevenLabs recently retired. We'll be adding new voices to replace them in the coming months. Bella, Matthew, and Ellie, we wish you well in the great neural network beyond!

We also fixed bugs that were causing issues with the timing and pacing of premium voiceover.

🐜 Squashed bugs!

We're always trying to make video generation as seamless as possible. Sometimes that looks like launching exciting new features, and sometimes it means making the small improvements that keep Pictory easy, fast, and reliable. December was certainly a month for the latter, helping set the stage for big additions in 2024.

🔦 Improved Visual Search

In this update, we've added more nuanced logic to our Visual Search. In practice, this means that the visuals Pictory suggests will be more relevant, not only to keywords but to the script or article as a whole.

❌ Removed Stickers Tab

You may have noticed something is missing when you click Elements. The Stickers tab is getting a much-needed makeover and will be back soon. We promise it'll be worth the wait.

🎙️ Improved Voiceover Generation

Cutting-edge AI tools require constant adaptation. We're working to stay a step ahead and make sure our users are getting the best quality voiceover as quickly as possible.

🐜 Squashed bugs!

✅ Brand Kits!

Stay on brand with one click. Easily set up your brand on Pictory, and even share it with your team. 

✅ New styles

We've added some new and improved styles for your videos. Check out the Styles tab on the Storyboard!

✅ Delete multiple scenes at once

Select multiple scenes by pressing Ctrl or Cmd on your keyboard, and hit Delete on your keyboard to Delete all scenes at once!

✅ Make videos in 29 languages!

Not only can Pictory find visuals for your Spanish, Dutch, Italian, French, German, and Portuguese scripts, but now, you can also get AI voices to speak these languages and 23 others!

✅ Squashed bugs!

✅ 51 Hyper-realistic voices added to the voice-over library! Introducing partnership with ElevenLabs!
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Pictory has tied up with Elevenlabs to get our users access to hyper-realistic voice-overs!

✅ 10M more stock visuals added to the visuals library! Introducing partnership with Getty!

Pictory has tied up with Getty to get its Premium users a library of 10M more stock visuals! So now with Pictory, you can access the following libraries: Storyblocks, Getty, Pixabay, and Unsplash.

✅ Updated AI Highlighter
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We improved our AI behind the Auto Highlight feature on Edit Videos using Text. Now, AI can extract key highlights from your video, more accurately.
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Happy highlighting!
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✅ Multi-step authentication
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To ensure the safety of our users' data and to keep any fraudulent activity at bay, we have re-introduced the email verification step
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✅ Fixed multiple audio and voice-over bugs

✅ Share video preview!
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Downloading videos to gather feedback? Share Previews instead. It's quick and easy.​

✅ New Templates and fonts
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Added some new and beautiful styles and templates for you to be able to create better-looking videos. 24 new and stylish fonts have been added.
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✅ Fixed app crash issues
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A ton of app crash issues were squashed so you can have a smooth and seamless experience.​

✅ Visual Zoom and Pan can be applied to all scenes
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In Edit Videos Using Text, we have now added the ability to apply Visual zoom and pan settings to all scenes.
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✅ Better Royalty-Free Media Search
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We've implemented a MASSIVE upgrade to our AI. This means video and image suggestions will now match your script far more accurately - log in to and give it a try now

✅ Turbo-Charged Previews
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Hit 'Preview' and prepare to be amazed. Previews now appear in just seconds saving you a ton of time.

✅ 3x Faster Transcriptions
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No more hanging around waiting for transcriptions when editing videos. We've sped things up three-fold - Nice

✅ Faster Video Generation

We've added a bunch of powerful new servers so your videos now render WAY faster than before — Awesome!

✅ Teams Plan!

Invite up to 20 colleagues to your dedicated teams workspace, and collaborate with them on projects!

There is a FREE TRIAL for Teams Plan, so you can try it before you buy!

✅ Squashed numerous bugs within our favoriting songs and voice-over experience
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✅ We made video generation 3x faster!

✅ Improved the trim video experience — now you have the ability to update scene duration and b-roll

✅ Control voice-over volume

You can now control voice-over volume — both AI voices and your own recorded voice
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✅ Download MP3 file from a project
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Click on download and we'll extract all assets for you: video, text, mp3 (audio file)
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✅ Scroll bar under the scene strip
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Time to bid goodbye to the hassle of finding specific scenes by using those pesky arrow buttons on the scene strip. We've added a scroll bar so finding scenes and navigating across your project is 10x simpler. Super-slick!

✅ Aspect ratio on transcription step
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You can now change the aspect ratio and download clips directly from the Transcription Step. No more back and forth between the Storyboard and Transcription steps saving you a ton of time. Yay!

We've also made login pages look more beautiful because we can :)

✅ "Right click has been enabled on Storyboard and Script Editor!

We have finally brought in Right click on the Storyboard. Select an object > Right click on it > View options to copy, paste, delete, etc. We will be bringing in the concept of layers really soon!

✅ FIXED — Random session expiry issue

We know you were tired of being logged out randomly. We have fixed that issue for you.
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✅ FIXED — Missing text in Preview

Sometimes the text would disappear while previewing the video. We diagnosed it and fixed it for good.
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✅ FIXED — Slowness in Video Editing scenario

A lot of you all brought to our attention that video editing had become incredibly slow. We fixed that for you, and it's working as it should
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✅ FIXED — Forgot Password

Forgot password was broken. We've fixed that, too
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✅ FIXED — AI wasn't picking up visuals

A lot of you all would have seen the dialog box that said - "We could not fetch visuals for you". This happened because of lack of resources during the heavy influx of new users. We increased our server capacities to accommodate all of you!"
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✅ Pictory's Even More Awesome (Log In And See!)

We're excited to announce a bunch of updates to your favorite video generation platform.

Watch Video: Full Product Release Video

✅ More Voices (Best In The Business)

We've added a ton of the most advanced and realistic new voices to make your videos sound amazing.

You can now choose from 34 voices if you're on our Standard plan and a whopping 60 if your're on Premium!

Watch Video: New Voices

✅ Fantastic Fonts Upgrade (More, Bigger and BETTER)

Make your videos look drop-dead GORGEOUS with our new fonts. Search by font name and amp them up to 150px in size!

(Coming soon, the ability to upload your own fonts, watch this space)

Watch Video: New Fonts

✅ Script Editor Auto-Save (Yes! Finally!)

No more lost work. We automatically save changes as you edit your script.

Good for your creativity .... and your blood pressure :)

Watch Video: Auto-Save

✅ Keyboard shortcuts (Copy-Paste of Elements made simple!)
​You can now use keyboard shortcuts for Copying and Pasting Elements and Text boxes on the Storyboard​

✅ Scene Transitions in 'Edit your existing recorded videos' use case

After you upload and transcribe a recorded video, click on "Customize Video" or "Customize Highlight Video" on Transcription Step > Go to storyboard to apply Transitions.

✅ New and improved experience while buying Pictory subscription
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Based on the feedback from current users we have enhanced the 'Order summary' page - The key benefits on each plan and more detailed payment information.

As always we have also fixed a few bugs especially related to scene transitions. We would love to hear your feedback, comments at [email protected]. Stay tuned for a few BIG announcements!

Brand New 2023 Features Available NOW (Log In And See!)

We've added a whole bunch of cool new features to help kickstart your 2023 video journey.

Buckle up, this is a BIG one!

Watch Video: Full Product Release Video

✅ Add Stickers, Emojis, GIFs & CTAs (Make Your Videos Really Pop)

Add sizzle to your videos and increase engagement with cool new elements including stickers, emojis, GIfs. You can even add Call To Actions (CTAs) to skyrocket your sales.

All this with just a few clicks!

Watch Video: Add Elements

✅ Unsplash Now Included (TONS More Free Images)

Introducing EVEN MORE image choices.
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Add stunning images from Unsplash, right from within Pictory.

Watch Video: Add UnSplash Images

✅ Share Multiple Video Highlights In A Single Go (Save Time & Hassle)

Showcase your work quickly and easily by sharing multiple video highlights.

Watch Video: Share Multiple Highlights

✅ We've also added a scroll option on the main vertical storyboard menu and squashed a bunch of bugs.

Christmas has come early for Pictory users as we've added some cool new features to your favourite video creation platform.

✅ Share Your Videos (From Inside Pictory)

Save time by sharing your videos with clients, colleagues and friends without having to download them.

Pictory's new sharing function means you can share your videos with just a few clicks.

Your audience can view your videos on their desktops or mobiles!

Click here to see video sharing in action!

✅ Move Your Full-Width Text (Much Requested!)

Don't like where your full-width text is? Now you can MOVE it!

Unleash your creativity with Pictory's new text positioning function.

✅ New Guardrails (No More Sloppy Text)

We've introduced a new guardrail function so you can centre your text with pinpoint precision.
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Just one more function to make your videos look even more professional.
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As always, we've squashed a bunch of bugs to make your Pictory experience the smoothest ever.

✅ Multiple Text Boxes (Frequently Requested)
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Make your videos really stand out by adding eye-catching Headings, Subheadings and Freeform text.

Change fonts, colors and positions to create the perfect look.

✅ Multi-Speaker Identification (Mind Blowing!)

Pictory AUTOMATICALLY identifies who's speaking during video transcription.

Add speaker names and download your transcript to create the perfect interview-style blog post.

✅ Improved Video Transcription Editing (Massive Time-Saver)

No more fiddling around editing individual words, now you can edit whole sentences at once saving you a ton of valuable time.

Simply right-click your mouse to edit, merge, split add to highlights and generate your video.

Plus we've squashed a bunch of bugs including audio issues in intro and outro clips to make your Pictory experience the smoothest yet.

Check out the full product update video on our YouTube Channel.

Hot on the heels of the recent Templates and Styles update, we're proud to bring you yet more awesomeness.

Awesome Templates & New Styles

We've just upgraded your Pictory account to include a bunch of awesome new templates and styles.

This is our biggest upgrade to date!

You can still open, edit and generate videos from your old projects created using brand settings as well as giving them a fresh new look by applying the new templates & styles to them
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Organize Your Work With Folders
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We're so excited to announce the introduction of folders which will make organizing your work so much easier.

Now you can...

We are delighted to share new product upgrades that would make your video workflow efficient and save time for you!

We're thrilled to announce the launch of two very popular features around text styling.

We are happy to share that we have finished the much-awaited integration of Pictory with Storyblocks and Melod.ie for video clips and music tracks respectively.

Storyblocks and Melod.ie content will now be automatically picked by Pictory AI when you create new videos. You can even manually search using keywords and filter the results. With this upgrade, you would enjoy two key benefits:

Be assured that you are 100% protected from copyright notices, takedowns, and third-party monetization attempts. As always reach out to us at [email protected] if you run into any issues. Enjoy the Pictory ride!

We are super excited to announce the release of a new, faster, and sleek text format editor. This editor is a result of the amazing feedback that we've received from you and our continuous focus to simplify your video-creation workflow.
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The new text editor solves several limitations of our previous editor. You can now

Today we are excited to announce a much-needed capability in the video creation workflow you have asked for.

Scene Duration Adjustment: For the text-to-video scenario with no voice-overs, you can now easily change the timing of each scene from the default 5 second duration. Please find the Scene Duration stepper control on the top right side of the Storyboard screen.
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Note that this adjustment is not available when you have a voiceover since the voiceover duration controls the scene duration.

As always, we continue to quash other bugs in our journey towards a much better user experience for you.

We've been working hard to continuously improve Pictory based on your feedback. We'd like to highlight some of the key improvements that we have enabled recently:

We also quashed several other bugs in our journey towards a much better user experience for you. Please try and share your feedback. Stay tuned for many more exciting capabilities in Pictory coming soon.

We are very excited to announce the release of our much awaited feature -- automatic synchronization of voice-over with all scenes in the video.
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Under the Audio tab, you will now see a new option to apply a voice-over to the entire video. Any uploaded voice-over file or even one recorded with Pictory can be applied to the entire video now.
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Our AI will automatically determine the appropriate scene boundaries and synchronize the voice-over. In case the AI synchronization is not accurate, you can easily adjust the scene boundaries by looking at the waveform display.
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We are excited to announce a new update of Pictory today with several much-asked-for features. Here is what's included in this new update in addition to the many bugs that we've squashed along the way:

1. Volume control: Control the volume of music track v/s the voiceover track. Customize your videos more thorough this slider in a new Audio Setting section of the Audio Tab of Pictory.

2. Text download: Now you can download the text file (in TXT, SRT, or VTT format) of the transcript immediately after the transcription of a video is completed. Save time with this new Download text button on the transcription page.

3. Adjust number of lines in captions/subtitles: Now you can adjust the maximum number of lines which show the captions on-screen. Simply set the Max number of lines settings on the transcription page to the number of lines desired.
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4. Optimize speed v/s size: Now you can make your video generation go a little bit faster if you are okay with slightly larger sized videos. Find a new setting under the Format tab of the Storyboard screen where the default is set to make the video generation faster.

In addition to these new features, we have squashed several bugs and made many usability improvements.

We have just upgraded your Pictory with a few major enhancements. These are again based on the wonderful inputs we are getting from marketers and content creators such as you.

Stay tuned for another bumper release next week!

We are super excited to launch these new capabilities based on our continuous customer engagement.

✅ Edit videos in multiple languages. You can now edit videos in Italian, Spanish, German, and French languages. Just indicate the language while uploading your video and Pictory's AI will automatically transcribe the video into that language and add subtitles. You can search the video by searching for text, plus delete sentences and words that you wish to cut out of your final video

✅ Detect silences in the video automatically. Pictory now shows silences in the video as a part of the transcript. Easily review and delete any awkward silences in the video just like deleting a word or a sentence

✅ Faster video editing and rendering. We have fine-tuned our algorithms to enable you to edit and summarize long videos faster. We now leverage the backend computing power even more to accelerate your overall workflow including video upload, transcription, and final video rendering.
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Additionally, we have fixed a few bugs and improved the UX for editing the video transcription.

We are very excited to announce a brand new use case in Pictory for 2021.
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Pictory now allows you to edit and summarize videos using text. We are trying to make editing videos as easy as editing email in these easy steps. Watch a video demo of this capability.

In addition to these new features, we have squashed several bugs and made many usability improvements.
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We are excited to announce several improvements in Pictory that we made in November 2020. Here are the new capabilities we added based on our continuous customer conversations.

In addition to these new features, we have squashed several bugs and made many usability improvements.

We are excited to announce several improvements in Pictory that we made in August. Here are some key new capabilities that we've added:

In addition to these new features, we have squashed several bugs and made many usability improvements.

We are excited to announce several improvements in Pictory that we made in the second half of September. Here are the new capabilities we added based on our continuous customer conversations.

These capabilities were added in the last release in mid-September.

In addition to these new features, we have squashed several bugs and made many usability improvements.