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How to create a video summary of your video with Pictory

How to create highlights and summary videos from you long form videos and recordings.

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Written by Mmekobong Silas
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Do you have a long video you want to quickly summarize? You can summarize your video using our built-in summarize feature. This feature allows you to shorten videos that may be too lengthy, and with our AI, you can be certain your summary will include all the most important sentences. To begin,

  1. After uploading your video via the 'AI video editor' use case on the homepage, you will eventually land on the page in the screenshot.

2. Click the 'Auto-highlight' on the right side of the transcription tab.

3. Select your preferred summary duration. The video will be summarized and the sentences included in the summary will be highlighted.

4. You can add or remove sentences to the summary. To do so, select the sentence you would like to add or remove. Then select 'Add to highlights' from the resulting menu.


​5. To remove any sentence from the summary, select the sentence you wish to remove and then select 'Remove from highlights' from the menu.

At any point, you can change the size of your summary by using the same 'Auto highlight' drop-down summary button. You can also remove the summary and revert to the original length video by choosing the 'None' from the dropdown.

Be sure to preview your summary video and make edits as needed before you download the video.

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