A new video every day,
on autopilot.
Give it a topic once. A worker writes, voices and makes a fresh video on your schedule, and leaves it ready for your OK.
AI video automation means your videos get made on a schedule, without a new brief each time. In Synthesys it’s called Autopilot, and it’s part of the AI video agent. Nothing it makes is posted on its own.
A daily space fact, told like a short storyStart with a single line.
One line in. A video every day out.
Type the idea once. Synthesys sets up a worker, keeps to your schedule and has a finished video ready each time.
Give it a topic
A niche, a voice, a style. Or point it at a YouTube channel or a blog, and it follows every new upload and post.
Pick the look
Faceless stories, UGC, street interviews, explainers. Nineteen video types, and each worker keeps the one you choose.
Set the time
Daily, weekdays or weekly, at the hour you pick. After that the week fills in by itself.
Wake up to a video
Every video lands in your review queue, finished and fully editable. Approve it, change it or bin it.
You approve every video.
The worker does the writing, the voice and the edit. You do the yes or no. Open any video, change a line or a scene, and approve the ones you like.
Nothing is ever posted on its own.
Nineteen ways to show up.
One video type per worker. A faceless story for the daily series, a street interview for the brand, a short for every upload.
Built for people who post often.
One channel or ten client accounts. Either way, the daily video stops being a daily job.
Creators
Turn one idea into a daily series, and skip the script, the recording and the edit that used to fill each morning.
Marketers
Every blog post and every upload gets its own short video while it’s still new.
Agencies
Up to ten workers on one account, each with its own client, Brand Kit and schedule.
Questions people ask first
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What a worker handles, and where it stops.
What is AI video automation?
It is a way of getting videos made on a schedule, so that you don't have to write a new brief for each one. Ours is called Autopilot. You set up a worker one time (where its ideas come from, what kind of video it makes and what time it should run) and after that it makes a new video every time it runs. All of the videos it makes are held in a review queue until somebody approves them.
What does an Autopilot worker do?
A worker is really just a saved set of five choices: its source, the video type, the shape, the length and the schedule. When the time comes round it either thinks up the day's idea or takes the newest thing from your channel or blog, and then it goes ahead and writes the script, adds a voice and renders the whole video. Once that's done it stops, and it won't do anything else until you've had a look.
Can I control what Autopilot creates?
For the most part, yes. The topic or the source is up to you, as are the video type, the shape, the length and the Brand Kit. A finished video is an ordinary project as well, which means you are able to open it in the editor and change things before you approve it. The one thing you can't choose is the voice or the presenter; the agent picks those again on every run, so they may well be different from one day to the next.
Does Autopilot post to YouTube, TikTok or Instagram on its own?
No, it doesn't, and that is on purpose. Every finished video goes into your review queue and stays there until you approve it or throw it away. If you are on the Agency plan or above, have Publishing switched on and have connected a social account, there is an extra button called Approve and queue that puts the video in the next free posting slot for that account. Even then a person has to be the one who presses it.
How do I automate YouTube Shorts with AI?
Make a worker with the 9:16 shape and pick a length; it can be anything from 15 seconds up to a minute and a half. If you want a daily series, start it from a topic. If you already post longer videos on YouTube, paste in your channel instead and it will make a short about each new upload. It is a good idea to watch what comes out before you post it, though, and only put up the ones you would be happy to have your name on.
Is YouTube automation allowed?
YouTube does allow videos that were made with AI. What its monetisation rules won't pay for is content that is mass-produced or very repetitive, and it also asks you to label anything realistic that has been altered or made synthetically. In practice that means watching each video, fixing whatever needs fixing and holding back the ones that don't add anything of your own. This is a big part of the reason Autopilot stops at a review queue instead of posting.
How much does AI video automation cost in Synthesys?
A run costs the same amount of credits as it would if you made that video yourself, and you'll see an estimate on the form before you save the worker. A skipped run costs nothing. Paid plans include 1 to 10 workers. There's no monthly cap per worker, so switch off the ones you've stopped checking.
Can it turn blog posts into videos automatically?
Yes. Paste a blog, newsletter or changelog address, or its feed, and check it. Each run takes the newest post the worker hasn't used and builds a video from it: a hook, two to four key points and a pointer back to the post. It uses only what the post says, and it never works back through old posts.
What happens if a run fails or I run out of credits?
If your balance is below the run's estimate, the run is skipped and nothing is charged. If a video doesn't finish, the run is marked Failed with the reason, and you can open it to see what happened. A worker doesn't retry by itself. It tries again at its next scheduled run, or when you press Run now.
What can't Autopilot do?
It can't post for you, make more than one video per run, or use video types that need your own clip or product photo. It can't hold one presenter or voice across runs. It runs on whole hours only, and a weekly worker runs on the weekday you created it. It also doesn't email you. The count on the Autopilot menu item is the only alert.
Tomorrow’s video is one line away.
Give it a topic. Pick a time. Check the queue.
Open AutopilotIt keeps your schedule. You decide what gets posted. · See how many workers each plan includes