What's new

Sudio

: Help, status, security and what you have used

  • A guide for people, from signing up to a first finished video, and a help button on every page that opens it where you are.
  • A status page says whether each part of the studio is working now, and lists past incidents.
  • A security page says how your files, sign-in sessions and keys are protected, how long files are kept, and who processes your content.
  • Your account’s Settings show what you have used of each daily limit, and when the next one frees up.

: Storyboards of your site you can trust

  • A storyboard of a site names the buttons and links exactly as the page shows them, and runs to the end of the walk you recorded.
  • When your site ends a sign-in during a recording, the recording stops and asks for a new sign-in, instead of filming the login page.
  • An upload step that never reached the page now fails and says so.
  • File links the assistant gives you open the file.

: Realistic storyboards and films

  • The realistic style draws a pencil board first, then makes each panel into a photograph.
  • A film shoots one clip per panel of a realistic board, and cuts them together in the board’s order.

: Videos from any material

  • One video made of pictures, clips, recordings and earlier videos, with transitions and music.
  • Upload several files at once, each with its own description.
  • Pages no longer download every video on them before you press play.
  • Draft a script from a transcript.

: Sudio, shared workspaces and progress you can read

  • Synion is now Sudio, at sudio.io. synion.io sends you here.
  • Shared workspaces: invite people by email, work on the same projects together, see who else is on the page and who did what.
  • Everything the studio is doing shows a progress bar with an honest estimate and its steps.
  • The guided start asks which project first, and remembers your default.

: Edit your brand kit

  • The project page edits the logo, the accent colour, the tagline and the contact lines your videos carry.

: Captions and tidier pages

  • A transcript is also a subtitle file (.srt), and a published video carries it.
  • Tags, names and a production’s variants show on the project and production pages; voice previews are listed with a badge.

: Tablet recordings and more logo formats

  • Recordings and rehearsals can use a tablet’s screen size.
  • A logo can be an .ico, .svg, .webp or .gif, not only PNG or JPEG.

: Storyboards

  • Design a storyboard for a production, change any panel, and share it by link.
  • The cast is drawn once and kept the same in every panel; a change redraws only the panels that changed.
  • The assistant knows which page you have open.
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