Make a video in another language

The language of your video comes from your story, the Language setting and the voices. The language of the app's menus is a separate setting.

From an idea: pick the script language

1. Open Video Story and keep From an idea selected.
2. Write your idea. You can write it in any language.
3. In the Voiceover step, find Language.
4. Open the menu and pick the language of your video.

• With Same as your prompt, the script is written in the main language of your idea. Pick the language yourself when your idea is short or mixes languages.
• When the video has no voices, for example with No voices, the Language row says Not used in this mode.

The menu has 31 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian Arabic, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

The menu has no Cantonese, Finnish, Serbian, Telugu or Thai today. For Chinese, it has Simplified Chinese only.

From a script or from audio

• From a script: write the script in your language. Language then shows From your script. The app uses the words you wrote and reads the language from them.
• Check that From a script is selected. With From an idea, the app ignores an attached script and writes a new one.
• From audio: your recording keeps its own language.
• Is your language not in the Language menu? Write the script yourself and use From a script. Make a short test video first to hear how the voices sound.

Choose voices for your language

1. In the Narrator voice row, select Change.
2. In the Select narrator voice window, open the All languages menu and pick your language. If you picked a script language, it is near the top of the menu with a Script language tag.
3. Play the previews and select a voice.

• The menu shows each language that has voices, with the number of voices. If your language is not in this menu, the list has no voice for it. Try a voice of another language in a short test video, or see Add your own voice.
• If you keep the narrator voice on Auto, the app picks a voice that fits your script language.
• The window says Tip: voices sound most natural in their native language.
• If the voice and the script language do not match, the page shows a warning under the voice.
• Each character has its own voice. For a video in another language, give your characters voices in that language. Select a character under Character voices, or edit the character on the Characters page.

For more on voices, see Use voices, audio, and captions. For mouths that move with the words, see Lip sync: when mouths move with the words.

Make the same video in another language

The editor has no control that translates a finished video. To tell the same story in another language, translate your script and make a new video with From a script. It is a new video, so its pictures and its lip sync are made again.

Change the language of the app

• Open the Language menu at the bottom of the sidebar, under Help, and pick a language.
• This changes the app's menus and buttons. It does not change the language of your video. Use the Language row in the Voiceover step for that.