Scripted Video Production Without a Studio
Weekly video with no camera, no studio and no presenter to book — a script goes in and a finished cut comes out.
The fork is delivery: an on-screen avatar, or a voiceover over footage you already have.
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Questions about this stack
Avatar or voiceover — which should I default to?
Voiceover, unless the video needs a face to carry authority. ElevenLabs over screen capture or stock footage is faster to produce, cheaper, and does not trip the reaction a synthetic presenter still gets from some audiences. Reach for Synthesia or HeyGen when the format expects a person on screen — onboarding, compliance, anything that reads as coming from the company rather than about the product.
Synthesia or HeyGen?
Synthesia if the output is training and it has to land in an LMS — SCORM export and the template and brand controls are built for that. HeyGen if the output is marketing or outreach and volume matters, because its API turns per-recipient video into a batch job rather than a project.
Where does Descript fit if the other three generate finished video?
They generate takes, not edits. Descript is where a real recording gets cut, where filler words and dead air come out, and where a long video becomes the short captioned version that goes on social. Any workflow that includes a human recording anything needs it.