Synthesia Made a Training Video With No Camera

We needed onboarding videos and had no studio, no actor, no time. Synthesia turned our scripts into polished clips with a presentable avatar, and updating them later meant editing text, not reshooting.

The setup was writing clear scripts, which is the actual work. Synthesia handles the rest: voice, face, pacing. A weak script becomes a weak video regardless of the avatar's nice suit.

The update story is the killer feature. When a process changed, I edited the sentence and regenerated, no call to schedule, no retake. For training that drifts, that's the difference between current and stale.

Be honest with viewers it's synthetic if your culture expects it. Most internal training audiences don't care who's on screen; they care that it's right and short. Synthesia delivers both.

If you make explainer or training video at volume, skip the camera. Write, generate, update. The avatar is a delivery mechanism, not a personality, and that's exactly what onboarding needs.