What's new in Kario

Workspaces: make videos together with your team

Create a workspace from the workspace menu, give it a name, invite people by email, and bring in the projects you want to share.

Everyone in the workspace opens the same projects, edits any layer and asks Kario for changes. Their Kario use comes from the workspace owner's plan, with no charge per person, and workspaces work on any plan.

In a shared project, every chat message shows who sent it. When a teammate asks Kario for something, your open tab shows Kario working on it.

Also new

• Your own voiceover. Attach a recording (MP3, WAV or M4A) in the chat, and Kario uses it as the voiceover and times the animation to your words.
• More voices. A new American male voice, and four native German voices, two male and two female.
• Long PDFs. A PDF over 100 pages or 20 MB is read as text, and Kario tells you, so the file is never dropped.
• Stop always stops. Pressing Stop frees the project even when a step has hung.
• Interrupted work carries on. If Kario is cut off partway through a reply, it picks up where it left off.
• Studio on your phone. Share and Export sit together in one menu, the storyboard fits a phone screen, and there's a way back to your projects.

Turn a CSV or Excel export into a video

Attach a .csv, .xlsx, .xls or .ods file in the chat and say what the numbers should show. Kario reads every sheet and builds the video from the rows: totals that count up, charts drawn from the columns, and the moment that explains a change. Every number is a text layer and every line is a shape, so a corrected value is a retype, not a new video.

The video above is a September report for Fernbill, an invoicing app, made from one export of 30 rows. Here's how it was made, and what to send for yours.

Also new

• Colour emoji in text layers.
• Poppins Medium and SemiBold are built in, alongside the other weights.
• Projects start private. Share a project when it's ready.

Subtitle files, GIF exports and more languages

Export has two new formats. Subtitles download as an .srt file timed to the voiceover, taken from the scenes as you've edited them. GIF exports a looping GIF for docs, emails and chat.

Kario also speaks and writes more languages. Voiceovers can be read in Persian, Bengali and Thai. Text can be set in Simplified Chinese and Bengali, alongside Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Thai, Japanese and Korean, and bold Arabic, Hindi and Thai use their own bold faces. The video above sets one line in nine scripts. See more on multilingual motion graphics.

Also new

• The storyboard in the chat. Kario lays the video out shot by shot in the Studio chat, and builds it once you've approved it.
• Research before planning. For a new video, Kario can search the web for references before it plans the storyboard.

Edit your footage by its words

Upload a talking head, an interview or a podcast clip, and transcribe it. Select any words and cut them, or take out the filler words and long pauses in one click, with picture and sound moving together. Or tell Kario what you want, such as "cut the false start and the ums, and keep it under a minute", and it makes the edit.

Then finish the video in the same project. Kario separates the person from the background, so a title or a chart can sit between the speaker and the wall.

On the timeline, video clips show filmstrips and sound shows waveforms. Split at the playhead, delete a clip and close the gap, drag a clip's edge to bring words back, and play forwards or backwards with J, K and L. Fade each clip's sound in and out, or detach a video's sound to its own track. More on the AI video editor.

Also new

• Kario remembers what you teach it. Tell it a preference once, and it applies it to your next videos.
• Spanish, French and Brazilian Portuguese voices. Native male and female voices for each, with Spanish for both Latin America and Spain.
• Big uploads go up in parts, so long recordings upload reliably.

New effects: ripple, goo, highlighter and more

Ask for any of these by name in your video. Ripple: drops land and the rings bend the picture as they pass. Goo: shapes pull apart into drops and flow back together. Highlighter: a marker paints behind the words that matter. Text can also run round a closed path, such as a circle, instead of running off its end.

See them, and the rest, from kinetic type and cursor clicks to charts, camera moves, frosted glass and light sweeps, on the new effects page.

Also new

• Export progress shows on the Export button, and picks back up if you reload the page.
• Draft watermarks. Paid plans can stamp a watermark such as "Draft" on review copies.
• Invite people before they sign up. Invite anyone to a project by email, even before they have a Kario account.