How to Use AI Video Storytelling in MyEdit

MyEdit's AI Video Storytelling takes the pile of pictures sitting on your phone after a trip and gives them a script, a voice, subtitles, and a soundtrack, all in a browser tab. There is nothing to install and no timeline to learn: you upload the shots, say what the trip was about, and MyEdit writes the story, reads it out loud, and cuts the pictures to match.

Everything here happens in a browser tab: no download, no project file. Open Video Tools in the top menu and pick AI Video Storytelling from the Editor group, and the whole tool is one screen, media on the left, story on the right, generate at the bottom. The line under Import Media sets the floor: your files have to add up to at least three seconds, and a photo is worth one second. The button stays gray until both fields marked with an asterisk are filled, so you can click around without breaking anything.

This is the raw material, and it does not need curating. Click Import Media and pick your shots, or drag them onto the panel. Ours were thirty photos from a couple of weeks in Japan in no particular order: shrine gates, ramen counters, a bamboo path, a deer, a convenience store at night. The counter along the top keeps score of what you have added and what the tool will still take. Once they land, every thumbnail picks up its own Add hints button, which is where the next step happens.

Hints let you direct one particular picture instead of the story as a whole, and they are optional. Click Add hints under a thumbnail and a window opens with that photo and a box labeled Add hints to guide video generation. Write what the shot should do rather than what is in it: ours read "Slow cinematic push-in toward the torii gate, gentle water ripples reflecting the sunset glow, clouds drifting slowly, warm light flickering on the sea surface." Confirm saves it back onto the thumbnail, where it sits with a pencil for editing. We wrote three across thirty photos and left the rest alone.

These two fields do most of the work, and they answer different questions. The cards under Choose your storytelling theme each carry a line about what they suit, and the row scrolls sideways for more.

We took Vlog. Then Describe the topic of your video is where you say what actually happened; ours named the cities and the sights in the order we wanted them and used about a third of the room the box gives you. The suggestions underneath change with the theme, from a chill weekend vlog to a morning-to-night routine, so tapping one is a quick way past a blank box.

These are decided now rather than fixed afterwards, so it is worth a pause.

Pick where the video is going before you make it.

Underneath, Voice-over shows who will read your story, an English US voice tagged Friendly by default, and Change opens the picker if that is not the tone you want. When it all looks right, click Generate Video Storyboard; the number beside it is what this run costs. MyEdit then goes away to write the script and line the edits up against your photos, and how long that takes depends on how much you imported.

What comes back is not a finished file, it is a storyboard you can still argue with.

Each scene is a card down the left: a number, the seconds it occupies, the photos it chose with each one's length in the corner, and a Subtitles box holding the line written for that scene.

Ours opened on the torii gate with a line about Japan mixing nature and tradition, then moved to ramen and Shibuya, then to alleys, temples, and a convenience store at night.

On the right, Storyboard Preview plays the whole thing as it stands, narration and subtitles included. Watch it once before changing anything: spotting the one line that is wrong is easier than reviewing every scene in the abstract.

Any subtitle the AI wrote is just text in a box, so click into it and type. We added one word to the end of the opening line, "Beautiful.", and the preview picked it up straight away. Watch the counter under the box while you do it: it shows how much that scene's timing will carry, so a line running long is telling you the scene is too short for it, not that the wording is wrong. Once your edits are in, Apply changes and Regenerate wakes up at the bottom of the screen.

MyEdit checks before it acts, and the message says exactly what will happen: the voice-over is recorded again from your latest edits, and the dialog says how many regenerations you have left. Click Regenerate and it reads your version instead of its own. Expect the scene timings to shift by a second or two afterwards, which is the storyboard fitting itself around the new narration rather than anything going wrong.

Output Settings, under the preview, is where the video stops looking like a draft. Open Subtitle first. Include subtitles on video is ticked by default, which is what you want for anything watched on mute in a feed, and unticking it burns nothing into the picture. Below sits a row of styles: plain white, heavy black outline, yellow, green, pink, and several more. Click one and the preview above updates on the spot, so you judge it against your own footage rather than a swatch.

Then open Background music. Leaving it on Automatch with AI lets MyEdit pick a track that suits the story it just wrote, which is the fastest route to something watchable. If you already have a track, switch to Import audio and drop the file in. The volume slider beside them is the one to reach for when the music is competing with the narrator rather than sitting under it.

The AI decided the running order from your description, and it will not always open where you would have. Grab the handle at the left of a scene's header and drag the card up or down; the whole card lifts as you move it. We pulled the sunset gate out of the opening slot and let the ramen counter start instead. Each scene keeps its own photos and its own narrated line, and the times renumber themselves once you let go, so this is a rearrangement rather than a rewrite.

That is a camera roll with a story in it, told out loud. Tell Your Own Story →