Lumen5

Lumen5 is an AI video maker that turns articles, scripts and documents into branded videos for marketing, communications and training teams.

Lumen5 takes a written asset such as a blog post, a PDF or a rough idea and rebuilds it as a short video with scenes, captions, stock footage and a voiceover. Lumen5 Technologies Ltd, a Vancouver company that launched the product in 2017, builds it and sells it from its own site. The aim is to let a marketer or a communications lead publish video without a production crew or an editing suite. All the work happens in a browser editor, and finished videos export in landscape, square and vertical shapes. Blog to Video turns articles, blogs, PDFs and other long-form material into a sequence of scenes, while the AI Script Composer drafts a script when there is no text to start from. The AI image generator makes original visuals inside the same editor, next to a stock library that adds Shutterstock footage on higher plans. AI voices, voice cloning and automated captions supply the audio track and the on-screen text. The Video Clip Maker cuts shorter pieces out of long recordings, and automatic video translation copies a finished video into another language for editing. Lumen5 is built for marketing, communications and learning and development teams that turn a steady flow of written material into video. Solo creators and small businesses work in it alone, because every self-serve plan covers one user. Larger organisations move to the Team plan, which adds multiple users, workspaces, brand management, single sign-on and an approval process. Subscriptions are bought by plan, monthly or at a lower yearly rate, and Team is quoted by sales. A free plan lets a new user build short videos carrying a Lumen5 outro before paying anything. A common job is reshaping this week's article into a captioned clip for the company's social feeds and website. Communications teams use it for internal announcements, and training teams for short lessons that need narration in more than one language. Reviewers leave time-stamped comments on individual scenes, and on Team an approver moves each video from Needs review to Approved. Brand kits keep colors, fonts and watermarks consistent, and enterprise accounts can pull media from a connected digital asset management system. It fits a content team that writes far more than it films.