Talking-head videos
Edit talking-head videos with AI. Your real footage, no avatars.
"AI talking head" often means a generated avatar. Pyntra does the opposite: you film yourself, and it edits that real footage. It removes pauses, false starts and repeated takes, keeps a performed script whole, follows your face to frame each shot, and adds captions, b-roll and motion graphics around you.
- Say a line again if you stumble. Pyntra uses the best complete take.
- Works from a phone or camera, in one file or many.
- Captions stay off your eyes and mouth wherever there's room.
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What happens to your recording
Every word gets a time
Pyntra transcribes each word with its own timing and notes where your voice carries on and where it finishes, so cuts land at the end of a thought.
Retakes are grouped
Different takes of the same line are grouped, including reworded ones, and the best complete take is used. A sentence that stops halfway and restarts counts as a false start, so it doesn't come back.
Pauses come out
Cut points sit in the pauses at the ends of phrases. In ads, pauses over 280 milliseconds go between phrases, with more room inside one, so it doesn't sound chopped.
Your face stays in frame
Any version in 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9. Pyntra tracks the speaker's face to frame each clip, and switching shape reframes the finished version.
The shot keeps moving
A punch-in lands on a key word and holds to the end of the line, and a slow push can carry a serious line. Moves stay aimed at your face and inside what the footage's sharpness allows.
Text and graphics make room
A graphic stays, moves, makes the frame make room or takes the screen on purpose. A vision model then checks up to 14 rendered frames before you see the version.
A script stays whole
If you read a written script, you probably want all of it. Pyntra works out whether footage is a performed script. If it is, every line stays, once, in the order you said it, in its best take. Versions then differ in treatment rather than content. A length you set always wins, and a script longer than the placement holds becomes a selection, with a warning saying so.
Two things called "AI talking head"
| Avatar generators | Editors for real footage | |
|---|---|---|
| You start with | A script or a photo | A recording of a person |
| Who's on screen | A generated person or a digital twin | The person you filmed |
| The AI's job | Create the picture and the voice | Choose takes, cut, caption and add graphics |
| Examples | Creatify avatars, Captions AI Twins | Pyntra, Descript, Captions AI Edit, Submagic |
Some products do both. Details are in our comparisons.
How to film for it
- Film in the frame you can spare: 16:9 at a decent resolution leaves room to crop to 9:16 and punch in. Pyntra fits footage that can't crop well over a blurred fill.
- Don't stop the camera when you stumble. Pause, then say the whole line again from the top.
- Put your own b-roll in the same upload: product shots, screens, the room. Pyntra lays them over the words they illustrate.
- Mention the numbers and names you want on screen. Graphics land on spoken words.
Questions
Does Pyntra use avatars or AI voices?
No. Pyntra edits footage of real people. It doesn't generate avatars, clone voices or change what someone said.
Can AI remove my ums and pauses?
Yes. Pauses, false starts and repeated takes come out at the word level, and cuts stay at phrase ends so sentences aren't broken mid-thought.
What if my retakes are in different files?
That's fine. Upload them together, up to 20 files and 30 minutes of video in a project. Takes of the same line are grouped across the footage.
Does it fix eye contact or background noise?
No, not today. Pyntra levels the mix to -14 LUFS by default and ducks music under speech, but it doesn't correct eye contact or remove background noise, so record somewhere quiet.
Which languages work?
Pyntra is tested on English. Other languages are transcribed automatically but haven't been evaluated, and captions stay in the spoken language.
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