Magic Video Visuals

How Magic Video Works

Pick any style from the Magic Video section of the Video Style picker (see Video Templates) to turn Magic Video on. Once your episode's narration audio has been generated, Jellypod's AI analyzes the script and generates a sequence of scenes timed to that narration.

The first time visuals are generated for an episode, an overlay appears over the preview showing planning and generation progress (for example, "3 of 8 visuals ready"). This can take a few minutes. You can keep listening to your audio while it works.

Duration Limits

Magic Video is eligible up to a narration-length cap set by your plan: 10 minutes on Starter and Educator, 15 minutes on Creator, and 25 minutes on Business and Enterprise. The Free plan doesn't include Magic Video. Only your narration counts toward the cap; intro, outro, background music, and stale visuals don't.

If your episode is longer than your plan's limit, the Video Style picker shows the AI-generated styles disabled with a warning explaining the limit. You can pick a classic template like Karaoke instead, or upgrade your plan to unlock a longer Magic Video. See Plans and Pricing for the full breakdown.

What Magic Video Generates

• Whiteboard Explainer scenes are hand-drawn whiteboard drawings, like a teacher sketching while talking: confident dry-erase marker strokes with sparse flat color accents draw in stroke by stroke on a clean white whiteboard, largest idea first, then hold the finished scene.
• Watercolor scenes are bold, hand-drawn editorial illustrations with thick ink outlines, loose watercolor fills, and warm paper texture.
• Paper Mache scenes are tactile editorial collages: layered cut-paper shapes, archival photographs, and screen-printed textures with torn edges.
• Pixel Art scenes are bright three-quarter adventure dioramas with crisp square pixels, layered tiled environments, warm daylight, and short stepped character actions supported by a whole-pixel camera track.
• Retro Comics scenes are freshly printed 1980s newsstand panels with heavy black ink, flat CMYK color, Ben-Day dots, dramatic viewpoints, and one bold limited-animation action.
• Sketch scenes are quiet storybook illustrations: fine dark pen lines and graphite hatching normally draw in from left to right before sparse muted colored-pencil fills appear.
• Stickman scenes are deadpan stickman cartoons: simple round-headed stick figures with thick black ink outlines and flat muted color fills, with calm, single-element motion.
• Almanac scenes are hand-drawn paper cutouts with crisp cut edges, white keylines, and soft drop shadows, placed on an aged parchment background, in an earthy documentary palette.
• Claymation scenes are photographed plasticine caricatures acting silently inside mixed-material miniature sets, with practical lighting, gentle depth falloff, and tactile handmade detail.
• Toy Bricks scenes are cinematic miniature dioramas built entirely from interlocking toy bricks and classic blocky figures, with feature-film lighting and polished stop-motion energy.
• Crayon scenes are deliberately clumsy child-drawn wax-crayon pictures on a pure-white canvas, revealed once in their finished full color before the completed picture holds.
• Flat scenes are warm modern picture-book illustrations built from bold rounded geometry, elongated or capsule-shaped figures, and a strict navy-blue-coral-orange palette with one restrained action.
• Atomic Age scenes are flat mid-century gouache and screen-print illustrations with clean geometric masses, long angular shadows, deep cobalt skies over warm bone modernist forms, and burnt-orange accents on one locked-camera focal action.

Each scene covers one section of your narration. Depending on the style, a scene may hold a slow camera zoom or keep the frame locked. Some scenes are instead rendered as a short animated video clip, so the illustration itself moves while preserving the style's camera treatment.

If your episode has recurring people, such as a host speaking in the first person, Magic Video can depict them as the same illustrated character each time they appear.

Managing Visuals

Edit Current Image

Click Edit Current Image to open a dialog where you can update the prompt for the still image at the current playback position and regenerate it. Changes are applied live in the preview. This control is only enabled for still-image scenes; animated video-clip scenes cannot be edited this way.

Refresh Stale Visuals

If you edit your script or regenerate audio after visuals already exist, any scene whose narration changed becomes stale. Jellypod automatically refreshes newly-stale scenes once. To retry, click Refresh Stale Visuals, which only appears while stale scenes remain and only regenerates the affected scenes, leaving the rest of your visuals untouched.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I manually edit the AI-generated visuals?

You can edit still-image scenes: click Edit Current Image to update the prompt and regenerate that scene. Animated video-clip scenes can't be edited directly; edit the underlying script text and use Refresh Stale Visuals to regenerate them.

Can I add a new visual to the timeline?

Not directly. Visuals are generated automatically from your script. To change what appears at a point in your episode, edit the script text for that section and use Refresh Stale Visuals to regenerate it.

How long can a Magic Video episode be?

It depends on your plan: 10 minutes of narration on Starter and Educator, 15 on Creator, and 25 on Business and Enterprise. The Free plan doesn't include Magic Video. Episodes past your plan's limit still render as a video, using a classic template like Karaoke instead of an AI-generated style.