Video Templates

Choosing a Style or Template

Every episode has a built-in video editor. Above the video preview you will find an Orientation control and a Video Style control.

1. Open an episode in the studio.
2. Click the Video Style button above the video preview (it shows the name of your current selection) to open the Choose a video style picker.
3. Pick a card from the Magic Video or Classic Templates section, then click Use to apply it.

The picker groups your options into two sections:

• Magic Video: AI-generated visuals matched to your episode content, in your choice of art style. See Styles below.
• Classic Templates: Fixed layouts that apply the same look to every episode. See Templates below.

If your episode's narration is longer than your plan allows for Magic Video, the Styles cards appear disabled beneath a warning, and you can pick a Classic Template or upgrade your plan instead. See Magic Video Visuals for the per-plan limits.

Templates

Classic Audiogram

A clean, minimal audiogram with a waveform visualization synced to your audio and your podcast cover art. Best for a simple, recognizable podcast look.

Conversation

Host avatars pulse as each speaker talks, with live captions underneath. Best for multi-host shows where you want to show who is speaking.

Classic Captions

A captions-focused template with clean typography over a styled background. Great for accessibility and for viewers watching on mute.

Spotlight

Highlights key words as they are spoken with dynamic, streaming-style caption emphasis. A modern look that draws attention to the content.

Karaoke

The default template. Large, centered captions with karaoke-style word highlighting. Bold and impossible to miss. Captions take center stage.

Styles

All Styles generate AI illustrated scenes timed to your narration using the same Magic Video pipeline; only the art treatment differs. Each Style locks your episode's orientation to landscape, and needs your episode's narration audio generated before it can plan and generate scenes.

Whiteboard Explainer

Hand-drawn whiteboard scenes, like a teacher sketching while talking: confident dry-erase marker linework with sparse flat color accents on a clean white whiteboard that fills the frame. Scenes draw in stroke by stroke, largest idea first, then hold the finished board.

Watercolor

Bold hand-drawn editorial illustrations with thick, confident ink outlines and loose watercolor fills on warm paper.

Paper Mache

Tactile editorial paper mache: layered cut-paper shapes, archival photographs, and screen-printed textures with torn edges. The same animated style used for Shorts, now available for full episodes too.

Pixel Art

Bright three-quarter adventure dioramas built on one crisp square-pixel grid, with cheerful topic-adaptive palettes, warm daylight, layered tiled environments, and short stepped character actions supported by a whole-pixel camera track.

Retro Comics

Freshly printed 1980s newsstand panels with heavy black brush ink, flat CMYK color, Ben-Day dots, dramatic foreshortening, and one bold limited-animation action.

Sketch

Quiet storybook sketches in fine dark pen and graphite, with sparse muted colored-pencil fills and generous warm paper-white breathing room. Scenes normally draw in from left to right, fill with color, then hold the finished illustration.

Stickman

Deadpan stickman cartoons: simple round-headed stick figures with thick black ink outlines and flat muted color fills, with calm, single-element motion.

Almanac

Hand-drawn paper cutouts with crisp cut edges, white keylines, and soft drop shadows, placed on an aged parchment background. An earthy, documentary-style palette with a calm historical-explainer tone.

Claymation

Handcrafted plasticine caricatures perform silently inside warm mixed-material miniature sets, with practical lighting, a crisp focal puppet, gentle depth falloff, and a controlled stepped stop-motion cadence.

Toy Bricks

Cinematic miniature dioramas built entirely from interlocking toy bricks and classic blocky figures, with feature-film lighting, full-scale miniature compositions, and polished stop-motion energy.

Crayon

Deliberately clumsy child-drawn wax-crayon pictures on a pure-white canvas, with wobbly overshooting lines, wrong proportions, messy color, and one full-color reveal that holds on the completed picture.

Flat

Warm modern picture-book scenes built from bold rounded geometry, elongated or capsule-shaped figures, a strict navy-blue-coral-orange palette, huge calm negative space, and one restrained pose or prop action.

Atomic Age

Flat mid-century gouache and screen-print scenes with clean geometric masses, long angular shadows, and deep cobalt skies over warm bone modernist forms. Burnt-orange and turquoise accents carry one locked-camera focal action.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does switching styles or templates affect my audio or script?

No. Styles and templates only control the visual presentation of your video. Your audio, script, and all other content remain unchanged.

Which template is best for social media?

For short-form social media, Spotlight and Karaoke work well because they put captions front and center, which reads well on mute. For a more polished, presentation-style video, pick any Magic Video style; Whiteboard Explainer and Almanac suit explainer content, and Pixel Art or Retro Comics stand out in a feed.

What happens if I switch Styles after visuals already exist?

Jellypod asks you to confirm, then replaces every generated visual, including any you manually regenerated, with new visuals in the new Style. Your narration is unaffected.

Why are the Style cards disabled?

Your episode's narration is longer than your plan's Magic Video limit (10 minutes on Starter and Educator, 15 on Creator, 25 on Business and Enterprise; unavailable on Free). Pick a Classic Template, or upgrade your plan to unlock a longer Magic Video.