Lumen5

Lumen5 is a web-based AI video creation platform for marketers, publishers, communications teams, educators, and brands. It turns blogs, articles, PDFs, scripts, URLs, transcripts, and rough ideas into editable video drafts, then lets people refine the story, visuals, pacing, voice, captions, and brand treatment.

✨ Key Features

• Source-to-video workflow — Add a blog link, webpage, PDF, script, transcript, or idea; the AI extracts key points and proposes a video structure.
• Automatic scene building — Lumen5 selects media, proposes layouts, sets timing, and applies motion for a reviewable first cut.
• Content repurposing — Adapt articles and other long-form material into social, marketing, or internal-communication videos.
• Storyboard editing — Replace visuals, edit text, adjust timing and pacing, change layouts, and select another aspect ratio.
• Stock and AI media — Use the licensed media library and, where supported by the plan, AI-generated images or video.
• Voice and captions — AI voiceover and captions have plan-specific limits, with a larger voice library on paid plans. Starter lists one cloned voice and Pro three; Basic is inconsistent between the table (one voice) and FAQ (Starter upward), so confirm that entitlement before relying on it.
• Brand controls — Apply logos, colors, fonts, brand kits, watermarks, templates, and video blueprints.
• Translation — Paid plans provide AI video translation; the official FAQ lists 60 translations per year for Pro and unlimited translations for Team.
• Team administration — Higher tiers add workspaces, permissions, approvals, SSO, audit features, DAM integration, and dedicated support.

💳 Pricing

• Free — 5 videos/month, maximum 2 minutes each, 720p and a Lumen5-branded outro; no payment details required. The live comparison lists 24 AI voice minutes/year.
• Basic — US$29 monthly, or US$19/month billed yearly (US$228/year). Unlimited videos, 720p, up to 10 minutes, no Lumen5 branding; the yearly selector lists 240 AI voice and 12 animation minutes/year.
• Starter — US$79 monthly, or US$59/month billed yearly (US$708/year). Unlimited 1080p videos up to 10 minutes; the yearly selector lists 720 AI voice and 24 animation minutes/year.
• Pro — US$199 monthly, or US$149/month billed yearly (US$1,788/year). Unlimited 1080p videos up to 10 minutes, additional brand/media controls; the yearly selector lists 2,160 AI voice and 60 animation minutes/year.
• Team — Custom annual quote for multiple users, collaboration, approvals, SSO, DAM integration and custom AI usage.
• Translations and cloning — Comparison lists Basic/Starter 12 translations/year, Pro 60/year and Team unlimited. Starter lists one cloned voice and Pro three. Basic cloning is inconsistent: the table lists one voice, while the FAQ says Starter and above. Confirm Basic's entitlement with Lumen5 before choosing it for cloning.
• Billing scope — Annual figures are monthly equivalents paid for a year; monthly allowances follow the monthly selector. Media rights and final checkout terms apply.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Content marketing: Turn an article or campaign brief into a social video and adapt scenes for channels.
• Publishers and thought leaders: Make a narrated visual summary from a blog, report, or transcript.
• Internal communications: Convert announcements into videos using approved brand fonts, colors, and layouts.
• Learning and development: Build training or onboarding explainers from documents, then add captions and voiceover.
• Sales and product marketing: Produce product-overview or enablement videos from a script with brand consistency.
• Global communications: Create localized versions using the translation allowance of the selected plan.
• Agencies and small businesses: Standardize recurring production with templates while retaining human review.
• Enterprise brand teams: Coordinate multi-team production with workspaces, approvals, SSO, and DAM integration where included.

Choose a plan for the required resolution, voice/animation allowance, translation capacity and team controls; review the media license for the intended use.