For centuries, the classroom has been the cornerstone of education, a place where knowledge is passed from teacher to learner in real time. Yet as the world has grown more connected, the boundaries of the classroom have started to show. A single room can only hold so many learners. A lecture, once spoken, cannot be paused or replayed. And no matter how skilled the instructor, knowledge delivered face-to-face is limited by geography, time, and cost.
This is why video learning has become such a powerful force. It stretches far beyond walls and timetables, allowing a lecture recorded in New York to be watched in Nairobi, or a compliance course designed in Berlin to be localized for teams in São Paulo. Learners aren’t forced to capture every word in the moment. They can stop, rewind, and rewatch until the concept clicks. Organizations, too, benefit: training that once demanded travel, accommodation, and days away from work can now be delivered on demand.
The numbers highlight just how profound this shift is. Research by Brandon Hall Group shows that employees spend 40-60% less time completing eLearning than they do in traditional training. TechSmith found that 83% of people actually prefer video over text or audio when trying to learn something new. It’s not just convenience driving the change; it’s effectiveness. Video empowers both teachers and learners to share knowledge more efficiently, more globally, and with more staying power than ever before.
Smarter, Faster, Global: The AI Advantage in Training Videos
Once the decision is made to embrace video courses, the next question is inevitable: how should you create them? Organizations can stick with traditional video production, scheduling shoots, hiring directors, camera crews, editors, and voice talent, and waiting weeks for the final cut, or they can turn to AI-powered video creation, a faster, more flexible alternative built for the demands of modern learning. Traditional methods can produce high-quality results, but they are expensive, slow, and cumbersome to update or localize for global teams. AI video, in contrast, offers a smarter, more scalable path.
AI-powered platforms like Elai transform the way training content is produced. What once took weeks can now be done in hours. Companies can scale quickly, generating dozens or even hundreds of videos without the overhead of production teams or studios. Localization, often a complex and costly process, becomes almost effortless: scripts can be translated automatically with AI voices. And when policies, procedures, or lessons change, videos can be updated instantly: no reshoots, no scheduling conflicts, and no reliance on outside vendors.
The benefits go beyond speed and cost. IBM reports that organizations using AI for training can reduce expenses by up to 30%. Learners gain flexibility too, able to pause, rewind, and rewatch content on demand, reinforcing understanding at their own pace.
In short, AI-driven video creation changes how organizations approach training. For modern organizations aiming to reach a wide audience with impactful, up-to-date training, AI video is clearly the smarter, future-ready choice.
How to Create a Training Video with Elai: A Step-by-Step Guide
Now that we understand why AI video creation is the smarter choice, the next question is: how do you actually bring a training course to life? Choosing the right tool is key. The ideal platform should make it easy to scale and edit content, support multiple languages for global learners, provide an intuitive interface, offer fair pricing, and let you export your videos effortlessly to your learning environment.
Elai delivers all five. This AI-powered video platform allows teams to produce professional-quality training content quickly and efficiently without the long timelines, expensive crews, or technical headaches of traditional video production.
Let’s walk through how a course can be created from start to finish.
Step 1: Getting Started with AI Storyboard
Every effective training video begins with a clear plan, and Elai’s AI Storyboard makes that planning effortless. From the moment you click Create Video and choose AI Storyboard, you can build an entire course from a simple text prompt. The platform automatically breaks your content into scenes, and each scene is fully customizable: both text and visuals can be enhanced with AI before being turned into video slides.
Editing is faster and smarter than ever with features like Bulk Change, which lets you update multiple AI Storyboard scenes at once. Select the one you want to adjust, apply a custom or preset prompt, and your updates are applied instantly, ensuring consistency while saving valuable time.
If you prefer a more hands-on approach, you can also transform existing materials into videos. Elai supports PPT, PPTX, PDF, Docs, and even URLs, so you can convert ready content into a polished video or start entirely from scratch.
Step 2: Choosing a Video Template
Once your script is ready, choose a video template. Elai provides a wide range of professional templates for training, onboarding, compliance, and more. Each template is fully customizable, allowing you to adjust colors, visuals, fonts, logos, and even the layout of individual blocks to match your brand.
You can also create your own custom template from scratch, giving you complete control over the look and feel of your videos. Templates save hours of design work, letting you focus on the content that truly matters.
Step 3: Adding AI Talking Avatar
Then select the talking digital presenter. Elai has its library of over 80 built-in AI avatars, offering a variety of appearances to choose from. These lifelike presenters can deliver your training in multiple languages, with auto-translation and multilingual support covering more than 75 languages and over 400 realistic voices, making it simple to reach a global audience. You can also create a completely custom avatar of yourself and even clone your own voice, giving your courses a personal, authentic touch.
Step 4: Editing Your Video
Once your storyboard and avatars are in place, the editing stage lets you refine every detail and make your training truly engaging. Elai’s intuitive interface allows you to adjust script, swap visuals, add music and text, and enhance each scene individually. You can incorporate interactive quizzes and clickable buttons to test learners’ understanding, or create branching scenarios that adapt the video flow based on responses, making learning more personalized and effective. Elai also supports screen recording, so you can demonstrate software, processes, or workflows directly within your video.
Step 5: Finalizing and Sharing
When your video is ready, Elai makes it simple to share and distribute it to your learners. You can export directly to your LMS, embed it on websites, or integrate seamlessly with Panopto. This integration creates a complete learning ecosystem: Elai handles creation, while Panopto manages distribution, engagement, and analytics.
What makes this even more powerful is Interactive Playback. Any interactive elements you add in Elai (quizzes, clickable buttons,or interactive elements) remain fully functional inside Panopto. That means your viewers can engage with the content directly, and test their knowledge in real time. Educators can enhance lessons with quick checks for understanding, training teams can reinforce learning with in-video assessments, and communication teams can boost engagement with trackable, interactive elements.
By combining Elai’s creation tools with Panopto’s video management, your videos do more than just play. They invite learners to interact, respond, and retain knowledge more effectively. The result is a seamless, engaging, and scalable training experience that reaches learners anywhere in the world.
Bringing Learning to Life with AI Video
The way we learn and train is evolving, and video stands at the center of this transformation. From classrooms with fixed walls to on-demand, globally accessible courses, video empowers learners to absorb knowledge at their own pace and on their own terms. AI-powered platforms like Elai take this one step further, making video creation faster, scalable, interactive, and customizable for any audience.
By combining intuitive storyboarding, dynamic AI avatars, interactive quizzes, and seamless integration with Panopto, organizations can create training that is not only polished and professional but also engaging, measurable, and adaptable. No matter the size of your team or the complexity of your content, AI video lets you deliver impactful learning experiences without the traditional constraints of time, cost, or geography.
In short, the future of training isn’t just watching a video. It’s interacting, exploring, and truly engaging with content that sticks. With AI video, you’re bringing learning to life.