AI Video for Online Courses: Pricing and Process

AI video for online courses turns outlines into finished lesson explainers, chapter recaps, course trailers and vertical promo cuts, built on generated scenes and written to your learning objectives. CarlosVideo18+ delivers captioned, LMS-ready files in 7 days — from $94 a clip, $150 standard, $250 premium, revisions included, crypto accepted.

What AI video for online courses includes

Six asset types cover almost every curriculum order. The course trailer is 30 to 60 seconds at 16:9, built from the three strongest teaching moments in the program, and it answers the price objection rather than reciting the syllabus. Lesson openers run 8 to 15 seconds with the module name and the lesson objective, exported with a text layer so each lesson in the module gets its own card without a rebuild. Concept explainers run 60 to 180 seconds on a single idea: a pipeline, a pricing model, a workflow, a fictional case study. Chapter recaps run 30 to 45 seconds as a retrieval cue at the end of a chapter. Case-study dramatisations run 60 to 120 seconds with fictional characters in a fictional company. Promo cuts are 9:16 and 1:1 versions of the trailer, cut natively to vertical with captions burned in instead of cropped from the horizontal master.

A ten-lesson module usually needs four of the six: openers, explainers, recaps, and one trailer for the sales page.

How the 7-day process runs

Day 1 takes your module list, the learning objective for each lesson, your brand assets, and any source material the videos must quote. We return a written brief naming deliverables, durations, aspect ratios and caption format. Day 2 sends scripts and style frames together, written at a 150-word-per-minute narration pace, so a 300-word lesson script lands at about two minutes and you approve the words and the look in the same review. Days 3 to 5 generate scenes, diagrams, characters and voiceover against the approved frames, with the character sheet locked first so the instructor avatar in module one is the same character in module six. Day 6 finishes the edit, checks every diagram against your source material, normalises loudness, and writes and proofs the caption files. Day 7 delivers masters, web copies, VTT and SRT captions, the optional SCORM package, and a short note stating which file goes where.

That schedule assumes one round of style-frame feedback and one round of script notes. Both fit inside the window. A changed learning objective after rendering starts restarts the clock, and we say so before it happens.

Specs and delivery formats

Course platforms are stricter than social platforms about what they will play, and failures usually show up as a black player instead of an error message. The default delivery is MP4, H.264 High profile, yuv420p, 1920 by 1080 at 30 fps, AAC-LC audio at 48 kHz mastered to about minus 16 LUFS so narration sits at the same level lesson to lesson. Masters run 8 to 12 Mbps and web copies run 4 to 6 Mbps. The maths matters when a host caps uploads: a 10-minute lesson at 12 Mbps is about 900 MB, while the same lesson at 5 Mbps is about 375 MB, so we ship both encodes and let the platform decide.

Captions are delivered as WebVTT for web players and LMS embeds, SRT for editors, and a burned-in version for social cuts. They are written from the approved script and proofed line by line, because auto-captions on educational content are a comprehension problem, not a cosmetic one. On request, lessons are wrapped in SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 packages with completion tracking, or delivered as xAPI statements for platforms that read Tin Can instead. Aspect ratios are 16:9 for lessons and 9:16 or 1:1 for launch cuts, rendered from the same approved frames.

Packages and pricing

Pricing is fixed per package and published before the work starts. There is no estimate that moves after the fact, and the same three tiers price a single opener or a full module.

Revisions are included in every tier and crypto is accepted for every package. The full breakdown sits on the pricing page, and orders can be placed directly through the order page without a discovery call.

Risks we plan for before the first render

Generated diagrams are persuasive and occasionally wrong, so every figure and technical claim in a lesson video is checked against the source material you provide and anything that came from us rather than from you is marked clearly. Style inconsistency is the second risk: courses are produced over weeks, and assets drift unless something locks them, which is why palette, character sheet and typography are frozen at the style-frame step and reused for every later module. Caption errors are the third. Platform rejection is the fourth, and we test each encode on a plain browser player, and against your stated upload limit when you give us one. Scope creep is the fifth: revisions cover changes inside the agreed brief, while extra lessons are quoted in writing before we touch the queue.

FAQ

What is AI video for online courses?

It is the video layer of a curriculum produced with generated scenes and synthetic voiceover instead of live filming: course trailers, lesson openers, concept explainers, chapter recaps, fictional case studies, and vertical promo cuts. Each script is written to your outline and learning objectives, rendered to your brand palette, and delivered captioned and ready for the course host rather than as loose files you still have to prepare.

How much does AI video for online courses cost?

Short assets such as openers and recaps start from $94. A 30 to 60 second explainer or course trailer with custom style, voiceover and captions runs $150, and a 60+ second multi-scene piece reaches $250. Revisions are included in every tier, delivery is 7 days, and crypto is accepted, so budgeting a ten-lesson module is a straight multiplication of the published tiers.

How long does it take to produce a lesson video?

Seven days from an approved outline: brief on day 1, scripts and style frames on day 2, generation on days 3 to 5, edit and caption proofing on day 6, delivery on day 7. You receive masters, web copies, WebVTT and SRT captions, and any SCORM wrapper ordered. Revisions are handled inside that window rather than billed as a separate engagement.

Which file formats and specs do you deliver?

MP4 with H.264 High profile and yuv420p video at 1920 by 1080 and 30 fps, AAC-LC audio at 48 kHz, 8 to 12 Mbps for the master and 4 to 6 Mbps for the web copy. Captions ship as WebVTT and SRT plus a burned-in social version. SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 and xAPI wrappers are available on request, and the caption file is proofed against the script before handoff.

Will the videos play on my course platform?

The default encode plays natively in browsers and in hosts such as Teachable, Thinkific, Kajabi, Podia, Udemy, Moodle, Canvas and Brightspace, because it uses the codec combination every HTML5 player accepts. If your host caps single-file uploads or needs a SCORM package, give us that limit in the brief and we encode and wrap to it. Specifying the platform on day one is cheaper than discovering a limit on day seven.

Do you use real people in course videos?

No, not without written permission. Our examples and our own design sheets use fictional characters and fictional companies, which is also the honest way to demonstrate a process without implying that a real client said anything. If your curriculum depicts a real person or a partner's likeness, you confirm the rights in writing and supply the source assets, and we build from those.

Can you match the branding of the course I already sell?

Send your palette, logo files, typefaces and two or three frames from existing lessons, and style frames are built from those assets rather than from a blank page. Matching an existing look shortens approval, keeps new lessons indistinguishable from what students already recognise, and costs nothing extra under the same fixed packages. Custom fonts are embedded on request when you hold the licence.