How I Make Production-Ready AI Videos and Animated Infographics with Fotor Agent

AI video has improved a lot this year. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 can create clips up to 30 seconds long with synced audio, and the character consistency is incredibly good. Still, the level of control is at the mercy of your prompting skills.

What if you need to trim a few seconds in between scenes? What if you want to overlay a different audio track? Yeah, sure, just describe it in the prompt and regenerate the entire video. That’s usually how we do it… and it’s incredibly expensive.

The other option is to download the clips and fix them in a separate editor. I’ve done hundreds of video edits over the past three years, and that usually means jumping between apps and spending hours on a video that’s only a minute or two long.

But lately, I’ve been testing Fotor Agent.

It handles script planning, visual and audio generation, motion graphics, and assembly, then gives you an editable timeline to work with. I wanted to see how much of that process it could take off my hands and whether the finished video would be something I’d actually use.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through the project I made, show you the final output, and explain where Fotor’s editing tools fit into the workflow.

Let’s get started.

What is Fotor Agent?

Fotor Agent is an AI tool for creating and editing AI videos and motion graphics through conversation. You can describe your idea or upload reference media, including images, video clips, and audio files, to give it a starting point.

To access it, go to Fotor and open the Agent workspace. You can work with the agent on the script and scenes, review its proposed direction, and continue editing the project after generation.

Fotor Agent prompt field. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

There are four features I want to focus on.

• Long-Form Video lets you develop a complete video across multiple scenes, with the agent coordinating the script, visuals, narration, and assembly.
• 4K Motion Graphics supports animated text, logos, charts, and other graphics that remain editable after generation.
• In-Depth Timeline Editing gives you separate tracks for footage, narration, music, captions, and graphics. You can adjust their timing, replace assets, or revise a particular section.
• Smart Cut analyzes existing footage to find highlights, remove filler and pauses, and help add relevant B-roll, subtitles, and motion graphics.

I’ve done hundreds of video edits over the past three years and tried a handful of AI video editors and generators.

My usual workflow is to generate assets in one app and stitch them together in another. Trimming clips, adjusting their speed, and making sure everything lines up usually takes me hours!

Fotor Agent says it can handle those steps. That would save me a lot of work, but I wanted to see how it did on a real project of mine before believing the feature list.

Let me show you some examples.

How I made a launch video with my own assets

Before you start generating videos, it’s important to get yourself familiar with the tools and dashboard.

Aside from being able to generate videos through a text prompt, Fotor also offers a bunch of templates and pre-made videos that you can use as inspiration. Just scroll down to explore the available sample projects.

Fotor Agent template choices. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

For this example, I’ll create an explainer video for my website, Zeniteq, where we publish AI news, reviews, and tutorials. I want the video to explain what readers can find on the site and introduce our newsletter.

I uploaded the Zeniteq logo plus screenshots of the landing page, newsletter, and About page as reference media. That gave Fotor the site’s actual design to work from, so the video would look like my brand instead of a generic tech promo.

Fotor Agent product launch template. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

Here’s the prompt I used:

Prompt: A launch video for Zeniteq.com using the attached logo and website screenshots. Introduce Zeniteq as a publication that turns complex AI developments into clear reporting, useful analysis, and practical guidance. Show the landing page, highlight our news, reviews, and tutorials, then introduce the newsletter. Match the website’s colors and typography, preserve the screenshots’ content, and use subtle motion, English narration, and readable captions. End by inviting viewers to visit Zeniteq.com and subscribe. Show me the script and scene outline before generating the video.

The last line of that prompt is the important one.

Before approving anything, I wanted to check that the script explained who Zeniteq is for and what readers can expect from our coverage. I also wanted each screenshot to show up alongside the narration it belonged to. The newsletter page, for example, should appear when the voiceover asks people to subscribe, not two scenes earlier.

You can also set the aspect ratio depending on where the video will be posted, whether that’s a vertical reel or a horizontal YouTube video.

After I clicked “Direct my Launch Video,” Fotor opened a video editor where the agent plans the video. You can watch its reasoning in the panel on the right side of the screen, which is handy if you want to know why it’s making certain choices.

Fotor Agent video editing and generation dashboard. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

The agent will also ask questions like how long you want the video to be, whether you want to add captions to each scene, and to select your preferred voice actor for the narration. After that, the agent will give you a plan to review and approve.

Here’s the plan it made for a 30-second Zeniteq launch video.

Sample launch video plan created by Fotor agent. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

This all looks good to me, so I clicked on the continue button.

Take note that the backend processing is super complex, so the wait could be longer than you expect. There are a lot of moving parts here:

• Writing the narrative script and captions
• Generating the voice narration and syncing it with scenes
• Storyboarding
• Generating the images and video clips

These are just some of the important phases that the agent has to process to make sure the output is as good as you expect. Once all processing is finished, the project timeline will automatically be filled.

Filled out timeline on Fotor. Image by Jim Clyde Monge

From there, all that’s left is to export the file. You can pick 720p, 1080p, or 4K. Here’s the final video.

I’m really happy with how this turned out.

Fotor put my actual screenshots into the scenes alongside the logo, so viewers see what the site really looks like. The transitions are smooth, and the narration has an upbeat, conversational tone that fits a site intro.

The motion keeps it from feeling like a slideshow of screenshots, which was my main worry going in. And since the newsletter preview shows up right before the closing line, the invitation to subscribe feels like a natural ending.

It wasn’t perfect, though. In one scene, some of the text ran outside the frame, and I had to fix it (more on that in the timeline section).

Making this by hand would have meant prepping the screenshots, animating each scene, recording a voiceover, and syncing it all on a timeline. Letting Fotor do the assembly gave me more time to check the message and fix details before publishing.

Planning a longer video

My example is only 30 seconds, but this is where the Long-Form Video planning comes in. I could ask Fotor to expand the intro into separate sections, show sample articles, and add a walkthrough of the newsletter signup.

For anything longer, I’d review the outline carefully before generating a single scene. When I edit manually, the most annoying thing is realizing halfway through that I need another scene, or that the narration explains something before the footage shows it. Catching that in a written outline is a lot cheaper than catching it after the render, both in time and in credits.

For a tutorial, I’d give Fotor the exact steps and ask it to build the script around them. That way I can check the order before spending credits on scenes. If step three depends on something from step five, I want to see that problem in the outline, not in a finished video.

To be clear, I haven’t tested a long video yet, so the 30-second result is all I can judge here. But approving the sequence before generation is a step I’d keep in any workflow, long or short.

Animated infographics with 4K Motion Graphics

Motion graphics are the animated text, charts, diagrams, and logos you see in explainer videos.

They’re also the part of video work I find most tedious to do by hand. Every label, number, and arrow needs its own keyframes, and changing one stat later often means re-animating the whole shot.

Here’s a motion graphics explainer on how black holes form, made with Fotor Agent:

Pretty cool, right?

This is the kind of video where motion graphics carry most of the explanation. There’s no real footage of a black hole forming, so the whole story has to be told with animated diagrams, labels, and narration that line up with each other.

These graphics aren’t baked into the video. The text, numbers, logos, and charts stay editable on the timeline before you render. In practice, if a label is misspelled or a number needs updating, you edit that one element instead of regenerating the whole scene and hoping the new version looks the same.

To show you an example, select a scene in the timeline that contains an editable element, then just click on it to edit.

This is incredibly useful so you don’t need to regenerate scenes to make minor fixes. If I’m turning a report into a short animated summary, the numbers are the part most likely to change right before publishing.

Editing the timeline

I spent a few hours with the editing dashboard, and it’s by far the most fascinating aspect of the product. Let me get deeper into it.

Fotor splits the video into separate tracks for footage, narration, music, captions, and graphics, and you can work on each one on its own. You can adjust timing, replace an asset, or revise one particular section.

You see, not a lot of advanced AI-powered video generator platforms give you this level of control.

Aside from manually editing the components, you can also edit through chat. That isn’t unique to Fotor, but it works well here because it’s tied to specific scenes.

Remember the text that ran out of bounds earlier? I clicked the scene, hit “Edit with AI” at the top of the screen, and the scene got tagged in the chat automatically. I described the fix, and the agent handled it.