Turn your lecture recording into a watchable video lecture

Upload your lecture recording — an MP4, MOV, MP3, M4A, Zoom cloud download, OBS file, or phone audio. Scholarly transcribes the audio, identifies the load-bearing content, writes a tighter narration, and re-renders the lecture with chapters and on-screen visual aids.

Yes. Free users can convert a lecture recording into a video summary with the free plan's lifetime AI creation. Premium includes 10 AI creations each week, longer recordings, and the rest of Scholarly including flashcards, quizzes, and AI chat.

MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI for video. MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, OGG, FLAC for audio. Zoom cloud recordings and OBS screen recordings work as-is. Phone-recorded class audio is fine — the AI handles background noise and multiple speakers.

Most class lectures are 45–90 minutes; those process in a single pass. Longer recordings — two-hour seminars, three-hour lab walkthroughs, full workshops — also work. The output video length scales to roughly 15–25% of the original.

Yes. If the recording shows slides shared on screen, Scholarly extracts the slide content from the video frames and surfaces it in the re-edited output alongside the narration, with the slide visible at the moment it's referenced.

A transcript is the raw, unedited text of everything that was said, including filler and tangents. A re-edited video lecture is a watchable summary with tighter narration, chapters, on-screen highlights, and search — and the full transcript is included alongside it.

Yes. After the video is generated, one click extracts the definitions, equations, and worked examples mentioned in the lecture and turns them into spaced-repetition flashcards. You can also generate a practice quiz or export to Anki.

Yes. Uploaded lecture recordings stay in your private library by default and aren't shared with anyone unless you explicitly create a share link. They are not used to train models.

Scholarly is built for studying rather than presentation. It doesn't just compress your lecture to video — it transcribes the recording, removes tangents and dead air, re-narrates it into a navigable lecture with chapters and on-screen visuals, and then turns the same recording into flashcards, a quiz, and a searchable transcript. That study loop is what separates it from generic recording-to-video tools.

Yes. That's exactly what the lecture to video tool does. Upload the recording you already have — a Zoom MP4, an OBS screen capture, or phone audio from class — and Scholarly re-edits it into a tighter narrated video lecture. You never have to sit through the original recording again or record anything new.