{"toolsYoutubeToVideoLecture":{"heroBadge":"YouTube to Video Lecture","heroTitleStart":"Turn any YouTube video into a","heroTitleHighlight":"structured study lecture","heroDescription":"Paste a YouTube link and Scholarly rebuilds the video into a narrated study lecture with chapters, key-term highlights, a searchable transcript, AI chat, flashcards, and an exam — so you actually learn, not just watch.","heroCta":"Turn a YouTube video into a study lecture","heroCtaSecondary":"See video lectures","heroNote":"Free to start · No credit card required","heroSocialProof":"Used by 200,000+ learners and professionals worldwide","proofCaption":"YouTube footage repackaged into a chaptered study lecture with transcript and flashcards.","trustStat1":"200,000+","trustStat1Label":"Learners and professionals","trustStat2":"70+","trustStat2Label":"Languages","trustStat3":"Any length","trustStat3Label":"Video supported","eyebrowSteps":"How it works","stepsTitle":"From YouTube link to study lecture in three steps","stepsDesc":"Paste a link and let the AI do the transcribing, chaptering, and highlighting.","stepsCta":"Try it free","eyebrowTabs":"More video tools","tabsTitle":"Study from any source, not just YouTube","tabsDesc":"The same AI lecture pipeline works for notes, PDFs, slides, and more.","eyebrowDeep":"Deep dive","eyebrowFaq":"FAQ","eyebrowReading":"Further reading","eyebrowPricing":"Pricing","step1Title":"Step 1: Paste YouTube Link","step1Description":"Drop in any public YouTube URL — a 90-minute MIT lecture, a 12-minute Khan Academy explainer, a tutorial.","step2Title":"Step 2: AI Builds a Lecture","step2Description":"The AI transcribes the video, organizes it into chapters, writes new narration around the messy parts, and highlights every key term.","step3Title":"Step 3: Study The Video","step3Description":"Watch with a clean transcript, jump between chapters, ask the AI questions, then generate flashcards and an exam from what you watched.","howWorksTitle":"How YouTube to Video Lecture Works","howWorksPara1":"Most YouTube study videos are not built for studying. They have intros, sponsor reads, off-topic tangents, and no chapter markers. Some lectures are 90 minutes of one camera angle pointed at a whiteboard. Scholarly's YouTube to video lecture tool fixes that. Paste a link and the AI transcribes the whole video, removes filler, segments the content into logical chapters, and pulls out the concepts that actually matter for a student.","howWorksPara2":"The output is a polished study lecture inside Scholarly: a re-narrated video with clean chapters, a synchronized transcript, key-term cards in the sidebar, and the original YouTube source one click away. It feels less like watching a random video and more like sitting through a course module that someone built specifically for you.","whyTurnTitle":"Why Turn YouTube Videos Into Study Lectures?","whyTurnPara1":"You probably already use YouTube for school — 3Blue1Brown for math, Crash Course for history, Organic Chemistry Tutor for o-chem, Andrew Ng for ML. The problem is that watching is not studying. Pressing play feels productive, but a week later you remember almost nothing. Converting a YouTube video into a Scholarly lecture gives you a transcript you can search, chapters you can revisit without scrubbing, and an AI tutor you can ask \"wait, what did he just mean by SN2?\" without breaking flow.","whyTurnPara2":"It also makes long videos usable. A 2-hour Stanford lecture is impossible to re-watch before an exam. The same lecture, structured into 12 chapters with a transcript and flashcards, becomes a 20-minute review you can actually do the night before a test.","bestVideosTitle":"What Videos Work Best","bestVideosPara1":"Any educational YouTube video works — MIT OpenCourseWare lectures, Khan Academy, Crash Course, TED-Ed, Veritasium, 3Blue1Brown, Organic Chemistry Tutor, Professor Leonard, Eddie Woo, Kurzgesagt, plus university channels and conference talks. Foreign-language videos are supported too: the AI transcribes the original audio and you can ask it to summarize in English (or any other language).","bestVideosPara2":"Tutorial and coding videos work great. Drop in a freeCodeCamp full-length course and Scholarly chapters it by topic so you can find the section on async/await without scrubbing through six hours. Documentaries and conference talks (NeurIPS, JSConf, Google I/O) work too — the transcript turns them into searchable reference material.","pipelineTitle":"From YouTube to Flashcards to Exam","pipelinePara1":"Once your YouTube video is converted into a Scholarly lecture, the rest of your study loop is one click away. Generate a flashcard deck from the video and the AI extracts every definition, formula, and example into question-and-answer cards. Generate an exam and the AI writes multiple-choice and free-response questions covering the video, then grades your answers and explains what you got wrong.","pipelinePara2":"That's the full pipeline: YouTube link → structured lecture → flashcards → practice exam. You can do it for every video on your \"watch later\" list and turn a 40-video backlog into an actual curriculum.","shareTitle":"Share With Your Study Group","sharePara1":"Generated lectures are shareable with one link. If your study group is splitting up a course on YouTube, each person can convert two or three videos, share their Scholarly lecture, and the whole group ends up with structured notes, transcripts, and flashcards for the entire course — without anyone having to rewatch what their friends already covered.","faqTitle":"Frequently Asked Questions","furtherReadingTitle":"Further reading","furtherReading1Title":"How to Turn YouTube Videos Into Study Lectures With AI","furtherReading1Description":"The end-to-end workflow for converting a YouTube lecture into a chaptered study lecture.","furtherReading2Title":"Turn YouTube Lectures Into Flashcards, Quizzes, and Notes","furtherReading2Description":"The sibling guide for converting YouTube into testable study artifacts.","relatedLinksHeading":"More Scholarly video tools","relatedLink0Title":"AI Video Lecture Generator","relatedLink0Description":"The full AI video lecture tool.","relatedLink1Title":"Video Lectures","relatedLink1Description":"How Scholarly turns any source into a video.","relatedLink2Title":"Notes to Video","relatedLink2Description":"Turn study notes into a narrated video.","relatedLink3Title":"PDF to Video","relatedLink3Description":"Convert PDFs into narrated videos.","relatedLink4Title":"Text to Video","relatedLink4Description":"Paste text and get a study video.","relatedLink5Title":"Textbook to Video","relatedLink5Description":"Textbook chapter to narrated explainer.","relatedLink6Title":"Slides to Video","relatedLink6Description":"Turn PowerPoint or Keynote into a lecture.","relatedLink7Title":"Article to Video","relatedLink7Description":"Convert articles into study videos.","relatedLink8Title":"Lecture to Video","relatedLink8Description":"Re-edit a class recording into a study video.","relatedLink9Title":"Notes to Animated Video","relatedLink9Description":"Animated explainers from your notes.","relatedLink10Title":"AI Video Lecture Generator","relatedLink10Description":"No video to start from? Generate a narrated lecture from a topic, notes, or a PDF.","bottomCtaTitle":"Unlock Full Potential with Scholarly","bottomCtaDescription":"Sign up for free to convert YouTube videos into study lectures, chat with content, and access more AI study tools.","faq0Question":"How do I turn a YouTube video into a study lecture?","faq0Answer":"Paste the YouTube URL into Scholarly. The AI transcribes the video, breaks it into chapters, highlights key terms, and rebuilds it as a structured lecture you can study from — with transcript, AI chat, flashcards, and an exam.","faq1Question":"Is the YouTube to video lecture tool free?","faq1Answer":"Yes. Free accounts can use lifetime free AI Creation Credits to convert YouTube videos into study lectures. Paid plans unlock longer videos, higher limits, and the full suite of study tools — flashcards, exams, and AI chat.","faq2Question":"Does it work with long YouTube videos?","faq2Answer":"Yes. Two-hour MIT lectures and six-hour freeCodeCamp courses both work. The AI chapters the video so long content becomes navigable instead of a 2-hour scrub bar.","faq3Question":"What if the YouTube video has no captions?","faq3Answer":"Scholarly transcribes the audio directly with its own speech-to-text model, so videos without captions still work. Accuracy stays high even for lectures with heavy accents or background noise.","faq4Question":"Can I use videos in other languages?","faq4Answer":"Yes. The AI transcribes the original-language audio and you can ask it to summarize or translate into English (or another language) when generating the lecture, flashcards, or transcript.","faq5Question":"Can I generate flashcards from a YouTube video?","faq5Answer":"Yes. Once the video is converted into a Scholarly lecture, click Generate Flashcards. The AI extracts definitions, formulas, and key concepts from the video and turns them into a spaced-repetition deck.","faq6Question":"Does this work with YouTube Shorts or playlists?","faq6Answer":"Single videos work best. YouTube Shorts can be converted but tend to be too short to produce a useful study lecture. For playlists, convert each video one at a time and Scholarly will keep them grouped in the same folder.","faq7Question":"Can I share the generated lecture with classmates?","faq7Answer":"Yes. Every Scholarly lecture has a shareable link. Classmates open the same transcript, chapter list, and AI chat — useful for splitting a course up across a study group.","faq8Question":"What is the best way to turn a YouTube video into a study lecture?","faq8Answer":"Paste the link into Scholarly rather than just watching. The YouTube to video lecture tool transcribes the whole video, removes intros and sponsor reads, chapters the content, highlights key terms, and then lets you generate flashcards and an exam from it. Watching a raw video feels productive but rarely sticks — converting it into a structured, testable lecture is what turns passive viewing into actual studying.","faq9Question":"Can I convert a YouTube playlist or full course into lectures?","faq9Answer":"Convert the videos one at a time and Scholarly keeps them grouped in the same folder, so a multi-hour course or a long playlist becomes a set of chaptered study lectures with transcripts and flashcards. Splitting the playlist across a study group is the fastest way to clear a long \"watch later\" backlog.","seoTitle":"YouTube to Video Lecture {'|'} Turn YouTube Into a Study Video","seoDescription":"Paste any YouTube link and Scholarly's AI turns it into a structured study lecture with chapters, transcript, flashcards, and exam. Free for students.","seoKeyword0":"youtube to video lecture","seoKeyword1":"turn youtube into study video","seoKeyword2":"youtube to study lecture","seoKeyword3":"youtube video to lecture","seoKeyword4":"convert youtube to lecture","seoKeyword5":"youtube to flashcards","seoKeyword6":"youtube to notes","seoKeyword7":"ai youtube summary","seoKeyword8":"youtube lecture generator","seoFeature0":"YouTube URL input","seoFeature1":"Full transcription with no captions needed","seoFeature2":"Auto-generated chapters","seoFeature3":"Key-term highlights","seoFeature4":"AI chat about the video","seoFeature5":"One-click flashcard generation","seoFeature6":"Exam mode from the video","seoFeature7":"Multi-language support","seoFeature8":"Shareable lectures","seoFeature9":"Free lifetime conversion credit","howToName":"How to Convert a YouTube Video Into a Study Lecture","howToStep0Name":"Paste the YouTube link","howToStep0Text":"Copy any public YouTube URL — a lecture, tutorial, or explainer — and paste it into Scholarly's video creator.","howToStep1Name":"AI builds your structured lecture","howToStep1Text":"Scholarly transcribes the video, chapters the content, highlights key terms, and turns it into a navigable study lecture with a synchronized transcript.","howToStep2Name":"Study, ask, and test yourself","howToStep2Text":"Read the transcript, jump between chapters, ask the AI questions about the video, then generate flashcards and an exam to make the material stick."}}