Upload up to 3 PDFs or notes and choose the Freestyle video mode. Scholarly reads the source and selects the visual style and animation approach that fits it — kinetic type, whiteboard, a clean diagram sequence, or a blend — then renders a narrated, chaptered video with transcript, captions, checkpoints, AI chat, and flashcards in about 10 to 25 minutes. The Free plan includes one lifetime AI creation at 720p with a fixed 2-minute length; paid plans add 1080p, watermark removal, MP4 download, and a target length up to 45 minutes.
A glossary of legal terms, a four-stage manufacturing process, and a chapter on cognitive biases are not the same kind of material, and a single fixed visual treatment serves at most one of them well. Freestyle starts from the content and works outward to the look, rather than the other way around.
That freedom applies to style only. Every Freestyle lecture still follows one coherent, linear teaching arc: it sets up the topic, builds the ideas in order, and closes with what you should now be able to do. The narration is grounded in your source, so what it says matches what your notes say.
If a lecture does not land the way you hoped, switching modes and regenerating is often a bigger improvement than rewording the prompt. Freestyle is the natural place to try when the named modes have not fit — and because the same study tools come with every mode, nothing is lost by experimenting.
Product explainers, internal training, and process walkthroughs rarely fit one house style — a pricing change, a new support workflow, and a security refresher each want a different treatment. Freestyle chooses it per document. Pair it with the training video generator for a structured curriculum, or see Scholarly for Teams for shared workspaces and pooled credits.
