How can I translate my video?

Click the 🏳️ flag icon on the right side of your editor
Select a language that you want your content to be translated to
Voilà, your translation is ready to use and generate
You can generate videos using multiple language variants at the same time

How many languages can I translate?

💬 We are currently supporting 87 languages for translation purposes. To check your preferred language, you can open the list below.

🌍 List of currently supported languages

Afrikaans
Albanian
American English
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Bangla
Basque
Bosnian
Brazilian Portuguese
British English
Bulgarian
Burmese
Canadian French
Catalan
Chinese (Cantonese)
Chinese (Mandarin)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dari
Divehi
Dutch
Estonian
European Portuguese
Filipino
Finnish
French
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish
Lao
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Nepali
Norwegian Bokmål
Pahto
Persian
Polish
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Southern Soto
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Yoruba
Zulu

How can I update a language variant?

Click the language icon on the right side of your editor:

Make sure you're in the Default language variant.
The changes made here will be transferred to all other variants.
Click the language button to sync your updates to all variants. (The button has the indicator of your chosen language)

Note: Edited text in a variant won't be changed.

How do I change the default language?

To change the default language in Colossyan, follow these steps:

Remove all scripts from your draft
Create a new script with your preferred default language

The Default language variant should be updated with your preferred language at this point.

What does Mixed mean in my default language variant and how do I fix it?

A 🌀 Mixed language variant means that you have multiple languages in your script.

To fix this do the following:

Review all your scenes
Make sure that your script is in the same language in all scenes

What will be translated?

Both the script and text content inside your scenes will be translated. Uploaded images, PDFs, and uploaded audio or video files cannot be translated.

Note: Technical terms, especially in IT and networking, are often left untranslated. This is because commands are fixed inputs that systems recognize only in their original form. Translating them could lead to confusion, as the device understands only the original commands. Therefore, even when the surrounding text is translated, these technical commands remain unchanged.

How do I change formatting in a language variant?

To adjust the font size of the translated text follow the below steps:

Open a draft
Switch to a language variant,
Select the textbox you'd like to adjust
Check the box next to Detach text format
Adjust the font size

How many videos can I automatically translate?

What counts as one translation?

Translation in this case means generating a video in a different language than your default language.

Once a video has been generated in a language variant it counts as 1 translation.

Here are the limits based on our available plans currently:

Free trial: 3 translations

Starter: 3 translations

Business: 10 translations

Enterprise: Unlimited translations

How does it affect my video generation minutes?

Each generated variant is its own generated video, and each one counts toward the video generation minutes.

If you have 10 different languages for a 60-second video, 10 minutes will be deducted from your video generation time. Generating all 10 language variants as videos will deduct the video's length ten times from your video generation time allowance as 10 videos are being generated. When using auto-translation, calculate the length of your video multiplied by the number of language variants.