In Colossyan, you can create your project in one language and translate it into other languages without additional script writing needed.
These translations are called language variants.
The main language of the project is the 🌐 Default language variant.
How can I translate my video?
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Click the 🏳️ flag icon on the right side of your editor
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Select a language that you want your content to be translated to
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Voilà, your translation is ready to use and generate
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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
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Albanian
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American English
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Amharic
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Arabic
- Armenian
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Azerbaijani
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Bangla
- Basque
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Bosnian
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Brazilian Portuguese
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British English
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Bulgarian
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Burmese
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Canadian French
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Catalan
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Chinese (Cantonese)
- Chinese (Mandarin)
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Croatian
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Czech
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Danish
- Dari
- Divehi
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Dutch
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Estonian
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European Portuguese
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Filipino
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Finnish
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French
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Galician
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Georgian
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German
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Greek
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Gujarati
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Hebrew
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Hindi
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Hungarian
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Icelandic
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Indonesian
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Irish
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Italian
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Japanese
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Javanese
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Kannada
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Kazakh
- Khmer
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Korean
- Kurdish
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Lao
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Latvian
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Lithuanian
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Macedonian
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Malay
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Malayalam
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Maltese
- Maori
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Marathi
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Mongolian
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Nepali
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Norwegian Bokmål
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Pahto
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Persian
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Polish
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Romanian
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Russian
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Serbian
- Sindhi
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Sinhala
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Slovak
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Slovenian
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Somali
- Southern Soto
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Spanish
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Sundanese
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Swahili
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Swedish
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Tamil
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Telugu
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Thai
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Turkish
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Ukrainian
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Urdu
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Uzbek
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Vietnamese
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Welsh
- Yoruba
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Zulu
How can I update a language variant?
Click the 🏳️ flag icon on the right side of your editor:
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Make sure you're in the 🌐 Default (
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Click the Update language variants (
) button to sync your updates to all variants.
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:
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Remove all scripts from your draft
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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:
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Review all your scenes
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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:
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Open a draft
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Switch to a language variant,
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Select the textbox you'd like to adjust
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Check the box next to Detach text format
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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.