WideCast.ai

WideCast User Guide

Step-by-step guides for the WideCast studio: creating videos and posts, editing scenes, working with clients, and publishing everywhere. No code required. Building on the API instead? See the developer docs.

Getting started

  • Welcome to WideCastWhat WideCast is, how to sign in, and a first look at the home screen: your video list, the three action cards, the profile menu, and where to get help.
  • The Setup CenterWhat the Setup Center is, what its six sections do, and how to generate a no-login setup link for a client.
  • Create your first videoFrom the Creator Tools card to a finished draft: pick a source, set the output, watch the workflow run, and review your script.

Creating content

  • Every way to start a videoA full reference of every way to start a new video: the 10 Creator Tools cards, what each needs from you, and what happens after you submit.
  • The Script Editor and the five script formatsRead and rewrite your script, try one of five ready-made angles, and tell WideCast how to turn it into a finished video.
  • Record yourself with the teleprompterTurn on your camera, frame up in the oval guide, and read your script from the built-in teleprompter to record your video yourself.
  • Blog posts from your videosGenerate a written blog post from your video's script, edit it in the rich-text editor, choose its language, and publish it to your connected accounts.
  • Social posts and captionsHow WideCast writes standalone Facebook, X, and LinkedIn posts and blog articles from a link, an idea, or text, plus how the caption field works whenever you publish.
  • AI-generated imagesGenerate a custom AI background image for a scene from a text prompt, right inside the footage picker, for 1 credit each.
  • Find ideas and plan your productionBrowse trending and industry video ideas, save the ones you like to your Production Plan backlog, share your list, and let a connected AI agent add ideas for you automatically.
  • The content roadmap and Foundation VideosHow the Authority Roadmap tracks your 60-video, 20-week content calendar, and how Foundation Videos gives you ready-made industry scripts to start from.

Editing videos

  • Scene editor basicsOpen a video, rearrange scenes, use the Scene Action menu to trim, split, and merge, and export the final MP4.
  • Backgrounds and footageSearch stock video and real photos, browse curated grids and UGC clips, upload your own file, or pull in a TikTok or Facebook link, and apply any of them as a scene's background in the footage picker.
  • On-screen text and captionsAdd or regenerate a scene's overlay graphic, edit the wording and color of poster and typography text, apply text style presets, and see how captions track your narration.
  • Video thumbnailsHow the THUMBNAIL scene works, what Generate Thumbnail does, how it relates to your opening scene, and what you can customize.
  • Avatars, voices, and dubbingUpdate your AI avatar's reference photo, re-record a scene's voice, clone your own voice for narration, and dub your finished video into another language.
  • Background musicPick, preview, switch, or remove the instrumental track that plays under your whole video from the BG Music tab in project settings.
  • Exporting the final videoPress Export, work through any pre-export warnings, and download, publish, or share your video once rendering finishes.

Sharing & clients

  • Share your workspace with clientsHow to send a no-login Client Magic Link so a client can edit one video, when to use the client setup link instead, and how your AI agent can send either one for you.
  • Team and sub-usersHow to give someone else access to your WideCast account with a sub-user, what the Team menu's Organization Program does, and when a client link fits better.
  • Notifications and alertsConnect Telegram, email, SMS, and Live Chat in the Setup Center, email yourself a project link with Send Notify, and let your AI agent push its own updates.

Publishing

  • Connect your social accountsHow to connect the 11 social platforms WideCast can publish to, the publish settings you can save for each one, and channel groups for a second set of accounts.
  • Publish now or schedule for laterPublish your finished video to your connected platforms right away or schedule it for later, then check the Publish Schedule calendar to see what has gone out.
  • Track how your content performsOpen the Social Dashboard to see followers, views, and engagement across every platform you have connected, pick a time period, and let an AI agent pull the same numbers.

Automation & help

  • Let your AI assistant run WideCastHow to get an API key and MCP connector, link an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT to your account, what it can safely do on your behalf, and how to stay in control of access.
  • Credits, plans, and billingHow credits are spent, where to check your balance, and how upgrades, downgrades, cancellations, and pauses work.
  • Troubleshooting common problemsWhat each video status badge means, and how to fix the most common blocks: exports, publishing, uploads, client links, notifications, and word-count limits.