Most of the time spent creating training content isn’t spent creating. It’s spent editing.
Fixing colors one element at a time. Re-importing a PowerPoint because the tool choked on a gradient. Swapping an avatar across 15 scenes, clicking through each one manually. Applying the same animation twelve times because there’s no bulk option.
Over the past six months, our product and engineering teams shipped 8 editor updates targeting exactly this friction. None of them are flashy AI features. All of them make the day-to-day work of building training content meaningfully faster.
Here’s what changed.
1. PowerPoint import is 5x faster
PowerPoint import now completes in seconds, even for large decks. Gradient support and automatic deduplication of repeated elements mean your slides come in clean, with no manual cleanup needed.
2. Bulk re-styling with brand kit
The re-styling modal lets you swap brand colors across your entire project in one step. Open the modal, pick which colors to replace, choose new ones from your brand kit, and every scene updates instantly.
3. Alignment tools with snapping and smart ordering
Multi-select elements and snap them into alignment with a click. Smart ordering handles layering, so elements stack in the right order automatically.
4. Custom templates
You can now save any draft as a reusable template. If your team builds training content with a consistent structure (intro slide, content sections, quiz, outro), you save it once and reuse it for every new project instead of rebuilding from scratch.
5. Canvas zoom and pan
The editor now supports proper canvas zoom (pinch or scroll) and panning. This sounds basic, but if you’re working on detail-heavy scenes with multiple text boxes and elements, being able to zoom in and pan around makes precise editing much faster.
6. Bulk animation editing
Multi-select elements across scenes and apply or change animations in bulk. The same entrance animation across 20 text boxes and 10 scenes is one action.
7. Apply avatar to all scenes (reworked)
The rebuilt “Apply to All Scenes” function works consistently across every scene in your project, regardless of layout differences.
8. Bulk text editing with multi-color replacement
You can now select multiple text elements and edit their font, size, color, or alignment all at once. Multi-color replacement lets you swap a specific color everywhere it appears across all text in your project. If you’re rebranding or standardizing typography across a 30-scene project, this turns a 45-minute task into a 5-minute one.
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Read the full story →Why we focused on this
It would have been easier to ship more visible features. New AI capabilities, new content types, things that make for better demos. But our usage data told a clear story: the biggest time drain for creators wasn’t generating content. It was the editing that came after.
Every feature on this list started with the same question: “Why does this take so many clicks?” Our engineering team worked through these systematically, shipping one or two per month since September.
For L&D teams producing training content at scale, these updates compound. A project that used to take an afternoon of manual formatting now takes a fraction of that time. Less time editing means faster time to usable content and lower production costs per project.
What’s next
We’re continuing to invest in editor speed. If there’s a repetitive step in your workflow that still feels slower than it should, we’d like to hear about it.
