Skip to main content
Generic Commentary (generic-commentary) is the flagship official workflow for short-form commentary videos.

​
What you get

A guided path from source footage to a vertical export with narration, captions, emphasis graphics, and audio polish.

​
Module order

  1. Video Downloader: URLs or uploads; inspect footage
  2. AI Video Clipper (optional): choose useful windows
  3. Remove Text from Video (optional): clean overlays
  4. AI Script Writer: narration grounded in what you saw
  5. AI Voiceover Generator: speech from the saved script
  6. Video Editor: captions, focus graphics, SFX, timeline recipe
  7. Video Exporter: render the final file

​
Run it in the dashboard

1

Start the template

Open Workflows → Generic Commentary → start a run.
2

Ingest and inspect

Download or upload sources. Watch the clips and note on-screen beats.
3

Optional cleanup

Clip and/or remove text. Skip modules that do not apply.
4

Write the script

Keep it spoken and specific. Optionally use the Readability Checker.
5

Choose assistance mode

Automatic skips routine approval. Guided requires approving the exact script before voiceover.
6

Voice, edit, export

Generate voiceover, apply the editor recipe, export, review, download, write a publication title.

​
Guided vs automatic

​
MCP

See Workflows and commentary (MCP) and Make a commentary video.

​
FAQ

No. Optional clip and text-removal steps can be skipped when the source is already clean.
Yes. Open the editor link from the run anytime and keep editing manually or with layZ AI.