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Bring Your Own API Key: How BYOK Works in Poko Motion
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Bring Your Own API Key: How BYOK Works in Poko Motion

Poko Motion normally runs its agents through Poko's own credit system, but Pro and Agency plans can flip a billing-mode toggle and paste in their own Anthropic or OpenAI API key instead. Once that key is set, agent and model usage routes directly to your provider and stops touching Poko credits — with one exception. Here's exactly how BYOK works, which plans can use it, and how it's different from connecting a ChatGPT or Claude subscription.

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How to Edit a Demo Video Just by Typing (No Timeline Needed)
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How to Edit a Demo Video Just by Typing (No Timeline Needed)

Traditional video editing timelines were built for filmmakers, not product marketers. Text-based editing changes the workflow completely by letting you edit demo videos through the transcript instead of a complex timeline. This guide explains how AI-powered transcript editing works, why it dramatically speeds up demo production, and how modern tools combine captions, cursor zoom, voice cloning, and multi-format exports into one streamlined workflow.

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What AI Voice Dubbing Actually Sounds Like in 2026
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What AI Voice Dubbing Actually Sounds Like in 2026

AI voice dubbing has changed dramatically in just two years. What once sounded robotic and synthetic now delivers natural pacing, emotional nuance, and multilingual realism that most listeners cannot distinguish from human narration. This article explores the breakthroughs behind modern AI voice cloning and how SaaS teams are using it to scale product videos, demos, onboarding content, and multilingual marketing faster than ever.

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Auto-Captions Changed Everything: How Silent Viewing Rewrote Video Strategy
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Auto-Captions Changed Everything: How Silent Viewing Rewrote Video Strategy

Auto-captions transformed video from an audio-first medium into a silent-first experience. As most viewers now watch content muted, captions are no longer optional - they drive higher engagement, better retention, stronger SEO, and improved brand recall. This article explores how silent viewing reshaped modern video strategy and why integrated AI caption workflows are now essential for creators, marketers, and SaaS teams.

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Step-by-Step: Turning a GitHub Repo into a Polished Product Video
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Step-by-Step: Turning a GitHub Repo into a Polished Product Video

This guide explains how developers can turn a GitHub repository into a polished product demo video using Poko Motion. It walks through the full workflow - from importing a repo and generating an AI-written script to rendering and sharing a finished video. The article also explains why README files alone are not enough for showcasing products and how demo videos improve visibility, engagement, and product launches.

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How to Make a SaaS Demo Video in Minutes Using AI
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How to Make a SaaS Demo Video in Minutes Using AI

This article explains how AI has made creating SaaS demo videos dramatically faster. Instead of spending hours recording, editing, and updating videos, teams can now generate a professional demo from a landing page, pitch deck, GitHub repo, or brief description in under five minutes. The guide covers the workflow, best practices for effective demos, and why AI-powered tools make it easy to keep videos up to date as products evolve.

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Poko Motion vs Synthesia: Local AI vs Cloud Video Generation
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Poko Motion vs Synthesia: Local AI vs Cloud Video Generation

Synthesia and Poko Motion are both AI video creation tools, but they solve very different problems. Synthesia specializes in avatar-led videos for training, education, and enterprise communications, while Poko Motion transforms existing assets such as GitHub repositories, PDFs, presentations, and landing pages into polished motion videos. This comparison explores their workflows, pricing models, privacy approaches.

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Poko Motion vs Canva Video: Design Tool vs AI Video Generator
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Poko Motion vs Canva Video: Design Tool vs AI Video Generator

Canva and Poko Motion both help teams create video content, but they solve very different problems. Canva excels at design-first workflows, social media content, and template-based video creation, while Poko Motion transforms existing assets like landing pages, GitHub repositories, PDFs, and documentation into polished product videos automatically. This comparison explores where each platform shines and which is best suited for your workflow.

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Repo, PDF, Deck, or Recording: Which Source Should You Give Poko Motion?
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Repo, PDF, Deck, or Recording: Which Source Should You Give Poko Motion?

Poko Motion can start a video from a code repository, a PDF, a slide deck, a screen recording, or a live website — but it doesn't treat any of those the same way. Each source gets discovered, summarized, and styled differently, and picking the wrong one for your goal means fighting the tool instead of using it. Here's what each source actually gives Poko to work with, and which one to hand over for the video you need.

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