Get Started

This tutorial takes you from logging in to receiving your first personalised video. You'll create a Project, design a video with one personalised field, publish it, send a test recipient's data to Seen, and confirm the video was generated.

This tutorial assumes you already have a Seen Platform Workspace and login. If you don't have one yet, reach out to your Customer Success Manager at Seen.

Log in

1. Go to https://be.seen.io/.
2. Enter your email address and click Continue with Email.
3. Sign in with your password, or click Send me a magic link to log in without one.

See Log in if you run into trouble, including which browsers are supported.

Create a Project

1. From the main menu, start a new blank Project.
2. When prompted, choose an aspect ratio (16:9 or 9:16). Either works for this tutorial.

Your Project opens in Studio, on the Design step. All changes save automatically.

Design your video

1. In the left panel, open the Blocks Library and add a Block to the Timeline.
2. Select a text element in the Viewport, then open the Personalisation panel.
3. Create a new property called first_name, and apply it to the selected text.

You now have a video with one field that will change per recipient. See Creating a video for the full Studio interface.

Review and publish

1. Open the Review tab.
2. Fill in a test value for first_name and click Generate Preview.
3. Once you're happy with the result, click Publish.

The video needs to be published before it can be used to generate real videos.

See Review for the full set of player settings (title, CTA button, sharing, and more). None of them are required to complete this tutorial.

Create your first video

Pick whichever of these two matches how you plan to send data day to day. Both produce the same result: a generated video for one recipient.

Using the API

1. Open the Run tab.

2. Click Create via API.

3. Copy your Project's endpoint URL and create an API token.

4. Copy the curl command below, and replace {endpoint} and {token} with the values you just copied.

   curl -X POST https://next.seen.io/v1/projects/{endpoint}/data \
     -H "Authorization: Bearer {token}" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{"id": "1", "first_name": "Alex"}'

5. Run the command. A successful request returns 201 Created, and video generation starts immediately.

See Authorization if you'd rather create a token from Settings → API instead. See Create Data for the full request/response reference.

Using CSV import

1. Save the following as a .csv file:

   id,first_name
   1,Alex

2. In the Run tab, drag the file into the Import CSV field (or click it to browse for the file).

3. Confirm the column mapping. id and first_name will map automatically since the names match your Project's properties.

4. Click Import and generate videos.

See Data Import Best Practices for larger imports.

Verify your video

1. Still in the Run tab, click View Videos.
2. Find the entry for the recipient you just sent (id: 1).
3. Preview the video directly in the embedded player next to the entry. There's no need to open the Player link.

If you don't see it yet, give it a few seconds and refresh. Video generation isn't instant.

Where to go next

You've generated your first personalised video end to end. From here:

• Embed the Player on your own pages instead of sharing the standalone link.
• Set up a webhook so Seen delivers each video back to your system automatically.
• Read the Insights guide to see how the video performs.
• Check the Glossary for definitions of terms used throughout these docs.