How to convert a text masterclass to a video course with Argil AI avatars

The creator economy is booming and only growing bigger, but the recent rise of AI is opening more opportunities for creators to build and ship digital products to their audiences quicker.

If you’re a creator or someone with specific knowledge, I am sure you’ve heard of the term ‘infopreneur’, someone who sells what they know through online courses. If so, I am also sure at some point you have thought about making one.

Creators have been notoriously turning their expertise and passion into profitable online courses for a while now but that hasn’t changed the time requirements associated with scripting, filming, and editing your course materials. And that’s all before any costs if you need to outsource those tasks.

In this article I want to discuss one specific way to use AI to sidestep those pains:

Creating online courses from Notion pages with Argil.

The Traditional Method

Technically anyone can be an infopreneur with an online course as long as you have two things:

1. specific knowledge or expertise to share
2. have the funds and know-how to film and record your course videos

The second is what limits accessibility to create a course for a lot of creators. Here is the usual process to create your own online course:

1. start with writing scripts for each component of your course
2. hire outside help to produce your videos
3. film and record your scripts
4. edit all your recorded videos
5. upload everything to course platform

This is without mentioning the use of multiple different apps, softwares and platforms on top of paying to outsource the tasks. Thankfully, there is a much more efficient way to go about recording and producing your online course with Argil.

How to Make Online Courses With Argil

We’re building from day 1 with content creators in mind. Our goal with Argil is to centralise everything you need for content creation (scripting, gear, know-how), video generation (filming, editing), and automating creating digital products (courses, masterclasses).

As content creators ourselves for over a decade we know the pains of producing content and online courses are no different. That’s why we’ve made it as easy as possible to create one using Argil.

Here’s how I made an example online course recently with test material and our CEO Laodis as the speaker:

1. generated 4 pages of text (using Claude) that act as scripts for the course
2. selected an avatar on Argil platform, I chose Laodis for that
3. Use the notion API to generate a video project for each page
4. Launch the render
5. Videos are now generated

It’s as simple as that to produce your online course videos. No outsourcing, no gear, no expertise required.

For a more in depth look at each step with screenshots you can read our recent twitter thread showing you the steps and resulting videos here.

Online courses in minutes with Argil

Argil is designed specifically for content creators to offload the burden of video production by making our capabilities far more affordable and accessible than traditional studio-restricted deepfake technology.

Every creator understands the intense workload necessary from end-to-end content production to create an online course. Deepfake generators like ours at Argil will take that workload off creators so they can focus on the most important: sharing their knowledge with their audience.

If you are someone who can create an online course with your specific knowledge, skip our waitlist here and try it out for yourself with some simple scripts in Notion. You’ll be done in minutes.

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