University Admissions Videos From Application Documents
Two document-grounded admissions videos explain application statuses and the admitted-student timeline without predicting decisions or availability.
The direct answer: Give every applicant a clear next step, with a university-branded explanation built from the current admissions documents.
Golpo is built to be the complete AI explainer workflow for that next step. Start from the status guide, the admitted-student calendar, an approved script, or an admissions recording. Golpo drafts the narration in Prompt Mode, plans the scenes, and designs the visuals. Review the script before creating the video, then publish the explanation beside the live portal. The portal, the written offer, and the official calendar still govern. Golpo does not read an applicant's file, detect a status, or predict a decision.
This guide is for admissions, enrollment marketing, orientation, housing, registrar, and admitted-student experience teams. The two renders below were produced in Prompt Mode from the documents linked beside them. The first is the pre-offer journey, including an incomplete file. The second is the post-offer path from deposit through move-in. The university version adds the institution's style, the real portal screens, and a reviewed language variant.
What applicants need next
A status, an action, and a date.
- Portal codes can mean received, incomplete, in review, or decided, and each code has an owner and an action.
- After an offer, deposit, aid, housing, records, orientation, and registration follow different calendars.
- A campus tour sells the place. These videos explain the operational path the applicant is already on.
- Publish a separate video for each journey. Golpo does not build a personal decision tree or detect which status an applicant is in.
The useful admissions video names the status, the action, and the date that governs it.
Before the offer, then after it
Keep these as two videos. The status explanation covers the pre-offer journey, including an incomplete file. The timeline covers the post-offer path. They stay separate so an applicant who has not been admitted never hears move-in steps, and an admitted student is not walked through codes that no longer apply.
Companion example · smaller, sharper, task-specific
From Admission Offer to Move-In
Explain deposit, financial-aid review, housing, orientation, records, registration, and move-in deadlines.
Open the source PDF · No narration script was supplied.
Production brief and visual controls
Build this video entirely from the attached document. Title it: From Admission Offer to Move-In. Explain deposit, financial-aid review, housing, orientation, records, registration, and move-in deadlines. Write the narration yourself from the attached document; no narration script is supplied. Do not introduce any fact, figure, date, name, instruction, policy, right, deadline, recommendation, promise, or outcome not in the document. Treat the people, institution, identifiers, and values as the document's own facts. Never call the document a sample, demo, fictional, synthetic, illustrative, or an example. VISUAL DIRECTION Use a month-by-month timeline. Distinguish required, conditional, and optional steps exactly as marked. FIGURE LOCK: every number, date, time, code, fee, threshold, window, phone number, status, and identifier shown or spoken must come from the attached document. Do not invent placeholder values.
University identity, the real portal, and conditional language
The status render explains the code set in the linked guide, including an incomplete file. The timeline render explains what happens after an offer. The version to publish for the current cycle uses the university's look, the real portal screens, and wording that keeps every condition intact.
One look for both journeys
Custom Style saves a named style from a university image, a short video, or a written description under My Styles, then reuses it in Canvas or Sketch. Applicants should recognize the status video and the admitted-student video as the same office. Custom Style is on Business and higher plans. It is a recognizable institutional look, not a pixel-exact logo or exact typography. Use an image the university has rights to use.
A familiar admissions voice, or a presenter beside the explanation
Voice Clone saves an authorized admissions voice and uses it to narrate new scripts, on Business and higher plans. Get permission, check pronunciation of office names and portal codes, and keep a fallback voice. Voice Instructions set tone, pace, and pronunciation of generated narration. They do not clone a person, and they do not change an Own Narration recording. Voice Instructions are on Creator and higher plans.
AI Presenter places a stock presenter, or an authorized custom presenter from a photo, beside the explanation. Layouts include side-by-side, circle, full-screen, and Auto. It is on Creator and higher plans. A synthetic presenter is not a recording of an admissions officer. Presenter API support is coming soon, so create presenters in the dashboard. If the office already has an approved recording, Own Narration uses that audio to drive new visuals, on Business and higher plans. The recording sets duration and spoken language. A language setting leaves that audio as recorded.
The real checklist, not a drawn portal
Own Media inserts an authorized screenshot or clip of the real portal checklist into the explainer, on Business and higher plans. Use a screen that shows the status, the missing item, and the office that owns it, with other applicants' data removed. A generated portal is not the system students log into. See plan availability.
Status, action, deadline, and help as separate scenes
The linked status guide gives each code an owner, a meaning, an action, and a window. For an incomplete file, that is the outstanding-items status, the checklist action, the materials deadline for that plan, and Admission Operations as the place to get help. Custom Scenes lets you move sentence boundaries so those four ideas each get a scene, within the engine limit. Custom Scenes does not rewrite the narration or make a deadline current. It is on Growth and higher plans.
Both renders on this page use Expanded Canvas treatments, which spread components across scenes. Compact groups components; Expanded spreads them. Notebook is Compact-only. In the API, unsuffixed Canvas values select Expanded and _compact selects Compact. Use Expanded when each code needs room. Use Compact when the status and its action must stay visually together. Custom Scenes is the sentence map either way.
Approved sentences keep the conditions
Prompt Mode can draft narration from the current guide. Approve it with Edit script before creating video. Use Script Mode when a condition must be spoken exactly, such as a housing step that depends on availability or a waitlist opt-in that is not an offer. Put visual directions in Video Instructions, not in the spoken lines. About 1,050 characters of narration fit in a selected minute. On-screen text from script only, on Canvas and Sketch, limits generated labels to that script. Golpo may show a subset. It is not a caption track, and it does not check that the code is still current. In the API, set onscreen_text_from_script_only.
Each language is its own render. Creator and higher plans include multilingual output, and Starter has a language add-on. More than 45 languages are listed. Review status names, dates, and office names locally. A language setting does not translate an Own Narration recording. In the API, language_variants requests those renders.
Workflow before the next application wave
- Source. Start with the current-cycle status guide for an incomplete file, and the current admitted-student calendar for the post-offer video. The public PDFs on this page are synthetic demonstrations. Leave other applicants' records out of any portal image.
- Settings. Save the university style. Insert the real portal checklist with Own Media. Use Custom Scenes so status, required action, deadline, and help each have a scene. Add the authorized admissions voice or an AI Presenter.
- Script review. Golpo can draft narration from the guide in Prompt Mode. Approve it before creating the video. Use Script Mode for conditional sentences, and put drawing directions in Video Instructions.
- Result. The status video on this page runs 2:08 in Canvas Editorial (Expanded). The admitted-student video runs 2:04 in Canvas Illustration (Expanded). The incomplete-application version with the live portal screen is the one to make from the current-cycle guide.
- One correction. If a frame shows the wrong materials deadline or the wrong office, use frame editing on all paid plans. The first edited version is free across sessions until finalized. Later editing is charged on the selected duration of that version and leaves the narration unchanged. If the spoken line drops a condition or states the wrong date, revise the script and generate again.
- One reuse. Render one reviewed language version as its own video, with the same university style and the same checked dates and owners. Regenerate when the cycle's deadlines, fees, or office ownership change. Posting and retiring the file stay in the university's portal and web systems.
Plan, duration, and credits
| Render on this page | Settings shown | Finished length |
|---|---|---|
| What Your Application Status Means | Canvas, Editorial (Expanded) | 2:08 |
| From Admission Offer to Move-In | Canvas, Illustration (Expanded) | 2:04 |
A standard video, including Own Narration, uses 1 credit per selected minute. A 2-minute selection is 2 credits. These renders finished at 2:08 and 2:04, so confirm the duration you select. Prices are on the pricing page. You can download Golpo's free 1-minute video without a watermark for $9.99, or subscribe to download it at no extra charge.
- Custom Scenes: Growth and higher.
- Custom Style, Own Media, Voice Clone and Own Narration: Business and higher. Frame editing: all paid plans.
- AI Presenter and Voice Instructions: Creator and higher.
- Language variants: Creator and higher, or the Starter language add-on. Each variant is its own render and its own credits.
The API can request a generation from an approved document and report status. Scale includes API access. Business has a paid API add-on. API Only is metered separately and does not include dashboard generation. The API does not detect an applicant's status or personalize a video from the student system. Portal posting stays with the university. See the API docs.
Review once before you publish
- The portal, written offer, aid notice, housing contract, and official calendar remain in control.
- Status names, owners, deadlines, fees, and conditions match the current-cycle document. The figure-lock line in a prompt is an instruction to use that document. It does not check the file for you.
- The video does not predict admission, priority, aid, orientation placement, registration, or a housing assignment. Availability and eligibility conditions stay in the spoken script.
- Applicant records stay out of a generic status video. A message built from one student's missing items is a separate, authorized workflow.
- A language version is reviewed locally, and captions are verified in your player workflow.
- If a synthetic MP4 or PDF from this page is shared without the article, label it as a demonstration beside the player or in the download name.
Evidence and governing references
Stock Avatar videos use 3 credits per minute. Custom avatar videos use 5.
Frequently asked questions
Can a status video say when a decision will arrive?
Only if the current approved guide states that date or window. It must not predict an individual decision.
Can the admitted-student video guarantee housing?
No. It explains the application and contract timeline while preserving availability and eligibility conditions.
Should the video be personalized?
No. Publish a separate video for each journey, such as an incomplete file or the steps after an offer. Golpo does not detect an applicant's status or personalize from the student system. A message that inserts that applicant's own missing items is a separately implemented, authorized workflow, with the live portal as the system of record.
How often must admissions videos be updated?
At least every cycle, and whenever deadlines, fees, statuses, or office ownership change.
What makes this different from a campus tour?
It explains the applicant's operational journey rather than selling the campus experience.
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Explain the status applicants ask about
Explain your most confusing application status before the next application or decision wave. Use the current-cycle guide, show the real portal checklist, and keep the action, the deadline, and the owning office in their own scenes. Start in Golpo. University style, portal images, and an authorized voice are on Business and higher. Compare plans on the pricing page.
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