What you can do

Media Studio provides 29 tools. You never call them yourself — you ask for what you want and your assistant picks the ones it needs. This page is here so you can see what is possible, and so you can recognise a name when you are asked to approve one.

Three worth knowing by name

picsart_media_quickstart is where your assistant looks up how to do a job. picsart_media_list_fonts matters before any styled text. picsart_media_export is the one that makes the finished file.

Finding its way around

Tool	What it does
picsart_media_quickstart	The starting point — supplies the recommended steps for common jobs like joining clips, previewing, or rendering.
picsart_media_get_capabilities	Lists what the renderer supports: the available effects, transitions, looks, and motion and text animations.
picsart_media_get_scene_schema	Supplies the precise structure of a piece, so it can be built correctly.
picsart_media_list_fonts	Lists the fonts available. Worth asking for before styled text — a font that isn't on the list comes out blank.
picsart_media_list_recipes	Lists step-by-step guides for longer jobs.
picsart_media_get_recipe	Opens one of those guides in full.

Getting your files in

Tool	What it does
picsart_media_upload	Opens a drop area so you can add an image, video or audio file from your computer. It uploads straight from your browser, and you can also pick something already in your Picsart Drive.
picsart_media_probe_media	Checks a file's size, shape and length before anything is built around it, without downloading the whole thing.

Starting from a template

Tool	What it does
picsart_media_list_scene_templates	Lists the ready-made templates — title cards, name strips, product cards and so on.
picsart_media_describe_scene_template	Shows what one template lets you change: its text, colours, sizes and timings.
picsart_media_apply_scene_template	Fills a template in with your text, colours and images.
picsart_media_expand_scene_ref	Breaks a template open into its separate parts, so something the template doesn't offer as an option can still be changed.

Building and styling

Tool	What it does
picsart_media_patch_scene	Changes one part of a piece without rebuilding the whole thing.
picsart_media_apply_effect	Adds an effect to one part — a blur, a drop shadow, an outline.
picsart_media_apply_look	Applies a whole colour treatment, like a vintage black-and-white or a light leak.
picsart_media_apply_motion_preset	Adds movement — a slow drift across a photo, a pulse, a pop as something appears.
picsart_media_apply_text_animation	Animates text — typed out letter by letter, faded in, sliding up line by line.
picsart_media_resolve_looks	Bakes an applied look permanently into the piece.

Checking before you render

All three are free, and worth doing.

Tool	What it does
picsart_media_validate_scene	Checks the piece for problems and reports exactly what is wrong and where.
picsart_media_query_layout	Reports where everything actually sits on screen at a given moment, catching anything overlapping or running off the edge — without rendering.
picsart_media_translate_scene	Converts the piece into the format Picsart's editor opens, if you would rather carry on editing it by hand.

Previewing and rendering

Tool	What it does
picsart_media_contact_sheet	Renders a handful of small preview pictures from different moments, so you can see how a piece is looking before committing to the full render.
picsart_media_export	Renders the finished piece to a real file — a video or a still image, in a range of formats. A single result is saved to your Picsart Drive automatically.
picsart_media_overview	Lays every slide of a slideshow out as one grid of thumbnails, so you can take in the whole thing at once.

Working with video you already have

These three read a video you supply and report back on it. They don't change it.

Tool	What it does
picsart_media_transcribe	Turns the speech in a video or audio file into text, timed so it can go straight on screen as captions. It can label different speakers, and mark natural places to cut.
picsart_media_describe_video	Describes what is happening on screen — who is in it, the setting, any text shown, the mood and the colours — and can answer a specific question about it.
picsart_media_reframe_video	Reframes a video for a different shape of screen, following the subject with a pan and zoom instead of a fixed centre crop.

Your Picsart Drive

Picsart Drive is the file storage that comes with your Picsart account.

Tool	What it does
picsart_media_drive_list	Browses your Drive — folders to open, and files that can be used straight away.
picsart_media_drive_save	Saves a file into your Drive. If it is already there, you get the existing one back rather than a duplicate.

More

• Overview — what Media Studio is, and how to connect
• Troubleshooting — what to do when something doesn't work