HeyGen's app that turns a topic, URL, PDF, or audio track into a two-host video podcast — a shared studio scene, multi-camera cuts, B-roll, and captions, rendered in minutes.
Last verified · 2026-08-18 · by Moe Ameen
HeyGen Video Podcast is an app inside HeyGen that generates a two-host video podcast from a document or a prompt. Give it a topic, a URL, a PDF, or an existing audio track and it writes a conversational script, casts two AI hosts with distinct voices and timing, and renders a 16:9 HD episode. The differentiator is that the two hosts share a single studio scene and react to each other, rather than being two separately generated clips stitched together — the app cuts between wide establishing shots and per-host close-ups, layers B-roll over the dialogue, and adds automatic captions and chapters.
You stay in control of the cut. You can edit any line and the voice regenerates automatically, preview the whole episode before spending credits on the final render, tune tone and delivery, and match backgrounds and colors to a brand. A co-host-by-email invite lets a guest or colleague join with their own avatar without a HeyGen account, and a finished episode can be localized into 175+ languages with preserved lip-sync. Episodes export as standard video files for YouTube, a website, or social.
Video Podcast runs on the same platform and credit system as the rest of HeyGen — the identity-first avatar company that said it crossed $200 million in ARR in June 2026 — and arrived in 2026 as part of a broader push beyond single talking-head clips, alongside HyperFrames, Video Agent, Avatar V, and Instant Highlights. It is a generation app: it produces the episode and stops there, with no built-in clipping, repurposing, or scheduling. Treat exact credit costs, plan limits, and the precise launch date as a moving snapshot and confirm on HeyGen's site.
Think of a Video Podcast episode as a seed, not a finished plant. One 20-minute two-host show contains a dozen clippable moments, a handful of quotable lines, a full blog's worth of talking points, and a newsletter's worth of takeaways — but Video Podcast hands you exactly one file and leaves all of that latent. Extracting it by hand is the tedious part nobody has time for, and it is the entire reason a lot of great episodes get made once and never repurposed. Kompozy is the tool that harvests the seed.
Bring a HeyGen episode into Kompozy and each piece grows into its own format. Clipped Shorts finds the strong moments and cuts captioned, auto-reframed verticals for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts; Quote Graphics turn the best lines into scroll-stoppers; a Blog Article becomes the searchable show-notes page that ranks long after the episode drops; an Email Newsletter becomes the digest for subscribers; a Carousel becomes the LinkedIn and Instagram save. Every piece is written in one voice through your Persona Brief, so the spinoffs sound like your show and not a generic summarizer. Then Kompozy schedules and publishes the whole set across the eight social platforms plus blog and email from a single queue. And because Kompozy also generates HeyGen-class persona video natively — Persona Shorts, Persona HeyGen, Persona Frames — you can produce branded talking-head content in the same engine that harvests your episodes, instead of running two subscriptions.
It is a HeyGen app that turns a topic, URL, PDF, or audio track into a two-host video podcast. It writes the dialogue, casts two AI hosts who share a studio scene and react to each other, cuts between cameras with B-roll, and renders a publish-ready 16:9 HD episode with captions and chapters that you can edit line by line before rendering.
Regular HeyGen avatars and Video Agent produce single-presenter talking-head videos. Video Podcast produces a two-host conversation in a shared studio, with multi-camera cuts and B-roll — a show format rather than one avatar reading a script.
No. It renders the full episode but has no engine to cut it into vertical shorts. To turn one episode into captioned verticals for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts, bring it into Kompozy, whose Clipped Shorts finds the best moments and reframes and captions them automatically.
It exports a video file you upload yourself, but there is no built-in scheduler or multi-platform fan-out. Kompozy takes a HeyGen episode and publishes it — plus the clips, quote cards, blog, and newsletter it generates from it — across nine platforms from one queue.
Yes. Generate the episode in HeyGen, then use Kompozy to clip it into shorts, spin it into a carousel, quote cards, a show-notes blog, and a newsletter under your Persona Brief, and schedule everything across platforms. Kompozy also generates persona video natively, so you can run the whole pipeline in one engine.