Recruitment Video Maker

EchoWave is a free recruitment video maker that runs in your browser, so anyone on the hiring team can turn interview clips, office footage and phone recordings into job ads that get watched. Add captions for muted feeds, drop in your logo and brand colors, narrate with an AI voice, then resize the same video for LinkedIn, TikTok and your careers page. Free exports are HD with a small removable badge.

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Recruitment Video Maker Features

EchoWave's recruitment video maker is used by recruiters, hiring managers and employer brand teams around the world.

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Hiring videos

Turn real footage into job ads people watch to the end

A recruitment video maker only earns its keep if it fits how hiring actually works: footage arrives from five different phones, the role closes in two weeks, and nobody on the team edits video for a living. EchoWave covers that gap. It also handles the videos around hiring, from internal announcements to hiring event promos, and scales down fine for a small business making its first hire.

  • 176

    caption presets

  • 63

    AI voice over voices

  • 100

    videos per CSV batch

  • 86

    subtitle translation languages

Built for hiring teams

Everything a job ad needs, nothing to install

Eight features that matter when the role has to be filled this month.

  • Captions candidates can read on mute

    Feeds on LinkedIn and TikTok autoplay silent, so a job ad without captions loses its opening line. EchoWave transcribes speech automatically with word-level timing, then you pick from 176 caption presets, including karaoke styles that fill each word as it is spoken.

  • Record interviews with a built-in teleprompter

    The recorder studio captures webcam, screen and voice right in the browser, with a teleprompter so first-time presenters keep eye contact instead of reading off a second monitor. It works just as well for a hiring manager intro as it does for a testimonial video from a current team member.

  • Cut interviews by editing the transcript

    Employee interviews ramble. Edit the transcript like a document and the video follows: delete a sentence to cut it, then remove ums, uhs and long silences automatically. A 20-minute chat becomes a tight 90-second clip without touching the timeline.

  • Your employer brand, saved once

    Store brand colors, logos and your own fonts in the brand kit, then apply them across every video so recruiters who are not designers still ship consistent work. Staffing firms juggling client brands will find the same workflow on the video editor for agencies page.

  • One template, a video for every open role

    Build a role-card template with placeholders for job title, salary range, location and apply link, then render up to 100 versions from a single CSV upload. Twenty open roles become twenty on-brand videos in one batch, and the REST API can automate the whole thing from an ATS export.

  • AI voice over in 63 voices

    No volunteer to narrate the job ad? Type the script and pick from 63 natural voices, from American and British English to Spanish, Hindi, Japanese and Mandarin. Pair the narration with b-roll and captions for a clean faceless format.

  • Resize for LinkedIn, TikTok and your careers page

    Make the master in 16:9, then duplicate it to 9:16 for Reels and Shorts and 1:1 for the LinkedIn feed. Resizing is a manual crop and zoom, so you decide exactly what stays in frame, which matters when a face or a role card sits near the edge.

  • Subtitles for hiring across borders

    On Pro, translate subtitles into 86 languages, or show bilingual subtitles with the original and the translation on screen together. The audio stays as recorded, since EchoWave does not dub voices, so the honest play for multi-country hiring is native-language captions over your existing footage.

How it works

How to make a recruitment video

From raw clips to a posted job ad in four steps, all in the browser.

  1. Open the recruitment video maker and add footage

    Go to echowave.io, start a new project and drag in your clips: phone footage, webcam interviews, screen recordings, office b-roll. MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV and most other formats upload fine, or capture something new with the built-in recorder and teleprompter.

  2. Cut it down by transcript

    Auto-transcribe the interviews, then edit the text to trim the video. Strip filler words and silences in a click, keep the two or three strongest quotes, and aim for one to two minutes total.

  3. Add captions, a role card and your brand

    Apply a caption preset, add a text card with the role title, location and salary, and pull your logo and colors from the brand kit. End with one clear call to action: where to apply and by when.

  4. Resize, export and post

    Duplicate the project into 9:16 and 1:1 crops, then export MP4. Free exports are HD 720p with a small removable watermark badge; paid plans remove it and add 1080p and 4K. Download and post to LinkedIn, your careers page and the job boards.

Sized to post

The right shape for every platform

  • 16:9 Landscape

    • Careers page
    • YouTube
    • Job boards
  • 1:1 Square

    • LinkedIn
    • Instagram
    • X
  • 9:16 Vertical

    • TikTok
    • Reels
    • Shorts

Where teams use it

Recruitment videos hiring teams actually ship

  • Role-specific job ads

    A 45-second video per opening: hiring manager on camera, role card, apply link. Batch-render one per role from a CSV so the engineering and sales openings each get their own cut.

  • Day-in-the-life features

    Follow one employee through a shift with phone footage, then cut it by transcript to the watchable core. These outperform stock-footage culture montages because candidates can tell what the job is really like.

  • Employer brand films

    A two-minute culture piece for the careers page: office b-roll, three employee voices, an end card listing open roles. Ken Burns pan-zoom keeps still photos moving between clips.

  • Campus and early-career hiring

    Vertical 9:16 cuts with karaoke captions for TikTok and Reels, where graduate candidates already spend their time. The same master resizes to 1:1 for LinkedIn without re-editing.

  • Employee referral pushes

    Short clips asking the team to share open roles with their networks. They are close cousins of the announcement formats covered by the internal communications video maker.

  • Hiring event promos

    Announce an open house or virtual careers fair with a short promo and a date card. The promo video maker page covers that format in more depth.

Compare

How EchoWave compares

Feature EchoWaveCanvaVEEDSynthesia
Free plan with video export yes (720p, watermark badge) Yes yes (watermark) limited
Edit your own footage on a timeline Yes Yes Yes limited
Auto captions yes (176 presets) Yes Yes Yes
Edit video by transcript Yes No yes (paid) No
AI avatars No No yes (paid) Yes
AI voice over yes (63 voices) Yes Yes Yes
Stock music library no (2,500+ sound effects) Yes Yes Yes
Batch videos from a CSV yes (100 rows) yes (Pro) No yes (paid)
Teleprompter recorder Yes No Yes No
Brand kit with custom fonts Yes yes (Pro) yes (paid) yes (paid)
Subtitle translation yes (Pro, 86 languages) No yes (paid) yes (paid)
Post directly to LinkedIn No Yes No No

Based on each tool's public pages as of July 2026. Plans and features change, so check current pricing before you commit.

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About the EchoWave team

EchoWave is a browser-based video and audio editor built by Lemon Vault LLC since 2018. The people who build the editor write these guides and test every step in the production app before publishing.

Recruitment Video Maker FAQ

Is EchoWave's recruitment video maker free?

Yes. You can edit, preview and export on the free plan: free exports are HD 720p MP4 with a small removable EchoWave badge and a short branded end card. Paid plans remove both and add 1080p, 4K and extra formats like MOV, WebM and GIF.

How long should a recruitment video be?

For social feeds, 30 to 60 seconds. For a careers page culture film, up to two minutes. Shorter cuts get finished more often, and EchoWave's transcript editing makes it painless to trim a 15-minute interview down to its strongest 45 seconds.

What should a recruitment video include?

Real employees over stock footage, the role title and location on screen, salary if you can share it, captions for muted playback, and one clear call to action with an application link. Skip the drone shot of the building; candidates want to see the people and the actual work.

Can I make a separate video for each open role without editing each one?

Yes. Build one template with placeholders for job title, salary, location and apply link, then upload a CSV and EchoWave renders up to 100 videos in a single batch. There is also a REST API and an MCP server, so scripts or agents can fill templates and render straight from your ATS data.

Does EchoWave generate AI avatars or presenters?

No. EchoWave edits real footage rather than generating avatar presenters the way Synthesia does. It does offer 63 AI voice over voices for narration, and real employees on camera tend to come across as more credible to candidates anyway.

What video format do LinkedIn and job boards want?

MP4 with H.264 is the safe default everywhere. The LinkedIn feed favors 1:1 or 16:9, TikTok, Reels and Shorts want 9:16, and careers pages usually embed 16:9. EchoWave exports MP4 on every plan and lets you resize one project to each ratio.

Do recruitment videos need captions?

Yes. LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok autoplay muted, so an uncaptioned job ad loses viewers before the audio starts. EchoWave auto-transcribes speech and offers 176 caption presets, and captions also make the ad accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing candidates.

Can I use my company's fonts and colors?

Yes. The brand kit stores your colors and logos, and you can upload custom font files that then appear in the text style picker. Set it up once and every job ad, promo and announcement stays on brand.

Can I translate a recruitment video for hiring in other countries?

Subtitle translation is a Pro feature: you can translate the subtitles into 86 languages, or display bilingual subtitles with the original and translated lines together. Translation applies to the subtitle text only; EchoWave does not dub or re-voice the audio track, so the spoken language stays as recorded.

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