Quick Start

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Before you begin

• An Invitation email — You must receive a Tessact invite from our team before you can sign up.
  Request an invite from our team
  
  
• Your assets — You can upload any media file to Tessact. However for best performance, we recommend H.264/AAC .mp4 under 12 Mb/s. For more information see supported media formats.

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1. Set up your account

• Sign up from an invitation email
• Sign up with a registered email

Invitation email with Head to Tessact button

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Open the invitation email

Click Head to Tessact.If you don’t see the email, check your spam or promotions folder.

2

Complete your profile and set your password

Set up your profile including your name, avatar, organisation, and password, and submit.Password must be at least 8 characters and include a number or symbol.

If your invite is no longer valid, go to https://app.tessact.ai/login → Login with OTP → enter your email → use the one-time code sent to you.

1. Navigate to https://app.tessact.ai/login.

Login page with Password and OTP options

2. Sign in with your password or choose Send 6-digit code if you prefer one-time codes.

Successful login redirects you to the Library containing sample assets.

You can still set up your profile including your name, avatar, organisation, and password by navigating to Profile icon → Preferences → Profile.

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2. Explore the Library

Library showing sample assets ready to delete, upload button, and drag-and-drop area

• Notice the Upload button and drag-and-drop zone.
• AI status badges display ingest, transcode, and analysis progress for each asset.

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3. Upload your first asset

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Select files

Click Upload on the top right of the screen or drag your media into the Library.

For the fastest turnaround, follow the supported media formats guide.

Asset card showing upload progress

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Wait for analysing to finish

Tessact uploads and queues the file for AI analysis. A progress pill appears on the asset card showing the progress of the analysis.

Average analysis speed is ≈ 15 minutes per hour of H.264/AAC content under 10 Mb/s. Non-preferred codecs or higher bitrates trigger transcoding and extend processing time.

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4. Trigger AI actions

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Remix (create social clips)

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Hover over the remix suggestions on the remix bar

Pick a suggested prompt from the list or write your own (e.g., “Generate a 15-sec teaser”).

Remix bar with suggested and custom prompts

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Review and download your variants

Tessact generates multiple aspect-ratio variants ready for download or review.

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AI Search for clips

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Open the AI Search dialog

Press ⌘/Ctrl + K → AI Search for clips
or
Click the Search item on top of the left sidebar to open the AI Search dialog.

2

Type anything you want to find from your content

Tessact finds ideal short clips that match your query that can be used in your next project.

AI Search dialog showing clip results from your content

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AI Autofill metadata

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Open the asset detail page → Metadata tab.

Clicking on any asset in the library will open the asset detail page. The asset detail page has a Metadata tab on the right panel that allows you to edit the metadata fields associated with the asset.

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Start from scratch or select a pre-defined template

Click on the Start from scratch button to start from scratch and add your own fields, or select a pre-defined template from the list below.

You can also create a new template in the Settings → Metadata page.

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Click AI Autofill to populate title, description, and tags.

Edit the automatically filled values by clicking on the field if needed.

Metadata panel with AI Autofilled data

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Next steps