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Introducing Fotor Agent: Create Fully Editable AE-Quality Motion Graphics and Long-Form Videos

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Fotor Agent, ranked No. 1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt, turns ideas and raw assets into complete, editable video projects through an intelligent end-to-end production workflow.

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fotor, a leading AI Vibe Marketing Platform serving more than 800 million users worldwide, today announced the launch of Fotor Agent, an AI-powered production system designed to transform how videos are created.

With Fotor Agent, users can create complete, production-ready videos and 4K motion graphics—all fully editable through natural-language prompts. Starting with a brief or raw source materials, the agent understands creative intent, manages long-horizon logical reasoning and planning, generates supporting assets, organizes scenes, and automatically assembles everything onto a multi-track timeline—giving creators total control to refine every detail.

From AI Generation to AI Production

While generating individual clips with AI video models has become virtually effortless, a major industry bottleneck in video production remains: seamlessly orchestrating these fragmented assets—along with music, voiceovers, motion graphics, and subtitles—into a cohesive, release-ready long-form narrative.

Today’s standard video production pipeline remains notoriously fragmented across a wide array of software. Creators must write scripts, map out storyboards, generate video clips, produce subtitles, synthesize voiceovers, source background tracks, and design custom transitions—all across separate tools. Advanced motion graphics often demand specialized software like Adobe After Effects. Then, bringing dozens or even hundreds of disparate media assets together in a video editor like Premiere Pro or CapCut for manual assembly requires constant context-switching between disconnected apps, consuming an immense amount of time, creative energy, and resources.

Fotor Agent bridges this critical gap through its advanced long-horizon reasoning and planning capabilities. Built for end-to-end production, the agent transforms raw creative vision into fully assembled, production-ready narrative videos within a single, unified environment.

Intent-Driven Narrative & Coordinated Generation: Translates creative intent into comprehensive scripts and storyboards—automatically structuring long-form narrative arcs with dramatic pacing—while dynamically orchestrating all media components to guarantee complete character, product, and visual consistency.

Automated Multi-Track Assembly: The engine instantly populates and aligns all generated assets onto independent, dedicated tracks. Guided by your initial input, it automatically calculates precise layout, timing, and layering across the entire timeline, delivering a complete edit in a single pass without human intervention.

In short: Creators bring the imagination—Fotor Agent handles complete video production inside a single system, eliminating the need for fragmented tools. Whether you’re producing brand campaigns, social ads, product demos, science explainers, data visualizations, corporate reports, or dynamic motion graphic promos, the Agent delivers complete, high-quality, production-ready videos.

Create After Effects-level Precision Motion Graphics

Motion graphics are indispensable to modern visual communications—powering everything from high-impact product demos and corporate reporting to scientific explainers and social campaigns. Yet, achieving After Effects-level motion design has long required specialized software, steep technical barriers, and tedious production cycles.

Fotor Agent reimagines motion graphics production with chat-driven workflows. Creators can simply describe their ideas to instantly produce AE-grade 4K animated infographics—translating raw information like charts, line graphs, data cards, key metrics, and process diagrams with pixel-perfect text accuracy. By automating complex motion design, the Agent cuts production time and costs by two orders of magnitude.

Conventional AI video models bake motion graphics directly into uneditable pixel streams, locking visual layers and timing into static video files where any late-stage modification requires a costly full regeneration. In contrast, Fotor Agent keeps graphic elements fully parametric. Text, brand colors, charts, visual layers, animation pacing, and element positions remain live and fully interactive on the preview canvas.

Editable Projects: Designed for Total Post-Production 

Conventional AI video generators output flattened video files—where even a minor tweak to a specific region or element forces a time-consuming full-project regeneration. Fotor Agent transforms this process by delivering a fully transparent, multi-track editable project. While the AI Agent handles macro narrative structure and orchestration, the built-in editor gives you flexible element-level post-production control.

Complete Non-Destructive Editing Suite:

Decoupled multi-track Timeline: Video, voiceovers, music, sound effects, subtitles, and motion graphics are organized into dedicated tracks. Creators can select specific clips or assets on the timeline for localized manual editing, or attach them in chat for precise, conversational prompt adjustments with the Agent.

Editable Motion Graphics: Empowering creators with granular control over visual elements right on the video canvas. Instead of forcing full scene re-renders for minor updates, creators can directly select and fine-tune motion graphics on the spot—revising text content, adjusting font sizes, customizing color palettes, tweaking line thickness, repositioning elements or reordering flowchart steps through intuitive parameter controls.

Semantic-Level Intelligent Video Editing

Fotor Agent intelligently analyzes video content to grasp your creative vision and key messaging, automatically transforming long-form videos into high-impact highlights. Guided by smart video editing algorithms, it pinpoints peak moments, strips out filler and bloopers, inserts context-aware B-roll, and auto-completes subtitles, background music, and smooth transitions.

Taking editing a step further, the engine intelligently pairs standard video footage with dynamic Motion Graphics and high-end typography. By automatically matching visual styles, layouts, and pacing to your video’s context, it effortlessly elevates ordinary raw footage into sophisticated, professional-grade visual content.

Radical Cost Reduction and Unmatched Production Efficiency

By unifying long-horizon planning, asset generation, motion design, and editing into a single automated workspace, Fotor Agent dramatically slashes production costs and accelerates delivery. What once took marketing teams 3 to 5 days across the entire end-to-end video production pipeline—from initial creative briefing and scripting to asset generation, timeline assembly, final packaging, and adjusting—is now compressed into under 1 hour for 2-minute video, enabling rapid content scaling, low-cost A/B testing, and effortless global campaign rollouts.

End-to-End Automated Orchestration: Instead of manually stitching together fragmented tools and assets, the Agent automatically coordinates narrative design, asset generation, and timeline assembly in a single pass—eliminating the friction of traditional manual workflows and saving significant time.

Non-Destructive Iteration: Continuous revision and editing remain a critical bottleneck in traditional video workflows. Fotor Agent eliminates costly full-project regenerations by allowing precise, element-level adjustments directly on the multi-track timeline and canvas—drastically slashing iteration costs.

Exponential Savings in Motion Graphics: The cost impact is especially striking in high-end motion design. According to Fotor’s internal benchmarks, the Agent cuts MG production costs to 1/200th of traditional After Effects workflows while boosting generation and editing speed 50-fold. Crucially, because elements stay fully parametric, you can edit text, layout, or animation timing on the fly—without paying for extra renders.

New Foundation for AI-Powered Visual Creation

“Professional visual capability should be accessible to everyone,” said Tony Duan, Founder and CEO of Fotor. “Fotor Agent bridges the gap between raw AI output and real-world execution, marking the shift from generating individual assets to completing the entire production process.”

Integrated into Fotor’s AI Vibe Marketing workflow, Fotor Agent extends the platform from image and design creation to end-to-end, fully editable video production.

Fotor Agent is available at www.fotor.com/agent/.

About Fotor

Fotor is a leading AI Vibe Marketing Platform serving more than 800 million users worldwide. It helps individuals, creators, and businesses transform ideas into professional visual content across images, design, and video. Serving users in more than 200 countries and regions, Fotor provides AI-powered creative tools that make advanced visual production faster, simpler, and more accessible.

Website: www.fotor.com

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S/4HANA Migration Risk Rises When Strategic Decisions Are Left to Implementation Partners, Info-Tech Research Group Finds

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With SAP’s end of mainstream maintenance for ECC approaching in 2027, organizations are under pressure to define their migration plan. New insights from Info-Tech Research Group show that relying too heavily on implementation partners to make strategic migration decisions can increase the risk of cost overruns, project delays, and outcomes that fail to reflect business priorities. The firm’s Build Your S/4HANA Migration Plan blueprint helps SAP migration teams evaluate migration options and trade-offs, lead critical decisions, and establish direction before engaging technical partners.

ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — SAP users preparing to migrate from ECC to S/4HANA face one of the largest technology transformations many organizations will undertake. While these initiatives often require outsourced technical expertise, the most critical migration decisions remain the organization’s responsibility. According to recent insights published in Info-Tech Research Group’s Build Your S/4HANA Migration Plan blueprint, many teams enter implementation without fully understanding how strategic migration decisions affect long-term business outcomes.

Info-Tech’s research recognizes the important role that implementation partners play in S/4HANA migrations. However, it also emphasizes that strategic decisions must remain with the organization. While partners provide essential technical expertise, they may not have the full business context needed to determine priorities, transformation goals, or acceptable trade-offs. These decisions shape every stage of migration, from deployment and migration strategies to governance and organizational change. Without a clear understanding of their long-term implications, organizations risk cost overruns, delays, and reduced business value.

“Most organizations do not run ERP transformations often enough to build deep internal experience,” says Mia Scherba, research analyst at Info-Tech Research Group. “Implementation partners are critical to execution, but they cannot determine what the business should prioritize or which trade-offs it can accept. Those choices need to be owned internally because they shape cost, complexity, and long-term value well beyond the migration.”

Key Factors That Increase S/4HANA Migration Risk

Info-Tech’s research highlights several planning challenges that consistently affect S/4HANA migration outcomes:

Migration complexity is underestimated. Treating S/4HANA as a technical upgrade rather than a full ERP transformation leads organizations to overlook the effort required on customizations and integrations.Critical decisions are made independently. Migration strategy, deployment method, technical complexity, and organizational readiness influence one another. Optimizing one decision without evaluating the others can introduce unintended constraints and trade-offs.Implementation partners are expected to define business direction. While external partners provide essential technical expertise, they cannot determine organizational priorities and acceptable trade-offs.Change management receives insufficient attention. Successful migrations depend not only on technical execution but also on organizational readiness and user adoption.

Info-Tech’s Three-Phase Methodology for Building an S/4HANA Migration Plan

To help organizations establish direction before technical work begins, Info-Tech’s Build Your S/4HANA Migration Plan blueprint guides SAP migration teams through three planning phases.

Discover the Current SAP Landscape. Assess internal capabilities, strategic intent, organizational readiness, and technical complexity to establish a realistic starting point.Define the Migration Plan. Evaluate deployment methods, migration strategies, and the trade-offs associated with each option to identify a combination that aligns with organizational capacity and priorities.Prepare for Migration. Formalize governance, define rollout expectations, and document the decisions that implementation partners will use to execute the migration.

The blueprint also includes a S/4HANA Project Management Worksheet, S/4HANA Complexity Assessment, S/4HANA Decision Guide, and S/4HANA Migration Readiness Brief. These resources help organizations assess their current environment, evaluate migration scenarios, document planning decisions, and communicate a clear implementation strategy before engaging technical delivery partners.

For exclusive and timely commentary from Info-Tech’s experts, including Mia Scherba, and access to the complete Build Your S/4HANA Migration Plan blueprint, please contact pr@infotech.com.

About Info-Tech Research Group

Info-Tech Research Group is the “get things done” partner for over 30,000 IT, HR, and marketing leaders worldwide. The fastest growing research and advisory firm, Info-Tech enables leaders to make well-informed decisions and transform their organizations through AI, strategic foresight, step-by-step methodologies, practical tools, industry-leading advisory, and training programs. For nearly 30 years, tens of thousands of private and public organizations have trusted Info-Tech to lead their most important initiatives through periods of change and deliver outcomes that truly matter.

To learn more about Info-Tech’s HR research and advisory services, visit McLean & Company, and for data-driven software buying insights and vendor evaluations, visit the firm’s SoftwareReviews platform.

Media professionals can register for unrestricted access to research across IT, HR, and software, and hundreds of industry analysts through the firm’s Media Insiders program. To gain access, contact pr@infotech.com.

For information about Info-Tech Research Group or to access the latest research, visit infotech.com and connect via LinkedIn and X.

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Skincare Myths Are Going Viral but Avène Is Empowering Dermatologists to Lead the Narrative

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SECAUCUS, N.J., Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — As consumers increasingly turn to social media and AI-powered search for answers about sensitive skin, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre — the world’s second-largest dermo-cosmetics company and one of Europe’s leading pharmaceutical laboratories — is elevating Avène as the platform for a necessary kind of influence: dermatologist-led education.

Now in its third year, Dermfluencer University is hosted at the Science of Skin Summit, an annual educational event founded by Dr. Patricia Farris and Dr. Ted Lain dedicated to the science, clinical research and emerging innovations behind dermatology and skincare. The program equips board-certified dermatologists with insights, tools and training to create engaging, science-backed content for today’s digital-first skincare consumer.

As a clinically proven brand, Avène recognizes that today’s patients aren’t just in the dermatologist’s office, they’re online, searching for answers before they ever book an appointment. By equipping dermatologists to meet them there, Avène is working to reach more patients and help them navigate their skin concerns with credible, engaging, science-backed guidance.

“Consumers are now turning to AI and social platforms with the same questions they once reserved for their dermatologist,” said Romina Laraia, VP of Consumer, Patient and Professional Activation. “As a dermocosmetics brand, we have a responsibility to prioritize consumers both online and in the dermatologist office. Dermfluencer University was created to help ensure the answers they find are rooted in clinical expertise and not misinformation or viral trends.”

With a combined social following of over 6.5 million, this year’s Dermfluencer University participants represent some of the most trusted voices in skincare education today, including, Mimi Banks, founder of MB Social; Ian Michael Crumm, founder of Boys in Beauty; Leslie Ann Hall, founder of Iced Media; Britt Fallon, Director of Beauty at NewBeauty; Dr. Jenny Liu (@derm.talk); Dr. Maren Locke (@thebudgetdermatologist); Dr. Kunal Malik (@dermdocmalik); Dr. Neera Nathan (@dermatologysurgeon); Dr. Dustin Portela (@drdustinportela); Vivian Sullivan, Sr. Partner Lead at Google; and Dr. Lindsey Zubritsky (@dermguru). Attendance is expected to be the strongest yet.

“Every day, I see skincare advice go viral with no clinical basis,” said Dr. Lindsey Zubritsky. “Dermfluencer University gives dermatologists the tools to compete in the same feed with content that’s engaging, accurate and grounded in science.”

“Patients are making skincare decisions based on short-form videos, sometimes before they ever see a dermatologist,” said Dr. Jenny Liu. “We need more dermfluencers to meet them where they are, with information they can trust.”

With dermatologist and HCP partners at the core of their strategy, Avène continues to expand these partnerships across three key pillars: online, in-office and at retail. Together, these efforts bring science-backed education and Avène’s sensitive skin solutions closer to patients wherever they are.

For more information about Avène sensitive skincare, dermatologist-recommended skincare and Dermfluencer University, follow @aveneusa on Instagram and TikTok or visit www.aveneusa.com.

Note: High-resolution images, interviews, and product samples are available upon request.

ABOUT EAU THERMALE AVÈNE
With more than 275 years of expertise rooted in dermatology and hydrotherapy, Eau Thermale Avène by Pierre Fabre is dedicated to caring for sensitive skin and is recommended by dermatologists worldwide. Formulated with dermatologist-grade ingredients and Avène Thermal Spring Water, the brand offers clinically proven solutions designed to soothe, soften and calm even the most sensitive skin. Dermatologists are involved from product concept and development through testing to help create safe, high-tolerance formulas, and Avène products are non-comedogenic.

ABOUT LABORATOIRES PIERRE FABRE
Laboratoires Pierre Fabre is the world’s second-largest dermo-cosmetics company and one of Europe’s leading pharmaceutical Laboratoires. Its Dermo-cosmetics & Personal Care portfolio brings together major international brands such as Eau Thermale Avène, Dexeryl, Ducray, Klorane, A-Derma, René Furterer, Même Cosmetics, Darrow, and Elgydium. The Pharma activity covers 5 main therapeutic fields: oncology, dermatology, rare diseases, primary care and family health care.

In 2025, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre generated €3.2 billion euros in revenue, 71% of which came from international sales across 130 territories. Based in southwest France since its creation and manufacturing nearly 90% of its products in France, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre employs 10,000 people worldwide. R&D investments increased by 14% compared with the previous year, reaching €250 million, 67% of which is dedicated to targeted therapies in oncology.

The majority shareholder of Laboratoires Pierre Fabre is the Pierre Fabre Foundation (holding 86.3% of the capital), a humanitarian foundation recognized as being of public utility. The company’s employees are its second-largest shareholder (nearly 10%). This shareholding structure guarantees the company’s independence, its long-term vision and its sustainable contribution to the common good. Dividends paid to the Pierre Fabre Foundation contribute to 35 healthcare-access programs deployed in 22 of the least developed countries in the world.

Since 2023, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre’ CSR policy has been assessed by AFNOR Certification and has been awarded the “Exemplary” level of its CSR label (ISO 26 000 standard for sustainable development). For more information, visit www.pierre-fabre.com

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Canada and Alberta are expanding high-speed Internet access in the province

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Investment from federal and provincial governments will bring high-speed Internet access to 1,833 homes across Alberta

OTTAWA, ON, Sept. 15, 2026 /CNW/ — Reliable and affordable high-speed Internet is essential for all Canadians. It enables access to important online resources, connects friends and families, and drives economic growth and innovation. This is why the governments of Canada and Alberta are bringing high-speed Internet access to underserved communities in Alberta.

Today, the Honourable Buckley Belanger, Secretary of State for Rural Development, together with the Honourable Nate Glubish, Alberta’s Minister of Technology and Innovation, announced $24.8 million in joint federal and provincial funding for two projects to bring high-speed Internet access to 1,833 households in rural and remote communities across Alberta.

This funding is part of an existing agreement between the governments of Canada and Alberta. On March 9, 2022, both governments announced a historic broadband partnership to invest up to $780 million to provide high-speed Internet access to Albertans in rural, remote and Indigenous communities.

The federal government remains on track to meet its goal of providing high-speed Internet access to 98% of Canadian households by the end of 2026, and 100% by 2030. With these investments, the government is helping to create new opportunities for rural and remote communities–ensuring that all Canadians, no matter where they live, have full access to high–speed Internet, enabling them to participate in the digital economy and benefit from everything Canada has to offer.

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“In today’s world, high-speed Internet is essential infrastructure. For rural households like the 1,833 across Alberta being connected by this funding, it helps level the playing field–connecting people to health care, education and business. This project brings us another step closer to our goal of connecting every Canadian to high-speed Internet by 2030 and is another great example of what we can accomplish when Canada and Alberta work together.”
– The Honourable Buckley Belanger, Secretary of State for Rural Development

“No matter where Albertans live, they should have access to reliable, high-speed Internet. This investment will help connect more rural and remote communities, support local businesses, create new opportunities and improve access to the services people rely on every day. Together with the Government of Canada, we are building the infrastructure needed to keep Alberta communities connected.”
– The Honourable Nate Glubish, Alberta’s Minister of Technology and Innovation

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Canada’s Connectivity Strategy aims to provide all Canadians with access to Internet speeds of at least 50 megabits per second (Mbps) download / 10 Mbps upload.The Universal Broadband Fund is a $3.225 billion investment by the Government of Canada designed to help provide high-speed Internet access to 98% of Canadian households by the end of 2026 and achieve the national target of 100% access by 2030.Today, 97.4% of Canadian households have access to high-speed Internet, compared to just 79% in 2014.In Alberta, 98.1% of households currently have access to high-speed Internet.Since 2015, the Government of Canada has invested $554 million in connectivity projects in Alberta.Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit individuals and gender diverse people are more likely to go missing or be murdered than non-Indigenous women. Better connectivity means more tools in moments of danger, enabling victims of violence to access critical online resources and get help when they need it most.

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Rural economic developmentHigh-Speed Internet Access DashboardUniversal Broadband FundBackgrounder: Universal Broadband Fund and Telesat low Earth orbit capacity agreementHigh-Speed Access for All: Canada’s Connectivity StrategyNational Broadband MapFederal Pathway to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ PeopleBackgrounder: Governments of Canada and Alberta to help bring high-speed Internet access to communities across the province – Canada.ca

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