Make an explainer video

An explainer video is a short animated film that explains something. You describe an idea. Explainer Video writes the script, animates it, and adds a narrator and music. Explainer Video is in Beta, and it needs a paid plan.

Make an explainer video

1. Open Explainer Video.
2. Describe what your video is about. Give me one idea fills in an example.
3. Choose the duration, from about 15 seconds to about 5 minutes.
4. Choose a style.
5. Choose the animation level: Fast, Pro, or Ultra.
6. Under Voiceover, choose the narrator voice and the language. The play button plays a voice.
7. Under More Settings, choose the video format: Landscape · 16:9 or Portrait · 9:16.
8. Select Write script to read the script before the video is made. To skip that step, tick Skip script review and select Generate video.

The button shows the price of the whole video. Under the button, the page shows how long the video usually takes. You can leave the page, and your video appears when it is ready.

Save as draft saves your idea and settings without making a video. It costs nothing. To make the video later, open the draft and select Generate video.

Explainer Video draws its own characters for each video. You cannot add your saved characters or a universe.

Levels and prices

The level sets how detailed the animation is. The price depends on the length and the level. The button always shows the price before you pay.

Level	Credits per second of video	Credits per Card change
Fast	30	100
Pro	50	175
Ultra	70	250

Update video costs 1 credit per second.

Styles

• Bright
• Paper
• Notebook
• Lumen
• Flat

Each style on the page shows frames of real videos in that style.

Review the script

After Write script, the video stops at Your script is ready.

1. Read the script and the facts it uses. Select a line to change it.
2. Select Save changes. Saving does not start the video.
3. Select Make the video. This uses the price you already accepted, so it costs nothing more.

Change a Card

Your video is made of Cards. Each Card is one part of the film.

1. Open the Card and select Describe a change.
2. Write what you want, for example "Make the title larger and slow the last transition."
3. Select Send. The button shows the price.

A change makes a new take of the Card. To go back, open an older take and select Use this take. That is free.

A change to a Card changes its pictures and animation, not the narration. The Script tab shows what the narrator says in the Card.

When Cards change after a video is made, select Update video to put them in the video.

Change this moment

1. Play the video and pause on the moment you want to change.
2. Select Change this moment. Point at it lets you tap the thing to change.
3. Describe the change and select Send. This costs the same as a Card change.

Problems the app finds

The app checks each Card. Still visible means a problem stayed in the Card. Select Try a fix to write a change for it, then select Send. The change costs the same as any Card change.

Download your video

Select Export, then:

• Download for the video
• Captions (SRT) for the captions
• Voice (MP3) for the narration

If a video fails

If a video or a Card change does not finish, its credits go back to your balance. You do not need to ask. Your idea and settings stay saved, so you can select Try again. Try again costs the same as the first try.

If you stop a video before it finishes, its credits go back too.

A finished video costs its price, even if you do not like the result. See Credits for a failed video.

Not enough credits

A shorter video or a lower level costs less. See Buy credits.