Explainer Videos Process

Hello.

Welcome Reddit.

So, yeah, this is one of the first few posts that I make, especially with me, on the camera.

But you know, I've been making YouTube videos for a very long time, so at this point I'm past that.

But yeah, I thought I'd make a video, just to share visually, what I'm saying, because sometimes posts with text, might not, portray the, the idea that I have in my mind.

Right.

So, so yeah, just want to share this, in case anybody's interested as well.

I just want to understand if this is something useful or I'm talking a lot of bs, right?

So, yeah, so basically I was working, with, with datacamp, datacam, reach out to me, and we worked together in a couple courses and you know, they took me through this process, which in my opinion, you know, with what AI and know, software can do nowadays, I thought it was a bit primitive.

so what it was.

And it's normal, like big companies tend to move pretty slow.

So I don't, I don't blame it at all.

Right, so what it was is, you know, obviously they have a big team and a lot of the process of creating a course gets offloaded to multiple people.

but yeah, essentially I was the owner of the course and I would take the part of, you know, actually creating the course material and whatnot.

But they will give me this Google Doc, okay, where you would have, you would have the, the script, right?

I would, I would just write some things over here.

And this would represent a, one module or lesson.

Okay.

This would be one, let's say lesson one.

Right.

So this, this first it would all be divided by blocks.

So for example, I would say here, hey, welcome to this course on AI, automation and whatnot.

Right.

And then they would show here a, visual.

So over here you would have visuals.

Over here you would have the script, I would say.

And on the visuals I would either describe what the visual, would need to say or I would just give them a link to a canva document.

Right.

And over here, as I said, I defined the script.

And the interesting thing is that it's divided by blocks.

So when it comes to storytelling, I think this is a pretty effective way to do it.

But they have it, they have it in this Google Doc.

So you know, welcome to whatever.

And then the second block will be to explain another concept.

So on the story.

So this one would be.

Okay, so today we are talking about, the fundamentals of a automation.

What is an LLM?

So you Know, I'm going to take them through, what I'm going to cover through the agenda, and then I will just say, okay, here's an image on, you know, just show them the agenda, whatever.

Okay, first concept.

So what is an LLM?

Actually, so I would just, you know, I will go through the script, I'll write the script.

What is an LLM?

Whatnot.

And then another visual.

So you would go by this.

But the interesting thing about this is that you can divide, you know, the way you're explaining your lesson into different blocks.

And, and every block represents, you know, different concept that you're explaining.

And this goes alongside a visual, right?

So I was like, okay, how do I, you know, map this process in some sort of tool where you also have an editor?

So it just becomes really easy because after this, what I have to do is record this on a different.

On, a different tool, right?

Then the folks at Datacamp, what they do is they grab this.

They have a team assemble everything.

You know, they, they.

There's a team of editors that grab what I'm trying to portray as a visual.

And they actually created on Adobe After Effects, and they create cool visuals and whatnot.

Right?

And there's a couple things going on, right?

So this concept is great, but also then I have to make an audio for this.

a team goes ahead and makes the visuals.

So, you know, there's.

There's multiple things that go from this and then get stitched at the end in order to make the full video.

Right?

It's.

It's a, It's a tedious process.

And I was like, well, why don't we try, you know, putting all this, you know, creating a system and, you know, packaging it into a single tool, right?

That's easy to use.

And so I came with this.

So, obviously I have a programming background, technical background, so I was able to pull out a prototype to just visualize what I want to do.

And.

Yeah, so the idea is that you create a video, right?

Okay, so let me take you through the whole process.

Create a new video, right?

You name your project.

This is not very important.

But, yeah, you create the project.

So in this case, you could record yourself, upload media, or paste the script.

So the script could be, you know, a news article that you're looking to just explain, or basically a concept that you want to explain.

the AI, well, you paste the script over here.

Then the AI would generate different, scenes.

So it would either look for the idea through Google and understand what you're trying to explain or you already have already a document that you want to upload, whatever it is, the AI is going to smartly, split that into scenes.

Why am I doing this?

Because in every scene you have the same core elements, for explanation videos, right?

So explainer videos.

So you have a voice that you need to narrate.

You have also a visual, right?

So you can either add a visual or just your face, right.

And, and yeah, and then just captions.

So that's all a video is.

But by doing it only through an editor, I know that it can be a bit tedious.

And you don't have a notion of, explaining the concepts, explaining the different concepts.

You can't do that on editors nowadays.

So I wanted to build something for also non technical people to understand how the story is going to evolve as we go.

So as you know, everything that you make, contains a story, right?

Everything that you explain, in this case, explainer videos, everything goes through a sequence of things that you're trying to explain.

So this is the idea with this, right?

Splitting the video not only in a timeline, which is useful, but also into, you could call it scenes, right, that you can go inside, change the text if you need to, and you don't need to talk through it necessarily.

You can just generate a voice with AI if you don't want to talk, right?

But this is just a way to really strip down that process, right, of storytelling, at least with explainer videos, and make it super easy.

So, yeah, so this is what I have.

You can add visuals, you can add text, then everything just gets put together at the end and you can export the video.

Right.

My idea is to make it really easy and put all, all those concepts that I learned in Data camp, right, including the scene per scene stuff, into one simple process.

And you could do everything here, right?

So let me know if I'm crazy, I'm talking a lot of bs, let me know because that could be the case as well.

but yeah, my plan is to just build out this tool to help me with my own YouTube videos and my own courses, because I'm building courses as well.

And yeah, just to make it so that I don't have to have a team of five or six people around me.

you know, I could do this by myself with this tool.

So that's the idea, hopefully made sense.

If you have any questions, I don't know where this video would exactly go.

I think I'll start with Reddit, but Yeah, if there's a comment section, definitely ask me below if you have any questions.

And then you can export it onto short form content and whatnot.

And.

Yeah, that's the idea.

Just make, the process of creating explainer videos and course videos and whatnot much, much easier.

So, yeah, let me know what you think.

All right, peace.

Bye.

Bye.