Watching and the timeline

The player

Play your video as it will export: animated scenes cut in while you talk, your voice runs under them, and captions show the words.

The timeline

Under the player, four rows:

• Scenes: each animated moment, e.g. “1 · Why plants need light · 3 parts · 5 objects · ✓ drawn”.
• Parts: the pieces of each scene, one after another.
• Sentences and Words: what you said, in time.

Click or drag on the timeline to move through the video; the time and frame show as you go. The slider zooms in and out. Switches above it:

• Overlays: draw the animations over the player.
• Notes: show each part’s details.
• Captions: the spoken words at the bottom of animated scenes.

A scene

Click a scene (on the timeline, or use ← and → to move scene by scene). Its pane shows:

• ▶ Play scene, ✦ Redo this scene and ✦ Draw again;
• its length, the idea behind it and its layout;
• Environment, for cinematic videos;
• Objects: everything drawn in it, with when each enters (or “Never comes on screen”); + Add object;
• Parts: click one to open it.

A part

A part is one stretch of the scene. Its pane shows what kind it is:

• Animated: drawings moving in time with your words;
• Speaker: your own footage (video recordings);
• Voice card: the sentence being said, on a card (audio recordings).

With ▶ Play, ✦ Redo this part, ⋯ (more), the models it uses, a preview, its length, details, Change this part and its transcript.

A speaker part that’s very short says “Too short to animate” and how long it would need to be.