Guide
Here’s how to turn what you’ve written, or would rather say out loud, into an animated explainer: which source to start from, when to let the AI writer rewrite your words, how to direct scenes with notes in square brackets, and which style fits your subject. You’ll also see what the AI director decides and what you can still change after the first cut. To try it as you read, open Clipteach’s text to video AI.
You bring what you know, in whatever shape it’s in. Nothing is charged before you see the price.
The text box takes anything from about 200 characters: a finished script, the bullet points you teach from, a blog post, a chapter of your course, a transcript. It doesn’t have to be written for the ear. With Rewrite on, that’s the AI writer’s job.
Say you wrote an 800-word post on compound interest for your community. Paste it, leave Rewrite on and pick Standard, about two minutes. The writer keeps your argument and trims it to what a voice can say in that time. In Motion’s light look, the director might count the balance up as the voice walks through the years, then draw the curve as it starts to bend.
Most lessons already exist as a file. Import a PDF (up to 50 MB), a Word file (.docx), a PowerPoint (.pptx) or a plain text file, or paste the link to a Google Slides deck. The text lands in the box first, with page numbers and repeated headers left out, so you check it before anything is made.
A deck gets its own treatment: the speaker notes become the voice, and each slide becomes a [SLIDE] note that tells the director what was on it. Tick “Keep my slides’ background” and your slides’ design stays behind the video while the style animates their content on top.
A scanned PDF holds pictures of pages, not text, so it’s refused: copy the text from the original instead. Pictures inside a PDF can be ticked and added to your Library. The details are on the PDF to video page.
If you explain things better out loud than on paper, skip the writing. Upload a recording of your voice: it’s transcribed, your voice stays the narration, and every scene comes in on the word it belongs to. There is no voice to pick and nothing is rewritten.
Beside the recording, an optional Script & notes box takes your instructions for the director: what to show, what to highlight, how a name is spelled. Voice to video covers how to record for it.
Filmed yourself instead? That’s the other door: the AI video editor takes your own clips, keeps your best takes and animates on top of them.
Everything you would otherwise decide yourself in an animation tool. That’s the difference between an AI explainer video maker and a template with your words poured in: for each line of the narration, the director chooses what appears, where it sits, how it enters and moves, and which word it lands on.
The timing is the part that teaches. In Richard E. Mayer’s research on multimedia learning, people learn better when words and the matching pictures arrive together rather than one after the other: his temporal contiguity principle. A drawing that turns up three seconds after the voice has moved on makes the viewer choose between listening and looking.
No avatar stands in front of your ideas, and no stock clip fills the gaps. Two videos on two subjects come out built differently, because the director starts from what each one says. Any scene can still be changed afterwards.
Rewrite is one switch with two jobs. On, the AI writer turns your material into a narration written to be heard, at the length you choose. Off, the voice reads your text exactly as you wrote it: the right call for a script you’ve already taught from and tested.
With Rewrite off, you can direct. Anything in [square brackets] is a note for the director, of any length, and it’s never read aloud. It shapes the scenes for the words that follow it. Write [three boxes in a row: plan, record, publish] above a sentence, and the director builds that sentence’s scene around it. A [SCREEN] note marks where one of your screen recordings plays.
Writing for a voice is its own craft. Our guide to narration that teaches walks through it.
Put each [note] on its own line, just before the words it shows. A note at the very top applies to the opening.
Each style is a world of its own, with its own artwork, its own way of moving and its own camera. Pick the one that fits what you explain.
The first version is made for you, scene by scene. From there it’s yours:
You start with 300 free credits when you sign up, enough for a short video. No card.
Starter is $19 a month ($190 a year) for about 3.3 to 4.7 minutes of video a month. Creator is $49 a month ($490 a year) for about 11 to 15 minutes. Studio is $149 a month ($1,490 a year) for about 41 to 58 minutes. Where you land in each range depends on the style.
Credits roll over and never expire. Before you generate, the video’s price is shown, and so is the price of any later change that costs credits.
Building a course? See how course creators use Clipteach, lesson after lesson. When your text is ready, turn it into an animated video.
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