Guides · 14 articles
Tutorials, training and teaching
How to make tutorial, training and teaching videos people finish, and how to explain a hard topic in plain words.
How to Make a Tutorial Video
A tutorial video teaches someone to complete a specific task, such as exporting a file or assembling a piece of furniture.
4 min readHow to Make a How-To Video People Can Follow
A how-to video works when viewers can follow along, check each step, and find their place after a pause. Clear narration is not enough.
4 min readHow to Make a Training Video
A training video should help someone perform a specific task, make a decision, or demonstrate a behavior.
4 min readHow to Make Educational Videos That Students Watch to the End
When students stop an educational video early, they miss whatever comes next. The video also needs to teach.
4 min readMicrolearning Videos: How Short Is Short Enough?
If you are making a short training or explainer video, aim for three to six minutes as a starting point. Go shorter for one simple action or fact.
4 min readDocumentation Videos: When Video Beats Written Docs
When someone needs to learn a software task, the best format depends on the task. A documentation video is a short instructional video that shows a product,…
3 min readHow to Make Coding Tutorial Videos
A coding tutorial video should help viewers understand a goal, follow the code change, and confirm that the program works.
4 min readHow to Explain Technical Concepts to Non-Technical People
When you explain technical work to a customer, colleague, or decision-maker, start with what that person needs to know or do.
4 min readVideo Script Format: The Two-Column (A/V) Script Explained
When you plan a video, you need to know what viewers will see while they hear each line, sound, or music cue.
4 min readInternal Communication Videos: Explaining Changes to Your Team
An internal communication video is a recorded or live message for employees about a change to a policy, process, tool, or way of working.
3 min readAnimated Infographics: Turning Data into a Short Video
An animated infographic is a short video that uses charts, labels, narration, and motion to explain data.
3 min readHow to Turn a Presentation into a Narrated Video
A narrated presentation video is a fixed sequence of visuals and spoken explanation that plays on its own.
3 min readHow to Turn a Blog Post into a Video
Turning a blog post into a video works best when you adapt its main idea for listening and viewing instead of reading the post aloud.
4 min readHow to Animate Code for Programming Videos
When you make a programming video, animated code helps viewers follow what changes and why. Instead of showing a full file at once, you can reveal a few…
4 min readVideos made with explainroo
A coding agent made each of these with explainroo, from the script to the finished MP4.
- Wide 16:9
- Chalk look
How DNS finds a website
Before a page can load, your browser needs the IP address of the site. This video shows who it asks and in which order.
- Square 1:1
- 1.2x pace
- Paper look
How to give feedback people can use
The four parts of feedback people can act on, and why you give it soon and in private.
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Make your own with your AI agent
explainroo lets a coding agent like Claude Code or Codex make narrated explainer videos and product demos. The voice, the word timing and the rendering run on your own computer, with no API key and no cost per video.
Copy this into your AI agent
Make me a short explainer video about [your topic]. Use explainroo for it: clone https://github.com/vincentsch/explainroo, read its AGENTS.md and follow the steps.
Made with explainroo: How DNS finds a website