Starting Your First Video

Take a seat in your director’s chair because it’s time to get started making your first video.

As your guide, I’ll talk you through the process from start to finish.  We’ll begin by adding a template and a few scenes to guide the project, choose an actor, add your script, change a few visuals, and then we’re ready to generate and share our production.

When you start a new project, you can choose from one of the many templates our designers have created. Think of templates like a recipe.  It has the instructions and ingredients that you’ll use to cook your meal.  Now, if you’re new to the kitchen and haven’t done much cooking, I recommend starting here. For now, I’ll start with this template so that you can see how I build a video in STUDIO.

First, I’ll start by clicking on the + button.  If you don’t select a template, you’ll see our default template and layouts.  I can add each layout to my project by clicking the add scene button.

For this example, I’ll build a training video in six scenes. Starting from a title layout to introduce my video, I’ll add an agenda scene to show my viewers where I’m headed, and a few body slides to show pictures and other stock footage.  I’ll end with a recap scene to say goodbye to viewers and to give them a next step with a catchy call to action.

Now that you’ve got your scenes added, you’re ready to find an actor to play the part.