Whiteboard Videos

Nick Hershey

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1) Why make a whiteboard video?

Whiteboard videos like this (direct link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNwK8ZIcwiE) allow you to tell a story with visuals

that can hone in on exactly what you’d like to emphasize. Plus, you can make them

yourself without too much money or work.

2) Disclaimer

Although the software I used was free to download, it costs $29/month to export the

videos to a usable format. Thus, to export your one video, it will cost $29. Furthermore,

making a high quality video with voiceover requires a decent amount of editing and work.

3) Download software

The software I used was called Videoscribe, and I definitely recommend it. It is free to

download but costs money to export your videos.

4) Start a new project

5) Add an image or text to your project

6) Select an SVG image

You may select an image either from Videoscribe’s library or import any Scalable Vector

Graphics (SVG). To find SVGs, I recommend Google Images or TheNounProject.

7) Edit the image

You can resize, rotate, and otherwise edit the image. It’s important to notice the time

element for each picture. This is how long it takes to draw that element.

8) Continue adding images and and text

Keep adding images and text to your video. Make sure you watch your video as you

create to see if the timings make sense and the relative sizing of objects makes sense.

Videoscribe handles transitions, but you can customize them if you’d like.

9) Voiceover

Once you have completed your video complete, click to add voiceover.

10) Export your video

And that’s it! Contact me at nhershey@stanford.edu

if you have any questions or would like a video made!