Free explainer video tutorials
Build a storyboard, write narration for the visuals, and review the finished video. The tutorials include worked examples, detailed steps, and troubleshooting. Read these tutorials and download the planning files without an email or account.
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Original fictional apps, inspired by the launch films we study. Watch each full film and read the first three lesson sections for free. Your system purchase includes the complete lessons and editable projects.
1:08 filmFormaSystem tutorial
Make a design tool feel tactile through elastic controls, photographic detail, and transitions that carry an object from one scene to the next.
Inspired by Figma’s Motion launch film. Fictional app.
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1:11 filmClaspSystem tutorial
Use typography to introduce the problem, then turn the argument into messages, summaries, and a shared call.
Inspired by Slack’s A New Day for Work. Fictional app.
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1:14 filmAsterSystem tutorial
Lead an assistant film from abstract particles into useful answers, with a stable camera, deliberate holds, and an original identity.
Inspired by Google’s Gemini launch film. Fictional app.
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Each lesson gives you a worked example, steps to follow, and checks for the result. Choose the step you need.
Build a storyboard with a clear action and result for each scene.
Read the lessonCalculate scene lengths from audio, then check the words against the action.
Read the lessonWrite timestamped notes that identify product errors and timing problems.
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The library
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Explain an AI product through a checked example, visible source material, and a clear account of what the demonstration establishes.
Build an API video from a reproducible request, a readable response, and the application behavior those values produce.
Plan a product academy around learner outcomes, worked examples and shared visual assets. Includes a lesson map, maintenance checklist and pilot exercise.
Create captions from the approved audio, derive cue offsets from the current edit, review product terminology, and deliver the right caption files.
Plan a developer-tool demonstration with reproducible commands, retained output, and a clear account of what the tool changes.
Develop a documentation lesson with explicit prerequisites, a reproducible example, a learner check, and references for future updates.
Turn a feature-heavy software explanation into a concrete task viewers can follow, from starting conditions to a visible result.
Compare production options by the work you need, the responsibilities your team keeps, and a small scene you can assess before committing.
Write a production brief around an audience, a specific misunderstanding and a visible result. Includes a completed example and a free Markdown template.
Compare video quotes using a defined workflow, an explicit delivery list, and a budget that includes your team's review time.
How the audience, scene plan, reading time, and narration determine a useful video length.
Find unclear claims, invented product behavior, missing comparisons, and timing problems using a concrete scene-level review.
Compare recordings, diagrams, character animation, 3D, and typography by what each can show in a product explanation.
Turn a release into a worked lesson with a before-and-after example, verified product states, and reusable production assets.
Build a realistic production schedule from product access, visual reviews, audio work, and the dates your team can provide feedback.
Review product accuracy, story, timing and visual finish in separate passes. Includes a timestamped feedback template and release checklist.
Build a storyboard around visible changes, one continuing example, and a clear result. Includes a worked board and a reusable scene template.
Plan a launch film around a verified workflow, a clear availability statement, and review dates that fit the release.
Build onboarding lessons around a first successful task, visible results, useful prerequisites, and product-specific troubleshooting.
Find overloaded scenes, separate actions from ideas, and build clear visual beats without turning your video into a slow slide deck.
Make a project introduction from a small example repository, a real run, and written instructions a new user can verify.
Compare a recorded procedure with a conceptual explanation, and combine them when a viewer needs both to understand a workflow.
Build a gallery video around a worked task, check it without sound, and verify the actual launch preview before publishing.
Build an evidence table for product-video labels, actions and results. Catch invented interfaces, misleading outcomes and continuity errors before production.
Choose a story structure for your product video using before-and-after, guided construction or a useful failure. Includes a worked outline.
Plan a SaaS video around a viewer task, accurate product screens, and a worked example that connects actions to results.
Prompt for buildable scenes using product evidence, entry and exit states, and a worked example. Learn how to compare treatments and audit a generated storyboard.
Build a phrase-to-action map, distinguish scene length from synchronization, and repair an explainer whose words and picture drift apart.
From a product request and preview to an agreed scope, production, review, and delivery.
Budget time for orientation, action, and reading; keep cursor movement natural; and adapt a scene when the final narration runs longer.
Measure scene audio, derive animation durations, preserve approved takes, and keep narration changes from breaking the rest of your explainer.
Turn an approved visual sequence into clear spoken explanation, with worked rewrites, pronunciation notes, and a reusable narration prompt.
Test animation tools with a real scene and a likely revision, then compare production effort, fidelity, exports, and delivery scope.
Choose movement windows and easing curves that make product actions clear, preserve reading time, and survive narration changes.
Plan readable camera views, preserve product context across moves and cuts, and review framing against the final narration.
Write a supported closing line, preserve a readable final state, and adapt the next step to the page or placement.
Plan an opening around a visible product action or a concrete problem, then test its wording and timing against the first scene.
Choose and mix an explainer soundtrack around the actual narration, use effects deliberately, and agree the music deliverables.
Plan a clear visual explanation, verify the product, review stills and motion, then write and synchronize narration to the actual action.
Choose an animation workflow from the scenes you need to make, then complete a first exercise with a visible action and checkable result.
Choose captures, accurate reconstructions, or labeled diagrams. Build an evidence table and verify the controls and results in each scene.
A practical review of clarity, product accuracy, visual focus, narration, timing, and useful reading holds, with interactive examples.
Diagnose unreadable results, mismatched narration, unsupported interfaces, and continuity errors. Includes a practical repair exercise.
Turn your product story into a film with the 20cuts Creation System. Pay $29.99 once for one editable template, two example configurations and films, four core lessons, an AI quickstart, guided prompts, and the complete launch-film tutorial library with source projects.
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