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$19/month
Billed monthly
For solo creators posting every week
500 credits every month
- Up to 250 AI images
- Up to 50 AI videos
- Up to 1.5 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 1,000 credits
How to make a tutorial video
Plan, script, record, cut, caption, export.
Every step on this page builds the same 60-second tutorial. Play the finished one first, then see how each part was made.
Open Storybook
Commercial use and no watermark on every paid plan.
Cut and caption in Studio on a tablet or computer.
Here's the kit:
0:00 / 1:00
How to spray a stencil
1:00 · 6 chapters · Narrated, captioned
The short answerSix steps, in this order.
- 1
Pick one task and one viewer
Teach one thing a viewer can finish by the end. Write down who they are and what they already know.
- 2
Write the steps, then the script
List every step in order, then write what you'll say over each one. Read it aloud and cut anything you wouldn't say to a friend.
- 3
Record the picture
Record your screen, film with a phone, or skip filming and have each step illustrated. Record one step per take.
- 4
Cut it down
Remove false starts, pauses and waiting. Speed up anything slow and crop to the part that matters.
- 5
Add a voice and captions
Narrate over the picture or type the script for a generated voice. Add captions so it works with the sound off.
- 6
Export and post
Export an MP4 at 1080p: 16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for Shorts, TikTok and Reels. Add chapters to the description.
Steps 1 and 2: plan, then scriptWrite it in two columns.
Left, what the viewer sees. Right, what they hear. One row per step. This is the stencil script, with every line timed as it was read.
How to spray a stencil
- Goal
- The viewer sprays a clean stencil on a wall
- Viewer
- Has never used a spray can
- Length
- 60 seconds, 6 scenes
- Shape
- 16:9, captions on
- 0:00
0:00 What you need
Top-down on concrete: card with a fox drawn on it, knife, mat, tape, spray can, gloves, mask.
Here's the kit: thick card with your design on it, a craft knife, a cutting mat, painter's tape, a can of spray paint and a mask.
9.1 s of 10 - 0:10
0:10 Cut the stencil
Gloved hands cut the fox's ears out of the card with a knife.
Cut out every part you want painted. Leave thin bridges of card across the gaps, or the eyes and nose fall out.
7.1 s of 10 - 0:20
0:20 Tape it flat
She presses the stencil to the wall and tapes down the edges.
Press the stencil flat against the wall and tape down every edge. Any gap lets paint creep underneath and blurs the line.
8.1 s of 10 - 0:30
0:30 Mask on, shake the can
In a respirator, she shakes the orange can beside the taped stencil.
Put your mask on, then shake the can for a full minute, until the ball inside rattles freely.
6.3 s of 10 - 0:40
0:40 Spray thin coats
Light passes of orange mist fill the fox through the stencil.
Hold the can a hand's width away and spray light, quick passes. Two thin coats beat one heavy one, which drips.
7.9 s of 10 - 0:50
0:50 Peel it off
The stencil comes away from a clean orange fox; she steps back with it.
Let it dry for a minute, then peel the stencil off slowly from one corner. Wipe it clean, and you can use it again.
7.6 s of 10
133 words, 46 seconds of speech, 60 seconds of video. Plan on about 130 words for each minute of video, so every step has a beat to show before the next line starts.
Step 3: record the pictureYour screen, a camera, or neither.
Sceneform doesn't record your screen or camera. Use the recorder you already have and bring the file to Studio, or skip recording and have every step illustrated.
Your screen
Software, websites, settings, spreadsheets.
- Mac
- Press Shift-Command-5 and choose to record the whole screen or a part.
- Windows 11
- Open Snipping Tool and switch it to Record.
- iPhone and iPad
- Add Screen Recording to Control Center and tap it.
- Before you press record
- Close other apps, turn off notifications, and make text larger than feels normal.
A camera
Cooking, crafts, repairs, anything done with hands.
- Angle
- Put the phone above the work for hands, or at eye level when you talk to the viewer.
- Light
- Face a window. Turn off overhead lights that throw shadows across the work.
- Sound
- A clip-on microphone close to your mouth beats the phone's own.
No recording
Recipes, processes and ideas you can't film right now.
- Storybook
- Paste your steps or a link to a written guide. Storybook writes the narration from them and illustrates each scene.
- Look
- One of 15 art styles, kept from the first scene to the last.
- Length
- 10 seconds to 5 minutes, 16:9 or 9:16, with subtitles if you want them. A 60-second video at 720p costs about $12 on the $19 plan.
Step 4: cut it downKeep only what teaches.
Add your recording to Studio on a computer. These are the five cuts a first take usually needs.
False starts and retakes
Split
Split the clip where the good take begins and delete the piece before it.
Pauses and dead air
Split
Split around the silence and delete it. Leave a short beat between steps.
Waiting for something
Speed
An install, a progress bar, an oven timer. Play that stretch faster, up to 5x.
A small detail on a big screen
Framing, Zoom in
Crop to the window or button that matters, or push in slowly with a zoom.
A step the viewer could miss
Text
Name it on screen in a few words, where it starts.
2. Cut the stencil
Step 5: a voice and captionsSay it, type it, or hand it to a presenter.
Type it
Paste the narration column and pick a voice. The same opening line, read two ways:
“Here's the kit: thick card with your design on it, a craft knife, a cutting mat, painter's tape, a can of spray paint and a mask.”
Victoria
American, warm. Storybook's default narrator.
Eleanor
British, clear and measured.
Say it
Record your narration in a quiet room and add it to the Studio timeline. Or make a custom voice from a recording of yourself and type the lines you didn't record.
Then add captions
In Studio, Auto captions writes each spoken word onto the timeline at the moment it's said. Fix any word, pick a style, and export with the captions burned in, like the tutorial at the top of this page. See the caption styles
Step 6: export and postOne tutorial, two shapes.
Studio exports MP4 at 720p, 1080p or 4K. For the vertical cut, swap the canvas and move the picture into frame.
then peel the stencil off slowly
then peel the stencil off slowly
Chapters for the description
Paste these under a YouTube video and the progress bar splits into named parts. YouTube needs the first at 0:00, at least three, and each one 10 seconds or longer.
- 0:00What you need
- 0:10Cut the stencil
- 0:20Tape it flat
- 0:30Mask on, shake the can
- 0:40Spray thin coats
- 0:50Peel it off
Video tutorial makerWhat you do, and what Sceneform does.
The plan and the recording stay yours. Sceneform does the editing, the voice and the captions, and can draw the whole thing when there is nothing to film.
| Step | You | Sceneform |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | You: Pick the task and the viewer. | Sceneform: Nothing. This part is yours. |
| Script | You: List the steps in order. | Sceneform: Storybook writes the narration from your steps or a link. |
| Record | You: Record your screen or film with your phone. | Sceneform: No screen or camera recorder. Storybook can illustrate the steps instead. |
| Cut | You: Decide what stays. | Sceneform: Studio splits, trims, speeds up, crops and adds text. |
| Voice | You: Narrate, or don't. | Sceneform: A voiceover from your typed script, your own cloned voice, or a presenter made from one photo. |
| Captions | You: Read them once and fix any word. | Sceneform: Auto captions write each spoken word at the moment it's said. |
| Export | You: Choose the shape and where it goes. | Sceneform: MP4 or WebM at 720p, 1080p or 4K, 24, 30 or 60 frames a second. |
Simple pricing that scales with you.
Pick the plan for how much you post. Every model on every plan. Unused credits roll over. Cancel anytime.
Pro
Most popular$49/month
Billed monthly
For creators posting daily across channels
1,300 credits every month
- Up to 650 AI images
- Up to 130 AI videos
- Up to 4 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 2,600 credits
Studio
$99/month
Billed monthly
For brands and production teams
2,700 credits every month
- Up to 1,350 AI images
- Up to 270 AI videos
- Up to 9 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 5,400 credits
Scale
$199/month
Billed monthly
For agencies running always-on content
5,500 credits every month
- Up to 2,750 AI images
- Up to 550 AI videos
- Up to 18 hours of AI voiceover
- Roll over up to 11,000 credits
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Tutorial video questions
Plans start at $19 a month for 500 credits. A 60-second Storybook video at 720p uses 320 credits, about $12 on that plan. Cutting and auto captions in Studio use no credits, the first export of each project is free, and later exports cost 10 credits. Voiceovers and presenters use credits by length.
No. Sceneform has no screen or webcam recorder. Record with the one your computer or phone already has (Shift-Command-5 on a Mac, Snipping Tool on Windows 11), then add the file to Studio to cut it, caption it and add a voice. Studio needs a computer-sized window.
As long as the task needs. Teach one task per video and cut everything that doesn't help the viewer finish it. If a video runs past a few minutes, check whether it is really two tasks. For the script, our 60-second example used 133 words, so plan on about 150 words a minute.
Record only your screen or your hands and narrate over them. Or skip recording: Storybook turns your steps into a narrated, illustrated video. If you want a face without filming one, a presenter made from a single photo can read the intro.
Yes, from your own screen recording. Record the steps with your computer's recorder, then cut, crop, zoom, caption and narrate it in Studio. Storybook draws illustrations, not your app's real screens, so it suits explaining an idea more than showing exact clicks.
Yes. Record your narration and add it to the Studio timeline. You can also make a custom voice from a recording of yourself and type any line you didn't record.
16:9 at 1920 × 1080 for a regular video, and 9:16 at 1080 × 1920 for Shorts. Studio exports MP4 at 720p, 1080p or 4K, at 24, 30 or 60 frames a second. YouTube shows chapters when the first timestamp is 0:00, there are at least three, and each is at least 10 seconds long.
Storybook narrates in 73 languages. Pick the language when you start, and the narration and subtitles follow it.
Yes. Every paid plan includes commercial use, and exports have no watermark.
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