Explainer videos
An AI explainer video generator that starts from your material
Most explainer video tools start you on a blank canvas with a library of assets. This one starts from the lesson you already wrote: a course PDF, a slide deck, an approved script, or a session you recorded. It reads what is there, splits it into scenes, and draws each idea on a whiteboard while a voice explains it.
What comes out is an MP4 you can edit scene by scene, in any of thirteen languages, with narration you control. What does not come out is your document with a voice over it.
Start from what you have
Four ways into a whiteboard video
A recording, a document, an approved script or a video you already published — each has its own path through TimaLens.
- Convert an audio recording to videoUpload a voiceover, lecture or podcast and TimaLens draws a whiteboard video around it. Your voice is kept, and every scene appears exactly when its words are spoken.
- Convert a PDF to videoImport a PDF, PowerPoint or text document and TimaLens turns it into a narrated whiteboard explainer video, scene by scene, in thirteen languages.
- Convert slides to videoImport a PowerPoint or Google Slides deck and get a narrated whiteboard video: one idea per scene, drawn as it is explained, not your slides replayed with a voice over them.
- Turn a script into a videoPaste a finished script and TimaLens narrates it exactly as written, drawing each scene on the words it belongs to. Nothing is rewritten, shortened or improved.
- Translate a video into another languagePublish one whiteboard video in French, English, Arabic, Wolof and more. TimaLens translates the narration and the on-screen labels and re-records the voice.
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Why it is not a slideshow with a voice
A slide replayed on screen keeps the pacing of the slide count, and puts the same words in front of the viewer that the narrator is speaking. A whiteboard scene keeps almost no text: the drawing carries the structure, the voice carries the explanation, and the pacing comes from the lesson. That is also why a forty-slide deck usually becomes four short videos rather than one long one.
What you can change afterwards
Every scene stays editable. Rewrite a line of narration, change what is drawn, split a scene that says three things, reorder what is out of sequence, then render again. A wrong sentence in scene four is a one-line fix, not a re-recording.
What you get
An MP4 at 1080p, landscape for a course or vertical for a phone, with no watermark. The narration is text you control, so it doubles as your caption track, and any finished video can be published again in another language for a small fixed price.
Questions
- What is an AI explainer video generator?
- A tool that turns an explanation into a narrated video without a designer. This one differs in where it starts: instead of a blank canvas and a template library, it reads material you already have and proposes the scenes, the drawing and a narration draft you edit.
- Is there a free explainer video generator here?
- A free account can make one video, and importing a document is free on every plan, so you can judge the first draft before paying. Paid plans start at $9 a month, where one credit buys one finished minute of video.
- Do I need a script?
- No. Give it a topic in one sentence and it writes the narration, or paste an approved script and it speaks it word for word, or upload a recording and it keeps your own voice.
- Which languages can it narrate?
- Thirteen, including English, French, Arabic and Wolof. Right-to-left scripts are laid out correctly, and one finished video can be published in several languages.
Try it on something you already wrote
Import one document and look at the scenes it proposes. If the draft is wrong you will know in two minutes, and it will have cost you nothing.
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