Create Your First Video

Creating a video in TutorFlow starts with a topic, or a script you already have, and ends with an MP4 you can download or share. The creation flow is a short series of questions; the editing that follows is optional but worth a few minutes before you create the file.

Step 1: Choose a format

Landscape videos run from 30 seconds to 10 minutes. Portrait videos run from 15 seconds to 3 minutes and use a hook-first script structure. The format cannot be changed after the video is created.

Step 2: Choose a video style

If you choose Avatar narration, an extra step asks you to pick a preset avatar or upload your own character image (PNG, JPEG, or WebP up to 5 MB). TutorFlow keeps the design and generates the mouth shapes it needs to lip-sync.

Step 3: Describe the video and set the language

One text box, up to 2,000 characters, drives the script structure, the tone, the keywords, and the footage search terms. Put the topic, the audience, the scope, and any points to include in it. A specific description produces a usable first draft.

Instead of: "Machine learning"

Write: "A beginner-friendly introduction to how neural networks learn, for university students with no math background."

The description is optional if you paste your own script in the next step.

Narration language sits on the same step and defaults to Automatic, which follows the language you wrote in. Choose a language explicitly when the accent matters, for example Portuguese (Portugal) rather than Brazil, or when your description is in one language and the video should be in another. Fifteen languages are available, and the script is written in the one you choose.

Step 4: Add your own script (optional)

If you already have the narration written, paste it here. TutorFlow splits it into scenes and sets the video length from the script, so the length step is locked. The script has to fit the format's maximum length; the page shows how long your text will take to read.

Leave the field empty to have TutorFlow write the script from your topic.

Step 5: Set the video length

Pick a target length on the slider. TutorFlow uses it to decide how many scenes to write and how much to say in each.

Landscape: 30 s, then every minute from 1 to 10 minutes. Portrait: 15 s, 30 s, 45 s, 1, 2, and 3 minutes.

For a first video, one to two minutes is a practical start. It is easier to extend a short video than to cut a long one.

Step 6: Confirm the narration script

Click Generate script. TutorFlow drafts the scenes one at a time and shows each as it lands. Read the result:

• Regenerate if the angle is wrong. You can rewrite individual scenes later in the editor.
• Continue when the narration says what you want.

Each draft is charged when it is written: 1 credit, 3 credits for a video longer than 5 minutes, or 1 credit to split a script you pasted. Regenerate writes a new draft and charges again. Nothing before this step costs credits.

Step 7: Choose a voice

Six voices are available. TutorFlow reads your first scene in each one, so press play and pick by ear rather than by description:

Click Generate video.

Step 8: Generation

TutorFlow now runs two tasks for every scene, in parallel:

1. Narration. Each scene's script becomes speech in the voice you chose. 1 credit per scene.
2. Footage. A stock clip matching the scene is fetched from Pexels or Pixabay, each falling back to the other, and every third stock scene gets a still image instead. 1 credit per scene.

You are taken to the scene editor straight away, and scenes fill in as their audio and footage arrive. A timeline block marked No visual or No narration is missing that asset and can be fixed from the editor.

Step 9: Review and edit

Before creating the file, check:

• Script. Edit a scene's text and regenerate its narration, record it yourself, or change the speaking speed.
• Visuals. Search for a different clip or image, upload your own, use a slide, or change the visual effect.
• Layout. Switch a scene between Keyword, Title, Quote, Sketch, Hand-drawn, 2D animation, and None.
• Stickers and music. Add a character or a sticky note, and set background music for the whole video.
• Transitions. Choose how each scene hands over to the next.

The Scene Editor Guide covers each panel.

Step 10: Create the video file

Click Create video file. TutorFlow renders the scenes, narration, stickers, effects, transitions, and music into one MP4 in the cloud. A dialog shows the estimated time and the email that will receive the result, and you can keep editing while it runs. Cancel it from the same button if you change your mind.

When the file is ready, you can:

• Download the MP4
• Share it as Private, Unlisted, or Public from the Share button; Public and Unlisted videos get a watch page
• Use it in a course by pasting the MP4 file's URL into a lesson's Video URL field, or by linking the watch page from the lesson text

Each render costs 5 credits when it starts. Edit the scenes and choose Recreate file to render again; the new file replaces the old one.

What to read next

• Scene Editor Guide: visuals, stickers, narration, timeline, transitions, music, and rendering.
• Video Use Cases: how other educators structure videos for lectures, onboarding, and short-form content.
• TutorFlow Videos Overview: full feature overview and credit costs.