Animated Explainer Video with Voice Over in PowerPoint

1. Introduction: Hello and welcome in this class where we are going to prefer and animate a short explainer video about ATV bend from the 16th in Iceland. I will teach you how to gather all resources designed each of the slides, animate all elements on them. And by the end, make a voice-over as well. We will learn cool tricks like making clouds move or animating waving hands from an illustration. All that done within the new recording screen in PowerPoint, including adding our voice-over, a lot of fantastic stuff to cover. If you want to make videos with PowerPoint, Let's start learning. 2. Resources: Welcome here in the first lecture, I'd like to show you how to download the resources and how to move around this project. If you open PowerPoint, if you open this project, this is the animation I did. And you will work below from scratch. If you want to preview what I did at any given point, you can always click on a given slide. You can open the animations and the animation pane to see what is happening here. Don't be overwhelmed. I will be going over everything. If you want to see the notes for a given slide, just open them on each slide. I'm giving the exact script I've read. So you will know what's happening on the screen and all the icons, elements, sounds. I've prepared and downloaded from our website. You can download them yourself if you want to learn to use resources from websites, or you can use the empty template I've prepared here with all the icons that were downloaded during the creation process. The icons, the elements I've created myself, my voice-over. It's not perfect, but you can use it or you can, of course, record your own. I will later teach you how. There is also a music track that you can put on the first slide and it will play across the entire presentation what's important if you have at least PowerPoint 2019 and above, it will work with SVG images. This is why websites like stories set.com are absolutely perfect for this versions of PowerPoint because we can download an SVG image straight from this website onto our desktop and just drag and drop it into PowerPoint. We can change the color immediately or in PowerPoint, and we can show all layers. We can deselect certain layers if we don't want something. For example, here I just wanted the television. I've hidden the characters. I filled in the so far the plant. I've made a hidden background and just the TV can be downloaded straight as SVG. If you use other websites like free pick of course, because you can use a different media, you don't have used my media. For example, on this slide, I've used freebies. If you download from free pig, it will most likely be an EPS vector file. This is a vector file, vector format that PowerPoint cannot read immediately. You need to go to our website to convert it. For example, Cloud convert.com or other websites. Eps do SVG. You just select the file, you convert it, and then you can bring the file into PowerPoint and it should work. Sometimes we'd problems, but it's usable. You can the same way, create EMF files if you have an older version of PowerPoint, for example, those and 1020132016. You would need to use EMF. I'll work with the objects we already have. And in the next lecture, we will start right away by preparing the groundwork for the first slide that is the background. See you there. Let's start designing. And I hope this will be a really enjoyable journey. 3. Start a project!: Hi, it would be amazing. And you can help me on Skillshare by starting a product for this class. Nice. At first, it doesn't have to be the ready product is go to the Project and Resources tab. Hit on Create Project. And right, You're welcome message. Later on when you create slides from the lectures, you can share a screenshot of that slide. You can do this by going to File Save As Selecting Browse. And you can select to save as a JPEG there. By saving JPEG, you can select all slides are just this one. Then you can come back to the project, select Image and to just add a slide that you created. I will be really happy to see it and it will also be very helpful. Please start the product right now. It will take only a few clicks and helps me a lot here on Skillshare. 4. Slide 1 - Background: With this lecture, we will start the design by creating a background like this. And like this. Let us start creating. I will right-click and select a new slide. As you can see, I have a blank canvas. Now at first, I want to create the background with you. For the background, of course, we will need the color scheme. I will take this file with the color scheme Control C and just place it below my current slide. I want two shapes, one on the left side and one on the right side. If you create explainer videos, dozen of times, you will divide your screen into two parts, into three parts. This is a really common work, so I'll press Alt to, that is my shortcut for insert shapes. And I'll insert a normal rectangle. I will just place it here and I'll place it on the left topside. I hope I'll meet the middle point. As you can see the 0 here, I'm always watching where I am with my mouse. Just extended to the entire slide. I've overdone it. Okay, we have the first object ready. I will press Control D to duplicate it and create another object. Perfect, I have two different objects. Now, you want to change the color using the color scheme because I don't want to waste time on selecting colors. Shape Fill, eyedropper. And with the eyedropper, you can click on a given color. You can also right-click select, Add to Quick Access toolbar to edit. Here you can see I have a bunch of items. The colorful is one of the most commonly used to address press Alt three in my case, and select what I wanted to select. I want to select the gray color. Here. I want to select a blue color. It doesn't matter which one you can, of course change them. It will be your decision. In order to make this a tiny bit more interesting, what I did personally, I took this object, I created a new shape and this time I wanted a rounded rectangle, but it doesn't really matter. It can be completely up to you. I have rounded the corners and I displaced four of those items here. I don't want to say randomly, but kind of in the middle of the object. With my shift key, I will select all four of them, and I will bring them a bit lower and bring them a bit more to the right side. They appear in the middle. What I did is going to Shape Fill, eyedropper, and I've selected a gray color or even the same color. Let me select them back again. Right-click Format Object. Going to the fill, selecting the fill more colors. And they made the color slightly darker. Just so you have some kind of texture here. Maybe I overdid it with the darkness. I'll go more fill colors and I'll make it a bit brighter again. Okay, so just have something like that. Then I selected this entire object, press Control G. And I have this kind of background. I did those objects only. So this looks a bit more professional, not a plane object. Unexplained or videos. This looks a tiny bit better. Ols to again for my shapes. And you can of course use any shapes you want. For example, shifts like that. Control D with Michelle. I rotate them. Control the, this one. Some kinds of patterns, some kind of texture, looks really nice on those explainer videos. I will repeat the process. I bring them a bit higher, a bit to the right side so they appear more in the middle. And for the color, you can go to Shape Fill and use one of the recent colors. Color, more fill colors. And just bring this upward, downward a little bit up to you. Okay? I've created those two textures. I'm selecting now everything with my mouse-click, I drag along Control G, and I've prepared by accident, I selected the color scheme as well. Apologies. This way, I have my left side and my right side prepared for my animations. Try to create patterns like that with different objects of your liking. In the next lecture, we'll see each other again and we will soon go to the animation part. 5. Slide 1 - Design: In this lecture, I want to teach you how to add additional elements according to the script. We will add the flag, the TV, and the dates. Why did I divide this slide into 21 of the absolutely most important things. If you do any kind of video, not only empowerment, any kind of video is looking at the script. Of course, you need a script At first. I have a simple script here, I will just copy it down. And the first sentence goes, in Iceland for more than 20 years from blah, blah, blah, blah, by a decision of the government on Thursday, television didn't error. You need to segment this into a couple of pieces and imagine what you will put on the slide to animate it. I wanted information about Iceland. This will be number one. I wanted information about years. It can be text or some kind of element as well. So I have number two. Number three is government, and number four is television or a. Firstly, I have four elements here to animate. This is pretty much, you don't need to animate everything, review, create, explainer, reduced. But here I wanted to have four elements. So it really nicely divide it by two to have those objects. What I've selected, I selected a flag. I selected this television icon, and I prepared an x sine. I will just copy those elements. If you want to download the manually, you have sources, everything that I downloaded. And if not, you can just search Google for illegal items you can use. And let me position those items first. At first. And information about Iceland need to emerge. In Iceland. Blah-blah-blah. For more than 20 years, blah, blah, blah. The yours should be maybe on the right side. For the years, I've selected insert text box. Where are your textbooks? I've created the textbox and we have yours. 1966. I hope they are precise to 19 to 19871987. At first I'm creating them in one box. I will maybe separate them, but that in a moment, of course, pecks should be white because we have a dark blue background. I wanted to center them and I wanted to make this really, really big. Something like that. Around 100 points should be okay. Now you need to decide for yourself what kind of font you want to use it. This would be one of the fonts that could work. I used a different font, but if I look at it now, Bodoni looks really beautiful. So I will set this font, I'll make it a bit smaller, and this looks really fine. If you want to animate everything separately. That is what I recommend. I would duplicate this three times. And here I would just have this here. I will just have the second years. Here, I would just have the first year. So this would be really nice to animate because I have three separate objects. If we read the line along, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, by the decision of the government on Thursday, television didn't air. I wanted to put a TV with Thursday on it. I will make it bigger so it matches the flag. I wanted this x sine to be somewhat something like that. This is the design part of this slide. I can make this a bit bigger with my shift key. Select that element is x sine a little bigger, so it covers the TV. And if you wonder how I made this x sine, I just created two rounded rectangles like that. And I just move them over, control the move them over. And this is how you create basically a simple change the colors and everything would be done. This slide is, in my opinion, prepared for animation because we've put all the elements a good explainer video should have. In the next lecture, I'll show you how to professionally animate a slide like that. 6. Slide 1 - Animation: The first mouse-click will be Iceland. It could also be without a mask. The second most leak will be all the text. The third most Greek, this is very important. The flag will move and the television will appear in the list object will be the x. This will be a very difficult lecture, so pay close attention animating everything we have here. I will start with the background. Click to select the gray and blue background animations flying. I want them to fly in from bottom and from top to have some differences. I will select the second animation effect options from top. I want them, of course, to be a little longer, maybe 75, maybe three quarters or 1 second. Three-quarters should be fine. Right-click with previous, so they start automatically and small delay between them. So we have something like that. At first we started with Iceland in Iceland, and you can decide what kind of animation you want. Do you want a flying? Let's maybe make something different. This time I will take the Zoom animation. The Zoom animation is a really simple but very beautiful animation. The first mouse click is okay, because I will make a voiceover. I wanted this voice over to run and I want to manually click what happens on the slide. I'm making this on the very middle of the slide. The flag in Iceland for more than 20 years from this to this year. Then the next objects are the years. I want to animate them in bulk as well, but with slight delays. I press Shift to select this one, Shift to select this one. And I'm selecting flying. You know a little bit about the flying animation as well. So select Effect Options from right, this should look much better. As you can see, this is a very quick and very boringly animated. I will extend the duration. I will double-click on the animations. And let's go a little crazy here. You can of course, use a smooth end with, I wanted to test out how a bounds will look. A small bounds may be 0.4 seconds. 0.4 Enter. Looks okay with the animation happens to quick, I will extend it to 1 second. In my opinion, this is completely fine. The last adjustment I wanted to make, since I'm reading, I'm talking if you have multiple items like that, multiple data, try to add some delay between them. Delay, delay, delay, delay 1 second delay, and another second of delay for the second text. Beautiful. The last thing that will happen on this slide is the government by a decision of the government on Thursday. Television didn't error. I want by the decision of the government on Thursday, or maybe the Zoom, maybe the Zoom will on Thursday, television appears. This is mouse-click number three. Extend the duration so it isn't as quick. The x will be the last part of the sentence. I will manually click the X. Do you want to zoom in or a WIP? Maybe the zoom in, zoom in is pretty cool and it will really work for this type of animation. The zoom-in is the fourth mouse click, and I'll extend the duration to 075. What is the last step I wanted to take? I want actually, when the television appears here, I want to deflect to raise a little, I want it to be brought up little bit. For this reason, I will select, Add animation lines, so it moves, but it should move bottom. It should move to the top side. I'll press up line animations are very specific animations. You can click on the red part and you can reduce maybe the position a little bit. This would be very beautiful, but I don't want this to be mouse-click number five. I wanted this to happen when the television appears. How to achieve them? Click on the television to see exactly where the television animation is. And just bring the flag animation behind it, behind it and select right-click with previous. In my opinion, I should reduce the duration and let's preview now, maybe reduce it the duration to be exactly like the TV appearing. And let's see what happens on the screen. The first mouse-click will be Iceland. It could also be without a Moscow. The second mouse click will be all the texts. The third most quick, this is very important. The flag will move and the television will appear in the list object will be the beautiful we've animated, in my opinion, slide number one, the only slight change I want to make is using the flag with previous and giving a slight delay when the backgrounds appear, the ice-cream slip can appear as well, extending the duration, and that's it. Those are all the animations I wanted to create. We would be basically ready to do a voiceover and add some music for this slide. In the next lecture, we will continue by going to the next slide and so on. Width, the explainer video. I will see you there. I can't wait to work. 7. Slide 2 - Design: In this slide, according to the script, we can simplify our life by adding a couple of ready designed illustrations. The first thing I did is of course, writing a script. If you read the second sentence, the idea was that residents would spend time going outside and socialize instead of just sitting in front of the TV. This is basically a little story that could be summarized in one picture. And this is perfect for explainer videos. Because here, what you could do, I can imagine some people being outside instead of sitting on the PC. If you want to create an explainer video, the more scenes like that you can find the better because this scene could be basically one image. This is exactly what I did. I went on three big and found something like that. But as you can see below, there are different vectors that would also work perfectly for this kind of slide. I've selected this one because there's a bunch of items. I end up deleting some of them, but you get the idea. You can use a fight like that. You can convert this EPS, SVG and bring them straight to PowerPoint. I've also used some clouds later because this slide was a little boring. Going back to PowerPoint, you can of course, use the resources I prepared here. And for the hands, I've separated the hands because I wanted to animate a couple of items. For example, the hands on this slide. Creating a slide, I'll copy both the clouds and the people. People on Cloud, perfect. We have them on this slide. I will make the people bigger. Like this. The clouds bigger as well. I wanted the clouds actually to reach outside of the slide a little bit because I wanted to animate them. And this is why I made so many of them. I will extend them a little bit beyond the slides. And essentially this will be making the slides ready. What's more important here are the animations that little animations that I will add to give this sunlight. Because if the sentence will run here and we would have only something like that, it might be a bit boring. In the next lecture, I will show you how to be, again, more professional and how to animate the clouds at first. 8. Leave a Review, Please: Hey, it would be extremely helpful for this class if you go to the Review tab and click on leave a review and write something there. If you don't see this button yet, you need to watch a few more lectures and it will become available. Sculpture now requires that classes have recent reviews on them. So it would help me greatly. You just click here, you tell if you'd like to class or not, and you write a simpler view and click Submit. I would be very obliged if you can do this right now. Thank you so much and see you soon. 9. Slide 2 - Animating Clouds: Within this lecture, we will learn how to add movement to the clouds so the rock back and forth. Let us animate the clouds. If you would be extremely lazy, you could even add clouds from PowerPoint straightaway here, but you probably see that they don't look as professional. So I preferred to use some vector clouds I found online. I will move them a bit to the side because I want to give some animated movement to them. Go to animations, open animations and I'll use a motion path code lines this simplest animation, but with some tweaks, it won't be assembled. Obviously, you want the cloud to go right? I'll use the n handled because I don't want them to derive so far away. I want them to be a bit closer like that. But basically the movement will be from here to here. So everything will float on the screen. I can animate them right away by selecting with previous. So they will start when the slides start. This is the movement you can see it's pretty boring. Again, I recommend double-clicking on the animation going to its effect options. You can see there's some smoothing over the applied when using the line animation. But in my opinion, what we should do, we should do outdoor reverse. This is when the clouds come to the end. The animation will revert back to the original point. And this is creating a seamless animation. The next adjustment I want to apply is going to timing and using repeat until end of slide. This will take the entire work away from me because I don't have to think, well, this slide will take seven seconds, so I need to repeat this animation 3.6 times. I'll just make it repeat onto end of site. I'll press Okay, and look what happens. If you play this slide with Shift F5. They move a little bit too quick, in my opinion. That's just a little adjustment I can do on the fly. I wanted them to move just slightly. What you can do, you can simply extend the duration of the animation itself. It will now take longer for the clouds to travel. They can travel further if you prefer, or closer. It will slow the motion down even more. As you can see, this will be perfect. This is just one sentence and the clouds are seamlessly animated in the background and are waiting for our other movements. This is everything I wanted to teach you within this lecture. It is not just about the Cloud. I've taught you an essential animation function within PowerPoint. I hope you will remember about this. Try to recreate that motion and we will see each other in the next lecture with other things. 10. Slide 2 - Animating Hands: Let me show you how you can animate different elements that should wave. For example, here I've animated the hands of the people. You can see a couple of hands are missing. This is because I don't want to waste your time to repeat the steps. You can use the hands that I have already extracted from those people and bring them back together. Let me show you an example. Luckily, this SVG converted pretty well. And if I right-click group, ungroup it to make a drawing object, it separated itself beautifully into all those small elements. If I wanted this hands to wave when he walks, I would open the animations and I would creatively use the spin animation. As you can see, the spin animation is completely crazy because currently this is the spinning point of the hand. Here's a piece of cool bonus advice. This is Adobe After Effects. If you've never worked with animation before, when you create a shape, there is something like an anchor point. This anchor point decides how certain animations will behave. In PowerPoint, by default, a shape has its anchor point in the middle. If I open the rotation options, you can see the object will rotate around this anchor point. But if I take this anchor point and move it to the left side, I use rotation again. Now this will rotate like this. We want to emulate having an anchor point in PowerPoint. Hopefully in the future, microsoft will add anchor points into animations and shapes. But currently, we went to emulate having an anchor point and move it to the top of the arm that we plan to animate. Double-click on the animation itself, the audio effects. And you can imagine that we can reduce the amount of the spin. I can reduce it even as low as 2015%. That's completely fine. Powerpoint doesn't mind. You can also outer reverse, so it'll wave back and forth. I have 15 degrees. I will just put some smooth onto it and press, Okay, look what happens. Well, the spinning, they'll happens in this point and the entire hand spins. Instead of the point they're spinning point being here. And just a hand-waving. You can correct that by taking the hand. It is an object like that. What I can do, I can insert a shape that is almost exactly the same size. I can just position it where the spinning, the middle of the spinning points should be. You can see I can use my arrow keys to adjust this a little. And I can now group the two objects. The animation has disappeared, but don't worry, we will add the animation again. I will take this object and I obviously don't want this object to be visible. I will select Foreign shape and I will just make this shape completely transparent. The problem with this technique is that this is now a pretty big item, but it really doesn't get in the way because you are usually animating just a couple of items. For example, here, I've just animated a couple of those hands. I go to animations. As I've told you, I'm using the spin animation. And you can see now it's spins properly. From this point outwards. I'll double-click on it effect. And I want to spend that 15 degrees Alphas enter for the smooth. And let's make some of the smoothened and let's make outer reverse and timing. Until end of slide. Perfect. I can press Okay, and look what happens. Of course this sometimes might look a bit weird. You can rotate it a little bit or you can decrease the degrees. This was difficult to say, decrease the degrees. All right, and if I preview this animation, we have this nice waving. No one would notice that. It comes a little bit too close here, too close for comfort. But it looks really nice, smooth, and only looks a bit weird. I can correct that by giving it a smooth start as well, especially in auto reverse position. It rocks back and forth. The other hand, I did basically the same. You can of course take them and animate them or just copy the animations. But I would prefer if you practice and at least one or two hands, it would be nice if you animate the hand of this person or you can just copy the hands here. I had one hand here, one hand for the little girl, at two hands for this boy. And if I want to speed up the process, I will take this hand. I'll use the animation painter. For me. This is Alt Shift C and I copy, copy, copy, copy, copy. Basically, no work. I'll click away because I no longer want this. I'll select with my shift key all the hands. I'll right-click and sent them back because I want them to be behind the objects. And look what happened. Everyone is waving This one hand. That doesn't look good. I should maybe correct This one hand. But other than that, all those other hands look really cool. If you want to be a bit more unique, remember that you can always take some animations and delay them so they don't wave at the same time, at the same speed of them. This now would look a bit more organic because the hands are a bit more free form. If you have really nothing to animate and you need to find something to animate. Just give it some waving. So moving. And this will look more pleasant for the human eye. 11. Slide 3 - Design: In this lecture, we are going to design this slide, including the background. If we look at this script in late eighties, however, competitors entered the television market and the restrictions couldn't hold up anymore. If I should highlight the eighties or make it simple like competitors enter the television market. And this is the most important part of the sentence, and it will be also easy to animate. So I thought to myself, well, let just grab a couple of televisions and put them next to each other. As competitors, you can try to reuse some of the elements you have. For example, this TV, this x sine is perfect for highlighting the television and competitors. So I'll just put it in the middle of the slide. Then I went to stories set to grab a couple of other TVs. If you type in TV here, there is a bunch of televisions. This site doesn't have many resources right now. I'm sure it will grow and there will be more and more resources. And if it comes for TV, you can see we have plenty of them. If not, you can just take a person, takes some kind of background and make a television around it. I've grabbed, for example, those TVs. And this will look beautifully for the slide design. You can grab the icons here or you can download them yourself. I'll Control C them, and I'll Control V them. Onto this slide makes some kind of design. I decided to make it from left to right, the competitors. And once I did that, I saw that the positioning everything is okay, but the slide is very empty. As I told you, you can again use elements you already have. For example, here, we made those nice little background. So I'll take this background and I'll simply positioned it here. We can either use this blue background or maybe just a pattern in the middle Control Shift G. And this is why patterns may become really useful later on. Right now, they are very strongly visible. What I want to do, I wanted to duplicate them a couple of times. It turns out only two times. Like that may be maybe two more here on the left side. And perfect, I have some kind of pattern. I'll select everything and group it together. Right-click, Format, Shape. And in the filling options, in the solid fill, I will give it some transparency, of course, for the color, I want to use one of the recent colors. In my opinion, the blue is completely defined and I'll reduce its transparency, its opacity, sense to back. If you don't like the blue color, consider adding a gray one, for example, maybe if gray would work better or television? Yeah, because the televisions already have the blue color on them. And in my opinion, we are ready with this slide. This would be a beautiful and clean slide. It could be a nicely animated, do something like that yourself. And we will proceed to the animation process. I'm really excited to show you a couple of tricks here. 12. Slide 3 - Animation: On this slide, we are going to animate the televisions. Let me grab the script so we know what's going on in the script. In late eighties, competitors enter the market just to not be so boring, I will make the main television at first bigger, the government TV at first bigger. And I will go to animations flying. Right-click with previous, extend the duration. It's a bit sad that we have to repeat the steps. Always affect options from okay, It's from bottom already and it's too long. I will reduce the duration and I'll make the x, the free form x little later, a little bit delayed, maybe under it, it just for convenience. Delay. Okay, let's see what happens. Beautiful. It has a small delay. What I wanted to do, I want to of course, apply some smoothing. I forgot about that smooth and beautiful in late eighties, however, competitors enter the market. I want this competitor and this competitor to enter the same way as the government TV entered. I think the sizes are okay. It's all about our imagination. Click on the TV. Animation painter, boom, animation painter, boom. This should be click number two. So I'll take this TV right-click and start onclick because when I do the voice-over, I went to click disappears. And this appears maybe with a slight delay. Let's preview what's happening. Boom. Competitors appear. Boom, Beautiful. The last part of the sentence, the restriction couldn't hold up anymore. So I somehow want to show you that competitors are now equal to the government television and everything can err. I can do this by taking this object, this object animation from the exit animations, because I want now to add animations on top of animations. This will be mouseClicked number three. I will make flight out. And maybe to top site. This will look better. Again, repeating the steps, duration zeros, 75, double-clicking effect, and giving it some kind of smooth. And you can be precise here like 0.5. This is actually what I would prefer from you if you are always pixel perfect and precise, but it depends on your style. The competitors, the competitors to grow a little bit. This is also a very important animation. This will be most clique number three at animation. Not just clicking on an animation because it will replace the current one. I want you to add animation on top of it and grow shrink. This is one of the most important animations when it comes to PowerPoint. Spin and grow and shrink. And by default it grows 150%. The 150% smooth. And do we want the smooth? And of course we want the duration to seconds is a bit too long. I will make it at this 0.12 of smoothened, 1 second of smooth short, I'll press Okay, but I wanted to decrease the duration to 1 second. But the government television should get smaller. How do I decide when it will be small enough to equalize with those objects and growing to 150%. I basically cannot do this automatically. I would need to use the Morph transition, but I don't want to use transitions when I'm doing voiceovers. So I will select, Add animation, grocery and not grow, but shrink, effects size. Let me guess like 60%. I have some experience with the animations. So it should be like 6065. I think it should be enough. I hope I'm not making a fool of myself. Smooth and let's just make smoothened and right-click with previous. Reduce the duration, and let's simply preview what happens. Government TV competitors enter the market and now the next check, everything equalizes. Almost. This should be tiny bit higher and a tiny bit smaller. I want this to happen on one mouse-click. I will remove their mouse-click. And this should be a bit higher. And it should be even smaller. Maybe fifty-five percent, okay, perfect. Printing it again, competitors enter the market and they somehow equalize. Perfect. This looks really good. I don't need any more adjustments. May be this a bit too. They're closer to the middle point because this will be smaller. So we'll have big gaps between them. In my opinion, we've animated this slide with basically only two mouse clicks. If you cannot follow the steps I'm telling here, make it simpler. Delete the background, the liquid com competitor, and work on just two or three objects. This would make it easier even if you don't want to animate the X. If you want to practice creating explainer videos and planar animations, use just two objects. This animation would look really cool as well with just those two. 13. Slide 4 - Design: This lecture will be about designing slide number four. You can go for a simpler approach with just as smart or with the entire icon. I will show you everything. What do you think in the context of today's ubiquitous media and television? Was this a brilliant decision ahead of its time or restriction of right? I thought to myself that I want a picture explaining the entire sentence and then yes or no going in from the sides. And this was already such a simple design because we could use 3D elements. For the main element I used. As you can see, slide number for the children. I will just copy it over to make it quicker. I think in Iceland already back then they saw that it can already become a bad habit. I sitting in front of the television, an image like that would Professor explained that. Then I just selected a couple of icons from a beautiful website. I found the website states it's completely free and it doesn't require an attribution. But how could you not attribute something like that created by Katerina? Really high-quality SVG items are shared here. This is just perfect. This is beautiful. This is exactly what we searched for our explaining videos. I searched rectangular wrong and an x sine is here, and those are icons we could use here. As you can see, I've selected one Smiley icon for positive and some protesters for negative because I was talking about rights. With the design. You can follow what you already did. What we did is create nice background. Why don't we use them control C, control V. Since we animated them previously, they would be already animated. I will leave them animated as they are. And I want the icons to appear here. For example, on the left side and on the right side, you can of course make this a bit smaller, going to shape format with maybe five. This five as well. Align, align, right, align left, and beautiful. We have this small gap in between them. For the icons, I basically just downloaded those SVDs from websites. I put a circle behind them and those I created myself. Of course, the same way as you always do. You basically go to the shapes your PowerPoint offers you, for example, are shaped like that. Control D, move it around. You would have a simple, simpler shape. You can connect the shape or you can group the shape by pressing Control G training the color, giving it shape effects, shadow, some shadow and boom, you've created a sign like that. I will delete this right now. If you want to make this animation a bit simpler, you could go even with just those types of icons. Do you think this is a right decision or a wrong position? I will do this exactly like this. If you want to be professional and have everything, just copy the elements I've prepared. I will post them here. I'll press Control Shift G to ungroup everything. Control Shift G to ungroup. And I will select this icon on this side. This icon on this side, it's a bit heavy for the PC because those icons have plenty of elements on them. But you get the rough idea. As you can see, it's even on my PC, it's terribly slow. That's the problem with PowerPoint. If you use a vector images with plenty of elements on them, gets a little slow. But this would basically be the design part. I'll take the icons, I'll right-click, bring them to front, bring them to the right side. And in the next lecture, we can finalize the animation. 14. Slide 4 - Animation: In this video, we'll learn how to animate the middle picture and how to animate the left and right box coming in. Here, I want you to use the tricks you already have. Okay, I'll put this above it. I will put this here just for an information. And I will animate this left block Control G together and this right block Control G together. I've got rid of the animation sadly. But animations click on the left side flying from left because this is exactly what I wanted. Extend the duration. Double-click effect and give it 0.5, smooth and beautiful. You have this smooth animation on this one, animation painter and on this one as well. But this one should animate from right side. This is an obvious solution. Bu, I wanted those marks to appear a tiny bit later. This one a bit later than the first mouse click, and this one a bit later than the second mouse-click. You can do this automatically by right-clicking and after a previous or selecting with previous and just giving you the appropriate delay, you can see the delay that happens for the children. So it isn't so static. You can always use the technique of bouncing back and forth, going to animations, giving it a gross ring. Making it the first animation, selecting width previous. So it starts automatically, double-click effects and reduce by always reduce it to one hundred and fifty, one hundred and twenty. It has to be subtle. The more subtle the better. 1 second here, One second here. And auto reverse timing. Repeat until end of slide. Okay? And this will be perfect because I will even extended duration because at first, I want to start talking the script. I don't know how long it will take, but I know that my first mouse-click should be the left item. Okay. The second mostly should be the right item, not okay, or perhaps not. This is everything that we need to create this explainer video. We've created an animated four slides. I hope you follow along and work on the same object. And next step will be finally to use the voice-over, record everything. And this will be super fun. So stay tuned. 15. Adding background music: In this lecture, you can download the music truck or take it from the template, copy it over to the first slide, and I'll teach you how to make this play in the background. I've selected a free drag from Pixabay. You can use a different one. It's completely fine, but I think this sounds pretty well for these kind of explainer video. And I've just selected Free Download. Once you download it to your PC, you can drag and drop it into PowerPoint if you want to save time. As always, within the resources, this is the music file dropped into PowerPoint. Take this file, Control-C and place it on your first slide. In our case, this is slide number eight outputted here, and I like to position it beyond the slide. It doesn't matter because this icon can be hidden by going to play back and selecting height during show. But what's beautiful about PowerPoint? You can do this with a script called Play and background. Wow. You click on plain background and everything you need to adjust here is happening automatically and animation is being added. This is the first animation. It is hidden during the show. It plays across slides and it loops onto stop. So even if it's sunk would end, it will loop again for the volume. You need to establish your own volume, but usually you want to go pretty low because if I go like that, the song will overwhelm the entire presentation and nothing, no voice over will be hurt. If you have no voice over, you can go, for example, for a lower amount. But since I'm doing a voice-over, I want this sounds to be pretty low. I will go for a really low value. And once we do the voice-over, we will here, if everything works, remember to test out if the music plays, just press Shift F5 to start from this current slide and the music should play the animation. Now Twitter, most places you can proceed with the presentation. You can move forward, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you can go to the next slide and the music should still plate, perfect. This is adding background music to the slide. And the next lecture, we can go to our next step. That will be the voice-over. 16. Preparing for recording: In this lecture, I will show you how to take the voiceovers I've prepared and put them on the slides accordingly to prepare us for the recording. There are many ways to add a voice over. One of the most convenient ways, especially in the new PowerPoint version, is hitting the record button and just recording your presentation. You can record on all slides or on the current slide. To make sure I record from this slide, I take everything else there is. With my shift key, select everything and I select right-click Height slide. This will make sure that the unhidden slides, those are hidden, those that are crossed out are hidden and will not play, and those normal slides will play. I want to apply some kind of transition. I go to transitions and give it a fate or push. It really depends on what do you want, what kind of transition do you want between your slides? Let's make a zeros 75 push. This is completely fine. You can change the Effect Options. And for the voice-overs, You can use my voice-overs. You can add them just as the background music hall. You can record your own. Let's say that I will use my voice-overs. I'll placed on the first slide, on the second slide, on the third slide, and on slide number four, because I've already recorded my voices, how you can add them to slide, No problem. Playback. Play in background. It doesn't need to play across slides because it will own play on this slide. I will just de-select that one and also the looping. I'm just doing this for convenience because this automatically plain background De-select. Maybe put it here, plain background De-select. And here as well. Playing background, De-select, the voice-over is prepared. The last step we need to make is to record everything according to our timings. And this is a very beautiful thing in PowerPoint. And I want to show you this on the next lecture. Let's head over there right away. 17. Recording the Video: In this lecture, we will do what we all came here for recording a video. I will click the animations according to the voice-over to have a ready recorded video. Let us record our presentation Going to the record or the record tab. And from beginning, from beginning means from this slide, I'm using interviews, the presenter view, powerpoint to 21 and Microsoft for 65, allow me to use. The teleprompter represents a reviewer or slide view, but I use the presenter view because on the right side, I can see the next slide and the next animation that will appear. Let me de-select the microphone because I don't want to record my voice because my voice is already recorded. And I'll select on or slides. I'll try to be really precise and quick here because I know the script, I know the animations and select on all slides three-to-one. And let's go. In Iceland for more than 20 years from 1966 to 1987, by a decision of the government on Thursday, television didn't air. The idea was that residents would spend time going outside and socialize instead of just sitting in front of the TV. In late eighties, however, competitors entered the television market and their restriction couldn't hold up anymore. What do you think in the context of today's ubiquitous media and television? Was this a brilliant decision ahead of its time or a restriction of rights? Let me know in the comments, how do you feel about this topic? Alright, I've recorded, I don't want to export right now. The most important thing about this is that even though you have mouse clicks, that would basically start normally, PowerPoint recorded this slide as a video. It automatically made that transition to have the amount of seconds that it took to play this slide. And we can reduce this by one or two seconds because PowerPoint always adds a little bit at the end. But generally this works really beautifully and it respects your mouse clicks. This is the most important because here, I don't have to do anything and the mouth clicks will happen. Now. In late eighties, however, competitors entered the television market. I don't know what emotion and the competitors of them here and come here and everything is, as we've recorded it. The only downside is the PowerPoint adds a little bit at the end, as I've told you. But generally this feature works really well depending on your voice-over. For example, my voice-over has 13 seconds. I can reduce it to 14. The other mouse clicks are still recorded because this slide is basically a video. Now, if you play this, it isn't just in England. It's basically 20 years from. I have a small mistake here. I see that this background music should start with previous. So everything starts from the beginning. That's not a big problem because I can Record, I can record just this slide. On current slide, I can record just this slide again. You can see the animations will not work properly in Iceland for more than 20 years from 1966 to 1987. By a decision of the government on Thursday, television didn't air. I press S for stop. And you can see PowerPoint has recorded this video with my according mouse clicks. I can preview it for the government these in-person tomorrow demands in 1980 and beautiful. This is exactly how you can record with the newest version of PowerPoint. I'm really excited about this feature because it finally goes into the right direction. I hope you've enjoyed to create this video and we will create many more together. I've tried to explain you everything slowly. Please do. Let me know if you would like some more information about how to create these type of videos, how to use the recorder. And I'll try to adjust the lectures and maybe record something new. All right, let us continue. 18. Exporting: For exporting, as you know, only the unhidden slides that are those four will be exported. Sometimes at the end, I add a new slide. I go to Format Background and give it a black background for this little fade-out transitions. And give it a simple fade for the duration of 0.5 seconds. Easy counting. I have for slides and the shift black slide, I can go to File, Export, create a video. And it's important that I select not only full HD, but ultra HD for 60 FPS exporting, this is completely fine when it comes to quality. But this export 30 FPS. I prefer this one, the Forky quality. It renders a bit long, but the results are astonishing. You can hit create a video and save an MP4 file. The rendering takes place here on the bottom side you can see the progress. Once that is finished, you can preview if you did an errors and mistakes, if something should be shorter. If something needs to be shorter, you can go to the transition step and you can reduce the amount of seconds it takes to transition to the next slide. This is eight when it comes to exporting. Thank you so much for working on this explainer video. It was tons of fun for me and I hope we can create a couple more. See you in the next lectures.