With Explain Everything, you can record every action you take on the canvas. This applies to your whiteboard interactions with objects along with image and sound.
Once you make a recording, you can edit, refine and adjust it with the editing menu of the Timeline.
Before you start editing your recordings, make sure to check out the introduction to recording to get started with recording videos in Explain Everything.
Note: If you make a mistake, you can Undo any of the edits you made only right after you performed them (iOS and Android only).
Clear a selected part of the recording
You can completely clear a selected part of your recording to remove unwanted movement or audio from an exact timeframe.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the start or the end of the selection.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Selection icon.
- Scroll the Timeline so the selection covers the part you'd like to clear.
- Select Delete to clear the selected part.
You can completely clear a selected part of your recording to remove unwanted movement or audio from an exact timeframe.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the start or the end of the selection.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Selection icon.
- Scroll the Timeline so the selection covers the part you'd like to clear.
- Select Delete to clear the selected part.
You can completely clear a selected part of your recording to remove unwanted movement or audio from an exact timeframe.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the start or the end of the selection.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Selection icon.
- Scroll the Timeline so the selection covers the part you'd like to clear.
- Select Delete to clear the selected part.
Note: If you clear a part where an object was added, the object will no longer appear in the recording.
Tip: You can use the lock icons on the audio and video tracks to prevent them from being cleared.
Remove a single clip from the recording
You can remove single clips from the Timeline to get rid of the exact movement or audio parts in your recording.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so you can easily select the desired clip.
- Select and hold a clip that you'd like to remove. Other clips on the Timeline will gray out.
- From the Timeline menu, select Delete to remove the chosen clip.
You can remove single clips from the Timeline to get rid of the exact movement or audio parts in your recording.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so you can easily select the desired clip.
- Select and hold a clip that you'd like to remove. Other clips on the Timeline will gray out.
- From the Timeline menu, select Delete to remove the chosen clip.
You can remove single clips from the Timeline to get rid of the exact movement or audio parts in your recording.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so you can easily select the desired clip.
- Select and hold a clip that you'd like to remove. Other clips on the Timeline will gray out.
- From the Timeline menu, select Delete to remove the chosen clip.
Note: If you remove a clip with an object added, the object will no longer appear in the recording.
Remove an entire recording keeping the final slide content
If you’d like to make a copy of the slide you’re working on but without a recording, you can duplicate your slide. You can then delete the original slide.
Remove a remaining recording to the end
Sometimes, you may want to trim the ending of your recording or start over from a certain point.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so the red Playhead marks the end of the part you’d like to keep.
- From the Timeline options, select Delete all to the end.
Sometimes, you may want to trim the ending of your recording or start over from a certain point.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so the red Playhead marks the end of the part you’d like to keep.
- From the Timeline options, select Delete all to the end.
Sometimes, you may want to trim the ending of your recording or start over from a certain point.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so the red Playhead marks the end of the part you’d like to keep.
- From the Timeline options, select Delete all to the end.
Remove a part of the recording and join the remaining parts together
If your recording has too many empty or unnecessary moments and you’d like to make it more snappy, you can completely get rid of them and join the remaining parts together.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the start or the end of the selection.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Selection icon.
- Scroll the Timeline so the selection covers the part you'd like to remove.
- Select Delete and compact to remove the selection and join the remaining parts together.
If your recording has too many empty or unnecessary moments and you’d like to make it more snappy, you can completely get rid of them and join the remaining parts together.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the start or the end of the selection.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Selection icon.
- Scroll the Timeline so the selection covers the part you'd like to remove.
- Select Delete and compact to remove the selection and join the remaining parts together.
If your recording has too many empty or unnecessary moments and you’d like to make it more snappy, you can completely get rid of them and join the remaining parts together.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the start or the end of the selection.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Selection icon.
- Scroll the Timeline so the selection covers the part you'd like to remove.
- Select Delete and compact to remove the selection and join the remaining parts together.
Note: If you remove a part where an object was added, the object will no longer appear in the recording.
Split clips
You can divide longer clips into two to edit out inconsistencies or noise. This is especially useful for audio edits.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the point where the clip should be split.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Split icon.
You can divide longer clips into two to edit out inconsistencies or noise. This is especially useful for audio edits.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the point where the clip should be split.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Split icon.
You can divide longer clips into two to edit out inconsistencies or noise. This is especially useful for audio edits.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the point where the clip should be split.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Split icon.
Tip: If your clips are overlapping because you have multiple layers of recordings, you can select them once to toggle between the layers.
Smooth out object movement and zooming
To make animations more fluid, you can smooth out object movement and zooming for a selected part of the recording.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the start or the end of the selection.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Selection icon.
- Scroll the Timeline so the selection covers the part you'd like to smooth out.
- Select Smooth to smooth out movement and zooming on the selected part.
This feature is currently not available in the Android version of Explain Everything.
To make animations more fluid, you can smooth out object movement and zooming for a selected part of the recording.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the start or the end of the selection.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Selection icon.
- Scroll the Timeline so the selection covers the part you'd like to smooth out.
- Select Smooth to smooth out movement and zooming on the selected part.
Speed up the playback of a selected part of the recording
For a time-lapse effect, you can increase the playback speed on the selected part of a recording.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so that the red Playhead marks the start or the end of the selection.
- From the Timeline options, choose the Selection icon.
- Scroll the Timeline so the selection covers the part you'd like to speed up.
- From the Timeline options, select Speed up.
- Choose the new playback speed for the selected part.
Note: The speed up changes both the video and the audio tracks playback speed.
Tip: If you’d like to change back to the original speed, select the speeded up part of the Timeline, choose Speed up and select 1x.
This feature is currently not available in the Android version of Explain Everything.
This feature is currently not available in the web version of Explain Everything.
Fade in audio for a selected audio clip
You can make selected audio parts fade in so that audio doesn’t abruptly come in. Fade in audio adds one second of silence that fades into sound at the beginning of a selected audio clip.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so you can easily select the desired clip.
- Select and hold an audio that you'd like to add Fade into. Other clips on the Timeline will gray out.
- From the menu, select Fade in audio to remove the chosen clip.
Tip: If your clips are overlapping because you have multiple layers of recordings, you can select them once to toggle between the layers.
This feature is currently not available in the Android version of Explain Everything.
You can make selected audio parts fade in so that audio doesn’t abruptly come in. Fade in audio adds one second of silence that fades into sound at the beginning of a selected audio clip.
- With the Timeline open, scroll the Timeline so you can easily select the desired clip.
- Select and hold an audio that you'd like to add Fade into. Other clips on the Timeline will gray out.
- From the menu, select Fade in audio to remove the chosen clip.
Tip: If your clips are overlapping because you have multiple layers of recordings, you can select them once to toggle between the layers.