Educational videos
An educational video maker built on how people learn
For trainers, tutors, course authors, museums and educational channels: turn a concept into a short narrated lesson where every diagram appears exactly when it is explained.
- 500 free credits at sign-up
- Free storyboard review
- 45–180 s, vertical 9:16
- 8 voices, 10 languages
Your idea
9:16 · 1080×1920“How vaccines train the immune system, for adults with no biology background. Must show: memory cells. Key moment: the faster second response.”
- Length
- 90–120 s
- Look
- Light
- Voice
- George
- Rendering
- 2D · English
Storyboard · 6 scenes
- 0–6 sHook. “Your body can recognise a virus it has never met. How?”
- 6–25 sAnalogy first. Guards at a gate are shown a wanted poster before the suspect ever arrives.
- 25–50 sThe vaccine is the poster. A harmless piece of the virus, labelled “antigen”, is shown to the immune system.
Most educational videos lose people for the same reasons: too much at once, terms before meaning, and slides full of text the narrator is also reading aloud. Good short lessons do the opposite. They take one concept, start from something familiar, add the technical word only once the idea is clear, and finish with a recap the viewer can repeat.
Motiongist is built around that shape. You give it the concept and the level of your audience; it writes a script with an analogy first and one idea per scene, then draws diagrams that build piece by piece as the narration reaches them. You read and adjust everything before it is rendered.
How it works
From a learning objective to a short lesson
- Step 1
Write the objective in one line
“After this video, viewers can explain how a vaccine trains the immune system.” That sentence is the brief. Add your notes or a source document if you have one.
- Step 2
Set the level and the must-shows
Choose the audience (beginners, developers, ops or decision-makers), list the diagram that must appear, and name the jargon to avoid or define.
- Step 3
Check the teaching sequence
In the free storyboard, confirm the order: analogy, term, mechanism, recap. Rewrite any line in your own words.
- Step 4
Deliver it where learners are
Download the MP4 and SRT for your course platform, share an unlisted link, or embed the player in a page.
Example
How a vaccine trains your immune system
What you give: “How vaccines train the immune system, for adults with no biology background. Must show: memory cells. Key moment: the faster second response.”
What the video shows, scene by scene
- 0–6 s
Hook. “Your body can recognise a virus it has never met. How?”
- 6–25 s
Analogy first. Guards at a gate are shown a wanted poster before the suspect ever arrives.
- 25–50 s
The vaccine is the poster. A harmless piece of the virus, labelled “antigen”, is shown to the immune system.
- 50–75 s
Training. Immune cells produce antibodies that fit the antigen like a key in a lock, and memory cells stay behind.
- 75–95 s
The real encounter. Two response curves compare a first meeting with the virus and a second one: the second rises faster and higher.
- 95–110 s
Recap. Three words build on screen: show, learn, remember.
An illustrative storyboard for this brief (Light look, 2D). Motiongist writes its own scenes from your input, and you can edit them for free before rendering.
A real render, made with Motiongist
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Why Motiongist
Teaching features, not just video features
One idea per scene
The script is split so each scene carries one step of the explanation, and you can reorder or cut scenes before rendering.
Accessible by default
Word-by-word captions in the video and an SRT file, so learners can follow without sound or read along at their pace.
The same lesson in 10 languages
Narration, captions and on-screen text in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish and Indonesian.
Grounded in your material
Give a PDF, DOCX, TXT or Markdown file or a link: the script sticks to it, and a fact review runs before rendering.
A module becomes a series
On the Team plan, a long document or course is split into short episodes, each one a project you review before rendering.
An optional guide character
Add an animated presenter, an illustrated character that accompanies the narration, or keep the video pure motion design.
The learning design behind each video
Words and pictures arrive together: when the narration says “antibody”, the antibody appears. Text on screen is kept short, so learners listen and look instead of reading a paragraph. Diagrams build up in steps rather than appearing whole, which mirrors the order of the explanation.
Each script ends with a recap that restates the idea in a sentence. Use the key-moment note to choose what that sentence should be.
Where short videos fit in a course
They work as a primer before a session, a recap after it, or a revision aid before an assessment. They don’t replace practice, discussion or feedback. Videos run 45 to 180 seconds, so plan one per concept rather than one per chapter.
Start faster
Templates that fit
Each template is a ready-made brief: an example subject, a target length, a look and notes. Open one and change the subject.
Health explainer
Explain how the body works, clearly and carefully.
See the templateScience question
Answer one “why?” question everyone has asked.
See the templateHistory in 60 seconds
An event, an invention or a person, told as a fast timeline.
See the templateMyth vs fact
Take a popular belief, check it, and show what’s actually true.
See the template
What it costs
One credit balance. A short video is 400 credits, a standard one 700, a long one 1,000, plus 1 credit per 10 narrated characters for the final voice.
Free
$0
500 credits at sign-up
To try it out: a first video, draft voice, discreet watermark.
Solo
$19 / month
3,000 credits / month
To post every week: final voice, clean exports, your brand.
StudioMost popular
$49 / month
30,000 credits / month
To produce at volume: priority rendering, custom looks, API and MCP.
Team
$149 / month
100,000 credits / month
For teams and agencies: 5 seats, 4 renders in parallel, one invoice.
Prices before tax, in US dollars. Yearly billing is 35% cheaper. Failed renders are refunded automatically.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Who is this educational video maker for?
Anyone who teaches: trainers, tutors, course authors, museums, nonprofits and educational creators. Classroom teachers have their own page: Motiongist for teachers.
Can I base the videos on my own course material?
Yes. Upload a PDF, DOCX, TXT or Markdown file, or link to a page. The script sticks to your source, and you review it in the storyboard before rendering.
How accurate are the explanations?
With a source, the script follows it and a fact review runs before rendering. With only a topic, it writes from general knowledge, so read every line in the storyboard first.
Can I make a whole course?
You can make as many videos as your credits allow, one concept each. On the Team plan, a long document is split into a series of episodes automatically.
What does a lesson cost?
A standard video (90–120 s) is 700 credits plus the final voice. Sign-up gives 500 free credits to try a first short video. See pricing.
Ready to make your first one?
500 free credits at sign-up. Review the storyboard for free, see the exact price, then render.
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