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Powtoon
An online presentation software tool that allows you to create free and professional animated video explainers/messages and
presentations as an alternative to PowerPoint
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http://www.powtoon.com/
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Click “start now” to sign-up for an account
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Your “Dashboard”, click on “create” to get started
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You can either start from scratch/use an existing template/ customize a ready-made powtoon
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We shall start with customizing an existing Powtoon
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Let’s try customizing a simple “Teacher’s Introduction” Powtoon. Click on the “Teacher Intro” Powtoon to preview it and click
“Edit” to start customizing it!
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After clicking “edit”, you will be brought to the Powtoon editor. There is a simple 3 step instruction to
guide you, once you are ready just click on “Got It!”
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In “simple mode”, you can only edit the text and props. For more customizing features, try the “customize mode”.
Give your project a name
Your slides where each slide is animated
Play button to preview your powtoon, or on your keyboard use the “spacebar” to play
Click these icons to select which object in the slide to edit
Your toolbar is only accessible in “customize mode”
Choose your editing mode here
Remember to save your work!
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The Basics: Let’s start by editing the character. Click on the character in the slide or the icon below.
You will see 3 options: Swap, animation settings and flip.
1. Swap: Allows you to change the prop/character
2. Animation settings: Allows you to set the animation to static, play X number of times or to loop continuously
3. Flip: Mirrors the prop/character
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The Basics: Swap Click on the “swap” icon and it will ask you to choose a character or prop from the
library on the right to replace the current one. However, for free accounts there is a limit to the characters you can choose. So let’s stick to this character for now.
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The Basics: Animation Settings & Flip
Flip will basically flip/mirror the prop/character
You can set the prop/character to “No animation”, play a specific number of times or play in loop (continuously play)
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The Basics: Editing text Double click on the text to edit it. The basic text editor bar will automatically
appear for you to adjust the font size, type, colour etc.
Click this icon for text effect options
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The Basics: Text effect manager Opening the text effect manager allows you to add interesting text effects to
your text. See the panel on the right for choice of effects, it will also show you a preview of what the effect does. Click “apply” once you are happy with the
effect you have chosen.
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The Basics: Transitions You can also add transitions between slides just like in
PowerPoint
Click this “+” icon to open the transition effects panel
Choose from the list of transition effects to edit how the animation will move from slide to slide
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The Basics: preview and export Once you are done, you can preview your Powtoon and
proceed to export it Preview button
Export button
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The Basics: Export options
You can publish your project to “My Powtoons” Upload to Vimeo, Youtube Or download as a PDF document Unfortunately you cannot download it as a video file (mp4) unless you have a premium account. All free accounts have the Powtoon watermark even if you upload it to Vimeo or Youtube.
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Publish to “My Powtoons” Fill in the details, free accounts by default will be listed
as “public”
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For free accounts, there isn’t much option in terms of watermark and quality
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After exporting, you should see this:
Choose between slideshow mode or movie mode
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View all your previous projects through your “Dashboard”
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Powtoon has a series of tutorials that you can watch to learn more
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Creating a Powtoon from scratch Note: Powtoon offers a simple tutorial for you to follow to learn
the basics of creating a powtoon from scratch. I will replicate that here
From your Dashboard, click on “create” Select “start from scratch” and click “go”
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You will be brought to the Powtoon editor with a blank slide
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Step 1: Choose a prop/character Select an animated character from the library. Clicking on the character will automatically place it in your slide
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Step 2: Deciding when the character appears and disappears Make sure the character is selected. A timeline is located at the bottom of the slide. Drag the beginning and ending to set the time your character appears and disappears from the slide.
In this example, I’ve dragged the starting point to 2s and the ending to 8s. So my character will appear after 2s and disappear after 8s.
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Step 3: Set how the character will appear. You can set a hand effect, fade in, pop or choose a direction for
the character to enter the slide
Click on the “->” arrow button to choose an effect
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Step 4: Add a background image or colour Choose a background from the “Bkground” option
You can also upload your own backgrounds
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Step 5: Add text 1. Click on “Text” and a text box will automatically appear in your slide
2. Double click to edit 3. Adjust the timeline to set when the text will appear and how (effect)
(1)
(2)
(3)
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Step 6: You can also add props from the library. As with the character and text, use the timeline to adjust when
the prop should appear and what effect it should have
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Step 7: Click on the play button to preview your work Once you are done, you can add more slides until you
are ready to export
You can slide this red arrow up and down the timeline to view the animation at specific timestamps
Click the smaller play button to play the slide from the beginning. The round play button will play from where the red arrow is.
Click here to add new slide
Remember to save your work!
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Step 8: Adding sound You can add music or voice overs to your Powtoon
Be sure to “save” your project after clicking “apply”!
(1)
(2)
(3)
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Andddd done! Remember to save and export to “My Powtoons”
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Powtoon Slides Powtoon slides allows you to create creative slideshows
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Click “create” and select a theme/template to start
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You will be brought to the Powtoon Slides editor
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Add new slides by selecting a layout for your slide. This is kinda like Powerpoint but each slide is also animated!
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Give it a try!
Preview your presentation Remember to save your work!
Export your presentation