Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

I look at a $3 program that enables making video explanations using the iPad.

Two days in a row, I bump into a presentation program. This time it is called Explain Everything. It costs $2.99 and runs on the iPad.

In the program, you create a few “slides” which become the background image for your explanation. Press the little red RECORD button and start talking. While talking, you can draw lines and such on the screen. These annotations will appear in your video explanation. Move from slide to slide while talking and annotating. This all goes to your final video explanation.

You can practically do all this using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. PowerPoint 2010 allows you to narrate each slide you have one at a time. Then PowerPoint 2010 will create a video for you from your narrated slides. A major difference is that PowerPoint costs much more than $2.99.

The video output of Explain Everything is an mp4 file. You can put that file into DropBox or email.

If you have an iPad, the $2.99 is well worth trying Explain Everything.