The main process of creating videos is

  1. Write the script, and make a storyboard - Research
  2. Create the animations - Animation creation
  3. Record the voice-over - Sound design - voice over only
  4. Adjust timings - Motion canvas
  5. edit the final video - DaVinci resolve and sound design

Scriptwriting, Storyboarding & Research

Begin by writing your script and creating a storyboard. This will serve as the backbone of your video and help visualize the narrative.

  1. But, But, Therefore, But, Therefore This pattern helps maintain tension and avoid predictable “and then” sequences.

  2. Increase the three hormones

    • Dopamine Effects: Focus, motivation and memory Tips: Create suspense and use a cliffhanger
    • Oxytocin Effects: Trust, generosity, relax and bond Tips: Create an empathic character
    • Endorphin Effects: Creative, relax and focus Tips: Make people laugh

    For more details check this video

  3. T.A.C.O Framework

    • Touching Connect with your audience by addressing topics they feel deeply about.

    • Attention Grabbing Use pattern interrupts or dramatic elements to immediately capture interest.

    • Concise Keep the narrative focused; remove unnecessary context or characters.

    • Observable Use emotion-driven language that lets viewers “see” the moment through your voice.

  4. Audience Engagement Interact with your audience by incorporating their feedback, addressing frequently asked questions, or sharing behind-the-scenes insights.

  5. Inciting Incident & Climax Ensure your narrative has a strong hook at the beginning (inciting incident) and a satisfying climax/resolution. This arc keeps viewers invested from start to finish.

  6. **Video Item

    • Title
    • Thumbnail
      • Explain your main idea of the video in the thumbnail.
      • Make it look unusual, odd or opens curiosity.
      • High quality, and contrasts or empty spaces makes your thumbnail popup from the surrounding thumbnails.
      • Build familiarity ones you have the thumbnail style that works for you, you need to keep the same quality for the next videos to build familiarity

    After this test your thumbnail and title by adding it next to other videos

ALL THE STEPTS AT THE BOTTOM HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO A SIMPLE PROCESS THAT I WILL CREATE ANOTHER ONE FOR BUT TO KEEP THIS FOR FUTURE REFRENCE.

Animation creation

  1. Planning & Execution Using your research and storyboard as a guide, create animations that clearly represent your narrative ideas.
  2. Best Practices Follow recommendations from Motion Canvas documentation to ensure smooth and effective animation creation.
  3. Note Additional ideas and improvements can be added as I refine my style

Sound Design

Sound design in your videos includes voice-over, background music, and sound effects. You can always break the rules, if it sounds good than it’s sounds good!

Sound design in videos

  • Video cues: Audiovisual signals the current situation to the listener
  • Feedback: Gives the listener a feedback that something happen
  • Driving emotion: Guides the listener emotions to feel the moment

Sound design terms

  • Frequencies = Lower means slower, higher means faster
  • Envelopes = The waveform, specifically the Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release example
  • Dynamics = The waveform Feeling, changing any of the ADSR will change the dynamics/feeling of the sound.

Sound design toolbox

  • Attenuation = Sets the place where the listener is hearing the sound, from a phone, fare in a cave or close.
  • Equalization = Changes in multiple frequencies in the sound to make it sound different.
  • Reverb = It’s the sound reflection and it’s used mainly for games but can be used in videos to make different sound effects merge together to uniform a single sound effect

  1. Voice Over (Highest Priority) Follow your research plan to record your voice using OBS and Improve the voice later on DaVinci resolve.

    • Recording

      • Record your narration using OBS
      • Use a high-quality, sensitive microphone
      • Adjust settings (e.g., increase compressor, keep gain low) to reduce background noise.
      • Use AI tools like Krisp or the software bundled with your microphone (e.g., Motiv Mix) to further clean up the audio.

    • Editing In DaVinci Resolve, remove plosive sounds (e.g., air pops from “p” and sharp “s” sounds) for a smoother narration and remove silent moments and uhm and ahh sounds.

    • Adjust Timings in Motion Canvas Once your animations and voice-overs are in place, fine-tune the timing to ensure perfect synchronization between audio and visual elements.

  2. Music (Secondary Priority)

    • Segmenting Divide your video into segments based on emotional tone example
      • Selection & Layering
        • Choose background tracks that complement each segment.
        • Ensure that volume levels are balanced—louder during action scenes and lower during dialogue.
        • Apply smooth transitions between segments and consider layering different tracks for a richer audio texture.

  3. Sound affects design

    • Design & Implementation Follow best practices as a start check this video

    • Techniques

      • Use Attenuation sound effects to place audio in (front, back, or from specific devices).
      • If creating unique effects, use ai tools like Elevenlabs.
      • Tools you can use to help with sound adjustments, Soundly made Shape it and Place it: Tools
      • Avoid duplicating the sounds in the same video without changes, you can change the pitch to make it sound a bit different each time or use a different sound affects.

Editing the Final Video (Using DaVinci Resolve)

These steps are meant to create high quality videos, that keeps the quality high even after Youtube compressing the video

  1. Exporting as an Image Sequence From Motion Canvas

    1. Frame Rate: Export at 240 fps (later reduced to 60 fps with motion blur).
    2. Scale: Set to 2.0 (Double) for 4K quality.
    3. Color Space: Use DCI-P3 for the richest color data.
    4. Format: Export as a PNG image sequence for lossless quality.

  2. Adding Motion Blur with FFmpeg

    • Open a terminal, navigate to your output folder, and run: ffmpeg -framerate 240 -i project/%06d.png -vf tmix=frames=8:weights="0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05" -r 60 output_images/output_%06d.png

      • Here is what this command will do
        1. ffmpeg: Processes the image sequence.
        2. -framerate 240: Sets the input frame rate.
        3. -i project/%06d.png: Reads images with 6-digit numbering.
        4. -vf tmix=frames=8:weights=“0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05”: -vf stands for video filter. It applies the filter specified right after it. tmix is the temporal mix filter, which is used to create motion blur by blending multiple frames together. frames=8 means 8 input frames will be blended together to create a smooth transition. weights="0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.2 0.15 0.1 0.05" defines how much weight (importance) each frame in the mix will have. These weights are used to control how much each frame contributes to the final blended result.
        5. -r 60: Sets the final output frame rate.
        6. output_images/output_%06d.png: Saves the processed images accordingly.

  3. Eagle Image Enhancement “Need to be tested it’s a theory for now”

    • Quality Boost Experiment with enhancing images to fix imperfections or remove unwanted backgrounds before final assembly in DaVinci Resolve.

  4. Final Editing & Exporting in DaVinci Resolve

    • Import Your Assets Bring your processed image sequence and audio tracks into DaVinci Resolve.

    • Edit Your Video Add Everything together sound affects, music, animations, effects, gif, and edit them until they become one solid video

    • Export Your Video First go to projects settings and upscale the timeline resolution to 3840 x 2160 4K open the Image settings and change it to Bicubic

      1. Distribution Export Settings (For Web)

        • Format: MP4
        • Codec: H.265
        • Resolution: 3840 x 2160 (4K)
        • Frame Rate: 60 fps
        • Quality: 120000–150000 kb/s (with key frames every 30 frames)
        • Audio: AAC at 320 KB/s
        • Additional: Ensure smooth and consistent audio-video synchronization.

      2. Master Export Settings For Archival, it’s not needed now we will save the motion canvas video on GitHub as code but in case here is the recommendations: Custom Export: Choose individual clips Format: PNG Codec: RGB 16 bits Render timeline effects: on Resolution: Your timeline resolution: 3840 x 2160 4k NO: Alpha or compressions Audio: Export Audio individually and add it to the same folder of the image sequence Audio: choose render and turn off video export. Audio Codec: Linear PCM Audio Bit Depth: 32 Others: Render one track per channel on, and bus 1 stereo

    These vary from video qualities, the recommendation here are for 4k videos others can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT7ymi5Ajgo

After uploading the video the creation process will get adjusted based on data

Here will go over data that help you to define and find the best strategy for your videos