How to make tutorial videos for your SaaS – without recording them.
Tutorial videos answer support questions before they are asked. The hard part was never knowing what to show – it was recording, re-recording and editing. Here is what makes a good one, and how to get it without touching a screen recorder.
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01What a good tutorial video looks like
- One task per video. “Create a project”, not “everything about projects”.
- 30 to 90 seconds. People search for an answer, not a course.
- The real product, not slides. Viewers want to see exactly where to click.
- A calm cursor, a zoom on the click, and a sentence that says why.
- Chapters, so someone can jump straight to step three.
02Why recording by hand does not scale
A two-minute recording easily takes an hour: set up test data, record, stumble, record again, cut the pauses, add captions, export. Then the interface changes and the video is wrong.
That is why most products end up with three outdated videos instead of thirty current ones.
03The automatic way, step by step
- 01
Open your app
In the clipooo studio you get a browser in the cloud. Sign in as you normally would and go to the screen where the video should start.
- 02
Describe the task
One sentence is enough: “Show how to invite a team member.” Mention labels as they appear in your app – it makes the agent more precise.
- 03
Let it click
An AI agent performs the task in your real product, with a visible cursor. Every action is filmed as it happens.
- 04
Get the video
clipooo writes the narration, adds voice-over or subtitles, zooms and chapters, and hands you an MP4 plus a hosted page.
04Where to put the videos
- In a help center your users can search – clipooo hosts one per website.
- In onboarding emails, one task per mail.
- On YouTube, with the chapter list in the description.
- Next to the feature itself, linked from an empty state or a help icon.