Glossary

What is a how-to video?

Definition

A how-to video answers a specific 'how do I…?' question by showing the steps on screen. It is the video counterpart of a help-center article, and the two are strongest published together on the same page.

Where how-to videos live

Help centers, YouTube, onboarding emails and internal wikis. Titles that start with 'How to' and match the words users actually search are what make these videos findable.

Production at scale

Teams that publish many how-to videos record once per task and let AI editing add zooms, captions and voiceover, then generate the written steps from the same recording, so video and article never drift apart.

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See it in practice

Explaino turns one screen recording into a narrated how-to video, a step-by-step article and translations.

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