AI Explainer Video Examples: Prompts, Scripts, Audio, Custom Styles, and Picture in Picture
Find the Golpo video closest to what you need and inspect how it was made. Thirteen examples cover prompts, exact scripts, uploaded audio, product briefs, Custom Style, and recorded Picture in Picture. The players are faceless or Picture in Picture. A section below explains when to turn on a photo-based AI Presenter.
Choose by starting material
Find the closest example, then make yours in Golpo
Golpo is the workflow behind every player on this page. You can start from an idea, a document, an approved script, or your own recording. Golpo drafts narration in Prompt Mode when you want a draft, or speaks the words you supply in Script Mode. A useful example shows the starting material, the engine, the control that mattered, and the audience job—so you can repeat that decision with your own subject and identity.
Start with the prompt examples. Let Golpo propose the narration, then verify facts and emphasis.
Use the Script Mode examples. Keep spoken copy separate from Video Instructions.
Use document input and review source fidelity from script through final scenes.
Use Own Narration when the audio should drive the video. Use Picture in Picture when that recorded speaker should stay visible.
Use AI Presenter to place a stock presenter, or one made from an authorized photo, beside the diagram. That is not a recorded Picture in Picture.
New evidence path: see the same-PDF Golpo test and the source-fidelity review method.
The gallery has thirteen finished videos: twelve Golpo MP4s from published guides, plus the Sketch Custom Style Love Triangle video on YouTube. Recorded Picture in Picture is included with them. Each card lists the starting material, engine, control, and audience job, then a way to make that kind of video with your own subject.
In this guide: Reproduce one · Photo presenter · Prompt examples · Script and audio · Product and brand · Advanced formats · Choose a format · FAQ
What this page adds: the existing whiteboard examples guide goes deep on one visual family. This gallery is broader: prompt-to-video, script-to-video, uploaded narration, product marketing, Custom Style, recorded Picture in Picture, and the choice between that recording and a photo-based AI Presenter.
Reproduce one example, then correct it
The quantum computer player is a complete source-to-result pair: an approved script goes in, Script Mode keeps those words as the narration, and the video below is the render. The card shows the opening of that script. The full wording and any duration chosen for that render live on the script-to-video guide.
- Source. Paste approved narration. Keep visual directions out of the spoken script and put them in Video Instructions. Script Mode allows about 1,050 characters per selected minute. See Prompt Mode and Script Mode.
- Settings. Choose Sketch or Canvas, Compact or Expanded, a voice, and the duration. If you want Golpo to draft first, use Prompt Mode and approve the draft with Edit script before creating video.
- Result. A standard video costs 1 credit per selected minute. On Pay As You Go, that script-review step is 10% of the charge after the script and 90% after the video.
- One correction. If a label on the finished video is wrong, frame editing changes the picture and does not change the narration. The first edited version is free across sessions until finalized. It is on all paid plans, and later versions are charged on the selected duration for that version. If a sentence is wrong, revise the script and render again.
- One reuse. Save a Custom Style (Business and higher; API use also needs API access) and apply that same saved style to the next episode. The Odyssey, sleep, and Love Triangle players show three different references. Save one of those styles and select it again on the next episode.
| Control | When to use it | Plan and credits |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt Mode, then script review | You have an idea, a brief, or a document and want Golpo to draft the narration. | All plans; length and controls vary. Standard video: 1 credit per selected minute. |
| Script Mode | The spoken words must stay exact. The quantum, procrastination, and Golpo product examples start here. | About 1,050 characters per selected minute. Same standard credit rate. |
| Own Narration | You already have the performance, as in the Cleopatra recording. The audio sets duration and spoken language. A language setting does not translate that file, and an audio-only upload does not create a face. | Business and higher, and Pay As You Go. Own Narration guide. |
| Picture in Picture | The recording should stay on screen beside the animation. Audio in Video uses only the soundtrack. | Business and higher, and Pay As You Go. Picture in Picture guide. |
| AI Presenter | You want a presenter beside the diagram and you are not uploading a speaking video. Stock, or a custom presenter from an authorized photo. | Creator and higher, and Pay As You Go. AI Presenter guide. |
| Custom Style | The next videos should share a look you can select again from My Styles. | Business and higher. Not a pixel-exact brand kit. |
Prices, not guessed dollar amounts, are on the pricing page. You can download Golpo's free 1-minute video without a watermark for $9.99, or subscribe to download it at no extra charge. There is no prefilled template button on this page; open Golpo and apply the same kind of input yourself.
When to use a photo presenter instead of Picture in Picture
Use Picture in Picture when you have a webcam or speaking video and the real person should remain in frame. The presenter card below is that recorded split-screen. Use AI Presenter when you have a photo, or want a stock presenter, and the explanation is still the diagram. Layouts include side-by-side, circle, full-screen, and Auto, which gives a busy visual more room. A presenter built from a photo is not a recording of that person. Choose the presenter in the dashboard. Programmatic presenter batches are not available yet.
The players in this gallery are faceless explainers or a recorded Picture in Picture. To make the photo-presenter version, start from a prompt like the systems-thinking card, turn on AI Presenter, and choose side-by-side, circle, full-screen, or Auto.
Prompt-to-explainer video examples
A prompt works when it specifies the topic, audience, desired explanation, and useful constraints without trying to micromanage every scene.
One-sentence prompt → illustrated explainer
Why the Roman Empire fell
Start: One-sentence idea · Control: Prompt Mode, then script review · Job: A general YouTube history explanation
A short history brief becomes a paced, narrated explanation for a general YouTube audience.
Exact prompt
Create an explainer video on why the Roman Empire fell — engaging, fast-paced, for a general YouTube audience…
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Prompt vs Script Mode
Structured prompt → teaching video
Linear thinking vs systems thinking
Start: Structured teaching prompt · Control: Prompt Mode · Job: Compare two ways of thinking
The source asks for definitions, examples, strengths, weaknesses, and context, giving the generated story a useful teaching structure.
Exact prompt
Define and give examples of linear versus systems thinking. Compare the strengths and weaknesses of each, and in which contexts one is more appropriate than the other.
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Prompt vs Script Mode
Creative constraint → short explainer
Why runners use carbohydrates
Start: 20-second prompt with a character constraint · Control: Prompt Mode · Job: A short sports-science explanation
A 20-second learning objective gains a memorable skeleton character without requiring a manual storyboard.
Exact prompt
make a 20 second video about explaining how carbohydrates are the main fuel/energy source when running and make the main character a skeleton
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Prompt vs Script Mode
Script and own-narration examples
Use a script when the wording is approved. Use Own Narration when the timing and performance already exist in an audio recording.
Approved script → animated explanation
What is a quantum computer?
Start: Approved script · Control: Script Mode · Job: A technical concept for a general audience
A conversational script becomes an ordered visual explanation while the supplied wording remains the narration source.
Script opening
A normal computer uses bits. A bit is either a zero or a one. A quantum computer uses qubits, and qubits behave differently…
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Script to video
Long-form script → narrated explainer
Why ambition turns into procrastination
Start: Long approved script · Control: Script Mode · Job: A behavior explanation with a practical takeaway
A hook, psychological explanation, analogy, and practical takeaway become a complete visual narrative.
Script opening
Have you ever dreamed of becoming rich… starting a business… getting fit… or changing your life… but somehow… you end up scrolling social media instead?
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Script to video
Original recording → synchronized animation
The Cleopatra story
Start: Uploaded recording (Cleopatra_story.mp3) · Control: Own Narration; audio sets duration and language · Job: A narrated story driven by the recording
The uploaded recording supplies the words, timing, and performance; Golpo creates the matching visual sequence.
Source audio
Cleopatra_story.mp3
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Own Narration
Product and B2B explainer examples
Product videos improve when the prompt names the job—overview, evaluation, onboarding, or support—and the production direction specifies the visual tone.
Product script → branded-style explainer
What Golpo can turn into video
Start: Approved product script · Control: Script Mode · Job: A product overview of what can become a video
Exact product copy is narrated while the scenes visualize prompts, documents, websites, notes, audio, video, and images.
Supplied script
Golpo AI turns almost anything you have lying around — a prompt, a document, a website, copy-pasted notes, screenshots, your existing audio or video, or even just that photo you took off a signboard — into beautiful explainer videos…
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Script to video
Video Instructions → professional tone
Executive-grade B2B explainer
Start: Prompt plus Video Instructions · Control: Video Instructions for labels, diagrams, and tone · Job: An executive explanation of a training workflow
A precise instruction asks for concise labels, clean diagrams, process flows, document-to-video metaphors, and no playful flourishes.
Prompt and instruction
Prompt: How enterprise teams reduce internal training costs with AI-generated video. Instruction: Polished professional B2B explainer… clean diagrams, process flows… no cartoons, no playful flourishes.
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Video Instructions
Brand palette + typography + tagline
Product explainer with brand controls
Start: Product brief in Video Instructions · Control: Video Instructions for palette and tagline; not a saved Custom Style · Job: A product explainer with requested brand cues
The product brief specifies palette, typography, background, and opening and closing treatment.
Video Instructions
Use Golpo's brand palette: Golpo pink #FF2D6F and deep purple #1A0B33, on a clean white background. Open and close with the tagline 'Turn documents into video' rendered in bold Inter font.
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Video Instructions
Advanced explainer formats
AI explainers are not limited to black-and-white whiteboards. A Custom Style is created from an image, a video, or a description, saved in My Styles, and selected again in Canvas or Sketch. The three style players below use three different references. Reusing one saved style on a second topic is the next episode, and it is not a separate player here. The last card is recorded Picture in Picture, which keeps a real speaker visible. It is not AI Presenter.
Art direction → reusable scene style
The Odyssey in a description-defined Custom Style
Start: Written art direction · Engine: Canvas · Control: Custom Style from a description, saved for reuse · Job: A mythological story in one scene language
Written art direction establishes ancient pottery, parchment, dramatic oceans, and golden-blue lighting across the video.
Style description
Use a cinematic mythological animation style inspired by ancient Greek pottery, weathered parchment, and dramatic ocean landscapes. Blend heroic character illustrations, stormy sea transitions, and golden-blue lighting to capture the epic, mysterious journey of The Odyssey.
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Custom Style
Reference image → reusable Custom Style
A sleep guide inspired by one reference image
Start: One reference image · Engine: Canvas · Control: Custom Style from an image · Job: A sleep explainer in a reusable look
A black canvas, luminous hand-drawn lettering, and a cyan-magenta-orange palette from the supplied image guide the visual treatment.
Reference source
Uploaded Sleep image used as the Custom Style reference
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Custom Style
Sketch Custom Style from a description
Love Triangle in a stickman Custom Style
Start: Written description · Engine: Sketch · Control: Custom Style from a description · Job: A relationship story in a stick-figure style
A two-sentence Sketch Custom Style asks for stick-figure people and realistic solid-color objects.
Style description
Use stickman figures for characters. For all other objects, use realistic images with solid colors filled in.
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Custom Style
Webcam or speaking video → Picture in Picture
Presenter beside the animated explanation
Start: Webcam or speaking video · Engine: Canvas or Sketch · Control: Own Narration with Picture in Picture, presenter on the right · Job: Keep a recorded speaker beside the animation
A right-side split preserves the real presenter while the animated content develops in the larger panel.
Layout
Own Narration → Picture in Picture → Split screen → Presenter on the right
Source: existing Golpo guide.
Make this kind of video: use your own subject with the same kind of input. Create in Golpo · Picture in Picture
Which example should you copy?
| If you have… | Start with… | Why |
|---|---|---|
| One idea | Roman Empire or systems thinking | The prompt gives the model room to write and storyboard. |
| Approved wording | Quantum computer or procrastination | Script Mode protects the narrative source while generating visuals. |
| A real performance | Cleopatra | Own Narration keeps the recorded voice and timing. |
| A product brief | Golpo product script or B2B example | The production brief connects product value with a consistent visual tone. |
| A visual reference | Odyssey or Love Triangle | Custom Style turns art direction into a reusable scene language in Canvas or Sketch. |
| A webcam or presenter clip | Picture in Picture | The real speaker remains present while animation carries the explanation. |
| A photo and no new filming | AI Presenter | A stock presenter, or one from an authorized photo, sits beside the diagram. It is not the recorded split-screen above. |
Use these as structural references. Ground the next video in your own audience, approved source, and the explanation you already need to publish.
Frequently asked questions
What makes a good explainer video example?
A useful example makes the input, intended audience, format, and finished output visible. That lets you learn from the production decision rather than only admiring the final animation.
Are these real Golpo videos?
Yes. Twelve players embed a Golpo MP4 already used in a published guide. The Love Triangle player is the public YouTube embed of that same published Sketch Custom Style example.
Which format should a beginner copy first?
Start with a focused prompt and a familiar topic, then approve Golpo’s draft before you render. Move to Script Mode when the wording must stay exact, Own Narration when you already have the recording, and AI Presenter or Picture in Picture when a person should appear beside the diagram.
Can explainer videos include a real presenter?
Yes, in two different ways. Picture in Picture displays an uploaded or webcam recording as a round overlay or split-screen panel; the person in that card recorded the clip. AI Presenter places a stock presenter, or a presenter created from an authorized photo, beside the animation without a new filming session. The photo presenter is not that recording. Presenter layout is chosen in the dashboard; programmatic presenter batches are not available yet.
Are all AI explainer videos whiteboard videos?
No. Whiteboard is one explainer style. Golpo also supports Canvas illustration, Custom Styles, pen-in-hand treatments, inserted media, recorded Picture in Picture, and AI Presenter on eligible plans.
Make the one you actually need
Pick the card closest to the explanation you already owe someone—a lesson, a product question, or the next episode. Open Golpo, start from the same kind of input, and use your subject, your style, and your voice or presenter. Create that video. If the card’s control sits on a higher plan, compare it on the pricing page before you build the whole series.
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