Okay, so, you’ve made it this far. If you can believe it, this is the final video we’ll be using to deal with functionality. As such, we'll be focussed on adding the finishing touches to your video.While I covered how to add media into your scenes in the last video, I didn’t touch on how to animate them. This can be really important, if say, you want to time text to come in alongside a script. Animation in Colossyan is tied to the script if you’re using text to speech. To start animating, add animation markers into the script by selecting script, then narration, and finally the animation marker. This is the point at the script where your animation will start or end.Now select an image, video, icon or piece of text in your scene. Now select animate.

Before you can link it to a marker, you need to select the type of animation you want to use. For now, you can choose between fade, slide and grow, although we are looking to add additional animation types in the future, so stay tuned for that update!I’ll go with fade for now. Now I can choose if I want the animation to work as an entrance or exit animation, and i’ll go with entrance for this example.

Finally, I can decide which animation marker this is associated with.Similarly, you can add transitions in between your scenes. Just select the transition tab. You can see that you have eight options here. Fade, Close, Crop, blur, Open, Slide, Wipe an Smooth Wipe.Once you select one, you can play around with its duration, and the direction it comes from. You can also apply it to all scenes if you want!Now earlier, I mentioned you’ll want to be previewing to get a sense for how the animations are working.There are two ways to preview your video. You can either select the play button in the scene selector, which will only preview the scene you’re on, or you can select the preview button in the top bar to see the whole video. You may notice that you don’t see the lip sync here either.

There is one last piece of functionality that I want to touch on…. localization.As someone who’s designed a lot of learning content that needed to be translated, this is a game changer. Just select the language variant button on the top right of the top bar, then select add new language variant.Select the drop down, choose a language, then finally ‘create variant’. And in just five clicks, you can instantly translate the text to speech voice over and any on screen text into that language.

Pretty mind boggling right?Before you continue, head back into your draft, but now, I want you to add some animations to fade your media in, in time with your audio. Remember to use the preview functionality to see how things are working, and take the time you need to really get this right.Okay, thats it for this one. Now you know how to animate, add transitions, localise and preview your video! In the next video, i’ll show you how to generate and share your video, which falls into the ‘implement’ part of the ADDIE process! Awesome, see you there!