Answer Video Maker (What Is, How To, X vs Y)
One searched question answered in 30–50 seconds — the question and its answer first, then steps, a side by side, a countdown or a verdict, every figure from the facts you give it.
What you walk away with
A 1080×1920 and a 1920×1080 MP4 of a 30–50 second answer video with captions timed to the voice, and a post caption.
- Output
- 1 video · 30–50s · 9:16 · 16:9 · 1080p
- Time
- ~3 min / video
- Preset
- 5 steps
What is the Answer Explainer workflow?
The search-answer short as a workflow. Give the question as it's searched, the kind of question — what is, how to, how it works, X vs Y, is it worth it, alternatives, does it work, how much, facts about, for whom — and the facts with their sources. The first line asks the question and answers it at once while the question types into a search bar on screen; three to five beats follow in the question's own shape (steps, a side by side, a countdown, a verdict); it ends on the one thing to remember. Every figure the film says or shows is checked in code against your facts — one they don't give sends the script back, and a film that still has one is never voiced.
What a run does, step by step
- 1Question · Full briefCents
- 2Answer · ExplainerCents
- 3Narration · A take per lineCents
- 4Render · Motion graphicsFree
- 5Caption · Post captionCents
- Time
- ~3 min per video, hands-off
- Cost per run
- A few cents on your Gemini key for the words and the voice; no research step (you give the facts). The film is drawn in code for free.
- You get
- 1 video · 30–50s · 9:16 + 16:9 · Figures checked against your facts
Before you start
- The question as people search it, and at least two facts about it, each with its source and date.
- A ppl.studio account with your own Gemini key — the words and the voice come to a few cents; the film is drawn for free.
The Answer Explainer guide
- Step 01~~1 min
Give the question and the facts
The question as it's searched, its kind (what is, how to, vs, worth it…) and the facts, one a line with the source and date. There is no research step: the film says only what you give it.
Why this matters: An answer video lives on being right. Facts you checked, with sources, are what the comments can't pick apart.
OutcomeA run with its question, shape and facts.How to do it with ppl.studio
Through the API or the setup screen.
- 1.1
One fact a line
"- <claim> (<source title>, <date>)" — at least two; a run with fewer is refused.
- Step 02~~2 min
Get it written, checked, voiced and drawn
The question and its one-line answer first, three to five beats in the question's shape, the one thing to remember. Every figure in the narration and on screen is checked against the facts, and the first line against the question.
Why this matters: The viewer searched for the answer: it comes in the first three seconds, or they're gone. A number nobody can source is the comment that sinks the video.
OutcomeTwo MP4s and a post caption.How to do it with ppl.studio
Drawn on our side as kinetic type, no image or video model — free. Captions are timed to the words as the voice says them.
- 2.1
Post the tall one to Shorts, TikTok and Reels
And the wide one into a longer YouTube video — laid out for each, not cropped.
How it compares
Answer Explainer workflow FAQ
Can it say a number I didn't give it?
No: every figure the narration says or the screen shows must be one of your facts (1,234 and 1234 and "twelve hundred thirty-four" count as the same). A figure that isn't sends the script back to the writer; one still there after a retry and a fix fails the run before anything is voiced.
Related workflows
Ready to run the Answer Explainer?
1 video · 30–50s: ~3 min per video, hands-off. No credit card to start.