“I saw it in a YouTube tutorial”, but did you use it to follow the recipe? Were you able to fix the plug, or did you end up calling the plumber while watching cat videos?
YouTube videos are great for discovering content and inspiring us, but the format isn’t the best for following a tutorial: fast forward, pause, play, rewind… At StepAlong, we always thought that the YouTube experience could be improved.
StepAlong now supports YouTube videos
Now product instruction creators can choose to add images, animated gifs, or a YouTube video to illustrate the steps of a StepAlong.
The new version of the StepAlong player allows you to view a YouTube tutorial more clearly and structured, step by step, complementing the video with text instructions, links, and lists (no more hidden text in the video description).
In a video tutorial, it’s important to pay attention to the actions or techniques illustrated, so each video snippet automatically plays when starting each step, repeating in a loop several times to consolidate task learning.
We’ve also added a remote control for the video, always visible in each step, to pause the video, replay it, or adjust the speed, making it easy to use if your hands are dirty or busy with tools.
Repurpose YouTube content into AI-enhanced product tutorials
Manually editing a YouTube video and complementing it with instructions is a time-consuming task. At StepAlong, we’ve created an efficient and cost-effective way to do it.
Anyone or any company with a YouTube channel just needs to add the URL of a YouTube video, and the AI converter will do the rest in minutes, creating a step-by-step tutorial that we can then refine and customize to our needs. For the process to work, videos must have a transcription and be less than 20 minutes long.
StepAlong respects copyright
To protect your brand and ensure that others cannot benefit from your work, your YouTube account must be authenticated. Only you can generate StepAlongs automatically or manually with your videos.
We believe that this security mechanism will improve the credibility and reliability of tutorials, as users will know that the content comes from the original authors.
We’re very excited about these new features, as they allow using AI to do, build, configure, use, fix, maintain, learn, and perform things in the real world.
More details on the release notes.
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