Hello, welcome to this video, where I talk
about ten different tips and hacks for using Doodly.
So it's quite difficult to get your assets
centred either vertically or horizontally, and we're used to using things like
PowerPoint and things line up automatically.
And, you know when things in the centre you don't have that with Doodly.
So we have to do is you have to show the grid.
You get a very complicated grid.
So probably the easiest thing to do is enable snap to grid.
That way you can get things more precisely and they snap in the right place.
If I wanted to copy this and then paste it.
I could easily get it to align using this snap to grid feature, so that's
how you can easily align things and how you can easily get things to line up.
And tip number two is previewing what you've already done, so you can click here
and you can show the preview, but I don't think this preview is very good.
So one way you can preview what you're
doing on a scene by scene basis is to r ight click on the scene and click preview.
And when you do that, you get the preview for each scene, which is quite useful.
But if you want to preview the whole thing
in its entirety, you go up here next to the save button and you click preview.
And that will preview all the scenes together.
So if I want to add a soundtrack to my
Doodly video, if I go to this sounds tab, sometimes I find that we've got sound
effects and we've got music mixed up and it's really difficult to find things.
Of course, I don't really know what I'm
searching for when I'm adding a soundtrack.
So what you can do is click on this category and you can then click on music
and sound effects and that will separate them out.
So if I click on music, then it just shows me the music I've got available.
I tend to look for duration.
So I pick something that I know is going
to be as long as or if not longer than my video.
Another thing that's useful is if you go
to props, you can click on categories here and you can split them down by categories.
So again, you can always search for things
in Doodly, but sometimes it's quite useful to split things down
and look at things like brands or or other things rather than searching directly.
If we go over here to our scene settings,
one thing we can do is we can add subtitles to our scene.
This is quite useful because it gives text at the bottom, which can help really make
the video look professional and convey what you're talking about.
So you might want to type something like this.
This is scene one of seven and we click apply.
And what will happen is when we play the
video, the subtitles were displayed down here and it just looks really good.
So let's have a look at this.
So you can see here we've got subtitles, I
haven't done a particularly thorough subtitle.
We're putting this scene one of seven.
I wanted to illustrate the ability to subtitle.
The next step is if we go over to
settings, we've got all the general settings and this is really useful because
we can set our settings here and every slide or scene will use that setting.
One thing I like is we can change our
hand style from left to right handed or right handed to left.
I'm a lefty, so that's quite good for me.
We can pick our cartoon style hands, which are very useful.
We can pick backgrounds styles, click on
the resolution and we've got some things here so we can always change the title.
And this is quite useful.
The video ends when the animation ends or the animation and the audio ends.
That's quite useful as well.
We can also select the transition type
here and this will override all the scenes, which is useful, and we can select
the erase mode and we'll come to that later.
We've got our scene transitions here and things can swipe left, swipe right, swipe
up, swipe down, do a mixture or we can do camera panning.
So I'm just going to talk about this.
I think this is really good and I think it makes it look a lot more professional.
I'm going to go to Swipe Right and you'll see what I mean in a moment.
So I'm going to click here.
I'm going to go to preview and we're going to see what happens.
So I'm going to start my preview again.
And you can see scene one just swipes out really fast and it goes into scene two.
However, if I go change my settings to camera panning ,here I've put a camera pan
move in and i've put it over scene one and scene two. So in scene one
I've just got it as the standard default size.
And in scene two, I've moved it down to the sort of lower right hand corner.
Let's see how that plays out when we do our preview.
So what I've done is I've made sure it moves from the text of scene one to the
text of scene 2 and it actually takes scene one off screen.
So I placed my scene two low down in the
corner and I've placed my scene one text in the middle and with my panning motion.
I've made sure that scene one isn't in there.
Now, one thing to be aware of is if I put scene one in the same proximity as scene
two and within the panning motion, it would encompass both of them.
You'll see both of them.
So let's have a look at that preview.
So you might think that that's OK.
I personally prefer scene one to disappear
completely and scene two to be their second.
So that's just one thing to be aware of.
I think that makes a much nicer transition, the swiping.
If I go to my third scene, you'll see I've got things that are on top of each other.
Now, currently eraser mode is off.
We've got three eraser modes and we've got off.
So smart eraser.
Let's see what that does.
So we can see first items drawn in and
then the second item is drawn on top of it.
But where they intersect, it's erased.
You might not like that.
And personally, I wouldn't blame you.
So if we go to settings, we can erase it
with a finger, we can erase it with an eraser, or we can turn it off.
I personally prefer it to be turned off.
Let's preview this now.
First item is drawn it in
and then second item is just drawn on top of it, much better.
We click on the object, you got the settings button here, you can flip it
horizontally, but this settings button is the key one.
If we click on this, we can pick the colour so we could have it as an orange.
Now it will only be the outline and the lines that are orange.
It won't be anything else. But there we go.
We get orange so we don't have to stick with black.
Obviously you've got the rainbow add on
for Doodly, but you've got to pay for that.
So if you want different colours all you
have to do is go to the setting of the object and pick what you want.
I'm going to put it back to black.
Staying with the settings of an object you might have noticed in the preview when the
glasses were drawn in, we got this swish sound.
So what we can do, we can specify our enter animation, we can have none or
we can have draw in and then we can specify a sound for when it draws in.
So I picked here badminton swing.
You don't want music. You want a sound.
You could have a blast.
We could have a bowing, could have broken glass.
And all we do is all we do is we select it within this menu.
We can preview it here.
So if you want to select it but you don't want it to play, then set it to zero.
Otherwise set it to one.
You can go more than one if you want to, but one is just going to do it once.
Let's have a look at how that sounds.
So one thing to be aware of, it will do it at the start of when it's being drawn,
it won't do it at the end or in the middle.
It's always going to be at the start.
And staying with the objects and its position, these buttons here are very
useful when you've got one thing in front of the other and that will happen all the
time, you'll have things in front of the other.
If we click here, we will put the front
object at the back and the back object at the front.
And again, if we bring that object forward, we're putting it on top of the
object and putting the other object at the back.
And that can be quite useful when you want
to set sort of an order and you want to have things in front of each other.
So I've just covered 10 tips to use with Doodly.
These are tips that they're not obvious tips, but they're there.
You need to do a little bit of exploring,
but do let me know. Has it been useful to see these tips?
Would you like me to do any more tutorial videos on Doodly or any other videos on
Doodly? Do let me know in the comments below and have a great day.
Thank you.