Storybuilder

Create a Storyboard, a sequence of scenes with the flow of the story

How To Create a Video Storyboard
Watch the How to Create a Storyboard Video Total running time: 2:51 Personalized Videos are created from a Storyboard. A Storyboard contains a sequen...
How to Configure Placeholders
Each video scene may have one or more placeholders. Placeholders are animated layers holding a place for changing content. Placeholders are created and anim...
How to Hide a Placeholder
The hide a placeholder function hides the content of a static or dynamic placeholder. Click the three circles at the bottom right of the placeholder and th...
The Apply to all Placeholder Function
Watch the Apply to all Video Total running time: 1:48 The apply to all placeholder function applies the content of a placeholder to all of the place...
How To Reset a Placeholder
Watch the Reset to Default Video Total running time: 0:37 The reset to default placeholder function resets the placeholder's content to default....
How to Create Scene Logic
This article explains how to implement a Logic Operator when working with a scene. Scene Logic is used to define which scenes will be shown to the viewer de...
An Explanation of Idomoo Logic Operators
Logic operators, such as greater or smaller than, can be used in these scenarios: Scene Logic for selecting if to show or not show a scene. Group Logi...
How to Create Groups
A group is a series of more than one scene to be viewed in a sequence.  Group scenes together by dragging and dropping one on top of the other.  Groups can ...
How to Create Group Logic
Group logic is the logic that defines when and by who a group of scenes will be viewed.  Group logic is defined by parameters, operations and values. Group...
Setting the Thumbnail Time
Thumbnails let viewers see a quick snapshot of your video. It’s a frame from the video to best represent the whole video. If you choose not to set a frame, ...
Limiting Generation Using Validation Rules
Validation rules are used to determine videos that you do not want created. If a video should not be created because a vital piece of information is missing...
How to Define the Duration of a Scene
Changing the duration of a scene can make a scene more useable in different scenarios. Furthermore, by telling a scene that its duration is driven by the du...
How To Add Audio To Your Video
Watch the Add Audio to a Scene Video Total running time: 4:39 You can easily add audio to a scene by clicking '+ ADD AUDIO' button which is l...
Saving the Storyboard
Once you are finished editing your scenes and are ready to produce and render the videos, you can save it to the Dashboard. Watch this video for a detai...
How to Manage Media
Where Can I Upload Media To? Media, that is: images, audio and video files, can be uploaded to the assets section of a scene library or to the asset librar...
Bring Your Own Storage
Idomoo provides a storage solution right in the Storybuiling Suite. For most needs Manage Media or Library Assets provide what you need. However, if you wan...
How to do Mapping
Mapping links dynamic placeholders to a folder of assets or to properties files. For media placeholders the assets can be image and video files or a propert...
The Set Default Value Placeholder Function
Watch the Set Default Value Video Total running time: 1:34 The set default value placeholder function is available for dynamic placeholders. It all...
How to Configure Closed Captions
Closed Captions create an overlay displayed on the video through Idomoo's player. This is great to support hard of hearing customers, but also ensures v...
Using Edit Path
The Edit Path option lets you create a dynamic path to assets using combination of text and parameters. This can be used in several different ways: Host y...
Mapping to a Properties File
When the data input does not match the desired output, use a properties file to convert one to the other. Let's say you extract data from your CRM, and ...
Advanced Text Placeholder Options
Watch the Advanced Text Properties Video Total running time: 8:02 Storybuilder enables you to manipulate the content of text placeholders in many var...
Formatting Text Data
Overview The data formatting options allow you to alter the format of the input text in a parameter and display it as something else. For example; changing...
Advanced Media Placeholder Options
Note - available only for IDM scenes created using Scene Tools Storybuilder enables you to manipulate the content of media placeholders. Media placeh...
How to Configure Interactive Player Actions
Watch the Configuring Interactive Player Actions video Total running time: 6:23 Overview Storyboards are able to hold instructions that allow the Id...
Using Checkpoints to Track Engagement
Understanding the level of engagement your viewers have with a video is crucial. For some videos, statistics like View Progress, Total Completion Rate, and ...
Get Data From Viewers Using Input Dialogs
You don't always know everything you want to know about your customers. Sometimes the very reason for communicating with them is to collect data. Other ...
Storyboard Tags
Adding tags to your storyboards can help you to better understand the campaign you're running. You tag the generated videos with a set of rules in your ...
Auto Updating a Video with Living Data
Overview Living data is an integration mechanism that can fetch data from any data source that support http get interface. This can be a website, an API, o...
Understanding How to Use Context Parameters
Overview Idomoo is Living Video; a revolutionary concept that uses context sensitive parameters to personalize your content, providing targeted relevance t...
How to Customize a Video Inside Idomoo's Player
Overview Idomoo Video creators have the option to configure an In-Player Menu from within the Storybuilder, allowing their viewing audience to generate cus...
Emoji Support
✨❤️✨ Emojis are a wonderful method of communicating emotion in a single character. After all, a picture says a thousand words. In fact, almost half of all...
Set Up a Transcript
With transcripts, you can access the video information even if you can't see or hear the video. The transcript gives a written description for what&...