How to Videobolt: Tutorial

Everything is divided into handy categories like slideshows, music visualizations, intros, streaming, etc. Everything you see here is a customizable template. So these pictures and texts are just placeholders. You can pick the industry you're in to see the templates with more relevant default assets. There's also stylistic filters like cinematic, stomps, 2D, 3D, minimalist, whatever fits the style of your video. Of course, you can also just go with technical filters. Like format — to fit the social media you're using duration and maximum export resolution. The maximum resolution depends on the template, with some going up to 4K Ultra HD. Let's go with Sketch, which has a nice pencil sketch effect that will animate my logo.

Our editor has a simple layout: on the left, you have the sidebar with all the assets you can replace in the video. This template has a logo, tagline and the audio track. Further on the left, there are sidebar tabs where you can find additional customizations: Presets, Colors, and Customize. On the right, you can see the video preview and the production buttons.

Replace the logo by clicking its item in the sidebar list. You can also click the floating button in the video preview. Upload the logo from your computer or pick one that was previously uploaded from the Asset Library. Once you replace the logo you should see your preview updating to reflect the new changes.

Besides replacing assets, you can change the colors of the whole video. To do that, head over to the sidebar and switch to the Colors tab.

In Palettes, you'll find suggested color combinations curated for this template, each shown as a preview of the video. Click Apply on the one you like and the whole template is recolored at once. If a palette is close but not quite right, click the plus button next to it to see more options with a similar feel.

Got brand colors? Add up to three of them under Your colors. You can type a hex value or pick one from your Brand Kit. You'll then get palettes made only from the colors you selected, and the suggested ones will include them too.

Want more control? Scheme lets you change one color group at a time, like the background or the logo and typography. Fine-tune gives you a detailed list of every individual color in the template, plus the option to keep your logo's original colors.

Fonts and effects live in the Customize tab. This template only has one text, the tagline. To change its font, just click the font item and either pick one of the thousands of Google fonts or upload your own.

This template doesn't have many Advanced Controls. Its colors are all handled in the Colors tab. It's just a more detailed list of individual elements and their colors, something that the basic controls adjust automatically. Other templates can have a more expansive list of customizations like effects and graphics, etc. Be sure to check here when trying out a new template to see everything you can adjust.

You can share the lower resolution preview if you need approval or comments from a client or coworker. Otherwise, you can go ahead and export it in high definition by clicking the Export button. Just confirm the dialogue to begin the render. On the rendering screen, you can keep track of the progress of your video, though you can also continue using Videobolt and we'll email you when it's done.

Now let's take a look where you can see your completed videos, Drafts and the Asset Library. Projects section from the header menu houses all your video projects at Videobolt. The Exports category is home to all your HD exports. The latest video you exported should be at the top of the list. Projects that you didn't export in HD are automatically stored in Drafts. By default they're organized by date though you can filter and search when you're looking for an older draft. And finally, the Asset Library. This is where we store everything you upload to the website: logos, pictures, lyrics, videos, music, fonts, everything. Files from your device go to Uploads, while assets from external libraries are in Imports. You can also access your Template Exports and Video Tools Exports from the Asset Library, so all your project assets and exports are under one roof.