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Working title

Who is the video for? The general public Policymakers Students Specialists in the field

What should we make?

Shorts are included at no extra charge.

A widescreen video One narrated video, with captions, a transcript and a poster image. Shorts A set of 3 vertical Shorts for YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels. Each opens on a hook and says one thing in plain language, with the subtitles on screen. Both The widescreen video and a set of 3 Shorts made from the same paper.

Target length

The video runs no longer than the length you choose. For Shorts on their own, it is the length of the script we cut them from. Any length up to 5 minutes for the price of a one-minute video.

Up to 1 minute One finding, told simply. Up to 2 minutes The question, the method and the main result. Up to 3 minutes Room for several results and what they mean. Up to 5 minutes A fuller walk through the paper.

Need a longer video, or one covering several papers? Contact us about 30 or 60 minute videos, or a video spanning several papers, such as a research archive.

Layout

How the words and the animation share the screen. All layouts, including your own, are included at no extra charge.

Slides Text on the left, animation on the right.

Full animation The whole screen animated, with titles over it.

Mixed Each scene uses whichever suits it.

Your own layout Follow a slide design you upload.

What can the video show from your paper?

This is separate from the layout. Copyright and your video explains the difference.

Redrawn (recommended): ideas and findings in our own words and drawings, with no text or images copied from the paper. Does not normally need the publisher's permission. Show the paper itself: clips of its pages and figures beside the animation. Needs the right to adapt the paper.

What should the video emphasise? (optional)

Style

Teams can use their own brand pack once we have set it up.

Your brand

Free on every order. Import your colours, fonts and logo from your website, or upload your logo, then check how they look in the video.

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What should the video explain?

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A paper or document Upload it as a PDF: a research paper, a white paper, a report. A web page One page, such as an article or a product page. A website Its home page and up to 10 more pages from the same site, chosen by us.

Do not upload identifiable participant data. Remove names, contact details and anything else that could identify people in your study before you upload.

Paper (PDF, up to 25 MB, not password-protected)

This paper is confidential

Nothing from a confidential paper is ever published or used as a sample, and our team sees the flag at every step.

Embargoed until (optional)

Your right to have a video made

A redrawn video copies no text or images from your paper, so we do not ask for a rights basis. You upload the paper for us to read, so we ask you to confirm that you may share it with us.

I am entitled to share this paper with Explain a Paper so that you can make the video

I am an author of this paper, or I am authorised to act for its authors

How your paper is processed

Our language-model provider, Anthropic, may retain the material we send it for a limited period (currently up to 30 days, or up to 2 years if its automated systems flag the material as breaching its usage policy) for safety and abuse monitoring. It does not use it to train its models.

I accept this for this paper

A zero-data-retention option is coming for confidential and embargoed papers.

Optional extras for this video Stills for your website: up to 10 still images from your video, with alt text suggestions (£4.99, plus VAT) Slides (PowerPoint): a PowerPoint of your video's scenes, with each element as a separate piece you can move and edit, and the narration as speaker notes (£4.99, plus VAT) Lesson pack: an interactive lesson page made from your video, with checks for understanding, a glossary, three activities and a teacher's note, and a pack of PDFs to download. You approve it before anyone else can see it (£4.99, plus VAT)

Videos made with an Enterprise subscription credit include all three, so leave these unticked. You can also add them from your video's page later, while we still hold the video.

How long we keep your video. From 1 November 2026, we keep each new video for 3 months after delivery, then delete it and its source paper for good. We email you a month and a week before, so you can download your copy: it is yours to keep. A storage plan (£4.99/month, plus VAT) keeps your videos for longer, and team subscribers keep theirs while they subscribe. Videos ordered before 1 November 2026, or with credits bought before then, are kept until you delete them. The full rules.

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