GIFs, walkthroughs and silent captures

Make a GIF of a film, a click-through walkthrough page, or a silent capture, from the film you already built.

From a built film you can make three extras without recording anything again: a GIF, a walkthrough (a page the viewer clicks through at their own pace) and a silent capture.

Before you start

A built film: Build a film.

A GIF

A looping GIF of the finished film, 960 pixels wide at 12 frames a second unless the kit says otherwise.

In the app, click GIF under More stages on the film's Files panel.
In the terminal:

showreel gif compose

Change the size or frame rate for one GIF:

showreel gif compose --width 640 --fps 10

A walkthrough

A walkthrough is the film as something to click through, like an interactive product demo. It is made from the recording, so there is nothing else to write.

One step per click. The picture is the screen as the cursor arrives, a pulsing dot marks where the click lands, and a tooltip says what to do, from the line's Does.
The line's words head the first step of each line, so the story reads as it does in the film. A line with no click is a step to read.
An end screen has Start again, and Watch the film when there is somewhere it plays.

Viewers move on by clicking the dot, Next or the → key, and go back with Back or ←. A film of a phone app makes a phone-shaped walkthrough.

It is one HTML file in the film's out folder, ending -walkthrough.html, with the pictures inside, usually a megabyte or so. Send it, host it or embed it.

In the app, click Walkthrough under More stages on the Files panel.
In the terminal:

showreel walkthrough compose

The end screen links to the film's share link when it has one. Give another address with --href:

showreel walkthrough compose --href https://www.example.com/tour

When you share a film that has a walkthrough, its share page offers Try it yourself. See Share a film for review.

A silent capture

The take on its own, with no voice, open or close, and the line markers removed. Useful as raw footage for another editor.

In the app, click Silent capture under More stages on the Files panel.
In the terminal:

showreel capture compose

Make them with every build

On the Film panel, in What a build makes, tick GIF or Walkthrough page under Also. Every build then makes them too.