Using Narration Text Blocks

Editing your narration and timing it with your slides

Narration Text Blocks on Flickify

Within the Flickify video editor, the Narration text blocks serve as a dynamic tool to enhance your video's auditory experience. These blocks, found on the side of the editor, correspond directly to individual slides. They act as the script or verbal guide that a narrator will voice during the duration of the associated slide. Designed with user convenience in mind, the blocks are neatly assembled in the narration editor on the right, ensuring clarity and ease of access.

What truly sets the Narration text blocks apart is their adaptability. Whether you're aiming for a slide with a brief narration or one abundant in details, the editor supports your vision. The grouping functionality allows for swift adjustments, giving you the freedom to determine the narration's pacing and content for each slide. This, combined with additional features like text editing and the ability to introduce pauses, ensures that Flickify provides an unparalleled narration editing experience.



Grouping Narration Text Blocks

Grouping Narration text blocks in Flickify's editor provides a streamlined way to organize and control the flow of your narration. These grouped blocks determine the script that will be voiced over a specific slide, ensuring that the audio and visual elements are synchronized. To utilize this feature, simply click on the link icon located either at the top or bottom of your selected text block group. By doing so, you can merge it with the adjacent group above or below, depending on which link icon you engage. Once grouped, all the text blocks within that cluster will be narrated in sequence, and the slide displayed to the left in your editor, when that group is selected, will persist on screen for the entirety of the narration. This intuitive grouping mechanism ensures that your video's content is cohesive, with both visuals and narration working in harmony.

Splitting Grouped Text Blocks

Flickify’s editor not only allows you to group Narration text blocks but also offers the flexibility to cut, split or ungroup them when needed. By clicking on the scissors icon, you can easily detach specific text blocks from their current group. Once ungrouped, you have multiple options at your disposal. You can opt to merge these isolated text blocks with additional ones below, seamlessly integrating them into a new group. Alternatively, if you prefer to give the ungrouped narration its own visual emphasis, Flickify will automatically generate a new slide for it. This slide will be displayed throughout the duration of the ungrouped text block's narration, ensuring that your video retains a harmonious balance between its auditory and visual elements.


Moving Text Blocks

Rearranging the sequence of your Narration text blocks in Flickify is a breeze, ensuring your video's auditory narrative flows just as you envision. To the left of each text block, you'll find up and down arrow icons. By clicking on these arrows, you can effortlessly shift the position of a specific text block within its slide group. This change in order directly impacts the order in which the narrator reads the content for that particular slide. Such a feature provides creators with the flexibility to fine-tune their narration sequence, making certain that each segment of the story is presented in its optimal order.


Adding Pauses

To ensure precise timing and pacing in your video's narration, Flickify allows you to incorporate pauses between segments of your narration. To add a pause, begin by selecting the desired Narration text block. Then, click on the dotted icon situated between the up and down arrows. A dialog box will promptly appear, granting you the freedom to specify the duration of the pause, measured in seconds. It's essential to note that during this narration pause, the slide associated with the selected text block will persistently display on screen. If your intention is for the pause to commence alongside a new slide, you have the option to split off this pause-inducing text block and merge it with the subsequent text block group, which initiates a fresh slide. This flexibility ensures that your video seamlessly transitions between narration and visual pauses, creating a captivating and well-timed viewer experience.