Short, narrated, captioned explainer films of academic papers, white papers and reports, so the research reaches people outside its field.
AI-facilitated, not AI-generated.
A research paper is written for its field. A short film with captions reaches the funders, policymakers, journalists and public who will never read the PDF.
You Approve Every Script
A language model helps draft each script and one of our team prepares it. Nothing is rendered until you approve it.
Captions and Transcript
Every film comes with captions, a full transcript and a poster image, so it is accessible from the start.
Pictures Drawn in Code
Every frame is drawn in code. No image or video model is involved.
Disclosed Synthetic Voice
Narration uses an openly licensed voice model that runs on our own machines, and every film says so in its first caption, its transcript and the file's details.
The GreenCode film.
A ten-minute film for ITEA GreenCode, the research project we lead, drawn from its published research and reports.
Video created by explainapaper.com. More GreenCode films are at greencode.ai.
From PDF to film, with you in charge of the script.
You see the script before anything is rendered, and three revision rounds are included with every film. A dashboard shows whether a film is with you or with the team, and you are emailed at each step.
Send the Paper
Upload the PDF and say who the film is for, how long it should be, what to emphasise and which voice to use. Confirm you have the right to have it adapted, and flag it if it is confidential or embargoed.
Read the Draft Script
A language model helps draft the script and one of our team prepares it.
Approve or Ask for Changes
Nothing is rendered until you approve the script. An optional human review adds a second editor, who did not prepare the script, checking it against the paper.
Get Your Film
A narrated film with captions, a transcript and a poster image, yours to use anywhere, permanently, including commercially.
Simple prices, known up front.
Buy one film, a pack of credits to spend across several papers, or a monthly plan for your comms team. Every film includes three revision rounds. Prices exclude VAT.
For one paper, with captions and a transcript.
For a research group or a small run of papers. Credits last 12 months.
For a comms team spreading credits across several papers. Credits last 12 months.
Films in your institution's own brand, a shared account for up to 5 colleagues, and invoicing against a purchase order.
Add-ons per film: an extra revision round, £59 (£70.80 inc. VAT), or human review, £99 (£118.80 inc. VAT). Ordering opens soon: see the full pricing at explainapaper.com.
Built for the people who share research.
Research Comms Teams
Press offices and faculty comms teams turning their institution's papers into films for a wider audience, with invoicing on 30-day terms.
Research-Impact Officers
Evidence for impact reporting and for the dissemination plans funders ask for.
Researchers
Researchers who have just published, at a price a grant can cover.
Frequently Asked Questions
Explain a Paper opens for orders soon. Register interest at explainapaper.com and you will be told first.
Yes. You need the right to have the paper adapted. Papers under CC BY-ND or CC BY-NC licences are not accepted.
Yes. Flag it when you upload the paper and it is handled with extra care.
A language model helps draft it, one of the team prepares it, and you approve it. Nothing is rendered until you do. For papers that will be published widely you can add a human review, in which an editor who did not prepare the script checks it against the paper.
A narrated film with captions, a full transcript and a poster image, with three revision rounds included. You can use them anywhere, permanently, including commercially.
Yes, on the enterprise plan: your palette, typeface and logo. If your typeface cannot be licensed for video, IBM Plex Sans is used instead.
It is deleted 90 days after you accept the film.
Help your research reach people outside its field.
Explain a Paper opens for orders soon. Register interest at explainapaper.com, or get in touch to talk about your papers.
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