How to Pre-Record a Webinar or Explainer Video

A live webinar has to happen at a scheduled time, depends on the presenter having a good day, and usually includes some amount of live filler — "let me just pull that up," a rambling intro while attendees trickle in. A pre-recorded, narrate-first walkthrough skips all three: no schedule to coordinate, no live performance to get right in one take, and a script tight enough that it doesn't need filler to begin with.

The workflow

1. Write and generate the walkthrough's narration on GetMeAudio. Script the explainer the way you'd want the best version of the live talk to go — tight, in order, nothing improvised. Flow's built-in GetMeAudio tab means this happens without leaving the app.
2. Record the walkthrough in Flow, synced to that narration. Flow plays the script back like a teleprompter while you record your screen, so the walkthrough always points at what the narration is describing.
3. Export and publish on your schedule. No live date to coordinate across time zones — publish the finished video whenever it's ready, and it plays the same way for the first viewer and the thousandth.

Be honest about what this replaces

This is a strong fit for the explainer or demo *portion* of a webinar — the part that's really a scripted walkthrough anyway. It is not a replacement for a live Q&A or genuine audience interaction; if that's the valuable part of your webinar, keep it live and use the narrate-first approach for the explainer segment that leads into it.

Where this fits

• On-demand, evergreen webinars — an explainer that plays the same way whenever someone requests it, instead of waiting for the next scheduled session.
• Feature or product explainer libraries — the same format as a webinar, sized down to a single topic.
• Pre-recorded conference talks — a tight, rehearsed version of a talk for recorded or asynchronous conference tracks.

Getting started today

Flow is available now for Mac and Windows — see the Flow page to download it. Write your walkthrough script in the GetMeAudio editor, Preview it free, then record the walkthrough against it in Flow.