Motion pieces

Your assistant can build a short animated video or presentation directly on your board from a brief you leave for it. Connect your assistant through the local board MCP server or Board WebMCP and keep the board open in your browser tab while it works:

• Leave your material on the board: drop screenshots, logos, diagrams, voice recordings, music, and text notes onto the board as your brief.
• Ask for a promo, explainer, or narrated clip: Irakasi includes a built-in motion guide that teaches your assistant how to structure scenes, camera moves, animations, and sound for each format.
• Approve the still scenes before animation: review and tweak the laid-out scenes and camera frames before your assistant adds the timeline animations.
• Play, edit, and export: watch the finished piece through the scene cameras, adjust any shape or animation block by hand, and export it as a video or GIF.

What to leave on the board

Put your material on the board before asking for the piece. Your assistant inspects what is already on the board and asks only for details that are missing:

• Pictures and videos: add product screenshots, logos, photos, or diagrams. Your assistant reuses the original files and adjusts their size, framing, and rounded corners to fit each scene. Because your assistant cannot watch video playback, add a short note describing what a video shows and which seconds to use.
• Notes and website: write the tagline, the copy for each scene, brand colors, or the steps to explain in text shapes. If your AI app can browse the web, you can also give it your website address so it can match your site's colors, fonts, and headings.
• Sound: add a voice recording or a music track (MP3, WAV, or M4A) for a narrated clip or background music. Timed captions require the text and timing of each phrase, either from your assistant's voice or transcription tools or from your notes.
• Where to place it: keep your brief together to one side of the board. Your assistant builds promos and narrated clips beside your brief, or frames your existing diagram in place for an explainer, keeping your notes and audio shapes outside the cameras.

Asking for a piece

You do not need to mention the motion guide in your prompt; Irakasi's tools point your assistant to it automatically when you ask for one of these pieces:

• Launch promo: a multi-scene product promo with an opening hook, a product scene (with a simulated cursor click or video clip), feature cards with a travelling camera shot, and a closing logo with a call to action or counter. Example: "Make a 15-second launch promo from what is on this board."
• Explainer: a guided tour of a diagram on your board (or a new diagram you ask your assistant to draw first) that starts with a wide shot, moves the camera from part to part as arrows draw on and labels type in, and finishes on a wide shot showing every step. Example: "Explain how this works in 30 seconds from the diagram on this board."
• Narrated clip: scenes timed to a voice recording on the board, with background music that lowers while the voice speaks and timed captions that follow each phrase. Example: "Make a clip of my recording with captions that follow the words."
• Length and format: name the duration in seconds and the aspect ratio (16:9, 9:16, or 1:1) when you want a specific size or length.

How your assistant works

The motion guide instructs your assistant to build the piece in four steps:

1. Stills first: it builds every scene as a still composition in its finished state, frames each scene with a camera, and pauses before adding any animation.
2. Your approval: inspect the still scenes on the board, move or restyle anything by hand, and tell your assistant to continue. Small requests (such as a single title card) or prompts that ask to build the animation right away skip this pause.
3. Motion and sound: it adds the camera transitions, scene entrances, lens effects, and audio blocks scene by scene, then checks key moments through each scene's camera to fix any layout overlaps.
4. Ready to play and export: it turns on See through active camera, sets the playback range, and tells you how to play and export the piece.

Playing and exporting

You can watch and edit the finished piece directly on the board, or export it as a video or GIF file:

• Play: choose Play in the Timeline panel in Animation mode, or switch to Player mode. In the editor, keep See through active camera turned on to watch the piece through the scene cameras.
• View as a storyboard: when you zoom out at the end of the timeline, the board reads like a storyboard with every scene in its final state. Timed captions hide after their last phrase finishes.
• Edit by hand: every scene uses standard Irakasi shapes, cameras, and animation blocks, so you can edit any text, style, or timing yourself.

Exporting

Export the piece as a video or a GIF through its cameras.

• Operation:
  1. In the App menu, open Export and choose Export as Video.
  2. Set Camera to Active camera and turn on Use playback range.
  3. Choose the Format: a video, or a GIF (which has no sound).
  4. Choose Export Video or Export GIF.
• Result: a video or GIF of the piece (see Exporting videos and GIFs).
• Tip: if your browser asks to share the tab, allow it so live content (such as an HTML shape or web embed) is recorded live instead of showing its static cover. Keep the browser tab in front and uncovered until the export finishes.