Tutorials and templates

Tutorials and templates are the fastest ways to learn Nodaro and to start from something that works. A tutorial teaches one idea with a short video or a guided workflow. A template is a finished workflow that you copy into your account and change. Copying is free: you spend credits only when you run your copy.

Where to find them

Tutorials

The Nodaro team writes the tutorials and sorts them into categories, such as Getting Started, Workflows and Advanced. New tutorials appear as the team publishes them.

All tutorials opens the full list by category, with the filters All, Video Courses and Written Tutorials. A workflow tutorial card shows how complex the workflow is and an estimate of the credits one run costs.

Guided walkthroughs

A guided walkthrough is a full-screen page that explains a workflow before you run anything. Its header shows the number of steps, the time it takes and the cost of a run. The bar at the top switches between two views:

• Tutorial mode is the lesson: numbered steps on the left, and on the right the real run the tutorial was built from, with its prompts, images, videos and audio. Point at a step to focus it.
• Canvas mode shows the same workflow as a read-only canvas, with every node and connection as it is in the editor. Sticky notes are hidden, because the lesson already covers them.

Nothing on either view spends credits. Run tutorial copies the workflow into your default project, My Recent Flows, and opens the copy in the editor. That copy is what you run and change.

Every walkthrough has its own link on app.nodaro.ai, in the form /tutorials/<name>. Anyone can open the link without signing in, and is asked to sign in only when they click Run tutorial.

UGC Video From Your Site

UGC Video From Your Site is a written tutorial on Nodaro Cloud, built on the UGC video nodes. A creator talks to the camera about your product, while screenshots of your site appear as cards, with captions. Its credit estimate is for a 15-second video.

1. Clone the tutorial.
2. Type your product's name or paste its website into Product name or website. Nodaro does not visit the site: the script reads the screenshots.
3. Upload 3 to 8 screenshots of your site into Screenshot 1 to Screenshot 8, in the order the creator should talk about them.
4. Set the length and the language on UGC Script. The length is 15 seconds and the language is English unless you change them. The language is English or Hebrew.
5. On UGC Creator, keep AI creator, or choose My photo and upload your photo. Choose the gender. The four optional Creator: pickers steer the person, styling, setting and lighting of an AI creator.
6. Click Run. The run stops at UGC Creator with its options side by side. Click Use this one on the creator you want, then Run from here on UGC Creator.

The finished video is on the Captions node. UGC Cards shows the Notes: "No issues." when nothing went wrong and every check ran, or a sentence for each thing to check. For example, a note can name a clip that may not say its line exactly. Render that clip again from UGC Clip.

Published as a MiniApp, the tutorial asks the runner for the product name or website, the screenshots, the length (15, 20 or 25 seconds), the language (English or Hebrew) and the creator, an AI creator or their own photo. It can also ask for the creator's setting and person. An app run draws one creator and goes straight on to the video.

UGC Video With Your Product in Hand

UGC Video With Your Product in Hand is a written tutorial on Nodaro Cloud, built on the same UGC video nodes. A creator talks to the camera about your product and holds it up at the end, with your close-up photos as cards, and captions. Its credit estimate is for a 15-second video.

1. Clone the tutorial.
2. Type the product's name and a sentence about it into Product name.
3. Upload a clear photo of the product on its own into Product photo. The creator holds the product up at the end when the shot allows. Otherwise the video ends on an open gesture.
4. Upload close-up photos into Close-up 1 to Close-up 3, in the order the creator should talk about them. With all 3, each close-up appears as a card while the creator mentions it. With fewer, the script leaves them out, and the video shows only the creator talking, with no cards. See UGC Script.
5. Set the length and the language on UGC Script. They are 15 seconds and English unless you change them.
6. Choose the creator on UGC Creator, as in UGC Video From Your Site.
7. Click Run. The run stops at UGC Creator with its options side by side. Click Use this one on the creator you want, then Run from here on UGC Creator.

The finished video is on the Captions node, with the close-ups drawn by the Photo cards node. UGC Cards shows the Notes: "No issues." when nothing went wrong and every check ran, or a sentence for each thing to check.

Published as a MiniApp, the tutorial asks the runner for the product name, the product photo, the close-ups, the length (15, 20 or 25 seconds), the language (English or Hebrew) and the creator, an AI creator or their own photo. The close-ups are optional, and all 3 are needed for cards. It can also ask for the creator's setting and person. An app run draws one creator and goes straight on to the video.

UGC App Demo

UGC App Demo is a written tutorial on Nodaro Cloud, built on the same UGC video nodes. A creator talks to the camera about your app while its screens appear as cards, and the video ends on the creator's phone, with captions. Its credit estimate is for a 15-second video.

1. Clone the tutorial.
2. Type the app's name and what it does, in one sentence, into App name.
3. Upload 3 to 8 phone screenshots into Screenshot 1 to Screenshot 8, in the order the creator should talk about them. Each screenshot appears as a card while the creator mentions it. The video usually ends with the creator using their phone.
4. Set the length and the language on UGC Script. They are 15 seconds and English unless you change them.
5. Choose the creator on UGC Creator, as in UGC Video From Your Site.
6. Click Run. The run stops at UGC Creator with its options side by side. Click Use this one on the creator you want, then Run from here on UGC Creator.

The finished video is on the Captions node. UGC Cards shows the Notes: "No issues." when nothing went wrong and every check ran, or a sentence for each thing to check, such as screenshots too few to make cards.

Published as a MiniApp, the tutorial asks the runner for the app name, the screenshots, the length (15, 20 or 25 seconds), the language (English or Hebrew) and the creator, an AI creator or their own photo. It can also ask for the creator's setting and person. An app run draws one creator and goes straight on to the video.

Tutorials without a walkthrough

A workflow tutorial without a guided walkthrough opens a preview of the workflow, with its nodes, models and tags. Choose a project in the list and click Clone to Project. The copy goes into that project.

Templates

The Templates page holds ready-made workflows that other people built and tested: "Clone one, swap your assets, run."

• Use cases groups the templates by what they make.
• Browse templates has three tabs: Browse for every listed template, Favorites for the ones you marked with the heart, and My Templates for the ones you published.
• Sort the templates by Popular, Newest or Fewest credits, or type in Search templates....
• Each card shows the models the template uses, its estimated credits for one run, its number of nodes, and badges such as New or Popular.

Copy a template

The original template never changes: your copy is an ordinary workflow in your account. See Workflows and projects.

Publish your own template

1. Open your workflow, go to the Present tab and click Template.
2. In Publish as Template, enter a Name, a Short Description for the card and a Full Description, which accepts Markdown.
3. Choose a Category, the Output types and up to 10 tags.
4. Turn on List on marketplace to show the template on the Templates page. Leave it off to keep the template unlisted.
5. Click Publish Template. Nodaro counts the nodes, detects the node types and models, and calculates the credits when you publish.

A template with a UGC video. A template ships its UGC video nodes empty, and it never carries your own photo or anything made from it. To show an example, turn on Include this run's results before you publish. A UGC video made in one run with an AI creator then ships its results: the creator's image, the script's spoken lines, each clip's current take, the finished clips that UGC Finish handed on, the finished video and the Notes. People who copy the template see these results, and their own run makes everything new. The template's price is the same either way.

• A video made from your own photo never ships its results. The option is then marked as not available, with the reason.
• If Nodaro cannot confirm that the results were made in one run of yours with an AI creator, the option is not available. Run the video again, then publish.
• The results are copies that the template keeps. Deleting your own files does not remove them. Publishing again without the option, or deleting the template, removes them.

Your published templates appear under My Templates, where you can list or unlist them, edit their details or delete them. To change what a template contains, edit its workflow and publish it again from Present › Template.

On a self-hosted install

• A starter set comes with Nodaro. The first time a self-hosted install starts, it adds a set of guided walkthroughs, so the tutorials row is not empty. They are ordinary templates owned by a built-in "Nodaro" account: copy them, run them and take them apart.
• Templates that need Nodaro Cloud are left out. The starter set leaves out a template built on a node that runs on Nodaro Cloud only. It also leaves out a template whose canvas shows the results of a finished example run, because a starter copy cannot carry them. The UGC video tutorials are both, so a self-hosted install does not list them.
• Your copies stay yours. New Nodaro releases can update the starter tutorials, and editing your own copy never changes the starter tutorials.
• Media needs the internet. The workflows come with Nodaro, but the images, videos and audio that a walkthrough shows load from Nodaro's servers.
• An empty row says "No tutorials yet" when no tutorials are published for your edition.

Business installs can also add their own tutorials. See Configuration.