Editing Your Tour

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Design, styles & image editing for Hexus tours

You can customize Hexus tours per your brand colors and styles. You can also crop, annotate, blur out sensitive info all in our editor. Learn more about our editing features in the tour below.

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Editing captions in your Hexus tour

Automatically generate captions and titles for your tours with our AI feature, or learn how to edit captions in the tour below.

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Recording voice, camera and AI Avatar & voiceover options

Learn about our various AI generated or manual voiceover and camera recording features below. We also support adding background music in the Player Settings tab. To add pauses in your text-to-speech, you can add this syntax: <break time="1.5s" /> Make your tutorials more interactive with Hexus’ AI Avatar and AI Voiceover feature. With this you can add a virtual presenter to your content, making it more dynamic and professional.

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Recording Background Audio or Video for a Tour

(Available on Enterprise Plans) Hexus supports recording one continuous video or audio clip across the entire tour flow, making it easier to maintain consistency and streamline narration.

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Where to Find It

This feature is currently only available in the Product Demo Video template. To access the recording tools:

1. Open your tour in the Product Demo Video template.
2. Navigate to the Media Toolbar.
3. Click on the Audio or Video tab depending on your desired recording type.

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How It Works

• You can record one continuous video or audio clip that plays seamlessly across the full tour.
• This eliminates the need to record separate clips for each step.
• Ideal for product walkthroughs, voiceover demos, or end-to-end guided tours.

Note: This feature is exclusive to Enterprise plan users. If you’re interested in upgrading, please contact your Hexus account manager.

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Adding a Step to Flow

In the tour builder, you can add a step at any point in your flow by clicking the Add Step button. This allows you to enrich your tour with various types of content or interactivity, such as images, videos, forms, and more.

🔄 Note: The term “page” has been replaced with step to align with product terminology.

Each step type helps improve user engagement and guides your viewers through a more compelling and interactive experience. Here, you can import steps from other Hexus flows, upload your media, record your desktop, or record from our Chrome extension. 1. Upload Images - Add static visuals by uploading PNG, JPG, or GIF files from your computer. These can be used for showcasing product screenshots, diagrams, or branded graphics. 2. Upload Videos - Enhance your step with pre-recorded videos (MP4, MOV, etc.). Ideal for demo reels, walkthroughs, or testimonial clips. 3. Copy Steps from Existing Flows - Reuse steps from another flow. This saves time when you want to maintain consistency across multiple tours or reuse onboarding sections. 4. Add a Title Slide - Introduce a section or provide context using a clean title slide. Include a headline, subheading, and optional image to create a cover or transition slide. 5. Add a Form Slide - Collect input from your viewers directly within the tour. Use this to gather feedback, signups, survey data, or email addresses. 6. Record Screen or Camera as Video - Capture your screen or webcam in real-time. This is perfect for personalized messages, live product demos, or troubleshooting guides. 7. Capture a New Image Using Chrome Extension - Use the Hexus Chrome Extension to grab screenshots of your app or website instantly and embed them directly into a step. 8. Add an AI Avatar (Coming Soon) - Personalize your flow with a lifelike AI presenter who can deliver scripted or dynamic content. Coming soon! 9. Import Stock Images - Search and insert royalty-free images from a built-in stock photo library to enhance visual appeal.

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Combining Steps in the How-to Guide

You can combine multiple steps into one in the how-to guide template to avoid having too many needless steps in the guide.

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Player and step settings

Additionally, we support adjusting the iframe under “Player Settings” toolbar for accessibility, responsiveness and other settings such as:

1. Closed Captions: This is available on the Growth & Enterprise plan. You can generate a transcript if your flow has audio.
2. Play in loop: By default, the interactive tour or video will not play in a loop. To enable autoplaying in a loop, turn the toggle on in the step settings toolbar.
3. Background Music: You can select one of our preset background music options. Enterprise plans support adding your own background music.
4. Aspect ratio: You can update the aspect ratio for your flows by adjusting the width and height, and clicking Update.
5. Watermark: Hiding watermark is only available on our paid plans. Enterprise plan holders can add your own watermark.
6. Step settings: You can control the duration of the step or playback speed under Step settings toolbar.
7. Product Demo Video Animation: You can customize how your product video animates in the Step Settings by changing the animation type.

1. Mobile settings: You can toggle the ‘Show in Mobile’ option on in Player settings for your flows so your customers can view your tours on mobiles seamlessly as well. The flow will render as a video instead of an interactive tour.

1. Fixed CTA: With this option, you can add a CTA on every step of the demo at a fixed location. You can use this to drive conversions for example “book a demo” or “sign up” or “view help center”.

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Zoom In and Out

Adding a zoom-in feature helps highlight the features in the spotlight clearly. This ensures a smooth, clean and aesthetic demo for your customers. Here’s how you can do it: 

1. Go to your desired video, click on the ‘Edit’ button to begin making changes.
2. On the right hand side, you will find ‘Step Settings’. Click on it to proceed.
3. Once the window opens, switch the toggle to ‘on’ to enable the zoom
4. Click on the zoom in button to enable zoom on this slide
5. Click on the zoom out button to change back to default screen
6. Finally, click on save to complete the process Here’s a video demo 👇

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Auto Zoom in Player Settings

We now offer an Auto Zoom feature in the Player Settings! With Auto Zoom enabled, Hexus will automatically apply zoom settings across all steps in your flow to help maintain a consistent and polished appearance. You can enable this by:

1. Navigating to your desired flow and clicking Edit.
2. In the Player Settings tab, toggle Auto Zoom to on.

💡 Note: Even after enabling Auto Zoom, you can fine-tune zoom settings individually on a per step basis for more precise control. This ensures you get the best of both worlds: effortless zoom automation, plus manual flexibility where needed!

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Focus Windows

Focus windows are helpful when you want the users to focus on just one part of the screen. No distractions from any other part of the video, it conveys the message with utmost clarity. Here’s how you can add them:

1. Go to your desired video, click on the ‘Edit’ button to begin making changes.
2. On the right hand side, you will find ‘Step Settings’. Click on it to proceed.
3. Once the window opens, switch the toggle to ‘on’ to enable the Focus Window
4. You can now place the focus window anywhere on the screen
5. Complete this by clicking on the save button Here’s a video demo 👇