How Learnedly makes its course videos with Kinoslide

September 23, 2026 · 3 min read

Highlights

• Course videos are generated straight from textbook chapters, replacing voice actor recordings and hand-assembled slides
• English and French videos come from the same workflow, and Learnedly's French translators rated the output highly
• Video production is no longer the bottleneck in building a course

At a glance

• Company: Learnedly
• Industry: Accredited continuing education for financial services
• Location: Canada
• Languages: English and French
• Use case: Turning textbook chapters into narrated course videos

It was very much a manual process until we were using the platform. The video quality was great. Very minimal, if any, formatting or correction.

Learnedly creates accredited continuing education courses for financial services professionals in Canada, in English and French. Anti-money laundering is one of its flagship courses. Every course is built on a textbook, and every chapter of that textbook needs a video.

The challenge

Before Kinoslide, making a course video was a manual job. Learnedly paid a voice actor to narrate the textbook, then paired the recording with PowerPoint slides and edited everything into video sets.

That was slow and expensive, and updates made it harder. When a textbook came out in a new edition, the team had to go back to the original audio and slide files and rebuild the affected videos. John Waldron, Learnedly's founder, called it a logistical nightmare.

Learnedly also cared about how its content sounded and looked. The team had tried a popular video presentation tool that impressed everyone at first. Once it went mainstream, the output became instantly recognizable and no longer set Learnedly's courses apart.

The solution

The team now splits each textbook into chapters and sections and generates a video for each one in Kinoslide. The videos use a custom Learnedly theme, so they match the look of the rest of Learnedly's courses.

Raghav Kalra, Product Manager, produced the English videos first. Kevin Marshall, Operations Coordinator, then reused Raghav's settings and steering instructions to produce the French versions. When something on a slide needed a change, they fixed it directly in the editor.

French came with its own details, like titling conventions and a few English terms appearing in early graphics. The Kinoslide team adjusted for both quickly.

It produced content that our French translators said was terrific.

Kevin also noticed how simple the interface was to pick up.

Sometimes you use these tools and there are twelve different options and buttons. I wasn't overwhelmed with the Cheesecake Factory menu of options, as I like to call it.

The results

Most of the videos for a course were produced while John was away on a vacation. By the time he was back in the office, they were essentially done. The team worked through its starting credits and came back for more.

Building the videos quicker changed where the work piled up.

Previously our log jam was creating video. Then we were able to create video at such a rapid pace that the next big bottleneck was processing it into our curriculum build.

The videos also give Learnedly something that its competitors can't easily copy.

It sounds different from what's out there in the mainstream, and it's hard for our competitors to figure out what our process is.

Try it on one chapter

Upload a chapter from a course you already teach. Your first video is free. You can read more about how Kinoslide works for course providers and securities courses, or start from the PDF to video page.