Documentation
Every tool, panel and export option, in the order you meet them. If you are new, start with the quickstart — it goes from an empty project to a finished MP4.
Getting started
What the tool is, and your first finished video.
- What ChartBuilder isAn animated-chart studio for traders who teach: draw a chart, annotate it, reveal it candle by candle, export a video.
- Quickstart: your first animated chartFrom an empty project to an exported MP4 in about ten minutes, with nothing but the candle tool and one zoom.
- The editor at a glanceThe tool rail, the canvas, the properties panel and the transport — what each one owns and how they talk to each other.
- Projects, folders and filesWhere your work is stored, how autosave behaves, and how to move a project between browsers or machines.
Building the chart
Four ways to get candles on screen, plus the price scale they sit on.
- Candles and candle templatesDraw a candle by hand, or drop a ready-made Hammer, Doji or Engulfing at the click.
- Market BlocksGenerated chunks of realistic price action — twelve named shapes, all seeded, all reshapeable after the fact.
- Importing your own dataPaste or drop a CSV of real OHLC data. Column detection, timestamp formats, downsampling and the volume column.
- Volume barsThe histogram under the price plot: where its numbers come from when you didn't import any, and when the bars arrive.
- Price scale, grid and snappingThe price step everything snaps to, when to lock the range by hand, and how to override snapping mid-drag.
Annotating
The eight things you can draw on top of a chart.
- ZonesA filled price band — supply, demand, a range, a gap. The workhorse annotation.
- SpotlightsDim everything except the part you are talking about, as a rectangle or an ellipse.
- PositionsEntry, stop and target as one object, with the risk/reward drawn to scale.
- Lines & arrowsA line between two points that can draw itself in as the chart plays, with an optional head at either end and a label riding on it.
- LevelsA horizontal price line with a chip label, and the touch markers that count how often price came back to it.
- TextFree text with an optional background box, keyword colouring and a connector line back to the chart.
- CountdownA shrinking ring that visualises a running clock — the quiz format's timer, usable anywhere.
Timing and motion
When each thing arrives, how long it takes, and what it sounds like.
- How timing worksThe one rule behind every timing field in the product: WHEN is in seconds, HOW LONG is in candle-widths.
- Reveal and animationHow candles and annotations draw themselves in — styles, easing, durations and delays.
- PausesFreeze the chart on a candle to give the viewer time to read it — and the extra holds narration adds for you.
- The timelineThe dock under the transport: element bars, cue chips, the seconds axis, and dragging something to a different moment.
- Element soundsA sound tied to an element's entrance, so it travels with the element instead of living on a separate track.
Camera
Zooming, holding and moving the frame across the chart.
Voice and subtitles
Two directions: text becomes a voice, or your voice becomes captions.
- Writing a script and generating a voicePaste a script, one line per beat, and have each line spoken — then let the chart make room for it automatically.
- Recording your own voiceRecord one continuous take against the playing video, then fix a sentence without re-recording the rest.
- SubtitlesCaptions from your recording, from a script, from a file — or placed one at a time by hand.
- How the caption band looksStyling the fixed band captions sit in, and where it sits.
Look and branding
Making it look like yours — and knowing what reaches the export.
- Themes and element stylesWhat changes only your working view, what ships in the video, and how a style is remembered for the next element.
- Brand kitsYour logo, palette and element styles saved once and applied to any project — the one thing that syncs to your account.
- The overlay layerTitle, kicker, progress bar, disclaimer, caption band and logo — the layer that stays put while the camera moves.
- Logo, product mark and safe areasYour logo, the brand kit's logo slot, the ChartBuilder mark on free exports, and where a platform's own UI covers your video.
Exporting
Getting a file out, and picking the right shape for where it is going.
Generated videos
Two formats the app can write for you, and edit like anything else afterwards.
Account and billing
Plans, payment, your data, and what to try when something misbehaves.
- Plans and what is paidThe complete list of features a subscription unlocks — nothing else in the app is gated.
- Billing, invoices and refundsManaging your subscription, finding an invoice, and how to cancel.
- Your projects and your dataWhat lives in your browser, what lives on our servers, and how to get either one out.
- Troubleshooting and shortcutsThe problems that come up most, and the full keyboard-shortcut reference.