GUIDE

How to turn it into a book

The PDF you download is already laid out, with crop marks and sequence numbers on every sheet. Here is the whole process — about twenty minutes per book.

01A4 paper (120gsm or heavier)
02A printer or a print shop
03Scissors or a craft knife
04A stapler or a bulldog clip

Print

A4, at 100% / “actual size” — never “fit to page”, or the crop marks will drift and your pages won't match. Use 120gsm or heavier; thin paper curls after two flips.

Colour video prints best in colour; black-and-white is crisper on a laser printer.

Cut

Square up the whole stack and keep the order. Cut along the crop marks: every sheet becomes eight small pages, so the whole stack turns into eight piles. Leave the white strip on the left of each page — that's the 8 mm binding margin. A print shop guillotine takes seconds; scissors at home work fine.

Cut the stack, not single sheets. Cutting one sheet at a time means half an hour of sorting afterwards.

Sort

Each of those eight piles is already in sequence — don't shuffle it. Put pile 1 on top, pile 2 beneath it, and so on. The page numbers then run from 1 to the last page.

Check the small numbers along the spine edge: 1, 2, 3… upwards. If they don't, the piles are in the wrong order.

Bind

Align the left edge (the one with our name on it), pinch it tight, and staple twice — top and bottom. The staples land on the blank binding margin, never over the picture, so the fold can't swallow the image when you flip. No stapler? A bulldog clip works too.

Keep staples 3–4 mm from the edge. Closer than that and the paper tears along them.

Flip

Press your thumb on the top-right corner, bend the pages down slightly, then let go. The faster you flip, the smoother the motion. New paper is stiff for the first few passes.

Want it faster? Catch a few pages at a time — that's your own fast-forward button.

The cutting diagram

The eight cells on a sheet each become their own pile — eight piles in total. The white strip on the left of every page is the 8 mm binding margin; keep it when you cut. (Portrait video gives 12 cells per sheet, so 12 piles.)

Four common mistakes

“Fit to page” was on

The crop marks land outside the sheet and every page comes out a different size. Always print at 100%.

Paper too thin

80gsm curls after two flips and the motion smears. 120gsm minimum, 160gsm is ideal.

Cutting sheet by sheet

The order falls apart. Cut the whole stack and the eight piles come out pre-sorted.

Stapling too close to the edge

The paper rips along the staples. 3–4 mm from the spine is the sweet spot.

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