I haven’t done any videos on it before, but I’ve done it a few times in my own games.
What I end up doing is creating a Pawn placing it in the level and setting “Auto Posses Player” to player 0 so the player uses this by default. Then create a new matinee actor and animate however you need.
Check out matinee here https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Matinee/HowTo/index.html