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This tool has been great for me. I use it to create short videos for my blog posts. I love that I only have to upload my text and then the software does the rest. I have been able to create videos in just a few minutes that have helped my blog reach new audiences. I now have a more consistent presence on social media and my blog is more visible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I would like to have better limits, and also more languages to create different kind of videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love the Descript-style "edit video by editing its transcript" function. Of all the 4 tools in the SaaS, this one is the most useful. This brings me to the transcription limits, which are pretty generous compared to offers from other software in this field. This feature is the primary time-saver when editing dialogue-heavy clips. Simply look at the transcripts at a glance and I know what to remove. This saves me from scrolling through the timeline to find what I need to edit out.
The transcripts are a great bonus for me as we sometimes need to have subtitles. Although, we mainly need a translated subtitle, and there are no reliable auto-translators right now. Still helpful in the occasions where we need to get transcripts. (Which we did on a recent project: export transcript and used a TTS program to read the transcript). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The other features need a lot more work. AI-to-video (from article url or text) often select static images from its stock library OR chooses unrelated image/footage. I had to replace almost every single asset to make the output usable. This completely defeats the purpose of an AI-generated video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I am really happy with this product! It's such a time saver! I had a video that was over 1 hour long and I wanted to make a short video of the most important information in the video. This tool allowed me to easily make a short, 5-minute video within minutes. now I can also easily convert my blogs/articles, scripts & images into a quality video. Brand settings is great, I can set all my intros, outros, fonts & colors to repeatedly use in my videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Limited Text formating, should have more options
Intro & outro templates are very basic
Downloading a video takes significant time, it should be reduced
Voiceovers are not human-like, they sound robotic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
t was easy to make the long content into a short video. The video quality was too high. Production of the video also in less than 6 minutes. This way we can save a lot of time. Transcriptions are working so well on this platform. I edit videos daily, and this made my all days wonderful. Thanks for the whole team. However, the ompany roadmap looks so promising, and grabbing Pictory now is a good investment in existing features, and this defiently had a bright future. There are also the other sections of creating videos, which to be honest I didn't give a try, but have had a play around with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
All was good but one thing I need to say that is to improve the text styling otherwise overall a good deal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
We just started with YouTube and podcasting. Pictory provides transcribe features very well. Really accurate compared to others. Also, it's very user friendly. We have some people in our team who are not "tech" person and Pictory can be used on 3 clicks max. Just upload a video or text then transcribe and that's it. Upload it to YouTube and done. Published. No more headaches. Also, voice over. You can even upload or record your voice for a selected video. Also missing some integrations. There is no option to publish a video directly via native integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Fetching and downloading a video takes a lot of time. Normally about 30 min. - 1h. This is quite a lot. Also, some voices sound very robotic. I prefer to use our natural voice rather than Pictory voices because when you are listening to it it's honestly like a robot. Also, they could add more languages than English. Multiple brands would be also great. We have 4 companies and we can manage 1 brand under 1 account. Also, more options for editing a video would great too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
From the time VIdnami is gone from my life, I have been looking for an alternative, I see pictory is something (which if they keep doing the good work) has the potential to become peoples go to; Please read the following to make a choice
PROs:
Accuracy of speech to text is great.
Filler words removal
Captions burn in option
10 hours transcription for tier 1 and so on
text to video is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
CONs:
in ability to correct a whole sentence or paragraph, you have to go word by word (sometimes when it catches multiple words wrong, its better to write a whole sentence and feed it there instead of doing one by one)
their text to speech is not that great yet.
inability to change the duration of the scenes
no animations or stylings for captions. (it will be a super creative idea if you guys can add animations or styling to captions believe me) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Shutter Stock Footage and Audios
TTS feature is great
The transcription functionality is mind-blowing. So many hours are available in the package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The video editor is great, but there is space for improvement.
I dislike that I can't use multiple audio files and BGM for different scenes in the video.
Sometimes the AI can be hit and miss for choosing a suitable piece of stock content to support the context. I hope this improves in time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The main reason I purchased Pictory was to repurpose my written content into video. I really enjoy using their "text-to-video" feature, especially as you can upload your own images and even record your own voice over. The tool is intuitive to use and I know it will get even better over time. The ability to edit video by editing text --- wow, this is incredible! Highly recommend if you want a quick, easy way to use more video in your content creation process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- sometimes the images it chose to match the text was not quite ideal. I just swapped those out for different images.
- would love to see more images/videos added to the library
- looking forward to the ability to change the font of the captions to match my brand fonts (currently there is only one default font available) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Pictory is a video creation powerhouse that combines Vidnami's intuitive user experience and Descript's powerful media editing capabilities in an easy-to-use, seamless platform.
Yes! The transcription function alone is worth the money, not to mention all of the other features. I can't imagine how much time it would have saved me if I had this feature SAAS I first started my work projects involving transcription. I love the multi-language transcription function on this software.
Below are more features that I enjoy :
♥ Highlights automatically identify the most important segments of your video
♥ 1 click removal of filler words and phrases
♥ Media / B Roll Library
♥ I found it easy to use. It does a good job of saving time, and the pricing is reasonable.
♥ Texts (Article, blog posts, press releases…) to videos
♥ Subtitling, Trimming, and more
♥ Unlimited projects and Shutterstock videos and images stocks
♥ Voiceover-to-Video and much much more coming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love the tool. It's a very promising one indeed ad there’s no single doubt about that. Despite this, AI isn't quite at its best when it comes to selecting relevant texts for summaries or relevant images and clips for scenes.
Currently, text-to-speech functionality is limited. It would be awesome if the platform was integrated with better text-to-speech platforms, such as Wellsaid Labs and Lovo Studio
It would be a major Plus to have the following features implemented:
♥ The ability to import a voiceover that covers all slides rather than one per slide.
♥ Additional fonts and the ability to add custom fonts
♥ Transcription Module having the capability to access YouTube content in addition to the regular video uploads.
♥ The ability to create clips from highlights in each project.
♥ Organize projects and upload files in folders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
