Pictory

We have been using pictory.ai for over a year with a certain account, however, we encounter some issues as follows: - you can only hear a preview of a premium voice and not a preview of your actual script. Once the voice is applied and you can actually hear your script, you would have lost from your monthly quota. This voice might not sound as you would have liked to or though in the preview. - you can not hear samples from the premium 29 languages it supports. You need to apply it and hope it will sound OK, which is not the case. Again you loose from your monthly quota. - the voices impact the length of your video and you do not know this until it is applied. Again, you loose from your e.g. 120 minutes monthly. Let's say you want a video of 55 seconds (to be under 1 minute to integrate in certain platforms) but depending on your voices this can go up to 20 seconds (as a rough guidance) going above your intended 55 seconds target. - depending on your script the tonality of a voice changes if you add another word or extract another one making that particular voice not being any more applicable to your video. - we wished some of the premium voices to sound better similar to the popular ones you hear in other videos. - the billing price in our account does not match what we have been paying and it was mentioned on the renewal email. - it does not support as far as I am aware our brand's font to upload. - unfortunately there is no 24h support so if you and your team have issues over the weekend no one to help.

Creating YouTube videos for my learning channel using Pictory was a fantastic experience. Despite being technically oriented and not familiar with marketing or content creation, the interface was smooth and intuitive. The platform offered numerous options and delivered quick outputs, surpassing the efficiency of tools like Camtasia. It allowed me to produce content without depending on a third-party graphic designer, resulting in significant cost savings. The key advantage of Pictory lies in its ability to transform thoughts into high-quality content swiftly, providing a truly empowering experience.

What I love about Pictory is that it's intuitive and easy to use. Most alternatives for some reason tend to have the most complicated user interfaces or they don't work properly. Pictory is not only easy to figure out without a tutorial, but it has everything you need. I teach online courses and use Pictory for my video lectures. I can use Pictory's script to video service and simply type and edit my script there. Or i can copy/paste it there. Then, Pictory creates a video based on my script. It's nice that I don't have to spend all this time searching for media to go in the video, as Pictory has an extensive media library and selects very relevant moving images that can either pan or freeze frame. Meanwhile, you can add your own images instead if you don't like the ones they suggest. Pictory also lets you record a voice over for your video, but I prefer to record mine elsewhere and then upload it to Pictory. The great part about it is that Pictory will align the video to sync with the voice over. Although it's rarely perfect, and you'll have to go in and align image to voice over yourself to make sure it's the way you want it. The good part is that Pictory has such a simple and effective editing feature where you can do that without any issue. Then you can download the video when you're done. The best thing about it is that you can actually do everything I just mentioned with the free trial. It's a really generous trial too, you get 3 video downloads with ten minute limits for each video. And I highly respect them for not forcing you to put your credit card in for the free trial. That shows honesty and integrity and makes me want to buy the subscription even more. Other services want you to put in your credit card because they hope you'll just forget to cancel it and they can grab one month from you before you angrily cancel it. Not the case with Pictory. Great service, love everything about it.