Hello, I'm Big G Video and today I am reviewing video XQ.
I'm Big G Video and I make videos about
making videos and that includes things like Explainer videos.
I make a lot of Explain videos.
Vidxq promises to take the pain out of
making Explainer videos and allows you to make them easily.
Well, let's have a look and see if it does.
So if we go to Templates, first of all, you'll see I have to upgrade for that.
And if we go to Agency user, I have to upgrade for that.
You might notice it says Enter your AppSumo code.
Well, that's because I got this deal through AppSumo.
Because if you go to Video XQs website, I'm just going to scroll down.
It's $47 a month if you just go directly to the provider, $47 per month.
Whereas on Appsumo you can get it for $69 off purchase forever lifetime.
And it's got two five star reviews, so what's not to like?
So like I say, to access templates and agency, you've got to upgrade.
You can create a video.
So let's create a video.
You can do square landscape or portrait.
I'm going to call this demo 2, because I've already done a demo one.
So we land here in this nice editor and we
can add layers and we can view our timeline and you can add things in.
So you can add in text and it's got some presets, it's got some regulars.
Let's add this in and we can double click on it and we can edit the text.
So I've added that text and I'm just going to resize it and it adapts, which is good.
Now with the text you can animate it and
we're going to have a fade in for this one and we have a fade in for that one.
And once it's there, we can have it do some stuff.
So let's have that wobble and let's have that wobble.
Let's click on this one and have them both wobble.
So I'm going to click save and we're going to view that in our timeline.
So here we go.
They fade in, they wobble and it's going to say they stay there.
They don't because I haven't done anything to get rid of them.
So I'm going to put these in for 10 seconds and that's okay.
That's quite good.
But this is where I think it fails because
we're doing explainer videos, so we want to put in lots and lots of graphics.
So I haven't uploaded anything.
So I would go to VSL Library.
Now we've got avatars, emojis and scenes.
We've only got 30 avatars here and these are just avatars.
That's it, they're nothing more.
So I'm going to add this avatar, stick them over there.
That's all it is.
So if I go back here, emojis, this is really just emoji stuff.
It's just emojis and call outs.
It's not anything that I wouldn't put any of this and explain the video?
Not at all.
So let's go back again.
Let's go to scenes.
And these are better, but they're not that good.
So let's look for something like business.
What have we got?
We've got this.
I can go and change the code colours.
So I tried to change the colour of those and the browser window just went white and
I got an error and I ended up back at my dashboard.
So I'm going to go to my videos
and here I am in my videos and you can see I've already done a demo stuff and so I
have to go here and I'm going to go and edit it.
And it looks like I've lost what I used to have.
So we were in graphics and we were in VSL
and we were looking at the scenes and I'll just add this scene.
So I'm not going to click change colour.
I'll align it to the middle.
It's an alignment tool.
I'll just put it there.
This isn't great.
This isn't explain a video stuff, really.
I can load some more.
They're all the same.
That's all they do.
We've got images, but again, we've got my images here and we've got library
that's powered by Pixabay and Youzine, which I don't have an account for.
You have to link your account. I don't do that.
So you've got PixarBay integration for images.
And one thing you can do is you can remove the background.
So I'm going to add that, I'm going to
click here and I'm going to click remove the background.
But I need to upgrade again to remove the background.
It's like all the useful features you want, you have to upgrade for.
So let's go to video.
And again, you can upload or there's a PixaBay integration, so you're getting
essentially free stock that you could get just by going to PixaBay.
If we go to animations, they've got some animations.
Again, notice there aren't that many, so that doesn't appear to be loading.
So this is premium, so I suspect I'll have to upgrade, or maybe not.
So I might want to add this animation here.
Tiger pattern.
Now, something I can do is I can adjust where the layers go, so
it's quite good that I can put that at the back.
Let's look at social media.
I might want a subscribe button.
No, nothing like that.
So you're limited in these sort of strange animated thingamijigs.
Let's just have a look at this one.
Delivery with location.
It's animated, so I'm going to make it bigger.
Move that around.
I'll put that down here.
Certainly not going to change the colour.
Again, we've got audio,
we've got text to speech, which I think, oh, no, got to upgrade for that.
We can record audio, we can add some basic
background music and we've got backgrounds.
And again. PixaBay integration.
Or we've got a library and these things, they move.
So I'm going to open my timeline and I'm going to just add this,
but I'm going to just put it down here towards the end of the timeline.
So let's watch this.
That fades in, that moves things animate about.
It seems a bit slow and choppy.
And then we go into this background seeing that's what you get.
So I'm going to click save and I'm going to go to render now.
We can render in 720, nothing else.
I don't know what the render limit is.
We can start rendering.
So I'm going to click start rendering now.
It takes a very long time.
So is Videoxq any good?
Well, no, I don't think it's very good at all.
Yes, you can build explainer videos with it, but they're limited to 720p.
You don't seem to get the graphics that I think you would need for explainer videos.
It's a little bit buggy and it takes ages to render.
And still I didn't make something
particularly complicated and it's taking ages to render.
It's taking absolutely ages to render.
So this is not a product I could recommend.
Probably all the really good features you
get with it, all the animated scenes, the objects, the characters.
I bet you have to upgrade for that so it mentions characters.
I would want to see characters like this.
I suspect she'd have to upgrade for that.
So I am disappointed with this and I will be asking for a refund.
Thank you. Goodbye.
Bye.