Hello and welcome to my review of Video Dashboard.
I've logged in and I'm in this sort of landing page and you can see here we've
got trends, trend pickers, December posts and things to really sort of make content
about, or we've got a social calendar and we've got trends in Twitter and other
things, copyright free videos and YouTube and links for training.
Now, I've not really looked into these when I got video dashboard.
I've just really looked at making videos.
This seems fairly standard in the Sid Dhawar sort of software empire.
But enough about that.
Let's look at what you can make with video dashboard.
So we've got templates and we've got them by social media platform.
Let's just go to Instagram to start.
So these templates are optimized for
Instagram and you can see that this one is premium.
I don't know whether I have access to that or not.
And this one is a bonus.
And we've got five pages down here of templates.
If I go back and I go to Template Bank and I pick Facebook, for example, we can see
they're in different aspect ratio there ever so slightly different.
They don't look like the ones for Instagram.
But again, we've got five pages.
So if I click on this, we can see a
preview of the video. It tells me its duration.
It tells me how many scenes and we can preview at.
OK, that's enough of that, so we're going
to click create the video, so we're going to create a video using this template.
Now, video dashboard is template centric.
There's no other way to create a video other than with the template.
So all we can do is we can just change things so we can change the text.
Our brand is big G photo.
Let's give it a title.
Big G photo
is having a chat with people and let's give it a title up here.
Big G photo so we can see all these boxes have been filled in.
This is my office.
Let's click next here so it doesn't matter which next we click.
It does exactly the same thing.
I'm going to keep that one save time and money.
Trusted
on
YouTube.
OK,
big G photo, and I'm going to do watch now.
OK, so next so I can change the colors if I want.
I quite like the colors. They're fine.
That's fine.
I can pick some music.
Dub sounds looks pretty good.
And I start rendering,
so it renders it takes a while to render and I end up in my project section.
Now, this is one I did earlier, so I made this a couple of days ago for my podcast.
Let's have a look at it.
So all it does is it brings up text in and lasts 30 seconds and it plays the music.
And I can
share it to lots of websites, but I would
have to give my login credentials, which I'm very security paranoid.
So I never really use anything linked.
So I'm not going to put my login credentials in here.
So like I said, it's a bit samey.
We can't put any graphics in these tech
stuff, which would be really useful to be able to put some colors behind it.
But no, we can't do that.
So
let's have a look at what else we've got.
We've got custom videos.
This is the one I use the other day, the left side banner
that just text and shapes really.
But they're not really anything.
They're not the template ones.
We can go here and we can link all our social accounts if we want to.
I'm not going to we've got a calendar. I think this is quite useful.
It tells you days, you know, you get these things.
It's this special day.
It's Chocolate Day or Mother's Day. It was Father's Day.
It tells you what's coming up so that you
can do social media posts about it and have a theme that's quite good.
It only seems to tell you for December, I
can't seem to work out how to get to the next month.
And
I can pick a platform and that
doesn't seem to do anything, but let's see what happens if I click here for
International Ninja Day, I get a post about Ninja Day and.
Yeah, I suppose that's quite good, actually, because if I just wanted to
make a post about Ninja Day and not really put much effort into it, I could do that
here or I could click here to edit the video and then I could go and put my
filter out so I could put happy ninja day from Big G photo.
Oh, no,
fine.
Happening today from Big Happy Ninja Day from Big G and I could editor and I could
maybe put in a picture and stuff of what I want to do.
Interactive videos.
You need an upgrade.
There is a mobile app for this as well,
but I've not used that so I can't comment on it.
But you can use a mobile app, but let's go
back to our projects because hopefully this is rendered and it's complete.
So let's download this.
So that was the video.
So what you can do is we can change the media as well so I can upload my own
pictures or I can go to Unsplash or pixabay.
So clearly this integrates with Unsplash.
So it's about Big G, which is a photography channel, even though I haven't
done much photography recently because of you know what?
So are there's Big G. That's me.
Yeah, let's choose that.
Let's add that in,
although he's got a Nikon camera, I've never used a Nikon camera in my life.
So here we are. Um.
It's a bit odd.
That
I can't. I
still got that thing in the background.
Let's change this to an office on Unsplash.
I much prefer on Unsplash
to Pixabay.
Here we are.
That looks like what Big G would have.
And let's find a YouTube one,
let's go to pixabay this time and finds YouTube,
yeah, here weare...
trusted on YouTube.
Big photo.
Now, I need to add my brand.
I don't have a brand logo quickly to find
I'll just put this one in YouTube on a phone.
Can't beat it.
And again, then I'm going to go to next.
Next again, usepop sound or use.
This music can upload my own music if I want.
I don't know why I'd do that.
I don't get to render that.
So this is now loaded.
So let's have a look at this.
Yeah, it's OK.
So video dashboard costs, we're going to call forty seven dollars and there is a 30
day money back guarantee if you want to try that out.
So is video dashboard any good?
Well, you could probably achieve the same results with something like PowerPoint,
particularly as it utilizes royalty free stock media sites like Unsplash
and Pixabay, but it would take you a long time.
So for someone who doesn't have video
production skill or short on time, then this would be fine.
You know, it does it and it does it quickly.
And you get access to the videos of
someone who is a video editor like myself, I could do the same thing.
And there are other services that do exactly the same thing.
So Invideo, will do the same thing.
Most Web based video production services,
even Vimeo's service or Majesto would do exactly the same thing.
The question is, will they do it as
cheaply as fourty seven dollars for a one time purchase?
And no, they won't. So is video dashboard for you?
Maybe, maybe not.
It really depends.
There's there's a limited number of templates.
You don't have unlimited templates.
You could do a very similar thing with
Canva or Crello, but that would cost a lot more for the price.
I think it's good.
It's certainly cheaper than a
subscription, but I think it is probably limited.
Thank you. Goodbye.