Hello and welcome to this video review of
Video Man, and this is going to be a completely honest review.
I purchased the software myself, so I'm
not in any way associated with the company nor sponsored.
So I will be giving my honest review.
If you want to see other honest reviews
I've given, have a look in the cards and check out my channel.
I've given a lot of honest reviews of software.
So this is the claims that video man makes.
There's video hosting, there is video editing.
Within the timeline, there's high quality stock assets.
You can do screen recording, there's text
to voice speech creation and there's thumb designs and more.
And it's saying, why host your videos on
YouTube, Vimeo and Wisteria when you can host them here?
So let's have a look at how much video videoman costs.
So video man, there's an early 12 percent off.
So if we click here, I go all the way down.
Video man is going to cost about fifty nine dollars if we bought it today.
So now I'm going to log in to Video Man,
game changer technology to host, play and market videos.
Let's have a look.
So we land in a dashboard and you'll see we've got go live, record screen.
We've got bonuses. I'm probably not going to look at those.
We've got support.
We can upload a video and down the side, we've got pretty much the same options.
In this bottom left hand corner, we can
see we get fifty gigabytes of video storage.
That's quite a lot of storage.
That's one gigabyte per dollar almost.
So we're going to look at this going live, first of all.
So I can record my screen, I can do other things and I can go live.
I'm just going to do audio only. Hello everyone.
It's Big G.
I'm doing a live broadcast of audio only. How are you?
Let me know.
So I can upload that.
So here's my video.
So really, this is just audio let's click on it, see what we can do with it.
The go live aspects, I think, is a little bit misleading.
That's essentially recording.
So I can record stuff which is which is quite useful.
I can record video and audio and my
options here are I can share it, download it, send off to someone, etc.
. So I'm going to copy this.
I'm going to copy this link and we're
going to look at it in a different browser.
So I've just got the link in a different tab.
So this is what someone would say if I'm sharing it with them.
Let's listen to it. Hello, everyone.
It's Big G. I'm doing a live broadcast of audio only.
How all of you let me know. Again, not live.
So this is a great opportunity to talk about really what I think Video Man is.
Video Man is really a hosting platform, so
it gives you fifty gigabytes of space and it gives you the ability to share that
embed that those videos, those audio files, whatever you want.
So you can change the appearance of the player.
You could see in the previous one it was blue.
That's fine.
This visibility and privacy.
I can see why this is quite good.
So you can limit who can watch it.
Anyone can watch it, just me or people
with a link and people with a password, people with a private link.
I need to save that.
OK, so here we go.
Same again.
Oh.
There's me again, so I think it's quite good for sharing.
Let's have a look, let's have people with the password.
So we can put in a pass a password for the video
and we can say we can actually customise what appears in here.
Passwords, please,
and we can set what the password is.
Yeah, that that's quite good.
I'm quite pleased with that.
So we've covered visibility.
We've got anyone, only me, people with the link, people with the password.
The key thing is you've got to click on the save button.
So I'm not going to worry too much about
that is going to be pretty much what you got on YouTube .Player controls.
Again, it's not I don't think it's hugely important.
The thing the the reason for this really is to share.
Now calls to action.
We can select calls to action.
Clearly, that's not within my package. I'd have to upgrade.
So I'm going to click on the upgrade button.
And I can't seem to upgrade.
So we're going to come back to the upgrade later.
Email leads again, not really interested in that, I can
put ads on my own videos, I'm not hugely interested in that.
I do wonder how it works.
But again, I'd have to upgrade.
Can have rollover over actions.
And in video settings,
I can have a context menu, which I think I'm going to take off,
I can have related videos which I think I'm going to take off.
So we can record the screen. Now
This just does the standard browser recording, really.
This recording is a function of the Chrome browser, which I'm using.
So we can record audio and screen.
I'm just going to go for screen only because I am voicing over.
I'm going to allow it to use my camera.
So I guess we just click here and we pick the device.
I'm going to do the entire screen.
I'm going to share that.
So you can say I'm moving my mouse around and it's moving my mouse around here.
And I have done screen recording.
I'm just going to do another one. I'm just going to
highlight up and down here and I'm going to stop and I'm going to upload it.
So
it's uploading to the cloud.
I think it's done.
Special bonuses.
I'm not going to look at.
I'm going to look at the upgrade, though,
because we were interested in those additional features.
So it's not just one upgrade you would need to get.
You would need to get several upgrades.
So I paid 67 dollars minus 12 percent EarlyBird discount.
And if I want to have calls to action,
that's another 67 dollars. Videoman personal is not as big as videoman
commercial it's quite difficult to work out what I'd get for each upgrade.
Oh, but yeah.
So I don't think that if you purchase video man you're going to get
everything because you're not you're going to need to upgrade.
So we've got video to gif.
Now this isn't a huge selling point as far
as I'm concerned, because all this does is it records your screen and it makes a gif.
You cannot upload a video to make into a gif, although you could record your screen
and play the video and that would make a gif.
So client side only, that means it's me.
Nothing goes to the cloud.
No data is uploaded and you need a modern browser.
I'm assuming my version of Chrome would
work, but I'm not going to do this because I would just get a gif.
I'm sure it works.
If you go to videos, we can look at all the videos we've got.
I'm going to come back to that because here we have media
now we've got music, images, text to speech and stock video.
So I'm going to do text to speech first.
A lot of these programmes have text to speech.
I'm going to show you what it does.
I don't think this is particularly useful here, though.
So I'm going to type something out and I'm
going to speed it up rather than watch me type it out.
So I've typed something out again, you can just copy and paste things in, I'm going
to go for English, I'm going to go for Male.
And this is one of the problems you would think that all these people
are going to speak English and they do speak English, but
they sound like they're from a different country.
So I guess if I pick Brian, it's going to sound really English, whereas if I pick Ma
ds, it's going to sound slightly Norwegian.
So we're going to go for Brian first and we click convert.
Conversion successful and it reloads.
So let's listen to this. Hi, man.
How are you? Are you cool?
I went out today to get some shopping.
Do you dig that?
So what's quite annoying is you lose the text.
So the text doesn't stay there.
So if I wanted to do a different voice, I'd have to go and type it out all again.
So I'm going to do that.
So I'm going to do it again and I'm going
to do as male and I'm going to go for Mad's.
Mads is the default one, because he's at the top of the list.
And I've also copied this.
Should I need it again?
So let's convert it.
And let's listen to what Mads has to say.
Hi, man, how are you today?
I went out to the shops and bought some items.
Do you dig that?
So he is speaking English, but to me it
sounds Norwegian, European, not the end of the world.
So we can download the speech and we'll get a file.
You get an MP3 file, you can see it in the downloads.
That's all I can do that I can't go and
stick it in a video and you'll see why it's just a tool and OK, it's nice to have
the tool, but I can't really do much with it within the app.
So if we go to stock video,
we get access to royalty free stock so we can search and we can download and edit.
I'm not going to search.
I'm just going to pick this one.
We're going to edit it and it takes us off to another screen.
We can trim it down the bottom using this bar and we can click create video.
And when we click create video, we can give it a name, um, demo ten.
We can put text in the video if you want,
but it's not particularly brilliant.
White colour, black background.
We can have different qualities.
I'm going to go for 1080, different formats.
I'm going to go for MP4 and we can add music to it.
So if we click default,
that's the music they have.
That's their music catalogue.
I'm not sure it's default.
Now, the interesting thing is I can't unclick that now.
So I would pick one of these.
Let's go with escape and I would click publish now I will say
this to me is Hit-and-miss it has worked for me and it has not worked for me.
Let's see if this one works today.
Oh, error, some errors found, check again after some time,
but it doesn't tell me what the errors are, so I have no way of fixing it.
I give up, so I'm going to close this.
Now, what we can do as well is if we think
back to that advert, we can do video editing.
And it's a bit odd because we click on
this button, take frame, we can add different video in.
So here's my
here's one I tried to do earlier.
This one is fashion.
So I click that
and it sort of adds it in at the end. So.
So this is the fashion video and so I don't know where I am.
So this was one I made earlier.
Well, I did manage to put the text in, got to get dressed for the fashion parade.
And again, I can trim
I think I'm trimming the fashion video down, but really not easy to see.
And again, I would click create video and I know it won't work
gonna call it twelve, just going to click publish and I know it won't work.
So I don't know whether whether I'm going
to get these people at the front, I'm going to get fashion video at the end.
And of course I'm very doubtful it will actually work.
Processing it might work.
It has worked so I can go and I can go and edit it now, I can go and view it.
Let's have a look at this one.
So I've got the people from that clip.
Oh, it didn't add in the fashion video, so
it has rendered something but not what I thought I was going to get.
So I don't think the video editor is particularly good.
It's so confusing,
so confusing.
If I add take frame here, what do I get?
I get the same thing again.
The video editor is so confusing.
If you're going to use it, you're best off just adding text to the video.
But then why would you do that when you can just download it anyway?
So in terms of media, we've looked at the music, but I'll just open this up.
Just open up again and you'll say it's all those ones we saw in the video editor.
Nice to have them stock images.
So we've got stock images here.
Now, I suspect they're just images linked to pixabay, Pexels, et cetera.
Let's have a look at what Customise does.
So this is the thumbnail editor.
So I can draw shapes and I can write text.
Thumbnail, I want to make that bold, really big, and I might want to make it
brown and I might want to put it down here.
Can I change the font, though?
Because that's not a particularly nice font.
I don't think I can change the font, but I might want to do a drawing.
What? I want to draw a smiley face.
Now, that is one of the best thumbnails I've ever seen.
And why wouldn't it be.
So you get the opportunity to put some basic shapes in
or an icon.
Register custom icon.
Oh, so that okay,
I can put some icons in. What's this mask filter.
Oh, let's emboss it all.
So I can go and save that to my library.
And then I can can download it as a PNG.
There we go, there's my excellent thumbnail, I could use this software to
upload videos, make my own custom thumbnails and attach them as well.
Let's just have a look at that.
Let's go to all our videos.
And I don't want to click on EDIT.
I just want to click on it.
That's what I want.
And so now
I can pick an image.
I can choose from my library.
Oh, and here it is. I can select it.
And we've got my excellent thumbnail, but
it doesn't appear to be, I'm going to save it.
Ah there it is so it's my thumbnail that I
made earlier, so, yeah, it's fairly useful.
Other things we've got, remember, I said I
don't see much use for text to speech within this.
We can't go and add text to speech to the video.
So if I were to edit this video.
I can't go and add text to speech to it, let's create the video again, my uploads.
Oh.
Hello, everyone, it's big G.
I'm doing a live broadcast. So I can add my live broadcast of audio if I want.
So let's do that. But I can't add the text to speech.
I guess maybe if I do text to speech, download the file, then re upload it.
Possibly I could add it, but oh, I get an error.
Fantastic. Yeah.
So to me that error says quite a lot.
So I'm going to talk now about conclusion's with video man.
I see video man as a media hosting site.
It promises other things like you can
record the screen, you can broadcast and go live, you can make thumbnails.
But really the best use of video man is
for hosting videos or saving videos or sharing videos.
Is it cheaper than the equivalent of Google Drive?
I don't know. Is it a video editor?
Absolutely not.
So if you go through a lot of videos and
you have your own site and you have a lot of videos and for whatever reason, you
don't want to use YouTube, Vimeo or whatever, then video man is quite good.
I know Vimeo Pro is probably about ten
dollars a month or twelve dollars a month, so certainly a one off fee of 67 dollars.
It's going to be much cheaper than using Vimeo.
I've not loaded any long videos up to
video man, so I can't say if they'll work particularly well if they play back
particularly quickly compared to Vimeo and YouTube.
I don't know. I'm just having an initial look at it.
But from what I can see, the strength of Video Man is really in its video hosting
and it's video storing and I don't see any particular other strengths for video
man. It has a few nice to haves like it gives you access to stock.
You could probably get that stock elsewhere, gives you text to speech.
Many of the programmes you're probably
already using have text to speech, but nonetheless it is nice to have it.
Do let me know what you think of video man.
Do let me know if you agree with my review and I'll see you next time.
Goodbye.