What's up, SaaS Master!
My name is George, and today we're going to review Pictory.
This one is a lifetime deal that lets you
transcribe videos, turn text into videos and edit videos via text.
Now, it sounds kind of weird,
but I will be showing you what I'm talking about in this video.
In this video, I will be covering what I like and dislike about Pictory.
And to be honest, out of the four tools
that Pictory has, three are a no go for me.
One of them is kinda of OK.
So at the end of the day,
you're going to decide if this is the right deal for you or not.
So let's get into the review right now. All right.
Let's get started with the lifetime deal that's going on right now.
It starts off at fifty nine dollars for the lifetime deal.
And if you guys consider buying this,
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It helps you out with a small commission and it won't cost you a single cent more.
Now, what do I think in terms of pricing?
I think pricing is priced right.
It's not expensive because they don't make
you Slack a whole lot or buy a bigger license to get all the features because
from license tier one fifty nine dollars you get the No Pictory branding.
You get 30 products per month, a 60 minute video per upload.
So that's a one hour video that you have
upload for each one of those projects, one gigabyte video file size per upload
and 10 hours per month of all video uploaded that's licensed to one.
So I mean, that's pretty good for fifty
nine dollars if you need more projects, more times, more uploads for the video,
for the video site, for example, if you have two hour long videos,
then I recommend jump into licenser three, which gives you unlimited projects,
120 minutes videos per upload 2gb file size.
Everything just goes up and up. Right.
Plus you get the bulk download short video
podcast as CSV and integration with HootSuite HootSuite.
It's not really popular with our
community, but if you're using it, well, that could be pretty useful for you guys.
OK, so pricing is all right and the videos are 1080p.
So if you are using 4K then this is not a good deal.
In my case I use for.
So if I use this for 4K, that's not a good deal for me.
Let's jump over into Pictory.
This is divided into four main tools.
And like I said before,
this is going to be a review video and a no B.S. video in my opinion.
I think these three tools, I mean, they suck.
They don't. They do what they have to do.
There's no bugs or anything like that.
But just the output that you get from them is not what you expect.
I mean, you really have to fine tune it to actually make it look the way you like.
And at the end of the day,
you're going to get a video that's not going to create a wow factor.
So just consider that the tool that I do
like is the edit videos with voice using text.
And that's the last one we're going to check out.
Let's first check article to video. What does that mean?
We're going to grab an article from a website.
We're going to input it there and we're going to check it out.
Let's grab this one right here.
I just search for this.
You've got to trust me on this. I just grab it.
This is the text that's in this block.
I don't know this page. I don't know who they are.
And I didn't grab this by any means. Right.
I just search for it and read it.
So what it's going to do, it's going to read it.
It's going to use the A.I. to kind of grab
the phrases that are worth capturing to convert it into a video.
So it's going to turn text into video.
Like I said before, if this
this didn't impress me because I know that you have to actually fine tune it.
So here's a blog.
And what you see in green is what it
thinks it's the best phrase it can grab to use it.
So I think that you have to check it out and see, hey, you know what?
This is actually pretty interesting, too, so I'll have to grab this
alright
click.
Here we go.
Took place and it added it to the video. That's it.
I think that's important to be in the video.
I could keep on going through the blog and say, OK, you know what?
This is not interesting.
All right, here's a little X remove that so I can remove it and added
that is how it grabs it.
Let me show you what happens next.
I won't be moving any of the other tags
just so you can see what the output is going to be.
I can save it. I got previous I can go to next.
Now I can choose from three options landscape, which is sixty nine,
which is the video that you're looking at right now, which is a rectangular one
for use on or televisions, 9:16, which is the other way
around vertical meant for stories on Facebook, on Instagram,
all of those and square to use on post or anywhere you want.
Let's choose landscape,
describe that and it's going to convert it.
It's going to grab videos from Shutterstock.
Right. Here we go.
And let's play this right now, just so you can see, it is preview.
It already inserted images and grabbed
some from the blog post and some it made by itself from Shutterstock.
So look.
OK, so from what you could see is that
the phrase is that it grabs you have to fine tune that because it won't do it
automatically and you won't get a good output.
And the same thing happens with the video.
It adds you have to fine tune it because
it won't give you the output that you need.
I mean, what the hell was that?
I mean, why is this there?
It's as if a picture is worth a thousand words, then I'll skip.
I mean, it even has nothing to do even
with the phrase it does even say brain or head or human, but it added that.
So those are things you have to consider.
And then we went to meet it added this this is beef right here.
And that's kind of adds something like,
OK, that looks nasty and you wouldn't want that on video.
So we have to fine tune this. All right.
So let's go into visuals.
And these are the visuals that it's using. You can grab those.
We can replace them.
Obviously, we can replace the audio
is the audio that is grabbing, like, for example, the music.
The styles, for example,
for the subtitles, there's several types of styles right here, right?
Couple, I think like about eight three oh, here it is, nine styles.
Right. And the format, we can switch it again.
So if you fine tune this and at the right,
what you call it, phrases and the right videos that have
to do with the phrase that it's talking about.
Well, you could get a good output
of the video, but you won't get it automatically.
All right.
So the EHI it's not doing his job like it's supposed to.
And the other thing is that,
come on, you're not going to get a wow factor with one of these videos.
You could use it potentially for blog
posts or, I don't know, social media, but you won't get that wow factor.
Just let's be realistic, OK, let's go into my projects.
Well Pictory again.
So instead we tested that one.
Then there's a script to video.
We can start this one also.
This is where we write the script and it kind of does the same thing.
Also, I'm just going to grab a script from this right here.
OK, script there,put it here.
Proceed for Use Square nowand again.
It's going to generated for us.
It's kind of kind of guess what's
the important part of those phrases that we added.
And it's going to create the video.
Let's watch it pretty quickly just to see
what the automatic output is of this without fine tuning it,
OK?
OK, so you saw the output, it's not going to work out.
I mean, what is this waste about? It's talking about
did you know that truly grass fed beef not only has a much lower carbon footprint.
I mean, it's talking about being eco friendly in that sense.
But it put it this like this waste coming
there because it it has the carbon footprint.
I think it grab that if the A.I. was working properly,
it would first consider that it's talking about cows, beef and all of that.
So it shouldn't put kind of this type of image.
It would have put a nicer image of a nice
looking place without trash or something like that.
But you could see that the output is not going to work out.
You have to fine tune it again to replace what phrases you want to use from what you
written and what the images of the videos you want to use.
And then we have visuals to text.
You upload images and then you add the visual.
So basically this is manual work.
You edit there and you add the subtitles to it.
Nothing fancy about it.
This one is the interesting one.
Edit videos with voice using text.
This is the only one that kind
of impressed me out of the four tools, individuals with voice using text.
So what we have to do is uploading file.
I won't do it right now because I already uploaded one.
So I'm going to open up the project from a file that I already upload.
Again, you can choose from these languages
so it knows what the language of that video is.
And once you upload it in this case, I go to my projects.
This one is the one I uploaded. All right.
Which is a video I previously recorded.
If you haven't seen it, I'm talking about Sleekplan.
You can check that out. It's an overview.
OK, what I like about this, well, first off, you can remove filler words.
Let me see if there's any on this video. OK, here it is.
So in this case.
So I said so I would turn this on if I were you default.
Let me click play on it so you can hear it.
So I turn this on if were you.
You default sort by.
OK, so those are filler words
like those kind of words are filler words
and what it does, it automatically removes them by turning this on.
So let's hear it again and it's going to chop that part of the video.
Also,
be careful, because if you are showing something in the video that does that,
you shouldn't chop it off, then you shouldn't remove it.
Right. Let me play again.
So I would turn this on if I were you.
Default sort by, did you hear that kind of little jump there?
You can notice it.
We're noticing it right now because we're actually trying to hear it.
But if someone was just watching the video
and it jumps that part, you won't notice it.
So that's one of the good things I like about it.
It removes that.
And that's one of the things they mentioned on the deal on Pictory right
here, is that it's an alternative to Descript. Descript
is super powerful,
way more powerful than this, but it's just a little things
that it's kind of similar to it, which is those little things you can
remove those filler words another thing that it's similar to
Descript is that you can remove a word, it'll chop that off.
So your editing the video by editing the text.
All right. So, for example, I'll remove default,
remove that one delete from video game and let's click play.
And it's going to jump that.
I will turn this on.
If you default sort by, it just
it kind of does that jump to too harsh. All right.
You can hear it.
And this remove another one for it. Let's get this one.
For example, let's remove and remove two words.
No, we've got to do one at a time.
So remove example.
And this so it's going to remove that part.
Let's play.
Plus, we have the team members that's
obviously on the plan there on two one five team members or two.
That's a little bit better.
So remove that little piece of phrase and a jump that.
Why would you do this?
Well, maybe you made a mistake or you made you know, you need to replace
that with something else and you can remove it that way.
That's something I like about it.
You can also merge.
You can split up, edit words, which what we do right now
delete from the video so we can delete the whole phrase if we like,
add to highlights if you want to leave from video or generate video.
So basically that is what I kind of liked.
I think it could be better without making those harsh like jumps.
And also if this was in a way that it was
subtitled in a way was sectioned like, for example, on YouTube.
When you see the subtitles, they are based on timelines, timelines.
All right.
So when you edit that timeline, it doesn't move.
It doesn't shift the timeline.
In the original video, in case you want to use the subtitles
and later on, another thing you're going to notice is that when you remove this,
obviously we remove a part of the video and the video starts reducing right here.
So in this case, this video is 60 minutes long with 60 minutes long with 12 seconds.
Let me put back the filler words and the jump to 19 seconds.
So just by removing those
and on the video, we can keep the subtitles or remove them.
Once we have that, we can generate the video.
This is the part that I find that it's interesting about Pictory the other ones.
I wouldn't use them unless.
I make my own videos and I have video editing skills, but if not,
that would be something interesting making the text into videos.
But again, like I said before,
you have to fine tune the phrases and the videos that it's outputting,
so you get something that's kind of workable.
And the other thing that Pictory has is
the brands settings, which are these right here.
We can add our logo for location for the watermark, we can add an intro.
So every time with that we render a video, it's going to add the intro to it.
The title,
the scenes and the outro is pretty useful, for example,
for YouTube videos at the end where you want to put those little cards
for the next video that's coming that you can edit there if you want to enable it.
So you have those options for brand settings.
So basically that is Pictory. Like I said before,
this is my honest review of what I like and dislike about it.
Like I said, these are not impressive at all.
What I find interesting is the videos with voice using text,
and if they put more energy and effort into this section, they could really they
could have a really good product and something workable.
If I were to keep this deal,
it would be because of this, because I see potential in future development.
But as of now, if I were just to buy it
for what I find right now, I wouldn't get it right.
So I would buy it for what it could be, not what it is right now.
But maybe this is something that impresses you and you are good with it.
Well, there's a deal.
All right, guys, I thank you all for watching.
Remember, my name is George.
This is SaaS Master, and I'll see you guys later.