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Name: VideoScribe
Address: DeskLodge House, 2 Redcliffe Way, Bristol, City of Bristol
Rating: 4.29

4.3 Rating 773 Reviews

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VideoScribe 4 star review on 1st April 2021

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Sparkol is awesome. It really help me to make videos easily.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Thank you! It is great to see you are enjoying our products.

Posted 9 years ago

“Videoscribe is a very useful software that can be used to teach, explain and demonstrate concepts or ideas. It's also a great tool for telling stories. The learning curve on the software is pretty short. However, you have to watch the tutorials because some of the editing options are not intuitive. The software transitions sometimes get stuck at times if you try to navigate too fast. You have to save and check your work often to be sure what you envision actually is completed. But it's to be expected from cloud-based software. Audio editing options are extremely limited. My experience is to export the item out and edit the audio in Final Cut Pro X. After your done with matching your audio directly with the video, then export the audio track from the software and add it to your project in Videoscribe to save in the cloud. I've not only done this, but I have also exported the FINAL CUT PRO X project as a .mov and keep the final project for later. If the software offered two or three tracks where audio could be edited to match transitions, this would be ideal so you could include narration, music and sound effects as you'd like. The selection of characters and photos to choose from could also be improved. Powtoon.com has an animation software that's only a little step above this software, given choices of characters and backgrounds. However, they have their own issues that I won't get to here. I think if this interface offered more graphic sketched characters and backgrounds, it would be great. Also limited animation of characters would be nice as well. Overall, videoscribe is a great tool that could be even better with a few improvements. If you want a unique way to create a presentation quickly and with professional polish, you should definitely give it a try. Esther Dillard Bloomfield College Communications Professor”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi Esther! Thank you for your comprehensive review. It is really helpful to gain an understanding of how you are finding the software. I will pass all of your comments on to the team at Sparkol. We also have a 'VideoScribe ideas and feature requests' page: http://help.videoscribe.co/support/discussions/forums/1000142586 where you can share your ideas as well as read and vote for other people's suggestions. Thanks!

Posted 9 years ago

“VideoScribe is a great tool to make easy storytellings and show business ideas. I think that it´ll be better if I could draw my own images directly in VideoScribe. I use a SVG editor, but I could prefer do that in the same tool.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to write a review. We have a VideoScribe ideas and feature requests page where you can share your suggestion. There is also the opportunity to vote for other suggestions you may agree with. The Sparkol team will consider the posts that gather the most votes. Here is the link: http://help.videoscribe.co/support/discussions/forums/1000142586 Thanks!

Posted 9 years ago

“I'm new to Videoscribe, but so far I'm finding it quick and simple to use. The presentations look professional and are a bit of fun.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hello. Thank you for the review. It is great to see that you are getting on well with VideoScribe.

Posted 9 years ago

“Seems to work very simply and do what you expect it to do.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi there! Thank you for the review, it is great to get your positive feedback.

Posted 9 years ago

“Super easy to use Looks really nice and smooth”

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Posted 9 years ago

This is great news! We are glad you are happy with your product.

Posted 9 years ago

“Love this product. Have been an early adopter and really should use it more, but now that it's on my iPad it's even more accessible.”

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Posted 9 years ago

That is wonderful news! I am really pleased you are enjoying VideoScribe and will pass on your comments to the team.

Posted 9 years ago

“Great tool to use and nicely initiative.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi there I am so pleased you are happy with the software!

Posted 9 years ago

“My initial impression is that most of what can be done with Sparkol can be done in PowerPoint except the drawing (which be be done crudely). I nearly cancelled after working through my first project. There are few things that should be available upfront: 1. Font selection---I found it after I finished my first project 2. Sound control---I'm still trying to figure that out---there doesn't appear to be a lot of control but maybe it's there somewhere For the price, the product would get another star if it was not a subscription. It's worth buying once but not every year. We'll see. Maybe when I've mastered it I'll be more enthused.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hello. Thank you for taking the time to write a review. It is really helpful to hear your thoughts regarding VideoScribe. I am sorry to hear that you are not completely pleased with the product. We have a page you can write any suggestions or ideas you want to raise with the team at Sparkol. You can also vote for other people's suggestions to be considered. Here is the link: http://help.videoscribe.co/support/discussions/forums/1000142586

Posted 9 years ago

“I purchased the program just last week. I created several VideoScribes and converted them to PowerPoint for use in the sermon this past weekend. It is a fantastic program for getting a point across visually.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi there. That is great news! We are so pleased you are enjoying VideoScribe.

Posted 9 years ago

“Amazing and easy video to create for small business, big business. Invest the time and watch the tutorials, they will save you time and allow you tight creative. Great product.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hello and thank you for the fantastic review!

Posted 9 years ago

“VideoScribe is a unbelievable software to create awesome videos. As ive been using the free trial for a week, there were pictures i thoight the full-version would include. To my disappointment they weren't. So few more free graphics would make VideoScribe a FIVE-STAR Software ... Maybe you will add some pictures later on. Thank you.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi there, thank you for taking the time to review us! It is good to hear you are getting on so well with Videoscribe. Thank you for the suggestion, it is really helpful to get feedback like this. We have a suggestions page here where you can submit your thoughts: http://help.videoscribe.co/support/discussions/forums/1000142586 You might find that somebody else has already suggested this - if they have you have the opportunity to vote for it so it can be considered. Thanks!

Posted 9 years ago

“Hi, We are a Belgian company and we are very satisfied with your tool. Thanks! Your tool would be perfect if you could add a feature which adds a watermark (do I don't have to use a third party application). And some more drawnings would be good too. Thanks! Best regards,”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi there, thanks for the review. I'll pass on your comments to the rest of the team! Thanks again.

Posted 9 years ago

“VideoScribe is so much fun. I haven't been this creative in years. I use VideoScribe to help create fun reference videos to review my pathophysiology and pharmacology courses. With the amount of information in these course, VideoScribe helps me break concepts into simple terms and put them into some visual animated presentations. Thanks, great software. D”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi there, thanks for the review. It's great to hear that VideoScribe has brought out your creativity side!

Posted 9 years ago

“Art work isn't enough. Then we already laid premium prices and yet we have to pay for more??? Crazy.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi Don, I'm sorry that you feel this way about the images. I'll pass on your comments to the rest of the team. Thanks for the review.

Posted 9 years ago

“I don't like writing negative reviews and I like the concept of VideoScribe, however, as part of the monthly subscription, if Sparkol is going to provide rendering servers to push your videos to, they need to work and perform without issues. In the industry, they refer to this as "Over Subscribe and Under Commit" meaning that their computing infrastructure (a.k.a. "Rendering Servers") are over utilized for the amount of paid subscribers. This should not be an "after thought" as any company should be planning for growth. A real "deal killer" if you ask me.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi Gio, thanks for your comments. We are aware of the problems with Sho.co and our developers are working on it as we speak! Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused you and we hope to have it back on track as soon as possible. Thanks again.

Posted 9 years ago

“I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly your staff came back to me when I reported some technical issue I encountered. Good job!”

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Posted 9 years ago

Thanks for the review and I'm glad that we sorted your issue!

Posted 9 years ago

“Your software is so user friendly that it's a breeze. Leaving the majority of the learning curve to be "How to construct a good story". Then you give us fabulous resources materials to use for learning pre-production. I love this software and I love this company. Keep up the good work!”

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Posted 9 years ago

Thanks for the glowing review Judi. Always nice to read comments like this! Would be great for us to see the videos you've made. Feel free to Tweet them to us!

Posted 9 years ago

“Hi. I've been using the product to develop a marketing video for a product we launched in South Africa (you can see the video here -> https://youtu.be/SMH00y1hbgg ) Few things I picked up that I think can be improved: 1. The upload to sho.co doesn't work. Maybe the servers were just down on that day 2. I use a Mac Book Pro (Late 2011 13 inch + 16 gig memory) and when I play the video, the video takes a while to catchup occassionally (1 / 4 times). Not sure if its my machine or general performance issues with the App on Mac 3. Recording voice in 1 go is difficult :) I know I can do this outside the system and import a .mp3 but would be great if one could edit voice at any point in time (may sound ambitious but this available in things like iMovie or Screen Cast o Matic that we use for training videos) 4. If you have images that "move in", sometimes when you publish the .avi file, the images seem to not be located correctly ... possibly a known bug. This happened to me so I removed all the "move in" features and left those images static... Overall ... super cool product. I discovered it when watching videos on a channel called Fight Mediocrity on You tube... Yet to try Tawe but Videoscribe is cool :) Thanks Manish”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi Manish, thanks for taking the time to review us. 1. Great video! We're hosting a competition in the next couple of months for VideoScribe and Tawe and it would be great for you to enter your video. It will be hosted on Sho.co which we are currently improving as we speak! 2. As for the slow video performance, have you tried raising a ticket with our support team? You can do this here at: http://help.sparkol.com/support/tickets/new 3. If you would like to edit voice at any time make sure you like this post: http://help.videoscribe.co/support/discussions/topics/1000042367. When considering future features we always check ideas and feature requests and the ones with the most likes will always be considered. 4. Thanks for letting us know. I'll pass this on to the rest of the team! Thanks again for the review :-) If you have any more questions feel free to Tweet us.

Posted 9 years ago

“a very un subtle approach to video editing. Video editing is all about subtlety. I will be using this software to generate hand drawings then editing in Premiere. Kinda disappointed from a professional editor's perspective, but can see how you want to keep the system simple enough for newbies.”

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Posted 9 years ago

Hi David, I'm sorry that you feel this way about VideoScribe. We're constantly working on updating the software so that it suits all users but it is also easy to use. I'll pass on your comments to the rest of the team. Thanks again.

Posted 9 years ago

VideoScribe is rated 4.3 based on 773 reviews