Lumen5

User-friendly and Intuitive

Kommentare: Lumen5 makes video creation simple. The AI isn't very good - like most of their competitors. Just wish their pricing was so high.

Vorteile:

Lumen5 is a great tool for creating videos quickly and easily. It’s very user-friendly and intuitive. The templates are great and make it easy to create videos that look professional.

Nachteile:

The starter package is currently $79 USD. The basic package, which is $29 USD doesn't include 1080p video resolution. It is extremely pricy.

Hope it gets better

Kommentare: I teste lumen5 for some months with a client or two, they liked it and used for a bit, but then it was to expensive, and there was to much extra work to do so that the videos came out with a purpose. So we searched for other tools.

Vorteile:

So, I liked the concept that you can get a text or a zoom call and make them videos on brand.

Nachteile:

I think the text-to-video only work for generic clips, videos with "purpose" don't come very well, images choosen by the AI are to generic, and if I have to edit it myself I prefer using cupcat or canva. Also the price is not very good.

Not worth the price!

Kommentare: Very frustrating. A good portion of my videos are posted on YouTube and I continue to get copyright claims, on every video. I also want videos optimized for YouTube, but they only allow autogenerated videos to be about 3 minutes. A YouTube video should be 6+ minutes for optimization. To make longer videos, you have to do it manually and it's very hard to find media that goes with your text. The AI generation does a lot better, manually searching media finds you nothing useful.

Vorteile:

It does make it easier to turn a blog post into a video.

Nachteile:

You don't have permission to use Lumen5 audio. You can't make videos optimized for YouTube without heavy editing. You can't generate new slides using AI. You have to generate them manually and if you're not good at that stuff or finding media to fit the text, your video will not look good.

A great tool for 1 click video making

Kommentare: Good experience.

Vorteile:

I like how it is so easy to create a video without even copying and pasting the script/Article. I just put the link, and start the creation, and rest easy.

Nachteile:

Well, I hate that I got copyright claim using a free music... so I don't know why it happened...

Perfect for video production automation

Kommentare: Overall I'm happy but I miss more templates and pre-built elements.

Vorteile:

It greatly facilitates the work of developing automatic video based image content and presentations. The development process is simple and fast. It is also a basic application but with many possibilities.

Nachteile:

The learning time is somewhat expensive, it is a somewhat special application in terms of the interface. The number of templates and designs is not very high. Sometimes videos based on templates look more like a PowerPoint than a video.

Create Quick Text Based Videos for Social Media

Vorteile:

I ran across Lumen5 when looking for a user-friendly site for branding and creating my own short videos for promoting our company. The videos were easy to build and offered a lot of stock video and photos. I can create a video in about 30 minutes (max) and format and reformat it for different platforms with ease.

Nachteile:

I wish I could integrate my own audio or even voice overs. Its limited in that you can only use text and stock audio. It is also very expensive compared to what you can do with it. I may switch to another product next year.

Lume5 Honest Review

Kommentare: Overall its a very good software. If you need a quick and easy video creator than this is the way yo go.

Vorteile:

It is very simple to use. Beginner friendly. A variety of templates to choose from. Most outstanding feature is the option to take a link on any article or blog post and Lume5 will rewrite the script and create a video on the article with ease.

Nachteile:

I had a bit of an issue with captions. I couldn't seem to be able to customize or add captions on certain templates.

Good for short videos

Kommentare: Good for short and simple videos but if the video is more complex or long the images generated on the video doesn’t match that much and it’s harder to edit the full video image by image

Vorteile:

For short and simple videos it’s really good

Nachteile:

The images could be more related to the part of the video it’s inserted. A lot of times when using the text to video feature the text is not related to the image that is added

Easy way to convert blog posts to videos

Vorteile:

Here's what I liked about Lumen5 1. Creating a video is pretty straightforward: After signing up, you'll be taken to your dashboard. Click on the create video button, after which you'll be shown 3 options, create a video from an article or blog post, copy & paste your content, or create a video from scratch. 2. Instant Videos: According to Lumen5 "These are intelligently crafted videos based on your blog posts." to create an instant video you'll have to add at least 1 RSS feed. After adding a feed you'll get the notification "Successfully added! We're analyzing that feed and will send you an email when we have videos ready." It took roughly 5 minutes to receive the email but instead of waiting for the email, after two minutes I refreshed the instant videos page and there were already draft videos from my blog posts. I could then edit their suggestions and tailor it to my needs. 3. Media Gallery: Lumen5 had their gallery of images, stock music and gifs which I could use to make my videos. I liked that I could upload my own images. 4. Video Orientation: I liked that I could make a landscape 16:9 video, or a square 1:1 video. 5. Video length: Lumen5 lets you choose what speed you want the "slides" to play at, this determines the length of the video. You can choose fast, slow or normal. The number of slides also determines how long your video would be.

Nachteile:

1. Instant Videos: I added 2 RSS feeds to Lumen5, one was to my LGBT book blog and the other was to my marketing blog. I wanted to see what intelligent videos they would create and while the video for my marketing blog was good, the videos for my book blog was horrible. The images suggested did not match any of the blog posts. This is probably because while they have a good media gallery, the images are mostly generic or marketing related, so I had to replace all the images in the video. What I think should be done: I think they need to add more diversity to the images in their media gallery. I know there is an option to upload my own image but I still think they need to have a varied selection of images that can be used for non-marketing related videos. I also think they need to improve their AI to select suitable images for a video. 2. Video Speed/Lenght: Currently the length of the video depends on the number of slides and the video speed, ie fast, slow or normal. However, if you choose "fast" this speed is applied to all the slides. What I think should be done: I'd like to be able to vary the speed of each slide, there are some slides I'd like to be longer than the rest because it might have a lot more info than other slides, or because I want people to take an action or notice something specific. I'd rather not have all the slides play slowly.

Best Video creation tool based on AI features

Kommentare: Overall Lumen5 is an awesome tool for growth hackers and marketer like me who spend their time in creating video ads. The super impressed by the functionality of this tool. With the help of this tool I save most of my time, I just have to make minimal adjustments whenever I create video for our campaign.

Vorteile:

The best part about this tool is that it allows you to create your blog post into a video, You don't have to write the blog post again it just simple copy pasting the URL and you are good to go. There are thousands of images and video clips available which you can use while editing, adding any new slide or section to the video. The tool is based on AI which makes it easy to use. The interface is very user friendly which makes the customization part easy even for a non-technical persons.

Nachteile:

The least liking factor about this tool is that when you convert the blog post into a video you cannot change the content in the blog, it only fetch the result in the URL or the content you have published. Recently I created a video by converting my blog post but sometimes as blogger we made some typing or grammar mistakes I was unable to change the script in the blog which I think needs improvement. Another thing which I dislike is sometimes it takes a lot of time in rendering the video.

Easy to use and works great

Vorteile:

Helpful to make videos easily either of yourself or showing your screen (or both!). Have used it to teach coworkers how to do a few steps of a process and it’s easy to make a video and share it

Nachteile:

Nothing stands out as amazing but there isn’t anything really bad about it either. With videos it would always be nice to get filter options

The fastest way to create social media advertising and videos

Kommentare: I was astonished when I found Lumen5 on the internet. Indeed, thanks to Lumen5 ready-to-use templates, I was able to build the winning footage and ad.

Vorteile:

Creating and sharing content on social media has never been easier than it is with Lumen5. By using Lumen5, you don't have to rely on third-party designers and producers, or on complicated software or technology to create product promotions and featured films. When you use Lumen5 pre-made tools and templates, you'll be able to produce high-quality advertising panels and video effects that can be simply shared on social media.

Nachteile:

Every tool you'll ever need is at your fingertips as soon as you start the app thanks to the user-friendly interface.

Pleasantly surprising video making tool

Kommentare: Helps me in creating short videos from blog content.

Vorteile:

I love that Lumen gives me the ability to make short videos of my blogs. The pictures it chooses for the video 95% of the time match perfectly with the contents of the blog. The templates are beautiful, I use them for youtube videos but they have well-structured template variation options for different aspect ratios such as 1:1 for Instagram. I have never seen any other video tool giving the option of creating videos from the blog feed i.e instant videos which Lumen5 does. This is my go-to feature and saves me so much time.

Nachteile:

I am on a plan which doesn't give a brand kit customization option so it takes additional time in customization, but I use the instant video option so I already have a video 95% premade so it works for me.

Fun and Easy!

Kommentare: I love that it keeps emailing me with suggestions and new ideas to present my messages/blog content. I honestly have forgotten in between videos that I even have access to this software...and then I get an email with my own content in a video that Lumen5 created and it jazzes me up to want to edit it and create my own video and share my content in a new way. It's like an accountability coach that sends me a reminder every time I post a new blog. I love that!

Vorteile:

First of all, I love that it gave me the idea to make videos out of my blogs! I love that it keeps me up to date on that idea by sending me sample videos that it created for me automatically. I have not loved the automatic ones, but it gives me the nudge I need to be able to create what I prefer and then share a pretty cool product that I made in a very short period of time.

Nachteile:

I don't like the videos it creates for me so far. I don't think the automatic program has any idea how to handle my perspective/approach - the automatic videos are very basic.

I guess it does the job okay

Kommentare: This program has the things you need to put together a video. I'm not sure that it's any better or worse than any other system. The pieces are there but of course the videos quality will be based on the artistic and advertising skill of the user.

Vorteile:

There are some nice options such as "Brand presets" that you can upload and use for videos.

Nachteile:

I tried the option of making "instant videos" from feeds such as blogs. The resulting video did pair somewhat appropriate visuals with text quotes. For example, a blog post about writing for children used pictures of children. However, the resulting video wasn't very compelling. The children all looked unhappy, and the text quotes would need major editing.

Amazing, easy and fast for make video

Kommentare: We add more content value on our site, create a new way to distribute our content on new format. We have a growing youtube channel thanks to lumen5

Vorteile:

Make videos is really expensive and time consuming. Lumen 5 is take to next level if you work with content. Is perfect, because today people consume content on post or video. We use it on somosmamas.com.ar to transform a post into a video in minutes, now we have a youtube channel and growing. - Easy to use - Good library - Fun to use - Low cost for make a video - access to premium library - improved every single day - dont have to writte, import text for articles - Non video expert need (forget about adobe premiere) - Fast result -Perfect for brief video (1-1.30min) - Great for add a video to your content At the moment is the best solution for video. Fast, Easy and good end result

Nachteile:

- not all video format - need to have better personalization - without a discount is not cheap - no audio recording at the moment (no voice over) - sometimes take time on rendering the video - need more text animation

Great for short, simple, text-based videos.

Kommentare: I was lucky enough to have a free 1 year subscription from AppSumo, and enjoyed it while I used it. I did not renew after the deal ended.

Vorteile:

It made it really easy to share videos frequently on social media, without having to shoot any footage. Ideal for sharing quick tips, news, etc.

Nachteile:

Resizing videos wasn't flawless, and sometimes updates wouldn't be saved causing work to be lost. Thankfully, it wasn't frequent.

Software Review

Kommentare: Been able to create short videos in under half an hour for bloggers and small businesses. Outstanding live action visual and stock music.

Vorteile:

Easy to use. Access from all devices available. Have not experieneced any glitvhes.

Nachteile:

The software on video play back/preview is a little delayed. However unsure if that is also affected by my wifi signal.

Create short videos easily

Kommentare: The overall experience has been great

Vorteile:

It has a lot of options and makes small videos easily from existing blogs or new articles. Many customizations available

Nachteile:

More templates would have been better, plus the stock videos and images can sometimes be not free and cost extra

Easy to use and a great ROI

Kommentare: Lumen makes it easy to create videos and share it to social media. Their support team is amazing and is a tool that works for me and my business.

Vorteile:

I love how I'm easily able to make videos in a faster pace than before. Its a simple to use software and for that my business has grown.

Nachteile:

Rendering time may take up to 10 minutes.

Lumen5 Rocks It!

Vorteile:

Lumen was the first online video production site that made me wonder why I did things manually for so long. Easy to use, extensive stock images and video clips, audio and the ability to create something that looks professional.

Nachteile:

The blog post video creation. Not something I would use but it may come in useful for other people.

Lumen5 a fantastic video creation tool

Kommentare: This video software will be an enormous help in getting your message out to social media visually.

Vorteile:

So easy to use with a mountain of images and music to choose from. Creating a video has never been easier!

Nachteile:

Nothing - it ticks all the boxes. If you want to add your own images and music background you will need a purchased software copy.

Why I use Lumen5

Kommentare: My social media followers love the videos! I've used them to promote special programs.

Vorteile:

The results. I love creating the videos of different lengths and looks. It allows me to repurpose content quickly and easily.

Nachteile:

Sometimes it seems difficult to change the text I'm working with. Sometimes it seems difficult to change or restructure the slides.

How Book Trailers Are Born

Kommentare: I have created some of the most remarkable book trailers using Lumen5; book trailers that have been highly complimented and shared across social media. They are an integral part of my marketing process and I can't imagine being without them.

Vorteile:

As a creator, Lumen5 is a dream for me. When I decided to make book trailers, I had no idea how I could go about it, but this is SO easy to use and the catalog of available royalty-free options is immense. I have made nearly ten trailers but, aside from shared themes depending on the novel portrayed, each one is unique. From still pictures to video clips and to music - I never run out of ways to express myself and to showcase my work.

Nachteile:

I didn't like how, when I'd go back to re-edit older book trailers, the formatting would change on its own upon loading. I've since gotten used to that and I can quickly fix it. But, I'm still not sure why that happens.

Easy Way to Make Captioned Videos Fast

Kommentare: Overall, I like Lumen5 because it makes repurposing my blog content into video an easier and quick process. It also helps me make visually appealing videos quicker.

Vorteile:

You can upload a link to an article and lumen5 will automatically create a video with images and captions. This makes the video creation process quicker and easier.

Nachteile:

Sometimes the automated captions do not actually make sense and you will have to go into the video and re-edit.