Vyond

Avantages

Une fois formée par un formateur Vyond, ce qui a été mon cas, c'est facile à prendre en main. On peut faire rapidement une animation sympathique avec des personnages pré-définis

Inconvénients

Si on n'en a pas un usage régulier, c'est cher. De plus, le compte est clôturé si on ne maintient pas l'abonnement.
On ne peut pas s'abonner pour 1 mois ou 3 mois ou 6 mois : ce serait un vrai plus

Avantages

Facilité d'utilisation Possibilité de partager son projet rapidementPas de besoins de compétences en montage vidéo

Inconvénients

Accessible seulement avec une connexion internet

Avantages

There are several things I love about Vyond. First and foremost, I love the variety of animated stock characters you can choose from, and even better, the ability to create your own custom characters. I also love the flexibility that Vyond provides for voice overs. You can record and edit voice overs right in the app or you can use a variety of computer generated voices to read your voice over copy. The choices include a variety of male and female enhanced voices that are stunningly close to human voices. I also love that, whether I choose a human or a computer-generated voice, I can set Vyond to automatically lip sync the voice over with an on-screen character.

Inconvénients

Two things come to mind here. First, while Vyond has an impressive set of templates in each of the three animation styles it offers, too often I needed to start a new scene from scratch because there was not a suitable template available. I know this issue will improve with time as they are always adding new templates and visual elements to the library.
The other thing that bothered me was the inability to string together more that one character animation. For example, you could not have a character give a thumbs up quickly followed by clapping their hands. It would also be nice if you could limit how many times an animation repeats itself in a scene.

Avantages

Easy to use; nice tool to make high quality video

Inconvénients

A learning curve if you want to do some fancier transitions, but it is possible and you can save and reusue the set up in later videos

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Vyond 

Pourquoi passer à Vyond

Avantages

This software has a lot of templates that can help you create videos quickly without starting from scratch. It seems to be well-suited for beginners to create very simple videos.

Inconvénients

Let's start by talking about the bugs. Several times a day I encounter "video cannot be played" errors when trying to preview the changes I make while editing. Also several times I've been kicked out and told I need to log in again while in the middle of editing a video I had been working on for over an hour. When this happens, I lose all the progress I've made since my last save, which tends to be significant. I contacted customer support who told me "this is fairly common" and I needed to clear my cache, clear my cookies, AND restart my PC. I asked if they could extend my subscription or offer any form of compensation to make up for the lost time. They said they "can't" do anything of the sort.

So aside from the software bugs and poor customer service, let's dive into the problems with the features. At first glance, it almost seems like they have too many props, character action animations, and so forth. But once you begin to create videos with any level of detail or natural actions, you'll notice just how frustratingly limited it really is.

Say you want to create a scene where a character walks through a door. You'll find just two door props that have an open and close animation, but no static props of a matching door staying open. Nor will you find a wall prop to go with that door. Want your character to order a drink in a bar? There's no animation for walking while holding a drink. I've run into dozens of similar limitations of things that should be commonplace.

Avantages

The animated characters and choice of scenes.

Inconvénients

There is a 1000 word limit on a text box for narration. This means you have to split scenes sometimes.

Avantages

Some aspects of it are pretty easy to use -- if you design for the tool, it's easy to use; if you design for what you want and then try to use the tool to realize your design, it can be quite a bit trickier. I like that there's a decent built-in library of characters and actions and that the characters will appear to speak according to the audio. I did find it much easier to use, and more powerful, than our prior tool, VideoScribe (but it's also more than six times as expensive). My internal customers have been very happy with what I and others were able to create in Vyond and the whiteboard style videos were especially easy to create and publish. I also really like that Vyond has been enhancing their product...there was something that I was really wishing they had (motion pathing) when I was creating my videos last year and I've seen announcements that they've added that functionality since then. (I haven't used Vyond since the end of last year, since I've had other projects to deal with.)

Inconvénients

The biggest con is probably the cost...it's expensive for this kind of product. I also dislike that it's subscription based...I prefer apps that you purchase up front (maybe paying a bit extra for a maintenance contract to allow for upgrades). In terms of functionality, one problem is that you can't make a single video file with more than ~100 scenes (if you're using one of the non-whiteboard styles) or you'll start having problems with previewing it. You have to break it into two separate videos (which isn't easy) and then knit the published mp4 files together to make it back into one video. Given this, the product should include a little video splitter/joiner utility (instead of directing folks to use a piece of freeware, which my company won't allow us to do). I also have a laundry list of improvements that Vyond could make to their product to make it even better....for example, it desperately need visibility toggles - can't get it to stop selecting stuff I don't want when working with other stuff that's near it and it also really needs to give the user some way to see layers - can't easily move things to the right layer when there are a ton of objects in the scene. There are also no views of characters from the back -- you can sometimes "fake" this, but it's not easy with all characters/character positions. There's also no way to lock an object in position (like the bookshelves I put on the wall in the scene). I have a bunch of other suggestions, but you get the gist.

Avantages

The ability to show a concept to my learners in such a way that is engaging, and helps people who learn best with video.

Inconvénients

A format painter would be great, especially for customizing templates.

Avantages

The range of flexibility you have to make customizations, the ease of use, the library full of characters, props, templates, etc.

Inconvénients

Sometimes you need to be creative and think outside of the box to execute the animation you want - this may involve outside programs.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Vyond

Avantages

Easy to create basic video content rapidly using Vyond Go, and even with non-AI Vyond, video creation is simple and intuitive. Translations are excellent, translating voiceover, captions and even text on screen. Excellent choice of music and accents. Reviewing and amending translations is easy as well - an excellent product!

Inconvénients

It can take a long time to hone and perfect a video; some of the voices are less than convincing; editing objects is awkward; there is no capacity to store pronunciations of e.g. company name.

Avantages

Effectiveness of the software in content development and distribution.
Availability of customizable templates abd a very user-friendly UI.

Inconvénients

My experience with the product has been very positive. No dislikes.

Avantages

There are a lot of props and scenes you can use to create an animated video.

Inconvénients

The AI generated piece of Vyond could use some work.

Avantages

Facial expressions and gestures are abundant.

Inconvénients

I’d like some realistic b-roll similar to other products instead of all cartoons.

Avantages

Although there are two to three competitors who has similar features, but what stands out for Vyond is the smart design, which is intuitive and the user-friendly platform enables anyone to quickly learn within 2-3 days. There are plenty of templates to choose from plus there is a library of props, music, and text to speech features. The most standout feature for me is the camera angle for panning and zooming.

Inconvénients

If there could be an option for object morphing something like square to rectangle using camera angle it would be great. If 3D objects can be rotated and if there is an option to modify color of all the props then it will make Vyond more robust and competitive.

Avantages

Firstly, the quick and straightforward method. They offer sufficient templates to make a desired animated video. The extent of customisation is astounding.

Inconvénients

Comparatively speaking, the price is expensive, and more features are required. It remains one of the quickest methods for making animated videos, nevertheless.

Avantages

I love the various customization features. I am constantly discovering useful techniques via their Community website. I am so glad I chose this software for it's ease of use and fantastic support! Vyond has exceeded my expectations and foresee a continuous relationship with their knowledgeable team members. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] has been in constant touch with the Vyond community and is a wonderful person who really listens and cares about my feedback!

Inconvénients

Vyond has been constantly improving and I appreciate that very much. I know some things need worked out by the development team and take some time to appear. I'd like to see a way to create folders for imported assets so I can organize them per animation. I think the timeline should scroll along with the animation's playhead. That would be very helpful to me.

Avantages

The best feature about Vyond is its pre-made templates. They're constantly adding new ones that are more timely and relevant. The templates make it super simple for me to put together a video much faster than I would if I had to recreate something like that. My second favorite feature is replace. That makes it SO easy to truly customize existing templates for efficiency and branding purposes.

Inconvénients

Adding motion is still a sore spot for me. I don't find it easy to implement the feature in a project and it never turns out the way I'd like. I wish this part was more intuitive. And I'd like to see more templates, although I mentioned there are a lot and I enjoy them, I'd like to see more added more regularly. Also, for the price that you pay for a subscription, you should be able to have at least two users.

Avantages

Templates speed up the mundane tasks of creating moving images and environments.

Inconvénients

Lots more templates needed. Get ride of the amputee options that always seem to appear first for any character actions. Simple actions like "Standing" or "Talking" often return amputees as first option with regular appearing options further down the Actions List. Or perhaps have a group of Frequently Used Actions for characters instead so I don't have to scroll all the way down for the ones I need in each desired action.

Avantages

The library of animation actions that is available in Vyond is amazing. The character customisation also allows you to build animated characters that resemble anyone you choose. I use this software to produce videos for my clients and when they see the animated versions of themselves, they always have a good laugh.

Inconvénients

Depending on the length of the animation, it may take some time to convert. The end result is definitely worth the wait though!

Avantages

The product is very easy to use and the provided templates give you a great starting point and are easily editable. It is great to see Vyond also constantly update templates, props, and characters and update features of the tool itself periodically to make it more user friendly.

Inconvénients

The camera pan/zoom feature is extremely limited. Having the ability to customize the size of the zoom in window would greatly increase the customization of screen content. It is one of the most frustrating aspects of the tool. Also, the character editor, while neat, is lacking in many areas, especially with customizable hair styles and clothing options.

Avantages

Intuitive ease of use. Cloud based software can be used from anywhere. Little or no latency. Fast and dependable.

Inconvénients

Copy and paste text from one screen to another. It's a pain sometimes to hit Cltrl V to paste. Would like to see more character movement options, like someone stepping into a slide with one step. More character emotion options. I make dozens of these videos. All of the uploaded audio/graphic files used to create are in a single subdirectory. Wish you could separate them into their individual video directory.

Avantages

I've created 2 video ads for my Facebook ads campaign and it took me few minutes to just put text in ready made templates and good to go. We can select ratio before selection of templates to ensure where we're going to use it.
We can add voiceover, text, images, stock Videos etc.
You get 14 days free trial to try out some of the features.
You can create whiteboard, animated or stock footage based videos.
Customer support is very cooperative and listen to the feedback.

Inconvénients

There is everything an online video editor can offer. But limited to templates and Videos you can add.
$39 which is quite expensive for non-regular user. They even charge you renewal fee without any prior notice.
There are same few characters that we can use each time, there should be more choice for characters.
If you pay $39 for basic membership you still get 720p which isn't fair man, we're paying money.

Avantages

I love how easy it is to use Vyond - and it's great for a wide range of experience levels. If you have no background in animation or video, and just want to get something out fast, the templates make it super easy. If you are more experienced, there's a huge variety of characters, props, actions, and other features to let you can get as creative as you want. Plus, it's just so danged fun to use! It's appealing from that perspective as well. I love being creative, and the end results are fun, but also polished and professional. Makes me look good ;-P

Inconvénients

I can't think of anything I don't like. Maybe a wider variety of characters? We like to show diversity. But that is nitpicking, because there IS diversity. Just be nice to have more.

Avantages

This is by far the best animation software I have used, but I'm so sad that Vyond has bought out GoAnimate. It is now way too costly and I can't justify that.

Inconvénients

The price! $49 US monthly for the basic package and they still put their own logo on your production. Shameful!

Avantages

Vyond's game changer is its wealth of props

Inconvénients

There is no offline version. If servers experience trouble, Vyond may not be accessible.