Pros
- Easy online setup
- Great variety of professional templates
- Pro results without pro skills
Cons
- Templates are not very diverse
- AI Avatars can give off an odd feeling
Our Rating
8 / 10
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Producing professional videos for your private passion, social media or business requires at least some level of professional skill. But what if you could churn out as many explainer videos, product videos or news items as you wish without any skill? Vidnoz AI allows you to produce professional videos with a lifelike virtual presenter at the touch of a button.
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Content
Push Button Video Production
Vidnoz AI is an online service that provides a service that would have been impossible just a few years ago: AI-generated videos with professional presenters. Whether via templates or built from scratch, you supply the script for the virtual actor to read. The resulting professional video has a presenter, lighting, slides, diagrams, etc.
The web app presents you with 1200+ virtual actors in a variety of clothing styles. All the graphics are taken care of by one of more than 2800+ templates. To produce a tailor-made professional video, type in a script, and add videos, slides, etc. Import a PPT slideshow, then build the video around that.
Once the video is to your liking, press the button to generate it. You can download or share the video anywhere you like. The controls are really easy to use and intuitive, and rendering is fast.
If you want to build your own video from scratch, choose from a range of avatars. Alternatively, add a photo of yourself, and it will be animated into a “Talking Photo” with AI. A voice can be added via a clone of your own. This would prove helpful if you make many explainer videos.
Creating Your Video
Clicking the Create Video button in Vidnoz AI allows you to start from a blank slate and build your video from the ground up. Alternatively, import a PowerPoint to kickstart the process, adding the content from your original presentation, which you can then augment and edit in the web app.
There are three options for the screen: standard 16:9 horizontal orientation, 9:16 vertical or portrait orientation, and square 1:1 video for social media.
Alternatively, choose a template randomly. The templates contain an avatar, a background and any attendant graphics. Everything (apart from the avatar) can be supplied by you.
The editor is very cleanly laid out and easy to understand. Down on the left are scenes in your video and templates to choose from. Along the top are buttons to choose all the video elements. Down on the bottom is where you type the text for each scene and the button to choose the voice you want for your avatar.
Clicking the background tab lets you choose a room for your presenter to speak in. Tailor the surroundings to your content. If it’s a presentation about writing, then a wall of books would be appropriate. If it’s about home furnishings or real estate, then a beautifully furnished house would suffice. Choose from the library or upload your own, such as a picture of your office or dining room.
Adding an avatar and choosing a voice are the next steps. You can add videos to the scene to show your company demo reel, or have slides from your slideshow appearing next to the presenter, either hovering in the air or even on a screen.
As you go through your presentation, you can add scenes, a different view, or a different avatar. It’s important to change the scene occasionally to keep the viewers interested. Obviously, this is something you can overdo, but timing is a matter of taste. Time each scene to see if it seems like it’s too short or too long. Editing a video you have filmed uses the same process, but takes more time, money and people to make than Vidnoz AI.
Once you have everything added to the video and timed perfectly, press the Generate button at the top right. In a few minutes, your scenes are rendered and bolted together as a seamless and professional video.
There are other tools in the box. Instead of building it yourself, you can use one of the many templates. There are also many AI presentation avatars to choose from and 1240+ voices to go with those virtual presenters who will speak in your accent.
If, however, you want something a bit more custom, you can animate a photo of yourself. The AI tools in Vidnoz AI analyze the face and insert animated eyes and a mouth so that the face can read your script with one of the supplied voices. Choose one close to your own voice, or clone your own voice. (This is a premium service only available at the Business plan level, but it’s free to try at any level.)
Pricing
If you want to use Vidnoz AI for up to three-minute videos and 720p, the service is free. It’s a great way to try out the service to see if it’s for you. Once you go pro, the pricing structure gets a bit complex.
The first paid monthly tier is the Starter Tier for 26.99. It gives you up to 15 minutes of video and 1080p, though you can reduce this to $19.99 if you pay yearly. You can increase the minutes for more money. The maximum of 60 minutes will cost you $109.99 monthly or $80.99 if you pay annually.
If you want to get serious, the full business package is $74.99 for a 30-minute video each month, with voice cloning and all the top features. You can bring this down to $56.99 a month if you pay annually. You can also increase the minutes, with a full 90-minute video costing you $224.99 per month or $170.99 billed yearly.
With flexible plans, there’s bound to be an entry point for you within that range.
My Thoughts on Vidnoz AI
First off, the AI avatars are of the highest quality. At a glance, they look totally credible and real. If you watch them a little more closely, a bit of unease creeps in, what the Germans called “unheimlich”, a hard to pin down feeling that while they look real, you know they aren’t. They are a little too perfect, with that slightly plastic android quality that synthetic humans always have. That’s perhaps a subjective viewpoint.
That said, they are not meant to pass for human. They are, in reality, friendly humanoid robots with a job to do: explain your product or service and do so as cleanly and humanized as possible. And in that aim, they are very successful. They are very, very good, and I suspect from the neck down, they are fully human. While the faces are probably human, the eyes and teeth are puppeteered in time to the voice. They are very convincing.
The most disturbing effect you get, for me, is with the Talking Photo style videos. The eyes and teeth are not your own, and anyone who knows you will spot instantly that it’s not you. But anyone who’s never met you wouldn’t know the difference.
I think the uncanny valley thing is a personal response. I’ve spent a lifetime in graphics and visual effects, so I’m looking more closely than others probably would be. Most people wouldn’t know that the avatars aren’t real people, and that’s what makes this service brilliant.
Another mild criticism is that the templates are not very diverse, all sharing a visual language. If you have no design talent, this is terrific news, as you have a coherent design palette to choose from. If you can add your own backgrounds, voices, etc., it will set your videos apart from the pack.
The bottom line is that to make videos like these on your own would cost you thousands of dollars. To me, being able to make something this good in minutes using Vidnoz AI is nothing short of sorcery.
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Phil South has been writing about tech subjects for over 30 years. Starting out with Your Sinclair magazine in the 80s, and then MacUser and Computer Shopper. He’s designed user interfaces for groundbreaking music software, been the technical editor on film making and visual effects books for Elsevier, and helped create the MTE YouTube Channel. He lives and works in South Wales, UK.
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