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Picmaker

sangeerani — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:46:35 +0000

Picmaker is a DIY YouTube thumbnail maker that helps people create stunning Youtube thumbnails and YouTube channel art in a jiffy.

The simple and easy to use interface makes sure that users don’t need any designing experience to create an awesome thumbnail in Picmaker. With just a few clicks, anyone can create thumbnails that can significantly boost the CTR(Click Through Rate) of their YouTube videos.

What’s inside Picmaker:

Background removal tool
Sticker effect tool
Photo filters
100,000+ graphic elements
700+ pre-built templates
Exclusive access to 1000+ stock photos
Image Resizing option
Image upload option
Unlimited storage for photos and assets

Baked with love from the creators of Animaker Inc., Picmaker is the Perfect tool to make Uber-Cool YouTube Thumbnails!

Top 5 Best Tools to Make Social Media Videos

sangeerani — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 06:56:14 +0000

Last week, the shower fell on my head. It was a chilly morning. First, I thought it was frozen ice. Then, I realised the whole damn thing was broken.

I called the plumber. He came in at lightning speed. So quick that he forgot to take his tools. He was the finest plumber in town, but without the tools he was as good as my Neighbour Jerry.

The only difference between humans today and humans 10000 years ago is tools.

You might be a social media expert. You might have the creativity to make content that attracts attention. You might even have the insight to understand the trends. But without the right tools, you are only 1% of what you can be.

A lot of professionals don’t update their arsenal.

We find an amazing tool. We fall in love with it. And we keep on using it for years and years.

What if your Grandpa still used pigeons instead of Gmail?

Here is the 2017 list of must have tools for social media:

Live Video Maker – Shakr.

Small businesses and big brands are turning to social media video advertising for discovery, entertainment and brand awareness.

And with the number of video ad views totaling to 28.7 billion last year, you just can’t ignore it! However, as the cost for making video ads are too expensive, most marketers were still testing waters. Shakr changes all that. It is the missing piece of puzzle that saves the day here.

Shakr aims to help Small business owners ( real estate agents, car dealers, restaurant owners) to create video advertising campaigns for their marketplace at a very affordable price.

All you need to do is pick stock images from the application and drop them in the video creator. The output is a stunning HD video for your video ad campaign. Their templates are designed by graphic designers who have worked for brands like Nike and Samsung in the past.

You can also preview the HD-quality, non-watermarked video clips and themes before buying them.

WeVideo

Another popular social media app I have come across is WeVideo. Like Shakr, WeVideos also helps you create live videos. But the best thing I like about them is that you can capture and edit your video on your mobile on the go.
WeVideo boasts of giving full creative control to the users.Their main motto is that imagination should be the foundation of any kickass video. They make it very easy to create a great movie.

With features like photo animation, voice over, and clip transformation, screencasting etc, WeVideo seems no less than a mix of professional video editing tools within a single application.

WeVideo is the one stop solution for making anything from family videos to product demos. It can be used in both PC and smartphone.

Animated Videos: Animaker

Animated videos are underestimated.

While it cannot provide the richness of a real video, it has its own advantages.

It’s not just an app for explainer videos. In addition to having a huge list of awesome features to make cool animations, it can come to your rescue:

1. If your target audience is not from your country and you don’t have the money to hire a foreign actor.

2. When you want your imagination to make all the rules.

3. When you want to incite warm emotions while showing a factory or anything boring.

4. If you are catering to a statistics heavy topic.

5. If you want to make changes later.

Animaker edges out most other apps in the same segment thanks to 2 things:

Better Visuals: More lively characters in the app with new characters coming up all the time.

A constant update of features: Last year we came up with Video Infographics and this year we’ve already brought in Animaker Decks: which can convert your video into a slide show presentation. But our landmark innovation this year would be the addition of the world’s first vertical video maker. If you haven’t already, you should check it out now.

Video slideshows – Animoto

Like the 3 tools mentioned above, Animoto also has a unique feature- Video slideshows.

It gives you a video slideshow instead of a video as an output which is recreated out of free images, video clips or music clips. Animoto has patented Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology which makes all of this possible.

The company aims to help users make professional looking videos instead of poorly made camcorder video clips. And it turned out to be true when Animoto’s Facebook application launched in 2008 had nearly 750,000 people signed up in just three days!

If you want to create a video slideshow with an attractive mix of video clips, images and music clips, Animoto is a tool you need to try.

Magisto

If you want to add a personal touch to their social videos, Magisto holds a big advantage. With their emotion sense technology, the tool automatically selects the best parts of the video and clubs it into a beautiful story that elicits emotion.

The patented emotion sense technology is said to work on three levels: Visual analysis, audio analysis and storytelling.

After a detailed analysis of the video, the tool identifies the main character of the video, the topic of the video and uses the emotion guided techniques to form a perfect story.

From personal videos to commercial ads, Magisto captures the core element of your video (the story) and makes it compelling to look at.

All with an easy-to-use interface with editing tools, captions, custom branding and pre- themed templates. Magisto has come a long way to be called a “smart video storytelling application”.

It’s a war out there. Having a good plan alone won’t be enough to stand out. You need to use the right tools as well. Remember, Iron man would be just talk and no show if he didn’t have the suit.

10 Tips to optimize your Explainer video for search engines

bhuvana — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 04:59:07 +0000

We live in a picture-crazed society and people prefer videos over reading. Video encourages longer view times and more engaged site visitors, which will boost your analytics.

Statistics shows that 17% of people spend less than four seconds on a website, but they are willing to spend 2.7 minutes watching a video online. If you are thinking of how to create an attention-span-eternity on your explainer video, here are the following tips to optimize your explainer video for search engines.

1. An Impressive title:

Create the explainer video title that will catch the potential viewer’s attention. While passing a magazine rack, what compels you to pick up a magazine? Definitely most of the people’s answer would be “Title”.

The title contains the key phrases that are relevant to your brand or service. Do some keywords research that your audience will most likely be searching, but not just filled with keywords.

2. Interesting description:

The description gives you more space than title to explain in depth what your video is about. And so optimize your explainer video’s description with keyword-rich description to allow search engine index it and rank it higher, and for users to better understand.

3. Best keywords:

Smart keyword placement is the foundation of successful SEO. The users may be searching for a totally different set of keywords than you thought. So the keywords and keywords phrases should related to what you are promoting and also should have high search volumes to get more traffic.

4. Tags:

Tags are useful for search terms you use in your title text and description, including names and branding. So optimize your explainer video with important keywords or phrases instead of using complicated or terminology. Think what your targeted audience might be searching for when looking to find your brand or service and then tag your video with these terms in mind.

5. Thumbnail:

Good usages of thumbnails will let the user to decide which video to watch. Users like to watch a quick snapshot so they can decide if they want to invest their time in the full video. It’s an important enough factor in getting people to view your video that it’s worth going through the process for each site you have uploaded.

6. Video sitemap:

The easiest way for search engines to find your video content is to make use of video sitemap. By submitting a video sitemap to search engine, spiders can find your video content and index it accordingly.

7. File name:

When saving your explainer video, choose a keyword friendly file name. Use only appropriate keywords in your file name so that the search engine understands what your video is about.

8. Transcripts:

Search engines can’t index the spoken content in video. Transcripts are textual representation of the spoken content in a video and audio. Associating videos with text transcripts is almost like leaving “breadcrumbs” for search engines to find and index your information in search engine result pages.

9. Embedding options:

Which will catch Google’s attention and reward your site in Google search. Help your video go viral. Allow other users access to the coding that will allow them to embed your video on their website or blog.

Blogs and social media shares are really boost views, and help your message to get new audiences outside of YouTube. This will boost your rankings in search engines.

10. Reasonable video length:

Keep the length of the explainer video reasonable (5 minutes or less). If the video is too long, user may get bore. Of course there are exceptions to this rule, but make sure if your video exceeds more than 5 minutes be very certain that most viewers will be able to remain engaged.