Where to obtain product explainer/teaser videos?

Anonymous

September 28th, 2014

Where would I go about getting a explainer video/teaser video made on a bootstrap budget?

I would prefer live-action videos. But,I know companies charge 500-20,000.

I am also considering animation videos. (My budget is $50-$200)

Thanks.

Peter Kazanjy Early Stage SaaS Product and Go To Market Executive

September 28th, 2014

You're going to have a hard time getting someone to do one professionally for that budget.

However, doing it yourself, using Jing to record your screen, and iMovie to stitch it together could get you to a passable product.

Do you have a PowerPoint deck with relevant visuals for the conceptual pieces?

I would try scripting it yourself, and then recording you talking over the relevant, static slides, and interleaved product screen captures.

Cut it together with iMovie or similar (you're going to have to learn to do this for product demo videos anyway), and use the stock music that comes with those video editing suites.

It won't be the same as an epipheo video, but if you're pre-product market fit, it's probably premature to invest in something with a crazy amount of fit and finish.

Ellen Raynor

September 30th, 2014

Adobe Voice is a free iPad app that lets you make videos quickly. http://getvoice.adobe.com/

I've used it for Startup Weekend events before.

Buy several inexpensive stock photos (or use your own)
Import the photos
Record voiceover
Select music
Publish.

All in under an hour.

And you'll be impressed by how professional it looks.

If you have good slides, you can use those instead of stock photos. If you don't like your own voice, you can definitely find a college kid to do the voice for cheap.

Alex Romanovich CMO, Digital Media Leader, Founder, Social2B; co-Founder, Viosk

April 30th, 2015

Hi there - try Viosk.com - we just launched it 2 moths ago and it is taking industry by storm. Template based video animation and distribution. Would love some feedback. Alex

Aleksandr Yarmolatii Experienced in Motion Graphics, Design, Video Production and Automation

September 2nd, 2015

Yes, Viosk is nice solution! You can have videos made automatically. For example if you have e-commerce or real-esstate with more then 1000 products creating videos for all these items is impossible, but Viosk can do it with automatization.

I'm in video production for years already so if you need any tips or just help feel free to write me a note!

Paul Ruderman

September 28th, 2014

fiverr.com

great animators there.

record your own audio, write your own script.

then send audio to these guys who will animate for a hundred bucks.

Michael Kovacs CTO at Samsung Accelerator

September 28th, 2014

Hey Koral, GoAnimate is awesome, inexpensive, and easy to produce something of reasonable quality in a week or less. I just made a :30 explainer video and my first draft was done in a day or two. You can probably get one done even more quickly if you use one of those tools to generate one that's just all animated words. Total price for my video was $80 (1 month of GoAnimate pro) and a few days of my time. Hope that helps. -Michael

Robert Tolmach Entrepreneur and Social Entrepreneur

September 29th, 2014

You might ask film students at a university to help.

Lawrence Lerner Digitalization and Transformation Coach

September 29th, 2014

Take a look at Sparkol, it's relatively simple and at a good price point.

Cheers

Powell Loskamp President at Money Flow Public Co.

September 29th, 2014

1. Go to Goanimate.com create a digital dialog, or create you own dialog in Camtasia. 2. Get Camtasia 2, 3. Use Camtasia to record a screencast of your application while the dialogue from Goanimate is running. 4. Edit Video, Camtasia 5. Save is to a .mov file Good luck!

Joanan Hernandez CEO & Founder at Mollejuo

October 6th, 2014

Hello Koral,

As per previous Founder member suggestion, we used the services of:

AnimaticaStudio

They're low cost. For under 500$ you can get a decent video. You can check out ours, you be the judge. Contacting them, they'll send you more of the stuff they made.

Cheers!

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