Powtoon is an online video creation platform for making engaging short videos and presentations, from the company of the same name in London.
$89
per month
StorySlab
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
StorySlab helps B2B sales teams optimize live customer interactions everywhere they’re happening. The platform equips sales leaders with insights to improve sales effectiveness at scale. It also puts all a company’s knowledge in one centralized hub for reps to access from anywhere—on or offline. By engaging customers with dynamic conversations, StorySlab aims to help teams close bigger deals, faster.
Powtoon is a very capable suite of tools that help a developer create training videos that look way better than they should. I've used it to create fun, attention-getting commercials for new topics, I've used it to enhance what would otherwise be boring step-by-step tutorials, and I've used it to create all manner of "Explainer videos" for all kinds of topics - this is where it EXCELS! In my opinion, its biggest limitations are limits on imported video (max of 90 seconds), which mean that you have to do a lot of extra work to break up and import anything of substantive length. And because it presents your personal library of imported images and audio ONLY sequentially, it's VERY LIMITED in the re-usability of those assets - it's way faster to just import a new instance of an image and audio than to try to find it in your library.
I would recommend the app to another colleague if they were only going to manage 1-2 brands or channels. I believe in typical Eastman fashion, we had one idea of how we were going to use StorySlab and now a few years later our vision has changed. Items are starting to get cluttered.
Comparing it to Vyond, it is more time consuming to make videos. The timeline could be easier to understand.
They recently started upcharging to use some scenes. This has made updating some of my videos challenging as the scenes that were included as part of my plan are now an upgrade to use.
They don't have a voice over option. I have actually taken some of the videos out of the platform over to Vyond to add voiceover.
Some items they have introduced, like turning a powerpoint into a video really don't work.
I have never needed the support feature. As I mentioned, everything was intuitive to me however I have taught myself Adobe, Final Cut and iMovie so most of these programs became intuitive.
Powtoon has the advantage over traditional video editing software in terms of the library of characters and elements that can be easily dragged and dropped onto the canvas. Powtoon is easier to use and has a more intuitive user interface than Vyond.
We use Marcom Central for one brand. They do not have a mobile app or mobile capabilities, which is unfortunate. We also use it as an e-commerce site for our customers to log on to as well.
We don't have to spend money on traveling to a location to do an actual live shoot.
I'm spending less time on hand animating videos.
We used these to create teaser videos for our professional development offerings. I believe because of the captivating graphics, we had a lot more people driven to our site.
