Piktostory Beta - Video editing made for social media

Thanks for love @aazar_ali_shad ! We are aware that there are a lot of video editing tools out there. Many focus on professional marketing videos and thus are more complex to use. There are also newer solutions using video transcribing technology (like we do) that are good for editing podcasts. Piktostory was explicitly made with video content repurposing in mind. Over one year, the Piktostory team led by @elvin_lkh, has spoken with hundreds of marketers and agencies. We learned that most use a combination of a minimum 2-3 tools to snip their videos into smaller clips and to share them on social media. We wanted to build a simple solution for them. That would allow them to: a) Easily transcribe any video recording b) Edit videos in the same way as they would edit a text document c) Repurpose existing video content, sitting on their Drive or Zoom, by clipping it into shorter videos and sharing it on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn Ultimately, it is what makes Piktostory a unique product.

@aazar_ali_shad Hi Aazar thanks a lot, we're very excited too 🌈 How we're looking to differentiate 👇 📝 Text Based Editing Just like Sketch redefined designing for screens we believe that video editing is due the same. For videos that mostly contain speech we've been scrubbing timelines and finding the right in and out points for so long. By allowing you to edit video just like editing a document you get result much faster while knowing how to use it intuitively. ♻️ Repurposing Our goal is to maximise quality content while minimising the amount of time you spend creating. One great way to start is to use existing recorded footage like webinars. Companies often don't realise the value they are giving away to a limited audience. Taking the best bits and putting it out on social will bring even more people to your next live event and help you figure out what topics you should focus on. We have many more features to come in this area ✌️ 💬 Subtitles & Templates We merged the experience of formatting subtitles and cutting/editing into one text based interface. Each line represents a subtitle in the video. Currently we also have the option to use a dark or light theme, but the plan is to have lots of templates and customization options to brand your videos. All in all we're at the start of the journey but we believe that text based video editing (or as we like to call it 'conversational editing') is the next big leap in content creation. With powerful ML and AI technologies on the rise there we can achieve a 10X improvement in the creation process.

@aazar_ali_shad @elvin_lkh @agatakristo it looks great. BTW are you guys planning on adding 9:16 format to clips? I can only do 1:1 and 16:9 for now.

@alimirza2k thanks! Yes we are looking to add more formats like 9:16 and others like Facebook posts' 4:5 for vertical videos in the upcoming updates!

@alimirza2k @elvin_lkh ahh got it.. thank you

@sspassova thanks for the feedback! Yeah we're still working on some fine tuning and will improve on what you just mentioned! If you're interested, I'd love to get in touch to learn more about how you are using it as part of your workflow! Thank you for the support!

@elvin_lkh happy to participate in any research :)

@sspassova that's great! Let's work something out!

@sspassova for the life of me I couldn't figure out how to send a message on Product Hunt so I've sent a connection request to follow up on LinkedIn! Thanks!

@kimberly_wan 🙌 we're so glad that you find the product useful! It's been an exciting journey creating it, and we can't wait to hear more feedback from people like you to see how we can improve it better!

it's super helpful for promoting your webinars on social media @ckpleiser . Once you get a chance to try it out, let us know what you think.

@agatakristo I will for sure.

@ssbriwa thanks for all the support :D

@mickgriffin Hey Mick that sounds like an exciting use case. Let me know if you have any feedback, we're having this beta in order to learn more about what people would like to achieve. You can reach me at: armin[at]piktochart.com or here in the thread :)

@joshlimitless Hi Josh :) Thanks! And yes, the clips you create with Piktostory are optimized for social media use. We'd be happy to hear your feedback on how you use Piktostory and what you think about it!

@joshlimitless @malgorzata_kieszkowska clips look great but I can not play them. The only option is to download. is it by design?

@alimirza2k you're right that it cannot be played right now, but it is on the plan to allow the clips to be playable, and even shareable directly from the app apart from just downloading. Team is working towards them!

@saadkamal thanks! There is a lot of new features coming up so stay tuned :) Currently you already can cut out some words from the selected paragraph. I recently did that with filler words such as "like"

@paulijohnson yes you're right - we automatically transcribe the video that you uploaded and add them as subtitle captions on the video. From there you can just edit anything that may not be accurate, and format how you want each line of subtitle to appear! Please do give it a try and let us know how it goes, and what may be still missing to make it better! Curious to also hear what were some of the other solutions you plugged together previously?

@paulijohnson @elvin_lkh looking good.. Btw when a clip is crated I am not able to play it.. I can download it. Is it by design?

@alimirza2k you're right that it cannot be played right now for this Beta version, but it is part of the roadmap to make it playable and shareable as well! More exciting updates to come!

@yongling Thank you! We're so glad you enjoy using Piktostory and that you're finding it useful :)

thanks @dahartattack ! Let us know what you like and what is missing once you get a chance to give it a try :)

Thanks @rajan_ramachandran! We hope that you find good use for it, and would love to hear some feedback after you give it a try!

@michael_weaver1 glad to hear that! Let us know if there's any idea for improvement to make the product better for your needs!

@sspassova yay! We're glad that you are finding good use cases for it - and that's an interesting one! Let us know if there's anything we can improve the product to help you better!

@dragos_bulugean Thank you! When you use Piktostory, please let us know what you think about it 😊

@jonathan_hart Awesome! We hope Piktostory will give your videos a second life (or multiple lives😉)and drive engagement for you brand 😊

@jonathan_hart I feel you! I think this applies to so many companies now. In recent months, many of us started creating webinars, workshops, or virtual conferences. At Piktochart, we have produced 2x more video content in 2020 than the year before (webinars, recorded chats with customers, fireside chats for a virtual conference and so on). I used Piktostory for the promotion of the recent virtual summit I was organizing. I highlighted the best quotes from the fireside chat recordings. My team scheduled them on social media to drive additional signups for the event.

@prilutskiy thanks!

@new_user_323baca268 thanks! Do give it a try and let us know what the experience is like!

@jerzy_sporny Hey Jerzy! You bet, we know that not everything is black and white (hope you can see what I did there). Customization options are the very next thing on our roadmap. If you'd like you can drop me an email at: armin[at]piktochart.com, it would be great to learn what exactly you're looking for 😊