Feature requests

When the voiceover pronounces a word, it is highlighted in the subtitles. A setting would allow to choose its color. Thank you!

In the scene timeline, ability to select a group of successive scenes and preview them in order to lower the generating response time and gain time.

Can we have options to pause, slowdown, and give emphasis indications so that the ai voice over can be under contro like human voice reading. Right now the AI sure does follow punctuation marks, but then in some cases to give longer pause we cannot go beyond the grammatical borders of punctuation as the sentence will look out of context and stretched. Can we have an alternative option like a punctuation code through which the AI voiceover can be customised?

I would love to have an option to add pauses to imported voice overs. Now when I sync a voice over to my video in which I’m for example explaining something on screen, sometimes the voice over talks to fast. I would love an option to edit this inside pictory.

With this we would no loner haev to go and readjust on 3 different programs and then upload. Save Us Time and Make you and us more money.

it will help with making more entertaining and relevant images for videos instead of hoping the B-roll is relevant to script to video. the most popular video generators have this like autoshorts.ai and shortx ai which are my favorite right now.

The purpose of this post is to remind those asking for features what is involved in releasing a new product. We often times have a laundry list of things we want a product or service to offer without considering what is involved in what we consider a "small" upgrade. Cost Every feature, upgrade, or bug fix cost. These costs might be financial or in people resources. Consider you 4 developers working on the code. If someone is working on adding what we might think is easy. In reality, that code might touch several other features that also have to be adjusted. This does not take into account that the developer is not working on a more important feature that is required to stay competitive. The Business Case When a product manager goes to management or engineering to request a feature change. Unless it is a bug fix, they have to present a business case. They have to justify why this is important enough to bump some other development and how it will impact the revenue of the product. For Example: If this is a killer feature that everyone agrees they want to have in the product but to license the api's or or write the code would cause the company to double the price of the product to cover their cost. Chances are it is dead before it goes any further. I see a number of request that in my opinion would require this solution. And so you should ask yourself: "How much are you willing to pay to get your pet feature added?" Double, triple the price? The Kitchen Sink A question I keep asking myself about Pictory is: "What is their Core Competency?" To put it another way, what is it they are great at? And what is it I want them to be the best at? I admit that I fall into the same trap that I (mistakenly) think I want one app to do 99% of everything I need. Yet when this happens with other apps, we generally are overwhelmed and disappointed. As an example: Consider Microsoft Word or Adobe’s Photoshop. Both of these apps started with a simple idea but are now so massive and do so much that my guess is most of us only use 30% of what they can really do. The other aspect is something referred to as “Best in Class”. Photoshop certainly fits this as far as photo editing. But if they added Audio, Video and Motion graphics, who would be the market for this imaging swiss army knife? The point is I use mutliple apps for different reasons. And while there are some features I wish Pictory had, I can solve these issues using one or two other apps. Artificial Intelligence The most important to remember about AI is where we are in the development process. Consider it is December 17, 1903 and the Wright brothers have just demonstrated flight by flying 832 feet using a droopy wing 12 horse power aircraft. This is where we are in the world of AI RIGHT NOW! As we are witnessing the technology is advancing every day, not the 50 years it took the aircraft industry. So keep this in mind when requesting a feature you know is not yet available. The Advanced User vs the Newbie Right now the AI industry is almost incestuous. Everyone partnering with the same companies and so we are paying for the same service twice or three times. This problem needs to be solved because eventually, the cost will not be sustainable. Example: I have an OpenAI, a Music service, and an Elevenlabs account that I pay for. But yet I am also paying Pictory to use the same services. Does this make sense? Yes if you are a casual user it makes sense both financially and from an ease of use standpoint. But wouldn't it make sense for Pictory and others to allow me to enter my own API key? This would reduce Pictory's cost and make their product more competitively priced.

There are a wide variety of Anglo voices to choose from. But not one African-American voice is available for me to use on my videos.

Be able to clone my voice similar as dine using AI voices so that I do not have to do voiceovers for each video using my voice manually

I hope Pictory can add AI human talking avatar. And e can have personalised face and custom voice.

Hi, just wondering if there is a way to download the story/script before rendering/generating the video. Sometimes I change the script after the scenes are applied and then I don't have an updated copy of the script to do my voiceover unless I go scene by scene. It would be much more efficient to download the script and read from that rather than reading scene by scene. Thanks.

I'm Visually Impaired (V.I) - because of the eye disorder "glaucoma," which caused me blindness (left eye blind, right eye central vision), it's difficult for me to view text with a white background versus text with a black background. So most of the time I used "high contrast or dark mode feature(if there is built-in in apps or websites) and while using the PICTORY, I find it difficult sometimes to see the fonts and other features closely because it restrains my eye. It would be great if you could add "dark mode feature) so that it is more Visually-Impaired friendly. Thank you.

Just for an artistic point of view and modify the original vidos

Once selected, there is no way to check what was the original duration of a visual. Sometimes, you need to know this duration in order to adjust your scene. Thank you Pictory, you are the best!

Your audience overall would benefit from being able to have more variety. your company would also benefit because more and more African Americans are starting to use these tool. best to provide the voices for them before your competition decide to cater to them.