Feature requests

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.

To add more variety to the automated machine voice-overs in your videos

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

Can we have text animations like wave.video. They have very cool and professional looking text animations options which we can apply to one scene or to the entire video. I hope this feature will be considered. Thank You Pictory

Premium voices speak at their own speed, but often times you want to slow down a performance for effect. I don't mean altering the voice to sound slow, but have the option for more time between words, and the option to pause so the next line isn't delivered back to back. There's only so much you can do with Split clip which has serious limitiations, especially with timing and visual overlap issues. TTS [Slower] doesn't work, or if it can work, it would need to not those words as it does now. Thanks, Matthew

This is again a common ask from most of our customers.

To create more compelling video stories with fresh and relevant visuals

Editing is very limited in pictory because of which I always have to use other Softwares as well. If you could incorporporate more editing features like allowing to zoom in certain scenes, adding multiple pictures in the same scene, picture on video, more effects etc like other softwares, it would really up the game and users might not have to go elsewhere.

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.

Ken Burns made infamous the use of pan/zoom across still images to convey motion. Pictory's Pan&Zoom implementation should do this, but it is completely broken and unusable - and can not possibly produce good results without input from the user, which it does not do! You need a UI that allows the user to select 1) an image 2) a source rectangle 3) a destination rectangle. This allows the user full control over the transition, speed of movement, etc. Pictory only has implemented step 1. How could Pictory possibly get a good result without this - how do you know where the start/end of the transition is? I'll bet you could have this implemented in two weeks from design to final QA if your team really tried. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rippletraining.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F01%2Fimage5.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ccac7e63ebd85b81d9aa36af3f437ae1a581a8a3815ba3de5861a402314cd6c2&ipo=images

Make the experience to trim stock videos more intuitive and glitch free.

Please allow us to add more videos and images in one scene plus add more templates for news video. Sample News Video template https://youtu.be/Wu7yFsyQx9U https://youtu.be/SzsXZCAjgA0 add more elements like Canva so we can use it and add where we want.

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.

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.

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