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Scott Smith

Video Annotations by Zight - Draw on videos to get your point across

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With video annotations you can now draw and comment directly on your CloudApp videos to add deeper context to your bug reports, customer outreach, or internal comms for when you want to skip the meeting and send a video instead.

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Scott Smith
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Howdy, Product Hunt! Scott from CloudApp here 👋 ✏️ We are thrilled to add video annotations to CloudApp. CloudApp is the easiest way to get your point across with instantly shareable videos and annotated screenshots. Today, we’re bringing you video annotations to make your video recording experience even clearer with quick drawings or highlights on your videos. You can record your screen and face, add a quick line or arrow, or free draw, to help you get your point across and spend more time getting work done, and less time spent in meetings and “quick calls”. You'll now be able to annotate videos, GIFS, and screenshots all in one easy to use product. ****Benefits**** Draw: Insert lines, arrows, shapes, highlights, or free form drawings Colors: Change the colors to one of the defaults, your most recent, or even a custom hex color Format: Change the length of time annotations stay on your screen (1 second, 4 seconds, or forever) ****How To Get Video Annotations**** 1. Visit www.getcloudapp.com 2. Sign up for a CloudApp Pro account or start a free 7-day Pro Trial 3. Make sure you have CloudApp for Mac version 6.4 4. Start a recording 5. Click the annotation arrow next to the recording icon 6. Highlight and draw where you need to 7. Click finish and get an instantly shareable video link 👀 If you want to check out a quick demo, here you go: https://youtu.be/JldyIUg1phU I’ve been using this for a month now and have loved how it helps me be so much clearer in my videos, and how much time it saves me trying to answer a question, or show off a bug, or demo something. It's available today to all CloudApp users on a Mac who have an existing or new subscription. Make sure to download v6.4: https://www.getcloudapp.com/down.... Windows coming next! 30% Off Discount For New Subscribers 🙀 Normally CloudApp Pro is $96 per year for unlimited recording, and a ton of other great features (drawing tool, do not disturb mode, search, custom branding, etc), but if you upgrade by November 1st 2020, you can get it for 30% off for the 1st year if you're a new customer. Use code producthunt30 at checkout or directly: https://share.getcloudapp.com/su... Excited to share this with you!
Joe Martin
Maker
Love that this is up and running. It provides that deeper context to help drive home a CloudApp video
Joe Martin
Maker
Hey Product Hunters! I am thrilled to put this live for our great community of users and for those who are new to CloudApp. CloudApp has always been about speed and improving collaboration. In the newly remote world, drawing on your CloudApp videos will help add context and improve collaboration even more. I have loved testing this out in beta over the last few months and I know you will love it too. Join me and 4 million other Pro, Team, and Enterprise CloudAppers in giving video annotations a whirl. Thanks, Joe
Arseniy
Hi! 1) Can you annotate videos that you've already made? 2) When can we expect this update to come to Windows?
Scott Smith
Maker
@arseniyw Hi there -- you can annotate them as you create them. Windows will be soon.
Joe Martin
Maker
@scotcha1 @arseniyw thanks for being a part of the community Arseniy!
Gabe Villamizar
Oh snap! CloudApp keeps getting better every year. Love this new feature update @scotcha1 @joedmarti and team! #Boom
Gabe Villamizar
“Aprobado por GV” reppin the Latinos in Tech ppl. #Dale
John Rampton
Product looks good, I just signed up. I could see my whole company using this. Couple Questions: 1. What are some use case examples for different orgs? 2. Something we would want to get one account or multiple accounts? 3. Is there in line commenting? I didn't see it as possible.
Joe Martin
Maker
@johnrampton Awesome! Thanks for the comment John 1. CloudApp spreads across the entire organization video is at the core of the functionality with annotations just adding to its awesomeness. Here are a couple of thoughts on what we have seen from our customers. Customer Support - closing tickets faster and increasing customer satisfaction rates with videos Product - faster to market with video collaboration vs. long meetings and emails Sales - Increase engagement on outreach and connection with customers with video messages Eng - better documentation and bug reports 2. 91% of the Fortune 1000 is using CloudApp. B2B companies will generally sign up for a Team or Enterprise account for the added control, security, and connection it provides 3. Stay tuned... we have been testing this in beta and it should be around really soon. You can check out our product roadmap on Trello https://trello.com/b/FLKc8AW3/cl... Thanks for joining the community!
The Meg
This is awesome!
Joe Martin
Maker
@megmorleywalter Thanks Meg!
Scott Smith
Maker
@megmorleywalter #megapproved !!
Baptiste N
Love the idea! I'll definitely give it a try! Yet, how do you share the video afterwards? Is a special URL generated? @scotcha1
Scott Smith
Maker
@baptiste_ncls after you've created your video its uploaded and turns into an instantly shareable link like this -> https://share.getcloudapp.com/5z.... You can customize the URL to match your own personal or company domain, and add your own branding.
David Pires
CloudApp has been one of the most used app of my workspace in the past years. I am quite curious about this new feature. Looking forward to testing it,
Scott Smith
Maker
@davpires awesome to hear David. Thanks!
Joe Martin
Maker
@davpires @scotcha1 Awesome! You will love it David.
Nick Gurney
Awesome new feature from a great team! Excited to use it on the daily
Joe Martin
Maker
@gurneykid Thanks Nick!
Manuela Bárcenas
This looks very useful! Congrats on the launch @scotcha1, @joedmarti and CloudApp team đź‘Ź
Scott Smith
Maker
@joedmarti @manuelabarcenas thank you Manuela!
Joe Martin
Maker
@manuelabarcenas @scotcha1 Thanks Manuela!
T. Trent Gegax
value of annotating and recording everything and anything? priceless. use it daily.
Joe Martin
Maker
@gegax Awesome! Thanks for being a part of the community Trent
Joshua Pinter
Great idea and product! The fading annotation is a clever solution to the annotation becoming out-of-date as the screen contents change. Nice one!
Joe Martin
Maker
@joshuapinter I've been beta testing it for a few months, its pretty cool how seamless it is. Excited to have it live!
Alexander King
It’s so good!
Joe Martin
Maker
@alexanderking yeah it is
benmorris
Thank you @cloudapp for this great feature release that will continue to accelerate creative collaboration among teams.
Joe Martin
Maker
@cloudapp @benmorris Boom! Thanks for the comment my friend.
Francis Brero
Great new feature! It is sometimes tricky to write text to highlight a particular part of a video and this helps greatly
Joe Martin
Maker
@francisbrero1 I agree, nice to not have to explain out a specific piece
Derek Andersen
I have used CloudApp for the past 3 years and I love it. I used it about 10x over this past weekend alone. Drawing on videos is going to make the product even more useful.
Joe Martin
Maker
@derek_andersen2 YES! Thanks for sharing Derek!
Michael Roberts
I think this is my favorite added feature yet :)
Joe Martin
Maker
@michael_cloudapp yeah it is!
Ryan O'Hara
I've been going through people's cold emails and using this feature to help people write better cold emails. It's awesome.
Joe Martin
Maker
@ryohara yeah you have!
Veronica Belmont
I've been a CloudApp fan for ages, and I'm excited to incorporate video annotations into my product demos!
Joe Martin
Maker
@veronica Nice! Im really excited to see what you do with it! Thanks for the comment
Carl ZĂ©phir
Awesome. How do I start a free 7-day Pro Trial if I have a free subscription ?
Joe Martin
Maker
@carlzephir Trials are for net new signups only I believe. We do have a promotion though for 30% off for viewing this post. Code is producthunt30 at checkout. https://share.getcloudapp.com/su... We also have regular coupons for our existing community, so keep an eye out.