What I love about Pictory is that it's intuitive and easy to use. Most alternatives for some reason tend to have the most complicated user interfaces or they don't work properly. Pictory is not only easy to figure out without a tutorial, but it has everything you need. I teach online courses and use Pictory for my video lectures. I can use Pictory's script to video service and simply type and edit my script there. Or i can copy/paste it there. Then, Pictory creates a video based on my script. It's nice that I don't have to spend all this time searching for media to go in the video, as Pictory has an extensive media library and selects very relevant moving images that can either pan or freeze frame. Meanwhile, you can add your own images instead if you don't like the ones they suggest. Pictory also lets you record a voice over for your video, but I prefer to record mine elsewhere and then upload it to Pictory. The great part about it is that Pictory will align the video to sync with the voice over. Although it's rarely perfect, and you'll have to go in and align image to voice over yourself to make sure it's the way you want it. The good part is that Pictory has such a simple and effective editing feature where you can do that without any issue. Then you can download the video when you're done. The best thing about it is that you can actually do everything I just mentioned with the free trial. It's a really generous trial too, you get 3 video downloads with ten minute limits for each video. And I highly respect them for not forcing you to put your credit card in for the free trial. That shows honesty and integrity and makes me want to buy the subscription even more. Other services want you to put in your credit card because they hope you'll just forget to cancel it and they can grab one month from you before you angrily cancel it. Not the case with Pictory. Great service, love everything about it.
