{"id":128,"date":"2013-06-13T21:09:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/?p=128"},"modified":"2020-02-29T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T23:49:05","slug":"i-really-want-to-love-videoscribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalfacilitation.net\/?p=128","title":{"rendered":"I really want to love VideoScribe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but I just can&#8217;t. I *like* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videoscribe.co\/en\/\">Sparkol&#8217;s VideoScribe<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t *love* it. But that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not lovable. I know people who have done very cool things with it, like Chipp Walters&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PZuK5_u2eyI&amp;feature=youtu.be\">overview of Agilix xLi<\/a>, along with many other examples &#8212; see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/VideoScribetv\">Sparkol YouTube channel<\/a> for lots more. And I do think the &#8220;behind glass&#8221; hand is pretty neat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only used the free trial versions (desktop and iPad app), so it&#8217;s also possible that the paid version is a whole different animal. I made a silly little movie about the beginning of the book <em>Watership Down<\/em> by Richard Adams, because I&#8217;m in the middle of reading that with my son and it&#8217;s on my mind. It took about 45 minutes to create this, starting from not really knowing how to use VideoScribe at all. If I were to make something similar now it would only take about 15 minutes. The learning curve isn&#8217;t bad at all.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hjZOM3SKhP4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my take on it:<\/p>\n<p>When I compare it to my current workflow for creating this kind of movie, I find VideoScribe to be limiting. I&#8217;m used to being able to create images from scratch and control how they appear. I did create my own drawing in Illustrator (the image of the downs in the sample movie here), but as you can see, it didn&#8217;t come out quite the way I wanted it to in the video. I used the brush pen in Illustrator to get a brushy line quality, but in the movie you see the outline of each stroke and then all the strokes fill in at the end, so it looks odd.<\/p>\n<p>I also wanted to add audio effects at different places in the movie, and I could not figure out how to do this. When I recorded an audio effect as a voiceover (just myself saying &#8220;Ta-da!&#8221;), it played at the very beginning, and I didn&#8217;t see a way to shift it to the point where I wanted it to be. It may be that there is a way to do it and I couldn&#8217;t find it, or it may be that this is only something you can do in the full-price version. Or it may not be possible at all.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s much less complicated to create a movie using VideoScribe than it is to do it the way I currently do it (with Brushes 1 and Final Cut Pro X). VideoScribe also has an advantage over Brushes 1 in that you can actually obtain it, which is significant for folks who are just starting out (the original Brushes is no longer available on the App Store, and <a href=\"http:\/\/brushesapp.com\">the new one<\/a> doesn&#8217;t let you work with the movie files in the same way). VideoScribe&#8217;s library of imagery seems to be extensive and can be supplemented by custom material, and it&#8217;s nice to have all the parts in one place: images, soundtrack, voiceover, and output. I use four different applications or services to achieve the same end.<\/p>\n<p>Is VideoScribe right for you? Well, if you are looking for a relatively easy way to get into creating this kind of movie, and you don&#8217;t need an OCD-level of control over the output, and you&#8217;re willing to put in some time to learn the ins and outs of its unique user interface, then it might be. It&#8217;s certainly less complicated than working with a video crew &#8212; you can sit down and work on it any time, without reference to other people&#8217;s schedules, and you don&#8217;t need special lighting or space. The results are definitely polished enough to use for client work. It&#8217;s much easier to learn to use than Final Cut Pro X or even iMovie, and there are fewer moving parts to worry about. If you do decide to try it out, be aware that there&#8217;s a 7-day free trial. Don&#8217;t start until you have some time to devote to it, so you can give it a fair shot. I&#8217;d be curious to learn what you think if you try it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; but I just can&#8217;t. I *like* Sparkol&#8217;s VideoScribe, but I don&#8217;t *love* it. But that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not lovable. 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