Great Concept
I like it. I use it. It could use some improvement.
- Video quality is poor.
- Videos take a long time to rip.
- Videos all have the exact same effects and look, some of which are clunky, like text box overlays blocking the speaker's face on the 1:1 format.
- Music sometimes overpowers the main audio.
- Changes made in the editor (like turning off the music track) do not reflect on the regenerated video.
- AI-generated scripts are not usually as good as ones I can make quickly in ChatGPT.
- The cuts are abrupt, and speech is sometimes clipped. The output doesn't have the feel of something that is more carefully produced. I wouldn't expect it to be professional quality, but it could be a little smoother and the effects more subtle.
Overall, this app is worth experimenting with. I find it useful to record a quick video and feed that into another AppSumo app: Video to Blog Post. Then I can publish the post with the video at the top.
Zync is a great concept. I like the idea of trying to make it quick and easy to produce video content. My suggestions to the developer would be to improve video quality and create a series of basic templates or styles of video content: numbered list, basic talking head, screen share/tutorial, etc.
arjunzync
Nov 7, 2024Thanks for the review Eric.
1. Video Quality: The video quality is largely a function of the camera / lighting but we're also pushing some changes to see video quality improvement.
2. Processing Time: We have been seeing some extra load on the system thanks to more users + shipping the video editor. This should be down to about 10-15 min once we increase our servers.
3. Video Effects: If you are in Tier 2 or Tier 3, you can switch themes. We have a couple of themes right now with more themes shipping this week. Plan to get at least 10+ themes by end of the year.
4. Music changes should work. If not, we'll certainly take a look into it. Can you email support@zync.ai ?
5. Our AI learn from styles of popular videos that have performed really well socially. And generates scripts with that tone. That said, everyone's style is different and if your own method works better that's an easy work around.
6. Abrupt cuts: We pushed a fix for word ending half way. The jump cuts are in vogue and are what makes videos more engaging but I hear you (maybe your audience are not a big fan of them). We will be shipping some more smoother themes that have smoother transition.
Interesting that you have another output of Video -> Blog post. If they take programmatic input of video maybe we should enable some Zapier connection to them in the future.
Also, hope you had a chance to look at the Video Feed that we auto generate and that you can sync with your custom domain (Tier3)