13 of the Best Social Video Making Tools to Boost Your Engagement
81% of businesses use video as a marketing tool. And a staggering 97% of marketers believe video has helped increase user understanding of their product or service.
If your digital marketing strategy doesn’t leverage the potential of video marketing, you are leaving a lot of money, conversions, and engagement on the table. Brands need videos to create awareness and boost engagement.
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You don’t need the support of a production house to shoot a video. You can use easily available video making tools.
But which tools should you use to make your videos? I’ve made have a list of 13 of the best video making tools to choose from. Read on.
#1. Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark provides you with a great way to share your stories through videos. It enables web and mobile users to easily create, customize and share videos and other visual content.
This cross platform web app contains a suite of useful tools to create videos including impressive editing tools and templates that meet the layout specifications of each of the social media platforms. Which make it easier to create and share the videos.
#2. Animaker
Animaker is do-it-yourself (DIY) animation software. It is a cloud based video maker that brings professional studio quality tools within everyone’s reach.
The software includes an extensive pre-animated assets library with plenty of characters and scenes to choose from. You can easily create videos for all kinds of budgets. It has high end graphics and the software is very intuitive and easy to use.
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#3. Animoto
Animoto helps you share your stories with interesting videos. You can make marketing videos and slideshow videos. It is very easy to use. Very economical too.
You can upload the photos and videos you want to use in the right order, choose your music, and hit the “create video” button. Then you can edit and add text.
There are plenty of options for customization. You can export and share the videos easily.
#4. Biteable
Biteable calls itself — “The world’s simplest video maker that gives you professional quality.”
It has a huge collection of pre-made video templates to choose from. They have sorted them well, to ensure consistency of the graphics.
You can easily customize the video using a drag-and-drop editor. Use the text, colors, photos and sounds you like. It has a huge range of audio files too. Editing is easy.
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#5. Vyond
Previously known as GoAnimate, Vyond helps you make videos really easily. It has a big library of resources and pre-built templates.
Vyond is flexible and it is cloud based so it doesn’t require any downloads or set-up time. You can create and use your own characters in the videos. It has a very intuitive video editor.
#6. iMovie
Apple’s iMovie can turn your footage and photos into quality videos. It has a simple interface and a resourceful library of professional looking themes and trailers.
iMovie helps Mac users edit video clips and makes them into movies with stunning 4K resolution. You can edit on iPhone or iPad too. It enables you to share your movies directly on your social media accounts.
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#7. Magisto
Magisto is an AI-powered smart video editor. It makes the process of editing videos semi-automatic, which simplifies the process of making videos.
You simply have to choose the photos and clips you want included, select your editing style, choose the sounds and video maker will do the rest. It helps you host videos on your site. And the videos are optimized for email marketing, content marketing, and social media platforms.
#8. Powtoon
Powtoon helps experts and amateurs make animated videos. It has an intuitive interface and handy tools. You can add custom images and audio with ease. Or you can use Powtoon’s free resources and templates.
Its drag-and-drop feature enables you to make videos with ease. You can export the video straight to YouTube with ease.
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#9. Ripl
Ripl is a phone app that helps you make animated videos. All you need to do is upload the photos with content you want to use in the video.
Choose the design, customize the style, add music, and you are done.
You can easily share the videos on social media channels with one click. And you can add hashtags and captions for your social media posts.
#10. Rocketium
Rocketium is one of the best video making tools. It is a free online platform that enables you to make high quality videos.
Its intelligent auto-sizing feature makes videos of the right size for each social media platform. It provides automatic translation for more than 100 languages.
You can add media, and select and customize themes, music, animations, transitions, motion graphics, etc. Then your video is ready for your marketing strategies.
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#11. Shakr
Shakr is simple video making software. Its drag-and-drop video making platform is easy to use.
To create a video, you can add different kinds of media files. It provides you templates too. These are more than 2000 video designs to choose from.
Shakr helps you create professional grade advertisements with ease. And Shakr Advertise helps you promote your videos on Facebook and Instagram.
#12. Typito
Typito is a web-based video creating tool. It has simple to use drag-and-drop interface.
You can add attractive graphics and text to the videos. It is cloud based software, so setting it up is easy. No software download is required.
Its simple browser based suite of tools match the best editing tools in the business. To create videos, upload the media, add textures and styles and other enhancements, and your video is ready to be shared on your favorite platform with one click.
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#13. Wideo
Wideo is a web-based animated video creation platform. It helps businesses make promo, explainer, and other marketing videos.
The platform includes more than 80 readymade templates to help make the videos. Its easy-to-use drag-and-drop platform makes creating, editing, and sharing videos a simple job.
You can customize your videos and it has helpful video sharing and video embedding features.
Conclusion
Videos are called the “king of content.” They do pack a punch.
Not everyone has time to go through a 4 minute long blog post about your product or service. But they definitely can watch an introductory and informative video lasting 2–3 minutes to learn everything about your brand and your products.
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With the help of the video making tools, you can easily make videos that suit your marketing objectives.
Which video making tools have you been using? Let us know in the comments below. We would love to hear from you.
Originally published at Shanebarker.com.
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Shane Barker is the Founder and CEO of Content Solutions and Gifographics. You can connect with him on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
