Video Making Software

Sometimes the generated models require additional optimization and manual adjustments before they are fully ready for use in a game engine. Improving topology, textures, and consistency would make the workflow even better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meshy helps us create 3D assets quickly without having to model everything from scratch. This saves a significant amount of development time, reduces production costs, and allows us to prototype and test new game ideas much faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can get cluttered really fast, and once there’s no clear structure in the workspace, it becomes very hard to navigate.

The search function also often doesn’t work the way we need it to when trying to find specific footage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having a place where we can store our ads, support feedback loops in the production phase, and then also have them easy to share and deploy is key.

The MCP integration and the Premiere plugin have added a lot more value to how we use Air and what we get out of it. We build custom Claude automations to resolve mechanical tasks like asset tagging, and we also built a Claude-powered search automation that goes in depth into the Air metadata to deliver the most valuable results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Canto is a useful DAM solution, but it may have some drawbacks:

Cost: Pricing can become expensive as the team and storage needs grow.

Learning curve: Some advanced features may take time for new users to understand.

Customization: It may not provide the same level of customization as some enterprise-level DAM platforms.

Organization: Managing large libraries can require careful setup of folders, tags, and permissions.

Advanced workflows: Teams with complex approval or automation processes may find some capabilities limited.

Overall: Canto is user-friendly and effective for many teams, but organizations with highly complex workflows or large-scale requirements may need a more advanced DAM solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Before using Canto, we struggled with scattered files, difficult asset searches, and outdated versions of marketing materials. After implementation, we can store, organize, search, and share digital assets from one centralized platform. This has reduced time spent searching for files, improved team collaboration, and helped ensure everyone uses the latest approved content.

We now spend less time managing assets and more time on productive work, while making it easier for marketing, sales, and creative teams to access the content they need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would highly recommend Bynder because it is easy to use, intuitive, and makes asset management very straightforward. The onboarding process was also very well supported, with clear guidance and responsive assistance throughout the implementation. Overall, it is a user-friendly platform that makes it easy for teams to adopt and use effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I haven’t found anything I strongly dislike about Bynder. One area that could be improved is having more customization and editing options for the cards on the homepage and within the guides. More flexibility in these areas would make it even easier to tailor the platform to specific brand and user needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would highly recommend Bynder because it is easy to use, intuitive, and makes asset management very straightforward. The onboarding process was also very well supported, with clear guidance and responsive assistance throughout the implementation. Overall, it is a user-friendly platform that makes it easy for teams to adopt and use effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bynder will help us centralize and organize all our brand assets and guidelines in one place, making it much easier for teams across different markets to access the right materials. This saves time, reduces the use of outdated assets, and helps ensure greater consistency across the brand. It also makes collaboration and asset sharing much more efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One thing that could be improved is the trial experience. It would be helpful to have a more accessible free trial of the paid features before committing to a subscription. This would make it easier to explore the full range of possibilities and see which plan best fits your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Animaker helps us create professional and engaging animated videos without needing advanced design or animation skills or outsourcing production. This saves us both time and costs, while allowing us to create high-quality content ourselves for internal presentations, training, communication and external marketing. It also makes it much easier to turn complex or less engaging topics into clear, visual and appealing stories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I start recording something that should take two minutes and end up with a much longer video because I made a mistake or explained something badly halfway through. Editing it afterward is possible, but for small recordings I usually don't want to spend time on that, so I just record it again.

It's not really a problem with Loom itself, but I do wish fixing a small part of a recording felt a little quicker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest benefit for me is that Loom reduces the number of small calls we need to have. If I need to explain a process, give feedback on something or show where a problem is, I can record it once and the other person can watch it whenever they have time.

It works especially well for things that are difficult to explain with screenshots or text. I can show exactly what I'm looking at and what I mean, so there is usually much less back and forth afterward. It saves time for both sides and keeps our calendars a little less crowded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main challenge was getting our existing content into a structure that made sense. We had to rethink a few categories after using the system for a while, so there was definitely some trial and error at the beginning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As our marketing content increased, it became harder to keep track of the different files, images, and materials the team was using. MediaValet gives us one place to manage those assets instead of relying on a mix of folders and individual storage locations. That has made it easier to find content when we need it and avoid wasting time looking for an older file. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No downsides that I can think of. Again, easy to use and I use it every day! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Training, easy directions/SOPs, faster and clearer communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As Studio Operations & Client Relations Manager at Apex Commercial Photo Studio, I oversee commercial photography client partnerships, photoshoot scheduling, freelance vendor coordination, and SaaS tool evaluation for our US photo studio. Our lean 11–50-person team has no dedicated IT staff, and even though Vyond lets us build short animated add-ons for our brand clients, its poor handling of high-resolution photography assets, limited native audio editing, and expensive credit-based export system create consistent bottlenecks during tight production deadlines.

The biggest frustration is Vyond’s compression algorithm that degrades our high-res commercial photos after upload. Our studio delivers large, sharp product images shot for retail and food brands, and when importing these files into Vyond, the platform automatically downsamples the imagery, softening fine textures, color gradients, and product details. When we built a promotional animation for a luxury skincare client, I imported our retouched product photos directly into the scene, only to discover the exported video washed out subtle packaging textures and muted the brand’s carefully calibrated color palette. I spent nearly six hours exporting scaled-down copies of every photograph, testing different resolution presets, and re-uploading assets repeatedly to reduce compression artifacts. Even with manual pre-processing, the final animation still required extra color correction work in separate video software, adding unexpected steps to our asset delivery workflow.

Vyond’s built-in audio editing controls are also extremely limited, forcing us to rely on external software for voiceover and sound design. Inside the platform, users can only trim audio clips and adjust global volume levels; there are no tools to reduce background noise, layer multiple sound effects, or fine-tune audio fades at precise timestamps. For a recent restaurant campaign animation, our client requested custom voiceover paired with subtle ambient dining sounds. I had to record, edit, and mix all audio in an external audio editor before importing the finished track into Vyond. Every small edit requested by the client meant reworking the audio file outside Vyond and re-uploading it, which added multiple rounds of revisions and delayed our final handoff date.

On top of that, Vyond uses a credit system for video exports, and every download consumes credits regardless of whether the file is a test draft or final client deliverable. Our small studio frequently creates multiple draft versions for client review, and repeated exports eat through our monthly credit allocation quickly. During a busy holiday campaign season, we burned through our credit allowance halfway through the month just sending draft animation previews to two retail clients, forcing us to purchase extra credits to generate the final approved files. This unpredictable cost structure makes project budgeting harder for our studio, where we quote fixed pricing for bundled photo and motion packages.

An unexpected pain point we found is the lack of robust version control for larger multi-scene projects. When multiple team members access the same Vyond project, there is no granular lock function for individual scenes. On one project, our freelance retoucher accidentally overwrote a completed scene while adjusting a separate segment, and we only had a limited auto-save backup to restore the original work, costing us several hours of rework.

For our lean commercial photography team without dedicated motion designers, Vyond’s heavy image compression, weak native audio tools, and credit-based export model add unplanned labor and variable costs to client motion deliverables. These limitations force us to maintain separate editing workflows for images and sound, draining time we need for photoshoot coordination and freelance vendor management while raising the risk of missed client production deadlines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As Studio Operations & Client Relations Manager at Apex Commercial Photo Studio, I manage commercial photography client partnerships, photoshoot scheduling, freelance vendor oversight, and SaaS tool evaluation for our US-based photo studio. Our lean 11–50-person team has no dedicated IT staff or full-time motion designers, and before adopting Vyond, we faced three recurring operational hurdles: we could not offer motion content alongside our still photo deliverables without hiring expensive external animation freelancers, client campaigns suffered from inconsistent visual branding between static photos and third-party motion assets, and coordinating extra animation vendors created lengthy project timelines and unpredictable budget overruns. Vyond’s no-code scene builder, pre-built animation assets, and reusable brand templates solve these core challenges, helping us expand our service lineup while staying on track for tight client production deadlines.

First, Vyond removes our reliance on external animation contractors to deliver short marketing motion assets for our photography clients. Previously, any client requesting animated social clips or website banner videos had to source animation work separately. This added multiple vendor check-in points, inflated project budgets, and extended turnaround times by one to two weeks. Vyond’s drag-and-drop timeline editor cuts roughly five hours of external vendor coordination work from my weekly workflow, letting our team build animated content in-house using our own retouched photography assets. For a recent home goods brand campaign, we completed product photoshoots and built three short social animations within the same project window. I imported the studio’s final retouched product images into Vyond, added subtle motion transitions and brand text overlays, and exported files optimized for TikTok, Instagram and web landing pages. We delivered both still photos and animated assets together, cutting the overall project timeline by eight business days and eliminating the need to onboard a freelance animator.

Second, Vyond’s reusable brand template library fixes inconsistent visual styling between our static photography and motion deliverables. When clients hired separate animation studios, color grading, typography, and brand tone often clashed with our carefully edited commercial photos, leading to extra revision rounds and client dissatisfaction. Once I build a branded base template in Vyond with locked brand fonts, color palettes and transition styles, we can reuse that framework across multiple client projects. Our freelance retouchers can drop finished photo assets directly into these templates without advanced animation training, ensuring every motion asset matches the look and feel of our photography deliverables.

Third, Vyond’s cloud-based project workspace solves our collaboration pain points with distributed freelance team members. Our retouchers and photographers often work remotely across shoot locations, and the platform lets us share project drafts and collect feedback in context, rather than sending large video files back and forth over email.

An unexpected benefit I’ve discovered is using Vyond to build short animated onboarding clips for our freelance photographers and retouchers. Instead of drafting dense written briefs or hosting long training calls, I create concise animated walkthroughs covering studio file naming rules, client brand guidelines, and asset delivery requirements. These animations reduce repeated questions from new freelance talent and keep our photoshoot scheduling process running smoothly during our busiest seasonal production windows.

For our lean commercial photography team without dedicated motion specialists, Vyond unlocks bundled photo-and-animation service packages we could not previously offer. It eliminates expensive third-party animation vendor costs, maintains consistent brand visual identity across all client assets, and simplifies remote team collaboration. This added capability helps us win more competitive client bids and reliably meet rigid commercial production deadlines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The requirement to have an enterprise license to publish and be able to use all of the interactivity. Our enterprise has to publish to MP4s and publish to a Kaltura video site which decreases the amount of hotspots and interactivity I can build into each video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Making our messaging clear and easy to digest for a very broad audience. This tool is allowing us to scale and repeat messages we'd otherwise have to be in meetings for. Our tools are complex and the vendor's videos are too long and don't use relevant examples and the speaker is normally very hard to understand. This allows me to use relevant data and images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel something that could be improved is just looking for a way in which my end clients, like our customers, can have better access to our imagery. We're constantly working on creating collections and then sending them over for our clients to choose the images that they wanna see on their websites. And I know we have portals, but that has a lot of limitations. For our clients, we would just love for clients to be able to see, like, a vast amount of images in a very easy way. And currently, we cannot do that with Dash. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dash helps structure assets, making them searchable with ease due to its tagging process and AI search, benefiting over 400 users who frequently search for imagery and videos, streamlining the process significantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The tagging is kind of clunky and slow. If you create a new tag, there is a lag before it shows up so you might try again and then it flags it already exists. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We had a lot of duplication of work happening before because people didn't have access to all the assets. Assets were stored in dropbox, google drive, company network, or on individual computers. We had many copies. Stockpress has become to "go to" for assets. New assets come in from clients and they go in Stockpress. If an asset is modified, it goes back in Stockpress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I haven't found any major issues with AKOOL. Some generations can take a little longer than expected, but overall the experience has been good for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AKOOL helps me save time when creating AI content. Instead of using different platforms for different tasks, I can do several things in one place. This makes my workflow much simpler, especially when I want to quickly test ideas and create content for social media or other projects. It also helps me spend more time on the creative side rather than dealing with multiple tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I used HeyGen and its free HyperFrames for faceless YouTube creation. It is supposed to be simple to use with an agent, but the UI changes constantly and the avatar results add unnecessary gestures. I lost count of how many times I had to reconnect HyperFrames, and it took hours to generate a simple motion graphic. The output often had crooked line charts and graphs that I could not use. For programmatic motion graphics, an open-source option like Remotion (remotion-dev/remotion on GitHub) run through Claude Code is free, takes a fraction of the time, and is much faster to edit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HeyGen solves the problem of appearing on camera without filming. The digital twin lets me produce presenter videos without recording sessions, which saves time. For faceless YouTube content with charts and motion graphics, it did not save time. I spent hours per simple graphic and still had to fix the results, so I moved that part of my workflow to Remotion with Claude Code, where I can generate and edit faster at no cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Overall, I’m very satisfied with Kontainer, but one area that could be improved is the custom download process for larger batches of products. When we need to download many files in a specific format, we have to manually review each one before proceeding. This extra step can be time-consuming, especially when we know that the images (like packshots) don’t require manual cropping or review. It would be a big improvement if Kontainer allowed bulk downloads without mandatory review in such cases. Streamlining this process would make it even more efficient and strengthen an already excellent user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sharing assets in- and outside the organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is honestly nothing I can criticize about Plytix. The system runs smoothly and reliably, and we have had a very positive experience with it overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use Plytix to push product images and product data to our Shopware store. This gives us much better control over which products we want to push and how many products we send to the shop at a time.

It makes the whole process more structured and allows us to manage product updates in Shopware more efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wouldn't say this is a true downside of Masset, but the initial process of importing all of our existing documents into the platform was a bit tedious. That said, it was a one-time effort, and the long-term organization and accessibility have made it well worth it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Masset has been extremely helpful in building our new hire onboarding process and making company knowledge easy to access. Instead of digging through documentation, our team can simply ask Masset a question and quickly get the information they need, whether it's about internal processes or client-specific details. This has made onboarding faster and helped everyone find accurate answers more efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main thing I find challenging about Aprimo is that it can take some time to get familiar with all the features and workflows. The platform has a lot of functionality, which can make it feel a little overwhelming for new users. Some processes also require multiple steps, and finding the right option or setting is not always immediately intuitive. Once you get used to the platform, it becomes easier to navigate, but the initial learning curve could be smoother. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aprimo helps solve the challenge of managing a large number of digital assets and keeping content organized across different teams. It provides a centralized place to store, search, review, and manage assets, which reduces the time spent looking for files or checking which version is the latest. The workflow and approval features also make collaboration easier and provide better visibility into the status of content. Overall, it helps reduce manual coordination and keeps the content management process more structured and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They’re rolling out updates, and sometimes I get impatient waiting for the new versions to land. That said, I do get updates from the team, and that communication is helpful. In the meantime, I can usually put together a workaround with existing tools to accomplish what the new versions will do until they’re released. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have limited time to “fiddle” with my social media, so I want everything to be precise and up ASAP. What would normally take me two hours is already done by the time I log in to Xara after posting a listing. In fact, it’s posted before I even get a chance to write down that I still need to do the social media posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I Feel that when handling many educational graphics and media files together, finding older assets can sometimes take extra manual organization. For daily content work it works well, but during busy projects I feel media browsing and file management could become little more smooth. Also, some image processing or transformation updates may need refreshing before the final result appears properly. It is not a major issue, but while preparing webinar or presentation content quickly, it can slow the workflow slightly sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

imageKit is helping solve the problem of managing and optimizing large numbers of educational and visual content files in daily work. I regularly work with nutrition infographics, thumbnails, presentation graphics, webinar visuals, and social media awareness content, so handling images in different sizes and formats becomes time consuming sometimes. With ImageKit, optimizing and organizing these visuals feels much easier and more structured. It helps keep images lighter while still maintaining good enough clarity for presentations, educational posts, and awareness content.

It also helps prepare visuals faster for different platforms without repeatedly editing the same files again and again. Managing media assets from one place keeps the workflow more organized and reduces extra manual work during content preparation. overall, it saves time, keeps visual content more organized, and makes handling educational graphics and media files much smoother across different platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.