Lumen5 enables people to quickly and easily create videos for social media without any technical expertise.
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It's been great to work with Lumen5 for the last year, and watch the tool evolve. Feedback is incorporated on a regular basis, and it's been great to see advances with edit tools, highlighting, speed, positioning of text. A tremendous range of images and music to help craft fast,eye-catching social videos. (I *do* miss the icons that used to be available as a visual kicker!) Once you get past linking to content, it's easy to start thinking about using it for original ideas and a certain type of storytelling.
@dgchichester The icons will make a return, I promise! It was an experiment for an idea that wasn't executed quite the way we wanted. When they return, icons will be colorful and animated :) We felt the icons we had were too static and they also created the need for an entirely new infrastructure that was holding us back from moving the product forward, so we had to make the difficult decision of phasing it out, for now.
We totally see that the blog-to-video feature is a bridge to help our users get started with video, but the real potential kicks in when you break free from re-purposing old content and start creating new original video content from the ground up! We've been working hard at shaping Lumen5 to better support the beauty of original storytelling :)
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About as good as it can get for us humans while we're still involved. Time saving alone is golden in addition to the quality of production. Highly recommend.
@lawrenceblumberg We try to avoid building features that could lead to sentience in our A.I. so I hope we stay involved for a while longer! We'll keep up the hard work and improve the product to save you even more time with even higher quality. Thank you for your support!
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Love Lumen5. I create video blogs for clients and they've been very popular. I've tried other video creation apps but I keep coming back to Lumen5 for its simplicity. Anjani and the team are always adding new features!
@susancycles We have a whole laundry list of new features that I'm super excited about! Can't wait to build and release those. Hope you'll like them as well :)
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@michaelhsc On my wishlist - a way to favorite media resources for later use!
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We've tried Flyr, Lumen5, Promo.com and Shakr. This is the best option of the bunch if you're looking for a functional video creator with a great user interface and access to stock videos (and photos, too).
@elaine_slatter So great to hear that Lumen5 has helped your clients! They say that the path to success is helping others succeed, and it sounds like we're on the right path!
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As a content creator, anything I can do to recycle and repackage the work I've already done is a huge win. Video is also a huge win. Lumen5 makes it easy to turn a blog post into multiple social-friendly videos so I can share my message on different platforms, in new and effective ways. It takes minutes to produce a lovely, professional video. Invaluable!
@rebecca_hansen You're absolutely right! So many of us have written up years of blog posts, and re-purposing them into videos give us so much content to work with! Especially opening up to new visual social networks like Instagram where it makes way more sense to post videos.
Another thing I've noticed is that blog posts tend to be a bit longer, and our users make 3-4 videos out of each blog post by breaking them into parts. This gives even more content to work with and perfect for platforms like Instagram Stories where videos disappear quickly!
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This looks super interesting tool; I am, in the beginning, of, creating a video for marketing purposes and have no idea where even to start. I will have to check this out.
@claire_lavelle Sounds like you've come to the right place! Lumen5 is built and designed specifically for people with no experience in video editing whatsoever. I hope you'll find it as easy as many others have, and if you need any help, we have a hyper responsive support team that will jump in whenever you need!
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Very cool product. Furthermore, you guys hired Ed who used to work for us and I consider a good friend. He is an excellent programmer and I am confident your product will get even better with him on the team.
@studlyhobbs That's awesome! If you know Ed, then you probably know that Lumen5 is about to do some big things on mobile ;)
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Congrats Michael & your Lumen5 Team. I learned about Lumen5 in a webinar with John Kremer, known to have helped marketing over one billion books. That was two years ago. In the meantime Lumen5 has improved remarkably. It is now possible to make fairly precise work in a fraction of the time needed compared to traditional film editing. My Hollywood agent was ecstatic about the visual pitches I prepared with Lumen5. A younger filmmaker colleague found that thanks to book promoting videos I made with Lumen5, a new reading format has come into being and for the first time he discovered he likes to read after all. The proof lies in the pudding. Check out the uppermost post on https://linktr.ee/Mystica that should be convincing enough about the usefulness of Lumen5.
@fateshifterpro This is fascinating! I'm always most excited when discovering all the various ways Lumen5 is being used. A new reading format that has your Hollywood agent ecstatic?! That's topping my list today!
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I use Lumen5 for creating social media videos for the company I work with and my boss loves them. It's so easy to create these videos that I recommend it to almost everyone I know :). Thank you, team for creating such an amazing product. love you <3
@gayathri_vishwanathan1 So good to hear that your boss loves the videos you're creating with Lumen5! To think that we're building a product that's helping people in their careers... that's a really exciting thought!
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