Vyond

 Vyond

 Basic Information

Vyond puts the power of video in the hands of everyone, allowing people of all skill levels and in all industries to create dynamic and powerful media.

Primary Use:

• [General] Create dynamic videos
• [Faculty] Presentation, Projects, Tutorial
• [Students] Projects, Video Editing, Presentation

Key Features:

• With Vyond Studio, making your characters speak directly to your audience is a snap.
• Audio can be recorded directly from a computer’s microphone, uploaded as an .MP3 file, or created with text-to-speech, then assigned to a character with the click of a button.
• Mix and match styles, start with premade templates, or import your own assets to create videos for any situation.
• Version history allows you to quickly go back and take a look at each saved version of your video.
• Global editing makes it possible to instantly swap an asset that appears in multiple scenes of your video.
• Vyond Studio has hundreds of pre-made templates for each of our styles, covering a broad range of scenarios, settings, and job types.
• Keyboard shortcuts can save a lot of time while making a video. These shortcuts allow you to easily perform tasks like copying and pasting, undo and redo, and even more advanced tasks like entering preview mode or moving assets forward or backward.
• Vyond’s branding capabilities can help you comply with your company’s brand guidelines or put a unique stamp on your creation. Import images, logos, audio and other assets and seamlessly integrate them into your video.
• Vyond Studio makes it easy for entire teams to work together. Share custom characters, uploaded assets, custom templates, and in-process videos throughout your team.

 
Vyond is now Vyond 

Category: Animated Video Creation Tool

Keywords: Video Editing, Animated Video, Presentation

 Detailed Information

Full Description:

Vyond (formerly known as Vyond), is a cloud-based platform for creating animated videos. It is developed to allow anyone without animation skills to quickly and easily create high quality animated videos, which can be in various styles including whiteboard animation, 2D Animation, video infographics and more. Vyond lets you create videos easily with our library of templates, sounds, props, and so much more. Move your audience to action. Increase engagement, retention, motivation, and conversion using rich media made simply with Vyond. Vyond is changing the way the world communicates, one video at a time.

Tool Access

To access the tool online or for a related download link (if available) please see sources below:

• 14 Day Free Trial
• Subscribe with Plans

Advantage/ Disadvantage:

Rich set of templates – Vyond comes with a large set of customizable templates, which is a collection of preanimated assets. We can change anything: the colors, the backdrop. We can add a camera zoom, customize the transition, and adjust any scene on the timeline. We can also import our own images. Characters – We definitively like the custom character creator which allows to create any custom character from any existing one. We can customize any part: the head, the eyes, the mouth, the clothes… That’s just fun playing with the characters. And we can make the characters talk! Audio – Vyond allows us to add voices in different ways: micro recording, upload a file, text-to-speech. The text-to-speech feature comes with multiple languages. The French voices work pretty well for short texts. This is definitively time saving. Vyond comes with a library of music tracks. The number of tracks depends of the subscription plan. Of course, we can also add music and sound effects in uploading our own files. As Vyond is a web service, it requires you to have a good Internet bandwidth or you could experience some slowness issues when editing the video.Overall, The program is very appropriate for training on conversation techniques. It’s great to show how a conversation should go. It also works well to show the steps to certain things in the retail world. For example, processes for approaching customers, opening the store, setting the alarm, restocking, etc.

Good for Teaching:

Vyond for Schools has a Lesson Gallery for teachers who are using animations to create informational videos for their classes. Students in their class can view these videos, which can also be embedded in a website. This has the potential to support the flipped classroom model where students often learn through video outside of the classroom. Teachers can create their own instructional video animations for class on topics varying from classroom expectations to a concept students are learning in class. These animations would then appear in the class animation library for future reference. Students can use Vyond to bring their own stories to life, working in groups to animate their own scripts. They could also make lessons of their own, teaching other students about a variety of topics they’re covering in class.

Good for Learning:

Vyond provides a place for students to watch their stories come to life. There’s a very high engagement level with this program; students will love working with the props, animations, and effects to create professional-looking animations. This could encourage reluctant writers to engage in script writing and story development more readily than they otherwise might. It’s also an excellent alternative to PowerPoint presentations and the like for students to demonstrate information they’ve gathered. At the same time, though, some students may rush through the writing process to get to the animation, and many teachers will find the cost (starting at $79 per year for just a teacher account or $124 per year for one teacher and 30 students) unmanageable, especially since Vyond doesn’t offer a lot of actual instruction. Ultimately, it’s a fantastic tool if you can afford it and if you’re willing to scaffold learning tasks around it in your classroom.

  Reviews [For Future Use]

Public and Internal reviews on the quality of the tool and ease of use to learn/ implement.

 Learning Expectation [For Future Use]

General guidelines of how long it typically takes to learn and be comfortable (basic, advanced, expert levels) with the tool as well as what capabilities users have at each level.

• Level of difficulty to learn/ use for each level:
  • Basic  Use/ substitution: 2-4 hours of use
    • General familiarity with the tool
    • Ability to import documents in from MS Word or Powerpoint
    • Ability to create a simple document and share
  • Advanced Use/ augmentation: 20- 30 hours of use
    • General comfort with the tool
    • Ability to make a presentation from scratch including text, graphics, video, and with basic thoughts on style.
  • Expert use/ transformative (modification / redefinition): 40+ hours of use
    • Complete comfort with the tool
    • Ability to offer advice and guidance to others on the tool
    • Ability to use the tool for various design purposes: presentation, booklet, ePortofolio…
    • Understanding of layout, style (font, colors, themes) to meet end users needs

 Examples

 Tutorial Guides

 Templates

If you are interested in starting with a template, which often have background, color theme, and fonts, it may save time and highlight new design elements.

• Staff Generated Templates

To learn from other faculty or to share your thoughts or resources (e.g. templates) please see below:

• Comments (either blog style or discussion based)
• Upload their examples/ samples (ability to post information in form)
  • Form components: (For future form)
    • Name
  • • Submission type ( Examples, Guides, Lessons, Templates, Reference Link)
  • • Title
  • • Purposes/ Uses
  • • Description (optional)
    • Attachment – Upload or Link
  • Date and Time Uploaded
  • Contact Information (hidden)
  • Download Stats
  • Rating Stats

 Reference

The key resources used to make this resource page. Most all information is public except for specific TCS generated resources. For more examples and resources (e.g. guides, templates, etc) see below:

• Common Sense Media
• G2
• Make a Video Hub
• Trust Radius