Owl always be your Friend

Summary

The author discusses their exploration of animation software, particularly Powtoon, for creating animated messages and educational content, despite not being technically savvy.

Abstract

The website content reflects the author's personal journey into the world of animation software, with a focus on their experience with Powtoon. The author expresses a fondness for creating and enjoys using software like Powtoon and PowerPoint to craft animated messages and presentations on topics such as healing the oceans. Although the author is not highly skilled in technical aspects, they appreciate the simplicity and effects that Powtoon offers. They also consider the cost implications of animation software, mentioning the higher price for Australian residents when looking at options like Doodly and the complexity of Wondershare Fimora Pro. Ultimately, the author is content with the free version of Powtoon and entertains the idea of creating their own teaching videos in the future, despite current limitations in capabilities and resources.

Opinions

The author enjoys using Powtoon for its user-friendly interface and effects, despite not being very technically savvy.
They find the cost of some animation software, like Doodly, to be prohibitively expensive, especially when converted to Australian dollars.
The author is impressed but overwhelmed by the complexity of Wondershare Fimora Pro.
They are satisfied with the capabilities of the free version of Powtoon for their current needs.
The author has a interest in creating educational content, such as teaching videos, but acknowledges their limitations in terms of capabilities and resources.
They recommend an AI service as a cost-effective alternative to ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4), suggesting a special offer of $1/month.

Owl always be your Friend

I love to read, write and create; and I have been trying out Powtoon.

Here is my animated message using Powtoon. One can download or is it upload 4 videos to your YouTube channel or to Facebook, or share them on your own Powtoon page.

You have to pay on a Plan in order to save the mpeg (or is it the mp4) to your computer.

As you can tell, I am not very technically savvy when it comes to animation software, but I do like looking at and working with software programmes.

I have used PowerPoint to create a slide-show with animations, about healing the oceans. It’s pretty good, in my own opinion. You can download it or open it at the page below of my website, if you like.

I have tried other free simple video editing programmes which come with Windows or with new computers. Anyhow I like Powtoon for its simple but easy to do effects.

At first I had a look at Doodly for $68 if you go to their special page which they have advertised on Facebook, BUT $68 is in USD and as a resident of Australia, it would cost me a lot more. ← sad face here

Then I perused the demo for Wondershare Fimora Pro (what a wonderful name) and that impressed, though very much bewildered me.

I ended up satisfied with using the free Powtoon option. Having written a lot of Guidelines or instructions on using WordPress and on this and that in the past, I thought perhaps I could create my own teaching videos.

But that will probably be far in the future or never, given my lack of capabilities and resources.