Review: FlexClip Video Maker

I’m always interested in video apps because video is a great way to bring exposure to an author, book, or other product.

Since I’ve been out of the office a lot this year, it’s taken me a while to follow through on her request.

Today, I finally tested FlexClip and decided it’s definitely a website I want to review and share with SlingWords Readers.

Getting Started

For most websites I’m asked to review, I check to see if there are tutorials. FlexClip has a very clear presentation for their tutorial.

The next thing I do is try to use the product without going through the tutorial. I want to know if the way it works is intuitive to a user, or is it so complicated one must go through the lessons first.

I do this because I know most people go straight to the app rather than read instructions.

It’s just human nature that everyone wants to dive in and get started rather than “waste” time reading instructions.

I’m happy to say FlexClip is fairly intuitive. I created a 21 second video just by clicking on the storyboard image, mousing over options, etc. When I completed this short promotion video for SlingWords, I exported it.

Rather than exporting it to YouTube, which would have been very convenient, export actually means “download it to the user’s computer.” Not really a problem, just an extra step. I did export in 480, 720, and 1080 formats.

Key Features (Check Out All Features)

• Completely free.
• Easy to use and clean storyboard.
• Support many photo and video formats.
• Flexible editing features like trim, split, add text (animations), music, watermark, etc.
• Export videos with high resolutions.

Drawbacks

• Works only in Google Chrome.
• Text can be placed only in predetermined grids.
• Text can be resized proportionally only.
• Text limited to the template of 1 or 2 lines.
• No music library available. You must provide your own music.

Takeaway Truth

FlexClip is very user-friendly yet still a powerful video maker, and, best of all, it’s free.

Joan Reeves—Keeping Romance Alive…One Sexy Book at a Time—is a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author of Contemporary Romance. All of her books have the same underlying theme that it’s never too late to live happily ever after.

Joan lives her Happily Ever After with her hero, her husband. They divide their time between a book-cluttered home in Houston and a small house at the foot of the Texas Hill Country where they sit on the porch at night, gaze at the star-studded sky, and listen to the coyotes howl.