Article Video Robot Review: The Pros and Cons

Thursday, July 15th, 2010 at 3:22 pm

In a time when almost fifty percent of all Internet searches are occurring on services such as YouTube, the smart Internet Marketer has to take notice.

Video is a huge part of today’s internet, and to take advantage of this you will need to have videos out there for people to find and create money on the Internet.

The problem is, if you are like me, you have no idea how to create a video. Fortunately there are services out there that can do it for you, for a very reasonable price.

The program I chose to test is Article Video Robot. I will be honest, I didn’t discover this service, it was recommended to me by one of my mentors, so I thought I would give it a try.

After using this service for two months, I finally felt confident in giving an honest review of the pros and cons of Article Video Robot.

PROS:

1) Extremely easy to create a video.

There are two methods to creating a video. The first is to upload one of your articles from article directories, such as Ezine Articles. You simply put in the link of your article and click. Voila you have a video created.

The second method is to paste your article, and then follow through the steps to create your video.

The first method takes about three minutes and the second takes about ten minutes. And don’t worry if you aren’t sure what to do, they have an excellent video tutorial series to assist you.

2) Adding your personal touch is Simple.

Having your own pictures is as simple as uploading them from your computer and imbedding them where you want. If you don’t have a picture, Article Video Robot has a decent amount of stock pictures to choose from.

Although I have not used this feature. You can use your voice for your video (and after watching the tutorial it is as simple as speaking into a microphone – no extra software is needed). Or, you can choose between several different voices from their system.

With each voice over you can change the speed, intonation, and emphasis that they speak.

3) Distribution is as easy as a click. Once your video is made you can distribute it to 17 different sites and numerous social sites. Not only can you distribute easily, but you also have the option of making each title and description unique, giving you more keywords for the same video.

4) Technical support is incredible. I ran into a problem with uploading the video blog (Article Reel) to my own site. After raising a support ticket, I had my answer within 12 hours, and complete follow up support until I was satisfied. Let me clarify that the follow-up support was needed because of a mistake I was making, but Tech Support was fantastic with simplifying the steps so even a none tech like myself could understand it.

CONS:

1) When you use the option to upload an article from an article directory, it doesn’t always format correctly. This has happened to me twice, and it is very tedious to correct.

Although the instant upload is nice, I have found I just copy and paste, saving me the frustration of an article that didn’t load properly.

2) Some of the voices are very tinny sounding. They sound just what they are computer generated. I have it narrowed down to three voice, one female and two males. I also listen to each section, because there are some words that are jumbled, and hard to understand. In most cases you can correct this by slowing the voice down or em phasing the word. But in a few cases, I couldn’t get the word to sound correct.

3) Setting up the distribution is very time consuming if you were like me and don’t have the accounts already. You have to visit each site and register. The first time I went to distribute it took me over two hours to get registered.

Overall, I am very pleased with my experience at Article Video Robot. It is very easy to create a video and distribute it, and once you realize the drawbacks of editing, you can avoid them without compromising your video quality.

And the best part is after two months of using the service, approximately 35% of my traffic is now coming from my videos and growing everyday.