- While many of the templates are geared towards corporate training, there is an education section with both teacher and student templates. It is a great way to enhance presentations. Also, PowToon can be easily exported to any social media or video sharing as well as downloaded as an MP4, PPT, or PDF.
- While searching on the video Powtoon.com you got some video by which you actually wanted to have mp4 of. Just copy the url of that page which contain the media by either copying from url bar.
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| Private | |
| Industry | Internet marketing |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2012; 7 years ago |
| Headquarters | 28 Church Rd , London, UK |
Key people | Ilya Spitalnik (co-founder and CEO), Daniel Zaturansky (co-founder and COO), Sven Hoffman (co-founder and CTO), Oren Mashkovski (co-founder and Director) |
| Products | Powtoon Web-based animation software |
| Website | www.powtoon.com |
Powtoon is a company which sells cloud-based software (SaaS) for creating animated presentations and animated explainer videos.[1]
History[edit]
Powtoon was founded in January 2012, following a $180k seed round investment in December 2011.[2] The company released a beta version in August 2012 and has seen fast subscriber growth since.[3] In December 2012 Powtoon secured $600,000 investment from Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Startup Minds.[4]
In February 2013 Powtoon introduced a free account option allowing users to create animated videos that can be exported to YouTube. The free videos include the Powtoon branding.
Product[edit]
Powtoon is Web-based animation software that allows users to create animated presentations by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user-created voice-overs.[5] Powtoon uses an Apache Flex engine to generate an XML file that can be played in the Powtoon online viewer, exported to YouTube or downloaded as an MP4 file.[3]
Powtoon is also available on the Google Chrome Store[6] and has an application on Edmodo.com.[7]
References[edit]
- ^Perez, Sarah. TechCrunch, June 26th, 2012, 'Now Everyone Can Make Marketing Videos: PowToon Launches DIY Presentation Tool'
- ^'Dec 13, 2011: Powtoon - Funding RoundSeed crunchbase'. www.crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
- ^ abPowtoon Website
- ^Perez, Sarah, TechCrunch, Dec 14, 2012, 'DIY Animation Platform PowToon Grabs $600K For Its Video Creation Software'
- ^Mersand, Shannon (May 2014). 'Product Review: PowToon'. Tech and Learning. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ^PowToon - Chrome Web Store, Feb 2015, retrieved 25 February 2015
- ^PowToon by PowToon Ltd, Feb 2015, retrieved 25 February 2015
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Powtoon To Mp4 Converter
PowToon is a free online presentation maker that offers tons of images and templates to help make a great presentation in a short time. Some of the primary slideshow templates include ones to make a 'modern edge' animation, a whiteboard look, a cartoon, and an infographic, among many others.
The PowToon 'PowerPoint' tool is actually more of an animation maker because, if you want, you can make your slideshow play as a movie instead of a click-through presentation. Switching between the two is very easy and doesn't affect the presentation permanently.
PowToon comes off as a great service from the start because you can use it online and because there are lots of tools available to you, but considering that there's a paid version, too, it's severely limited in some ways. However, it's very helpful and unique in others, so it's still a great choice for a presentation maker.
Pros
- Lots of features
- Tons of ready-made templates
- Not hard to use
- Allows presentations to be shared with the public
- Supports rich text editing
- Can save an offline version of the animated video
- The presentation is saved automatically
Cons
- Presentations have a small watermark
- Interface can seem cluttered
- Viewing someone else's presentation takes a while to load
- Can't export presentations to your computer if there are premium objects in it
- Several options and features are only available if you upgrade to a paid subscription
Description
- PowToon presentations can be built in a slideshow form or a movie form
- Text effects, image holders, characters, animations, props, markers, shapes, transitions, backgrounds, and many other styles are available to make slides really unique
- A dedicated styles menu is available for making greeting cards for Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Halloween, the winter season in general, and Valentine's Day
- There's a huge selection of pre-made templates at PowToon that you can choose from in categories such as stats, events, about us, explainer video, special offers, tutorials, school/education, and animated greeting card. You can also start a presentation with a blank template
- Can share a video animation with anyone via a public link
- Can download the animated presentation as PDF or a PowerPoint PPT file
- Supports sending presentations directly to YouTube, though a watermark is on the bottom of the video and the quality is rather low
- The template can be set up to work best with websites like YouTube and Facebook (horizontal), or with Instagram (square) or phones (vertical)
- A timeline bar is present at the bottom of the screen that lists every object on the slide. This makes it easy to make specific changes to what time objects appear and take on animation effects
- Regular text editing is allowed, such as changing the font type and size
- You can import an MP3 into a PowToon or choose from several free ones available on the website
- Images can be added directly from a search on Flickr or from your computer
- Very intuitive so you can drag and drop objects from the side panel directly onto a slide, use the right-click context menu for extra options, and group and move multiple objects at once
My Thoughts on PowToon
Aside from the negatives listed above, PowToon still seems to be a very popular way to make free online animated presentations, and I can't disagree that it's fun and easy to use.
If you're looking for a quick way to find some nice presentation templates and a whole gallery of images that are instantly accessible for use on slides, PowToon is a really nice choice—probably better than any other online presentation maker.
However, compared to Google Slides, PowToon lacks significantly. Google Slides lets you download them in popular file formats, doesn't stick a watermark on your slides, supports live collaboration and chat, and can open existing files made with other presentation programs.
In fact, you can't even save your presentation to your computer unless you remove all the premium features you have in the slides. However, even then, you can't save the animated video to the MP4 video format—just document formats like PDF or PPT.
Overall, I think PowToon is a nice choice for creating presentations for school or a similar event, whereas Google Slides is fit not only for that but also for professional things that require a more clean look.