Steve.ai Review & Guide - Automatic Video Creation 🎥 Black Friday AppSumo Sale! Pictory Alternative

All right what's going on everybody Josh polcock here founder and CEO of executive stride in today's video we are going to be doing a in-depth review and guide over a tool called Steve AI the only AI tool to create live action videos using text and animated videos let's get right into it [Music] all right so if you're not familiar with Steve AI it is something that is somewhat similar to a tool called Victory and I actually have them both Victory is

Definitely a great tool right here I'll pull this up and I'll probably be doing a review on Pick 3 as well and if you want me to let me know in the comments down below and I can actually do a comparison between the two so there's Pick 3 here's David Steve Ai and if you're not familiar with what these tools do essentially you can feed it a script of text and you can go from text to video in a Flash simply

Pasting your text in the script editor and it will produce engaging videos see the AI picking the most relevant assets without breaking a sweat instantly repurpose blogs to videos scale with the power of audio to video and yeah so you know you can see some examples here marketing videos explainer videos or people and culture etc etc we have um you know personalized videos for marketing teams editorials news social media and here's some case studies and yeah that's pretty much it so

Um you can see they do comparisons here on their website to lumen5 product video maker um and yeah so that is pretty much it I guess they ranked number five for product of the day at one point for product hunt and most Innovative AI solution for msme Indian business convention and Tech India transformation Awards anyways without Ado let's get into it so the pricing is I click on the pricing here we can see 15 bucks per month or or 180 [Music]

Um build yearly and oh getting Steve AI videos wow uh your video is available for download so I actually did that video I didn't even I wasn't even keeping track I just did that video maybe an hour ago so that was a long time ago um so I okay we'll get into that in just a second but um so you get 720p video resolution for the basic plan five video downloads per month multiple video Styles live action animation no Steve AI

Branding and more and then starter is the recommended which is 45 bucks per month or five hundred and forty dollars build yearly everything in basic plus 50 15 downloads per month 10 8 1080p video resolution 10 voice over Accents in English and more and then Pro is everything in starter plus 40 videos downloads per month 2K resolution 20 voice over Accents in English and 60 bucks per month or 720 build yearly all right and then there's an Enterprise uh plan which

Is everything in Pro Plus unlimited downloads 4K resolution custom voice overs dedicated account manager and more you can scroll down here and like see exactly what you get more there but um oh sorry that was actually the yearly plan okay so the monthlies are here so 80 bucks per month 60 bucks per month 20 bucks per month to make things simple okay I'm not gonna compare the victory stuff right now I can do a separate video on that if you guys

Want but uh yeah that's pretty much tvi and you know for a while I knew about Steve AI as well as Pick 3 and I uh I actually recently got Victory and uh and you know I guess after right after I got Steve AI pretty much so I I got both I was just like hey I already got Pick 3 I know it's like the best apparently and it does everything but Steve AI looks like it does a couple of other

Things and I was I was like hey you know it's Black Friday why not so that's what we're gonna get into right now it's actually Black Friday going on right now so you can get Steve AI without the monthly rates and everything like that on appsumo right so here it is on appsumo now I kind of took a chance on this tool like I the thing is the weird I was surprised that it got such harsh reviews on appsumo because I've

Seen people talk about Steve AI before um you know like even compare it to Victory and uh you know I'd say Victory probably came out on top I can't fully you know I'll have to do save that my conclusion for my review um where I actually go in depth and see what pros and cons each have like Steve AI does have a few things picture he doesn't like the the uh we'll get into that in a second but um but you

Know initially the reviews on appsumo were pretty uh negative actually like if I went to the oldest I remember right when it dropped um I saw this so this guy Steve AI um account okay okay so he's not that so purchase your three two soon this guy said too soon I remember seeing that um cannot log up uh not via Safari or Chrome so I read some of these I haven't experienced a lot of what they're talking about um this tool

Has I've been seeing Steve AI for a while I mean it is not it's not as established as Pick 3 but I've been seeing it for a while so it's not fully fully new but yeah I think it probably does have some Kinks and whatnot um you know this guy said five stars [Music] um this guy said buggy buggy buggy why are you on appsumo if you're not ready when I try to write a sentence it takes one minute to show

Me the sentence it does not support Arabic um yeah I know it doesn't it only just so you guys know I'm from what I've seen in the replies here it only uh supports English they plan on adding more languages soon um good value so yeah like I mean I've seen the review start to get a little bit better but I remember like the other day um I think it was like two reviews but it's gone 19. that was only it didn't

Have that many reviews now now it's getting more reviews and it started to go up but um here's what you get within the lifetime deal so lifetime access all future updates no code stacking just choose the right plan for you um ability to upgrade or downgrade between license so that's weird it says no code stacking just choose the right plan but then it says ability to upgrade or downgrade between three tier license so um yeah kind of weird there um only

For new Steve AI users who do not have existing accounts the weird thing is I think I'm I don't know 100 if I did have an existing account or not but when I I think I may have because when I signed up you'll see in a second I had a I have like multiple workplaces and I'll show you in a second but um purchasers uh at least tier one okay all current and future video templates you get access to multiple video

Styles live action and animated so this is one of the cool things that I like picture I don't think it does animated things like Steve AI obviously I didn't don't expect Steve AI to be like super like amazing animated but I thought it was kind of cool plus um there's some other cool things but uh no Steve AI branding Watermark free videos 20 voice over Accents in English 2K resolution video resolution so kind of interesting it'd be cool if they did

The I mean I guess it's probably uh quite pricey maybe for them but I actually don't know but yeah it'd be cool if that means they did 4K but if you compare the the pricing here to um to the actual appsumo you're getting uh oops to the appsumo where are we here um yeah you're getting a lot a pretty good deal right so uh millions of free to use videos and images upload your own photos videos and audio tracks exclusive media

Marketplace text to video animated characters create folders team library and team and share library and licensed tier one you get 40 premium videos per month so that would be equivalent to um wow so the tier one is pretty much equivalent to this plan right here which is pretty interesting um so so you pay 60 bucks one time a post from 60 bucks per month so it could be a tool oh my goodness sorry about that I have so many tabs open

It could be a tool that uh if you're looking for something like this like you can't really go wrong with this to be honest um you know I probably could have even got away with this tier to be honest because like I won't be even using it as much just so you guys know I kind of went crazy on Black Friday for just on appsumo alone not even including other stuff but I've probably spent on appsuma alone almost uh you know

Three to five k within the last like day and a half so um yeah anyways um but I would suggest guys keep that in mind like don't spend money if you don't need the actual tool don't fomo into it I mean if you if you're if you don't mind spending money then sure you know whatever that's kind of my take I'm like whatever it is what it is plus if I don't like a tool you can actually refund it most tools

Pretty much all the tools on apps will have a 60 day money back guarantee so this is like what I kind of did with Steve AI I was like I see a few negative reviews let me just but I wanted this tool for a while so I'm like I'm gonna get it just so because I remember Pick 3 when they first launched on appsumo um it wasn't that developed and then like a year later then it's like super everyone's like really

Wanting it and blah blahs off appsumo and uh it's way better right so I was like huh let me let me get it just in case plus I haven't alter your alternate between pick three tier two is 139 you get 100 premium videos per month three user seats team collaboration and workspace management and there really is no equivalent even on the price like the monthly pricing so you really can't go wrong with this uh to be honest um yeah you really

Can't go wrong with this this is actually a pretty good deal this one's kind of like I mean it's a good deal it's just like it is a bigger jump for sure it's like over double from tier two to tier three um if you you know if like you know you guys can probably guess which one I got just you know I got tier three just because I was like whatever um so I got tier three unlimited premium videos per month

Downloads per month uh five user seats team collaboration and workspace management so that's kind of it founder of animaker Inc so I guess that's who's behind Steve Ai and yeah that's pretty much it so you know if you are looking to get this tool definitely get it uh on the Black Friday app Sumo deal like you can't go wrong with that I'm being transparent though guys like the reviews were bad at the start now they look like they're starting to get

Better um and I did see some people on the I think some of the reviews like some of them were definitely valid probably but I saw some people say certain things where I'm like well you could like uh did you not watch like a video on how to use it or like like I I swear you could fix it like by doing this like because I've researched I've even just had a free trial of this uh before let me quickly on

This on one of my other streams I want to go to my email and because I created this like literally a test video right here something about yoga which actually like the stock footage I actually like the stock footage um now one of the reasons I'm sub I'm hoping that it took so long is because I downloaded a 2K resolution video so I think that could potentially be it so this is what you'll get once you download or once your videos

Downloaded I believe and then you just click download video oh no you don't even need to do the email I could have just downloaded it from here actually so download let's see how much gigabytes it is that will probably be a good hell um let me see some other screen here properties no it's actually not that much gigabytes at all it's actually a very small file so we'll try another video right now in this video I hope it doesn't take so

Long but just show you guys just so you guys see what it created it's time to roll out your yoga mat [Music] let your home become your personal yoga studio www.yoki.com online yoga classes offered by qualified yoga Masters foreign [Music] you can also view tutorials offline at your convenience what youlo learn quick tutorials and full-length classes stream the 90-minute happy yoga class 20-minute prenatal practice binyasa class [Music] it is worth the money two hundred dollars month so you hear it said

200 000 a month Step Up For The Beat Weekend classes Saturday and Sunday [Music] 7.00.p.m 8.00.p.m well that's obviously not good [Music] start streaming Yoga online today www.yoki.com all right so a few quick thoughts that I mean I actually thought it was um pretty good to be honest like the stock footage the text I wouldn't like I didn't I literally did this in like two seconds so you can actually change the text format and colors and all that design stuff but

The you know it was I thought it was pretty good um the two things I would say is when you're doing it if you're gonna use the AI voice for you saw how it said 200 it didn't read the slash for per month um and it also said 7.00 P dot m dot two or and then 8.00 P dot m for the times like 7 P.M to 8 P.M so if you're going to uh do like numbers and stuff like that

Um I guess you have to actually write it out like uh what was it seven or two hundred dollars per write the word per not forward slash and then month and then seven uh you could say seven o'clock or seven you could just say 7 P.M with no dots to 8 P.M with without dot not 7.00 P dot um you would just pick 7 P.M to 8 P.M or seven o'clock yeah that's that's basically what you're saying all right so those

Are two quick things but yeah and also to the voices um they're not terrible like they're not bad uh but they're not like obviously super super high quality so um you know I would use Pro if I was gonna use an AI voice I would use an external tool um to do something like that but or I mean it depends on what you're looking for what type of video it is like how good it needs to be right for for whatever

You're using it for um so here is my account um I actually so you can see here I had this free workspace which uh is on the free plan and then it created an appsumo tier three so I don't know if I already had an account or not but anyways so here's all prod so here's the interface we have my videos shared with me my workspace um you can invite members here so I can invite up to ten or five and

Then my exports so here we have export status and then there you can see that all my exports so that's cool um let's see so you can either choose live video which is going to pull um you know stock footage like we saw there or animation all right so um yeah just because I did the stock one already we'll do animation for this for this test I'm actually going to create a few folders though just to test this um let's say

Um yoga so I'll make a yoga folder foreign or just marketing Maybe so that's it for now just that's cool you can just move this like so and move it into the folder of yoga move boom so you can organize it that way alright so um feedback support up here account settings my plan FAQ create workspace different workspaces here so I guess you could like get no that would make no sense so yeah I actually messaged them I'm like how do

I delete these other free workspaces I don't like them here but uh you know anyways so script to animation so there's three options for either live animation or or live or animation so they're the same things it's the same process so you would do what I'm going to show you for animation but you this is you would do these same steps for live as well so you can either choose script to animated video so you can write your own script or

Choose one of the sample scripts and you can turn that to the video you can do blog to animation and video and that's where you would paste in the blog link now if you do the blog link it's not going to pull in the whole entire script it's going to use its Ai and it's going to analyze quote unquote the most important parts in the blog and then it's going to create a video based on that all right so it's kind

Of going to like summarize or paraphrase or whatever but um but yeah I haven't used that yet and then voice to animated animation videos so choose any voiceover from your computer and then I guess it's gonna put it to an animated video so that's kind of cool I'll I'm not going to use these two in this video I'll try them out maybe later oh this is coming soon so that's kind of cool I don't know if picture has that that's pretty

Interesting um maybe they do I don't know I'll have to check later but um so yeah we'll just use a simple strip to animation video so they actually so you can actually Auto generate script like so so I can Auto generate an animation you would here's what it would look like to Auto generate the script so type of video live video or animation video so it's animation now you can change the oh no okay so if it's a live video you

Can actually do horizontal vertical or Square so this would be like something if you're gonna do like a this is a one-on-one ratio one to one so something like Instagram [Music] well no you can post Instagram uh reels that are that are vertical but those Instagram videos that were 101 or whatever you could that would be something for that or just anything vertical would be something for like Instagram reels Tick Tock um you know YouTube shorts and then horizontal obviously is

Just your standard video but uh in animation you only have horizontal option which is fine um it actually makes sense you're not really probably going to use a tick tock with animation whatever um well I mean I guess you could but uh then in if you're for the automate or Auto generated script you would check the category so advertisement announcements birthday businesses explainer video Health whatever we'll just do Health just to stay on the same type of theme and then I

Guess we could do fitness tips right and then create sample script um congrats on taking this forward to get in shape and feel great tip one wake up early so here's like 10 tips or eight tips nothing much more for more Fitness advice visit lifetime body bye design .com just as an example but uh just so you know guys typically I mean you could use a sample script or like I said you could paste in your own script um let me

See if I can maybe uh pull up a script here um actually that could be interesting I think I did a video okay so let me try this script [Music] um now the thing is let me see so introduction okay so I haven't actually tried this tool with uh longer scripts so let's give that a try but actually first let me just to make sure I didn't mess this up um let me go to okay so we'll do that this Auto

Script for the animation and then I'll do one other for here we go paste to send so this should there's six lines allowed so I can go one two three four five six so the one thing is with this tool it looks like foreign automatically does this whole thing for you like the scenes which sometimes is good but sometimes is kind of annoying because um because sometimes you'll get texts that is so big and it just can't even fit in the

It can't even like fit on the page and then you have to resize it a bunch and all this stuff so okay let me try this interesting so I guess I can just do okay so this is actually better I can just do I enter which makes this kind of easy I'll just do this like I I actually would spend a little bit more time obviously reading it and uh if I was actually doing it but so you're like with from

What I remember with Pick 3 I'd have to double check but I don't think you like do this whole scr scene thing before um okay and also too you have reached the text character limit so the one thing is like Pick 3 kind of streamlines this process and does it for you but um like I said it's this also does potentially have a benefit too like I said because sometimes Victory will just have like a a page with like so much

Text and you have to edit it afterwards so this could maybe be a little bit better I don't know depends I'm gonna have to do it I'm probably gonna have to do a comparison for you guys realistically um see oops okay product there we go um and then ask for more money um okay here we go here we go so this looks about good looks decent you know good for Now sample script video so you could do that clear all if

You wanted will generate the first 30 scenes at this stage you can add more scenes once your video is loaded in the workspace so interesting I don't know how I feel about that you are about to reach the text limit for this scene okay that's for that scene uh what is your video about um marketing okay so you choose one video type I think it generated kind of Base yeah based on this tax it it said those Source free um we'll

Add voice over so here's like oh okay so they have accents too so British Indian Australian uh New Zealand you know just the sound and intelligent we'll go for British and then we'll do mail uh Brian let's hear Brian hello I am Brian from Steve I'm one of the voices you can use sure sure we'll use you Brian and then Auto highlight so this Auto highlights important text in the video so we'll click that and you can also enable or disable

Music and it also shows the estimated video duration so about 6 minutes and 19 seconds so now we'll go ahead and click next now you can choose your you know style so here's a few different themes I don't know if you can create your own um kind of themes picture you can you can have like 10 up to 10 themes and then uh and then yeah so that's um but yeah let's just go with uh this one for now it's going

To say scene loading need some changes in your video so that's loading um we can even try this we'll just do Joanna the next this video is the generated one with the uh animation so we can do since it's yoga I guess we'll do like a working out one or actually this one's like Fitness so this is generating okay so here we go what you're about to uh you're watching this video because you want to grow your social media marketing agency

Business smma so let me turn down the volume a bit okay so it's about four minutes introduction you're watching this video because you want to grow your social media marketing agency across more business not good you've already made a lot of progress but you know there's still a lot more potential at your fingertips [Music] and it's not just about making more money it's about being able to enjoy the lifestyle that comes with running your own successful business [Music] why you need

To raise your prices you are worth more than you think and raise your prices someone else will you will get more clients at higher prices you will have a higher quality of client [Music] you will have more time to focus on what you do best [Music] there's a reason people like to buy designer the status and perceived value that comes with it [Music] sure the actual value outweighs the perceived value by having an irresistible offer closing fat deals while charging more

And working less relevant you have to set your price according to your value this means that if you are selling something worth 100 and charging a client fifty dollars they will get the impression that you are undervaluing yourself and their money is not going to be well spent [Music] on the other hand if you sell something worth five thousand dollars okay guys I don't want to make you guys watch that whole thing I'm just curious I wanted to get to introduction

Okay so I'm gonna have to look into this because yeah it's only generated 30 scenes and it said it was gonna be about six minutes but it's actually only four remember exact oh here's a script so sell the outcomes not benefits let's go we're going to edit the script which will sell the outcomes so okay so here we go it stopped here so I think that's not that good yeah that's not that good in my opinion I'm pretty sure I may

Have seen somewhere that you may have to like export this and then go to your script so after 30 scenes you would have to like copy that text and create another video and then like edit them together basically and like your editing software or something so like that's an extra step I don't know don't quote me on it but I'm I think I saw somewhere that and now it's kind of like making sense which I don't like at all um that's

Not good like I really don't like that so I hope that they fix that if you guys are watching this I know it's like it's there hopefully they're just they work on developing this tool because I know it's you know a tool that you know may require a bit of time whatever just like Pick 3 did it took a while for Pick 3 to get things going but I don't think picture he has something like that um you can duplicate scenes

Delete scenes transitions so you can change the transitions between the scenes here so you can do you know right left top bottom these are like slides you can apply them to all scenes um and then layout so you can actually change the layout of the text how it's going to be displayed like so if we wanted it to be on the left instead of the right boom audio so you can change the voice over here swap Voice or swap the music

Right or change the volume of each or delete either one you can add an outro here or an oh I guess not an intro um foreign you can change the timer of the scene how long the scene is going to be showing so right now this one's seven seconds um scene timer I don't know why it's not changing but yeah you can do that somehow uh with this you can uh what's this quote what was that what was that I don't

Know what that was uh color settings so you can change the this would be the highlighted text so I can make it purple you can see now all the text is purple um and you can change the background color to be like this I'm just going to keep it black um and you could hide text if you want so you could hide text and current slide or high text on all slides so this would be cool if you just wanted the

Stock footage which could actually be very useful um play current scene from beginning play from this scene so that's cool you can swap the stock and stuff so like for example um so I'm not too angry oh gosh oh my gosh wow okay so you're gonna have to be careful not to hit the back button I just hit the back button and now I literally lost the whole thing I don't have to generate it again um so yeah just be careful

With that here's our uh animation scene I'll show you that while that other one's loading so play this one's only a minute so we can watch it congratulations on taking a forward step to get in shape and feel great tip one wake up early tip two exercise daily tip three eat the right food and Portion each meal tip four keep off your favorite chunks tip 5 keep track of calories and food intake per day tip six keep yourself hydrated tip 7.

Get enough sleep Tippy stay motivated nothing tastes better than skinny for more fitness tips visit www.lifetimethedbdesign.com [Music] so yeah that's pretty cool little cool thing um okay so it regenerated so yeah um you can let me just change this to woo we'll do green um so yeah you can do some other editing stuff in here like if I wanted to I don't like this it's blurry so I could swap this and do um how do I go back uh so I

Can exit not gonna hit the back button you already made a lot of progress attention on your fingertips so let's swap and let's type in finger tips let's see what we get here um I could just do something like this introduction [Music] you're watching this video because you want to grow your social media marketing agency smart business you've already made a lot of progress but you know there's still a lot more potential at your fingertips so I like that way better

Anyways so I would spend a bit more time but uh let's just go download this and see how long it takes because that's important and I'm also going to let me just see if I can change property you can change property and you can do a similar thing like as you would with the scenes you can change the character or the property there's different characters here I can make up this guy okay so you can like use the guy this line

Right here and then I can change action so here's his actions say he's going to be a scientist for some reason eat the right meal and food oh this kind of makes sense kind of like you just tested like weighing his food or whatever okay so and then we could also change design color let's make this like rad and this will be oh this should be red and like this black you should be able to change the background too I would

Assume somewhere oh yeah here we go here's like all the colors try this this okay we'll just use this um I would spend more time I have to do some more like looking around in this but let's go ahead and click download you can also Click Share if you want to share it with someone so now got this let's so that's fitness tips this will be named um rename can't paste it can't paste it so how to close that smma deals

Okay so last time I did I think it was yeah I did 2K foreign on this and I'm gonna do 1080p on this and see how long it takes so it's gonna say total zero dollars download and then what the heck five dollars for these videos premium I saw something about this in the uh I'm not gonna pay five dollars for this are you kidding me oh my goodness so okay I guess it was this custom one I used let me

Go back there I saw the founder answer this question he was like oh because you know this this is five dollars apparently this typing Getty Images are you kidding me um whatever there should only show Okay so let's do free there we go so um and then maybe I'll try finger tips so I mean that's kind of like annoying but I mean it it makes it kind of makes sense I guess um potentially so out of the check and compare this

To uh Victory and see which has better stock images or whatever but anyways let's publish this obviously I'm not going to be paying for a little video this one's downloading so when it's downloading it's going to show like what it's doing loading initial project export a signing machine phase one uh phase two h.264 so this is only a minute video and it's uh it's taking a little bit here um let's try this download I'm gonna do 720. okay let's download this

Okay so I'm not gonna make you guys wait this whole time um I'm just gonna come back to you guys once these are processed right now it is 104 so let's see how long I'll let you know when this uh is done for both of them all right guys so now you can see that uh both videos have been done actually for a while now I didn't even get noticed I've been doing some other stuff but uh you can see here

At 104 ish we started this is actually probably 103 and uh you know the first fitness tips one that's like a minute long uh took about it I got the email notification at 106. and then the bigger video which was like four minutes long got it the notification at 129. so almost 30 minutes for this just under like 25 minutes basically um so this took a while and keep in mind that wasn't even the full script that was only 30 scenes

So if I wanted to do that full script I would have had it done another video probably a few others because that I didn't even paste in the whole script but even just what I had there it would have taken at least two videos so that would have almost took in like 45 50 minutes maybe closer even up to an hour just for this one video so it is a bit slower in my opinion of like them Pick 3 or whatever

For exporting so I hope they can you know work on some of those features there but that's pretty much it guys I don't want to spend so much time going over everything that's a very in-depth review I know it's been a long video guys but you know I know that I wanted to make this phone a bit longer just to do a deep dive for you guys all right so we're gonna finish everything off here but uh if you're new to

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Community boom all right I'll leave a link in the description I'll leave a link in the description for you to get the Steve AI uh lifetime deal if you want like I said you know keep in mind everything I mentioned in this video um it will only be on appsumo probably for a limited time probably it will be gone I think it said uh within eight days I don't know but it's gonna be gone soon I think eight days off Black

Friday or maybe a bit longer but uh yeah I mean it's it's a decent tool if you don't have yeah it's like a decent tool if you don't have Victory then it could be good right so and it is lifetime I mean there's a few cons like I mentioned but uh it's really you know it's it depends right you know for 59 bucks if you're only wanting 40 videos per month it's not bad um I went for a lifetime and uh

You know there are three three tier three but uh that's that's kind of what I did but yeah link will be in the description guys let me know what your thoughts are if you want to see a picture versus Steve AI video and make sure to comment down below um any suggestions as well any tools you want me to do reviews on for Black Friday it's black Fridays on appsumo so I'll be doing a lot of new tool reviews so stay

On the lookout for that make sure to like I said subscribe turn on post notifications so you don't miss out on the hottest deals and uh keep us that's it for this video guys I will see you in tomorrow's video keep hustling keep grinding and of course accelerate your stride take care guys foreign