Video creation tools for everyone: Renderforest

Video creation is essential for the brand awareness of every business and startup. In fact, by creating videos and with creative and impactful elements, you can directly convey your message to your target audience. 

We always tend to think that to make engaging videos we need a lot of experience, or the help of a professional, and a huge budget, but with some of the video tools available on the market it is easy to create a video by yourself even if you are not an expert and with a small budget or even for free!

Renderforest is one of the best and popular video creation tools available on the market today!

Keep reading this article and discover all the secrets of this tool!

Discover Renderforest website

Renderforest is an all-in-one branding platform, born in 2011, known and used mainly for its video editor with which you can create any type of video in a simple, fast, and convenient way.

The first thing to do once you enter the website is to log in or register. You can choose to create a new account or log in with Google or Facebook.

Once you are in, you will land on the homepage, where you will find the following sections:

• Make Logo
• Create Video
• Edit Mockup
• Build Website
• Design Graphics

Within each of these sections, you will find hundreds of templates, suitable for every need, to choose from. Once you choose the right template, you can move on to the editor, where you can start creating your content.

Let’s now discover all the secrets of this wonderful video creation tool, which can really be used by anyone!

Short tutorial on this video creation tool

By clicking on the “Create Video” button you can select the template or pre-set that best suits your needs.

Renderforest offers five macro video creation areas to choose from; within each of them you will find different categories of models to explore:

• Animation Videos: you can create eye-catching animations by choosing from Explainer Animations, Product or Service Promotions, Video Editing Videos, Mobile App Promotions, Typography Videos, YouTube Videos, Opener Animations, Special Event Videos, Food and Hospitality Videos, Movie Trailers and Christmas Videos.
• Intros and Logos: you can create beautiful, customized videos with your logo by choosing from YouTube Intros, 3D Logo Reveals, Minimal Logo Reveals, Exploding and Burning Reveals, Particles Logo Reveals, Glitch Logo Reveals, Hi-Tech Logo Reveals, Smoke Logo Reveals and Neon Logo Reveals.
• Slideshow: you can create effective business and personal slideshows by choosing from Corporate, Personal, Happy Birthday, Love, Wedding, Greeting, Holiday, and Baby Slideshow.
• Presentations: you can create engaging presentations to set a tone to your business by choosing from Corporate, Educational and Infographic Video presentations.
• Music Visualizations: you can promote a track, an album or a single and bring your music to life by choosing from music visualizations with text holders or with photo holders.

By applying the following filters, you can speed up the video creation process and make the template research more precise and accurate:

• All, Templates, Presets
• Video aspect ratio
• Duration
• Frames per second
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tags

Once the research and selection phase are over, you will finally move on to the actual video creation phases.

Video Editor

If you have chosen a pre-set, by clicking on the “create now” button, you will land directly in the Renderforest video editor where you can start your video creation.

By selecting a Template, before getting to the video editor you will have to choose whether to:

• Add scene: you can choose the scenes to add to your video.
• Load a pre-set: you can choose ready-made stories to add to your video.
• Type your script: you will have to write the text of the video and you will be suggested the most suitable scenes.

Once you have made your choice, click on “create” to get inside the video editor. Now the video creation begins!

Here you are finally inside the editor. In the lower part, you will find the heart of the video creation with all the frames of your video aligned in sequence and a “+” button at the end of them; by clicking it you will be able to access the library of scenes available for your model and, by selecting them, they will be added to your composition.

For the actual editing of the individual scenes, it is necessary to select the frame to be edited, it will appear at the centre of the screen, and you can proceed with editing the text. If you have selected a video holder or image holder scene, you can add stock images and videos from the Renderforest library or upload your content directly.

At the top of the screen, you will find a series of functions; they correspond to the video creation phases:

• Edit: it is the first phase of video creation, that is the one explained above.
• Transition: in this phase you can customize the look, the transitions, and the fonts of your video.
• Colour: you can change the colours of the video, being able to choose between pre-set palettes or create your own.
• Music: at this point you just have to add the music. You can choose from many audio files from the Renderforest playlist or upload your own tracks. Furthermore, it is possible to add the voiceover to every single scene.
• Preview: this is the last phase of video creation. All that remains to do is creating and downloading the video by clicking “free preview” or “HD Export”.

Other features of this video creation tool

As we said earlier, Renderforest is not just a video creation tool, but a real all-in-one branding platform. Let’s see what other features it offers us.

AI-Based Logo Maker

With Renderforest you can create your brand logo thanks to a system based on Artificial Intelligence. You can choose from the following categories:

• Industry
• Nature
• Sports
• Animal
• Profession
• Services
• Gaming
• Food and Drinks

Mockup Generator

You can create and edit your mockup by choosing from the following categories:

• Apparel
• Devices
• Branding
• Products
• Print
• Interior

Website Builder

Renderforest is not only great for video creation, but also for the creation of websites. In fact, you can build your own website without having experience in programming. You can choose from the following categories:

• Business
• Lifestyle
• Personal
• Event
• Non-profit
• Art

Graphic Maker

Renderforest also offers an online graphic maker with customizable templates to choose from to create your content.

You can choose from the following categories:

• Social Media

• Printables

• Presentation

Subscription plans

Renderforest can be used for free, but, if you want to have access to all the features and have a complete video creation experience, you can choose one of the four subscription plans. 

Let’s see the differences between the various plans.

The Free plan is free forever and offers 300MB of storage.

Pros and cons:

• Videos: unlimited 360p video exports, up to 3-minute videos, access to 200k+ stock videos, limited number of music tracks, Renderforest watermarks on everything.
• Logo: unlimited low-quality logos PNG.
• Mockups: unlimited low-quality mockups with watermarks.
• Websites: free websites on Renderforest subdomain.
• Graphics: limited designs, limited colour customization, no link sharing for presentations.

The Lite Plan costs €11.99 per month or €6.99 per month billed annually and offers 10 GB of storage. Advantages:

• Videos: 10 HD720 videos per month, up to 5-minute videos, access to 200k+ stock videos, 50+ commercial music tracks, no Renderforest watermarks on HD videos, 1 font upload.
• Logo: unlimited low-quality logos in PNG.
• Mockups: unlimited low-quality mockups with watermarks.
• Websites: free website on Renderforest sub domain.
• Graphics: premium designs, full colour customization, link sharing for presentations.

The Amateur Plan costs €17.99 per month or €9.99 per month billed annually and offers 20 GB of storage. Pro and cons:

• Videos: 30 HD720 or 10 HD1080 videos per month, up to 15-minute videos, access to 500k+ stock videos, 100+ commercial music tracks, no Renderforest watermarks on HD videos, 3 font uploads.
• Logo: unlimited high-quality logos in PNG.
• Mockups: 10 high-quality mockups per month.
• Websites: 1 premium website, publishing on your own domain.
• Graphics: premium designs, full colour customization, link sharing for presentations.

The Pro plan costs €34.99 per month or €13.99 per month billed annually and offers 40 GB of storage. Advantages:

• Videos: 100 HD720 or 50 HD1080 videos per month, up to 30-minute videos, access to 500k+ stock videos, 200+ commercial music tracks, no Renderforest watermarks on anything, 5 font uploads.
• Logo: unlimited vector SVG and high-quality PNG logos, branding guidelines.
• Mockups: 50 high-quality mockups per month
• Websites: 1 premium website, publishing on your own domain, advanced marketing tools.
• Graphics: premium designs, full colour customization, link sharing for presentations.

The Agency Plan costs €49.99 per month billed annually and offers 80 GB of storage. Advantages:

• Videos: unlimited HD1080 videos per month, up to 60-minute videos, access to 500k+ stock videos, 200+ commercial music tracks, no Renderforest watermark on anything, custom watermark on your videos, reseller license, 10 font uploads,
• Logos: unlimited vector SVG and high-quality PNG logo, branding guidelines.
• Mockups: unlimited high-quality mockups.
• Websites: 3 premium websites, publishing on your own domain, advanced marketing tools.
• Graphics: premium designs, full colour customization, link sharing for presentations.

Renderforest also offers the “pay per product” option. In this way, you can avoid making a subscription and only pay for what you really need. For video creation, you will find the “Video Maker” option: it costs €22.99 for a single export, without Renderforest watermark, in HD1080 quality and with a reseller license.

Conclusions on one of the best video creation tools for startups

In this article we have described Renderforest, one of the best video creation tools on the market, also explaining how to use it. If you still have some doubts and want to deepen the topic, you can learn more by clicking on this link, where you will find the video tutorials provided directly by Renderforest.

If you are interested in video creation, please read also: Video Creation: top 10 tools for startups

Be curious! Do not limit yourself and do not stop at our proposal of tools! Check out our article Software Discovery platforms: the top 9 for us to find the one that best suits your needs.

If you want to know more about video making and video marketing, please read also: Video making for startups: why internalize the process and Video marketing for startups: why and how to do it?

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