5 Best Video Denoisers

We all know that our recorded videos are not always perfect – when we use a mobile phone or digital cameras to shoot, our clips may contain hiss, compression and particles. These are the impurities that make our videos look uncomfortable, but it’s not a final result impossible to altar – help can come in the form of several video denoise software.

Editing is the guarantor that makes sure we can do different operations and achieve our desired results – computer programs, tools, opportunities that give us a hand in this process are kind of endless.

So, sometimes it’s really difficult to choose among so many options that come into waves. And if we choose our preferred ways, some people might not agree with us. Even so that it is quite subjective, we can still explain which tools and software we like to modify our videos, and fight with the impurities they have.

It looks amateur if the video is grainy, even if it is night shooting. We can get rid of the noise when we add lights or shoot in well-lit places, but there are some situations we can just depend on the ISO. So, for these grainy videos, there is a thing called denoising – when you get rid of the grains and make your shots as clear as possible. There are different ways to do this, and that happens in different software as well. What are the 5 best video denoisers in 2024 for us to work with? That, as we have already mentioned, might be something very subjective, but here is our selection: Wondershare Filmora, Neat Video, Shotcut, Adobe Premiere Pro, and DaVinci Resolve

Wondershare Filmora X

Wondershare Filmora X offers to change our damaged scene into something more acceptable. How to operate it? - You need to go to the Effects panel and type: “Smart Denoise”. right-click on the video and choose Edit Properties.

This ensures you see the Smart Denoise, where you can change opacity of the clip, threshold and radius.

Reduce Opacity until you are satisfied with the result. The box next to Smart Denoise will show you the scene before and after the effect.

Bonus tip: Wondershare Filmora audio denoise

We already explained how video denoising works, and we will go on with our selection and explanatory article about the process, but, as we are on the Filmora topic, we might as well mention that denoising might mean another thing too – which, in this case, regards audio background noise. It means to remove unwanted hum from the audio in order for it to become more hearable. So, doing this in Wondershare Filmora works in a quite easy way. Use the guideline:

Drag and drop your video into the timeline. Right-click on the clip and hit Detach Audio, which will let you separate audio and video from one another and make sure you can work on them one by one.

Double-click on the audio track and have access to the editing panel, where you can see Remove background noise – it is not needed to emphasize what this option does for you!

That’s it – you are done, but keep in mind that there is a second way to achieve the same result as well, but this in case you don’t want to detach the audio: Double-click on the video clip in the timeline, the editing panel opens, so switch to Audio. Checking the box next to Remove background noise will show that there are three levels – weak, mid, and strong, and of course, you can choose to your liking!

If the voice recording doesn’t sound natural anymore, you can do the following: Click on Customize and Customize Equalizer window will open.

On the left, you can see the low tunes, while the highs are on the right. Background noises are often on the left, so you can lower them to get rid of them, but in order to have a more natural sound, raise the middle ones a little – and you are done when you are content with the sound!

So, hmm… back to the original topic – denoising a video, shall we?..

Neat video

Neat Video kind of, speaks for itself… it is a powerful video editing tool suitable for Windows, macOS and Linux. It aims to reduce the digital noise, flicker, dust, scratches and other defects in the captured videos to improve the visual quality of the videos.

It is a plug-in for Premiere Pro, that does more or less what the product noise says: it makes grainy video look neater. It’s very easy to use and

How to do that in Neat Video? Here are the steps:

Find the clip you want to reduce the noise of and search for the neat video effect in the Effects Panel.

The video editors mostly use the SR version of it, because it seems faster and has kind of a better performance.

Then, you’ll have to drag the neat video plug-in to the clip to your choosing, take your attention to the Effect Controls panel on the left, and find: fx Reduce Noise v5 (SR) – press the button saying Prepare and this will open up the Build button as well, which wil open the Neat video effect window.

There, you’ll need to click on the Auto Profile. Selection window will appear, which you can move around the scene and resize, in order to select the noisy area of your footage. It is recommended to find the darkest or grainiest area there and select judging by this.

On the left side, you will find Filter Settings: under Spatial, you can play with the Noise Reduction Amount and Noise Level.

Then, you will hit Apply and – done, you can instantly see the results!

Shotcut

What about Shotcut? It is a free, open-source and cross-platform video denoiser for Windows operating system. It is also an outstanding video editor with trimming, splitting, color correction and other tools.

In order to reduce the noise there, do the following: first off, find filters, open that window and type in: Noise. This will open the options, and several of them are for noise reduction.

Choose Reduce Noise: Wavelet, add it to the Video and then feel free to modify the settings, such as: Decompose, Threshold, Percent. You can check and uncheck the effect in order to see the before-after difference. Then, click Apply button and it is ready to go!

Anyway, you can also try other similar effects such as Reduce Noise: HQDN3D and Reduce Noise: Smart Blur.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Even though we discussed video denoising in Adobe Premier Pro but with the help of a plug-in called Neat Video, reducing the noise in the video in this software can be achieved without the plug-in as well, through using effect which is called Median. And, Premiere Pro kind of deserves to be mentioned, so, let’s go for it!

Add the desired footage into the Timeline of Premiere Pro. Then, find the Effects Panel, where our wanted Median can be found –drag and drop the effect to the clip.

The Median should modify the grainiest parts of the whole clip, so in order to do this, we need to use masks. In the Effects Control panel, select the mask shape for the clip – the options are: rectangle, circle, or pen tool. With Pen tool, you move the Mask around the screen and resize it – the covered area will be affected.

If you change Feather setting to 100, the effect will lose a sharp edge and instead, there will be a smooth border.

So, you might think it is needed to repeat these steps several time to create masks in different areas, in order to cover all of the grainy space of the scene.

And, at last, to reduce the noise, adjust the effect settings.

Actually, Median just blurs the grainy parts, without directly taking them away. Lastly, you can get to know the Radios settings, which will help you to achieve your most desired look!

Davinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is also worth mentioning in this list, in a way because it is also different from other video editors. Let’s see how it works and, meanwhile, differs:

Add the footage into the timeline. Find the fusion tab underneath the timeline panel.

There, MediaIn1 and MediaOut1 will appear, and first, click on MediaIn1, - the scene will be shown in the first viewer – and MediaOut1 by default is appearing in the second. So, stay on MediaIn1, hit shift+spacebar, and find Remove Noise (RN). Click Add, which adds the Remove Noise1 node. On the top right corner there is an Inspector, which opens all the properties you can modify.

After going only into the second viewer, and in the top bar there is channel icons. Open it and click on red, but don’t get alarmed when your footage turns black and white – it’s just for a while. Go back to the Inspector, increase Softness Red and Detail Red.

This step helps remove grain from the red channel. Then repeat the same for green and blue channels. After finishing go to the same channel button and set it to “back to color”. The clip will be colorized again and now be clearer, compared to the first viewer.

So, Evrika – we hot to know 5 best video denoisers in 2024, with the addition of audio background noise removal in Wondershare Filmora – hope you enjoyed it, and hope this will help you create better videos for yourself and your viewers!

This ensures you see the Smart Denoise, where you can change opacity of the clip, threshold and radius.

Reduce Opacity until you are satisfied with the result. The box next to Smart Denoise will show you the scene before and after the effect.

Bonus tip: Wondershare Filmora audio denoise

We already explained how video denoising works, and we will go on with our selection and explanatory article about the process, but, as we are on the Filmora topic, we might as well mention that denoising might mean another thing too – which, in this case, regards audio background noise. It means to remove unwanted hum from the audio in order for it to become more hearable. So, doing this in Wondershare Filmora works in a quite easy way. Use the guideline:

Drag and drop your video into the timeline. Right-click on the clip and hit Detach Audio, which will let you separate audio and video from one another and make sure you can work on them one by one.

Double-click on the audio track and have access to the editing panel, where you can see Remove background noise – it is not needed to emphasize what this option does for you!

That’s it – you are done, but keep in mind that there is a second way to achieve the same result as well, but this in case you don’t want to detach the audio: Double-click on the video clip in the timeline, the editing panel opens, so switch to Audio. Checking the box next to Remove background noise will show that there are three levels – weak, mid, and strong, and of course, you can choose to your liking!

If the voice recording doesn’t sound natural anymore, you can do the following: Click on Customize and Customize Equalizer window will open.

On the left, you can see the low tunes, while the highs are on the right. Background noises are often on the left, so you can lower them to get rid of them, but in order to have a more natural sound, raise the middle ones a little – and you are done when you are content with the sound!

So, hmm… back to the original topic – denoising a video, shall we?..

Neat video

Neat Video kind of, speaks for itself… it is a powerful video editing tool suitable for Windows, macOS and Linux. It aims to reduce the digital noise, flicker, dust, scratches and other defects in the captured videos to improve the visual quality of the videos.

It is a plug-in for Premiere Pro, that does more or less what the product noise says: it makes grainy video look neater. It’s very easy to use and

How to do that in Neat Video? Here are the steps:

Find the clip you want to reduce the noise of and search for the neat video effect in the Effects Panel.

The video editors mostly use the SR version of it, because it seems faster and has kind of a better performance.

Then, you’ll have to drag the neat video plug-in to the clip to your choosing, take your attention to the Effect Controls panel on the left, and find: fx Reduce Noise v5 (SR) – press the button saying Prepare and this will open up the Build button as well, which wil open the Neat video effect window.

There, you’ll need to click on the Auto Profile. Selection window will appear, which you can move around the scene and resize, in order to select the noisy area of your footage. It is recommended to find the darkest or grainiest area there and select judging by this.

On the left side, you will find Filter Settings: under Spatial, you can play with the Noise Reduction Amount and Noise Level.

Then, you will hit Apply and – done, you can instantly see the results!

Shotcut

What about Shotcut? It is a free, open-source and cross-platform video denoiser for Windows operating system. It is also an outstanding video editor with trimming, splitting, color correction and other tools.

In order to reduce the noise there, do the following: first off, find filters, open that window and type in: Noise. This will open the options, and several of them are for noise reduction.

Choose Reduce Noise: Wavelet, add it to the Video and then feel free to modify the settings, such as: Decompose, Threshold, Percent. You can check and uncheck the effect in order to see the before-after difference. Then, click Apply button and it is ready to go!

Anyway, you can also try other similar effects such as Reduce Noise: HQDN3D and Reduce Noise: Smart Blur.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Even though we discussed video denoising in Adobe Premier Pro but with the help of a plug-in called Neat Video, reducing the noise in the video in this software can be achieved without the plug-in as well, through using effect which is called Median. And, Premiere Pro kind of deserves to be mentioned, so, let’s go for it!

Add the desired footage into the Timeline of Premiere Pro. Then, find the Effects Panel, where our wanted Median can be found –drag and drop the effect to the clip.

The Median should modify the grainiest parts of the whole clip, so in order to do this, we need to use masks. In the Effects Control panel, select the mask shape for the clip – the options are: rectangle, circle, or pen tool. With Pen tool, you move the Mask around the screen and resize it – the covered area will be affected.

If you change Feather setting to 100, the effect will lose a sharp edge and instead, there will be a smooth border.

So, you might think it is needed to repeat these steps several time to create masks in different areas, in order to cover all of the grainy space of the scene.

And, at last, to reduce the noise, adjust the effect settings.

Actually, Median just blurs the grainy parts, without directly taking them away. Lastly, you can get to know the Radios settings, which will help you to achieve your most desired look!

Davinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is also worth mentioning in this list, in a way because it is also different from other video editors. Let’s see how it works and, meanwhile, differs:

Add the footage into the timeline. Find the fusion tab underneath the timeline panel.

There, MediaIn1 and MediaOut1 will appear, and first, click on MediaIn1, - the scene will be shown in the first viewer – and MediaOut1 by default is appearing in the second. So, stay on MediaIn1, hit shift+spacebar, and find Remove Noise (RN). Click Add, which adds the Remove Noise1 node. On the top right corner there is an Inspector, which opens all the properties you can modify.

After going only into the second viewer, and in the top bar there is channel icons. Open it and click on red, but don’t get alarmed when your footage turns black and white – it’s just for a while. Go back to the Inspector, increase Softness Red and Detail Red.

This step helps remove grain from the red channel. Then repeat the same for green and blue channels. After finishing go to the same channel button and set it to “back to color”. The clip will be colorized again and now be clearer, compared to the first viewer.

So, Evrika – we hot to know 5 best video denoisers in 2024, with the addition of audio background noise removal in Wondershare Filmora – hope you enjoyed it, and hope this will help you create better videos for yourself and your viewers!

This ensures you see the Smart Denoise, where you can change opacity of the clip, threshold and radius.

Reduce Opacity until you are satisfied with the result. The box next to Smart Denoise will show you the scene before and after the effect.

Bonus tip: Wondershare Filmora audio denoise

We already explained how video denoising works, and we will go on with our selection and explanatory article about the process, but, as we are on the Filmora topic, we might as well mention that denoising might mean another thing too – which, in this case, regards audio background noise. It means to remove unwanted hum from the audio in order for it to become more hearable. So, doing this in Wondershare Filmora works in a quite easy way. Use the guideline:

Drag and drop your video into the timeline. Right-click on the clip and hit Detach Audio, which will let you separate audio and video from one another and make sure you can work on them one by one.

Double-click on the audio track and have access to the editing panel, where you can see Remove background noise – it is not needed to emphasize what this option does for you!

That’s it – you are done, but keep in mind that there is a second way to achieve the same result as well, but this in case you don’t want to detach the audio: Double-click on the video clip in the timeline, the editing panel opens, so switch to Audio. Checking the box next to Remove background noise will show that there are three levels – weak, mid, and strong, and of course, you can choose to your liking!

If the voice recording doesn’t sound natural anymore, you can do the following: Click on Customize and Customize Equalizer window will open.

On the left, you can see the low tunes, while the highs are on the right. Background noises are often on the left, so you can lower them to get rid of them, but in order to have a more natural sound, raise the middle ones a little – and you are done when you are content with the sound!

So, hmm… back to the original topic – denoising a video, shall we?..

Neat video

Neat Video kind of, speaks for itself… it is a powerful video editing tool suitable for Windows, macOS and Linux. It aims to reduce the digital noise, flicker, dust, scratches and other defects in the captured videos to improve the visual quality of the videos.

It is a plug-in for Premiere Pro, that does more or less what the product noise says: it makes grainy video look neater. It’s very easy to use and

How to do that in Neat Video? Here are the steps:

Find the clip you want to reduce the noise of and search for the neat video effect in the Effects Panel.

The video editors mostly use the SR version of it, because it seems faster and has kind of a better performance.

Then, you’ll have to drag the neat video plug-in to the clip to your choosing, take your attention to the Effect Controls panel on the left, and find: fx Reduce Noise v5 (SR) – press the button saying Prepare and this will open up the Build button as well, which wil open the Neat video effect window.

There, you’ll need to click on the Auto Profile. Selection window will appear, which you can move around the scene and resize, in order to select the noisy area of your footage. It is recommended to find the darkest or grainiest area there and select judging by this.

On the left side, you will find Filter Settings: under Spatial, you can play with the Noise Reduction Amount and Noise Level.

Then, you will hit Apply and – done, you can instantly see the results!

Shotcut

What about Shotcut? It is a free, open-source and cross-platform video denoiser for Windows operating system. It is also an outstanding video editor with trimming, splitting, color correction and other tools.

In order to reduce the noise there, do the following: first off, find filters, open that window and type in: Noise. This will open the options, and several of them are for noise reduction.

Choose Reduce Noise: Wavelet, add it to the Video and then feel free to modify the settings, such as: Decompose, Threshold, Percent. You can check and uncheck the effect in order to see the before-after difference. Then, click Apply button and it is ready to go!

Anyway, you can also try other similar effects such as Reduce Noise: HQDN3D and Reduce Noise: Smart Blur.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Even though we discussed video denoising in Adobe Premier Pro but with the help of a plug-in called Neat Video, reducing the noise in the video in this software can be achieved without the plug-in as well, through using effect which is called Median. And, Premiere Pro kind of deserves to be mentioned, so, let’s go for it!

Add the desired footage into the Timeline of Premiere Pro. Then, find the Effects Panel, where our wanted Median can be found –drag and drop the effect to the clip.

The Median should modify the grainiest parts of the whole clip, so in order to do this, we need to use masks. In the Effects Control panel, select the mask shape for the clip – the options are: rectangle, circle, or pen tool. With Pen tool, you move the Mask around the screen and resize it – the covered area will be affected.

If you change Feather setting to 100, the effect will lose a sharp edge and instead, there will be a smooth border.

So, you might think it is needed to repeat these steps several time to create masks in different areas, in order to cover all of the grainy space of the scene.

And, at last, to reduce the noise, adjust the effect settings.

Actually, Median just blurs the grainy parts, without directly taking them away. Lastly, you can get to know the Radios settings, which will help you to achieve your most desired look!

Davinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is also worth mentioning in this list, in a way because it is also different from other video editors. Let’s see how it works and, meanwhile, differs:

Add the footage into the timeline. Find the fusion tab underneath the timeline panel.

There, MediaIn1 and MediaOut1 will appear, and first, click on MediaIn1, - the scene will be shown in the first viewer – and MediaOut1 by default is appearing in the second. So, stay on MediaIn1, hit shift+spacebar, and find Remove Noise (RN). Click Add, which adds the Remove Noise1 node. On the top right corner there is an Inspector, which opens all the properties you can modify.

After going only into the second viewer, and in the top bar there is channel icons. Open it and click on red, but don’t get alarmed when your footage turns black and white – it’s just for a while. Go back to the Inspector, increase Softness Red and Detail Red.

This step helps remove grain from the red channel. Then repeat the same for green and blue channels. After finishing go to the same channel button and set it to “back to color”. The clip will be colorized again and now be clearer, compared to the first viewer.

So, Evrika – we hot to know 5 best video denoisers in 2024, with the addition of audio background noise removal in Wondershare Filmora – hope you enjoyed it, and hope this will help you create better videos for yourself and your viewers!

This ensures you see the Smart Denoise, where you can change opacity of the clip, threshold and radius.

Reduce Opacity until you are satisfied with the result. The box next to Smart Denoise will show you the scene before and after the effect.

Bonus tip: Wondershare Filmora audio denoise

We already explained how video denoising works, and we will go on with our selection and explanatory article about the process, but, as we are on the Filmora topic, we might as well mention that denoising might mean another thing too – which, in this case, regards audio background noise. It means to remove unwanted hum from the audio in order for it to become more hearable. So, doing this in Wondershare Filmora works in a quite easy way. Use the guideline:

Drag and drop your video into the timeline. Right-click on the clip and hit Detach Audio, which will let you separate audio and video from one another and make sure you can work on them one by one.

Double-click on the audio track and have access to the editing panel, where you can see Remove background noise – it is not needed to emphasize what this option does for you!

That’s it – you are done, but keep in mind that there is a second way to achieve the same result as well, but this in case you don’t want to detach the audio: Double-click on the video clip in the timeline, the editing panel opens, so switch to Audio. Checking the box next to Remove background noise will show that there are three levels – weak, mid, and strong, and of course, you can choose to your liking!

If the voice recording doesn’t sound natural anymore, you can do the following: Click on Customize and Customize Equalizer window will open.

On the left, you can see the low tunes, while the highs are on the right. Background noises are often on the left, so you can lower them to get rid of them, but in order to have a more natural sound, raise the middle ones a little – and you are done when you are content with the sound!

So, hmm… back to the original topic – denoising a video, shall we?..

Neat video

Neat Video kind of, speaks for itself… it is a powerful video editing tool suitable for Windows, macOS and Linux. It aims to reduce the digital noise, flicker, dust, scratches and other defects in the captured videos to improve the visual quality of the videos.

It is a plug-in for Premiere Pro, that does more or less what the product noise says: it makes grainy video look neater. It’s very easy to use and

How to do that in Neat Video? Here are the steps:

Find the clip you want to reduce the noise of and search for the neat video effect in the Effects Panel.

The video editors mostly use the SR version of it, because it seems faster and has kind of a better performance.

Then, you’ll have to drag the neat video plug-in to the clip to your choosing, take your attention to the Effect Controls panel on the left, and find: fx Reduce Noise v5 (SR) – press the button saying Prepare and this will open up the Build button as well, which wil open the Neat video effect window.

There, you’ll need to click on the Auto Profile. Selection window will appear, which you can move around the scene and resize, in order to select the noisy area of your footage. It is recommended to find the darkest or grainiest area there and select judging by this.

On the left side, you will find Filter Settings: under Spatial, you can play with the Noise Reduction Amount and Noise Level.

Then, you will hit Apply and – done, you can instantly see the results!

Shotcut

What about Shotcut? It is a free, open-source and cross-platform video denoiser for Windows operating system. It is also an outstanding video editor with trimming, splitting, color correction and other tools.

In order to reduce the noise there, do the following: first off, find filters, open that window and type in: Noise. This will open the options, and several of them are for noise reduction.

Choose Reduce Noise: Wavelet, add it to the Video and then feel free to modify the settings, such as: Decompose, Threshold, Percent. You can check and uncheck the effect in order to see the before-after difference. Then, click Apply button and it is ready to go!

Anyway, you can also try other similar effects such as Reduce Noise: HQDN3D and Reduce Noise: Smart Blur.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Even though we discussed video denoising in Adobe Premier Pro but with the help of a plug-in called Neat Video, reducing the noise in the video in this software can be achieved without the plug-in as well, through using effect which is called Median. And, Premiere Pro kind of deserves to be mentioned, so, let’s go for it!

Add the desired footage into the Timeline of Premiere Pro. Then, find the Effects Panel, where our wanted Median can be found –drag and drop the effect to the clip.

The Median should modify the grainiest parts of the whole clip, so in order to do this, we need to use masks. In the Effects Control panel, select the mask shape for the clip – the options are: rectangle, circle, or pen tool. With Pen tool, you move the Mask around the screen and resize it – the covered area will be affected.

If you change Feather setting to 100, the effect will lose a sharp edge and instead, there will be a smooth border.

So, you might think it is needed to repeat these steps several time to create masks in different areas, in order to cover all of the grainy space of the scene.

And, at last, to reduce the noise, adjust the effect settings.

Actually, Median just blurs the grainy parts, without directly taking them away. Lastly, you can get to know the Radios settings, which will help you to achieve your most desired look!

Davinci Resolve

DaVinci Resolve is also worth mentioning in this list, in a way because it is also different from other video editors. Let’s see how it works and, meanwhile, differs:

Add the footage into the timeline. Find the fusion tab underneath the timeline panel.

There, MediaIn1 and MediaOut1 will appear, and first, click on MediaIn1, - the scene will be shown in the first viewer – and MediaOut1 by default is appearing in the second. So, stay on MediaIn1, hit shift+spacebar, and find Remove Noise (RN). Click Add, which adds the Remove Noise1 node. On the top right corner there is an Inspector, which opens all the properties you can modify.

After going only into the second viewer, and in the top bar there is channel icons. Open it and click on red, but don’t get alarmed when your footage turns black and white – it’s just for a while. Go back to the Inspector, increase Softness Red and Detail Red.

This step helps remove grain from the red channel. Then repeat the same for green and blue channels. After finishing go to the same channel button and set it to “back to color”. The clip will be colorized again and now be clearer, compared to the first viewer.

So, Evrika – we hot to know 5 best video denoisers in 2024, with the addition of audio background noise removal in Wondershare Filmora – hope you enjoyed it, and hope this will help you create better videos for yourself and your viewers!

How to Make a Time-Lapse Video Online

If you’re looking for a way to create a time-lapse video online, you have come to the right place. There are different reasons why people use online time-lapse video makers. Let us take an example, if you want to make a time-lapse video of someone holding a phone in their hand then this would be pretty easy to do with the help of an online time-lapse maker.

Why do people use an online time-lapse maker because they want to get some good quality videos without spending much money on them? That’s something that many people who are just starting their business can do easily since it can be done by anyone who knows how to use online time-lapse makers properly! Let’s have a look at some online tools on which you can make time-lapse videos online.

1. Clideo Timelapse Video Tool

A video timelapse video is a type of video that shows the progression of time. It allows you to create an engaging experience for your viewers, and it can also be used to promote your business. Whether you’re a content creator, brand manager, or just a fan of videos, creating a time-lapse video is one of the most popular and effective ways to produce impressive content.

With Clideo Time-lapse Video Tool you can create incredible videos with ease. You can choose from dozens of beautiful templates, music tracks, transitions, and more. You can also add your photos or video clips and make your unique time-lapse video. By using this tool, you can:

• Capture your events in real-time and save them for later. Once captured, you can use the timeline function to move backward or forwards through the events of your day.
• Add filters and effects such as blur or freeze frame.
• Share your videos on social media with ease!

Steps to make a time-lapse video on Clideo:

Step1 Open Clideo and Create an account

You can use this online time-lapse maker from any browser e.g Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc. After that you don’t have an account on it then you have to create it first. You can Sign in by using different platforms like Google, Facebook, apple, etc.

Step2 Create a project and select a tool

When you create an account on Clideo, a page appears where you will get the option of creating a project. A list of several features will be provided by this online time-lapse video maker. You will get to add subtitles, compress videos, resize the video, and many more features in it.

Step3 Create a video on Clideo

If you want to create a video then click on video maker and after that choose a file whether it is an image, video, gif, or music.

Step4 Edit the video and export

With Clideo, you can make amazing videos with just one click. You can choose the length of your video, as well as the format, and save it to your computer’s hard drive.

You can also adjust the duration of your video and add music to make it more interesting. This way you can make sure that your video is the right length for the content you’re putting in it.

2. Flixier Timelapse Video Maker

Flixier Timelapse Video Maker is the easiest way to create beautiful timelapse videos. You can create beautiful, high-quality videos with ease. What’s more, you don’t have to know any programming languages! You’ll be able to export your videos in just one step.

The program’s intuitive user interface makes it easy for beginners to get started while still providing advanced features that professionals will love. The program supports drag-and-drop editing and has an intuitive layout designed for maximum efficiency.

Step1 Create a video without having an account

Flixier Timelapse Video Maker is a powerful video editing tool that allows you to create beautiful, high-quality timelapse videos. The best thing about Flixier is it does not require any account. You can easily click on Get Started and move on to the next step.

Step2 Drop and Browse any file

The Flixier Timelapse Video Maker is a new and exciting way to create HD videos from your favorite photos. It makes it easy for you to choose the photo you want to use, and then attach it to your video.

Flixier works with all of your favorite services: Google Drive, Google Photos, Dropbox, Flowplayer, and more! Flixier has a massive library of videos that you can use as inspiration for your project. There are thousands of them, some of which are free.

Step3 Edit the video and save it

This online time-lapse maker is easy to use, and it allows you to edit your videos in a few simple steps. You can add text, motion, position, and scale to your videos in just a few clicks. After that, you can export it to your hard drive.

Flixier has tons of useful features for creating content for social media marketing. You can upload multiple clips at once and easily customize the length and format of each clip. You can also add music to your videos and adjust the volume levels for each clip individually so that they blend seamlessly when viewed as a whole.

3. Kapwing

Are you looking for a way to speed up and down your video without having to rewind and fast-forward? Kapwing is the tool that can help you do just that. With Kapwing, you can change the speed of your video from 1x to 10x faster. And because it’s easy to use and can be used on any device, you can take your videos anywhere!

There’s nothing worse than having your video slowdown in the middle of a high-speed chase. That’s why, this tool can speed up and down your videos as much as you want, whenever you want it. Now move to steps that how can we use it:

Step1 Sign in and export the file

If you’re looking for a way to speed up your video editing process, look no further. Kapwing Video Speed Changer is here to help!

With Kapwing, you have to create an account, add media like pictures and videos, and then easily tweak the speed of your video without ever having to create a new one.

Step2 Create video and change speed

Kapwing is a video editing software that lets you create videos as well as control the speed according to your needs. This feature makes it easy for you to create videos with different features. You can create videos with size, transitions, layers, and fonts. You can add text to your video as well as record audio from your computer’s microphone.

The software also includes other tools such as watermarking and adding subtitles to your video.

Step3 Export the video

This online tool provides you with different formats to export your video like mp4, mp3, GIF, and JPEG. You can download or export your video in full HD form. It provides you full resolution video.

4. Veed.io Video Speed Controller

Are you looking to speed up or slow down your videos? We’ve got you covered. With Veed.io, you can easily adjust the speed of your video to your liking. You can also use a slider to control the speed of the video itself, which allows for more flexibility and control.

To use this tool, all you have to do is enter the URL of your video and select how fast you want it to be played back. And if you need even more flexibility, go ahead and add buttons so that you can easily change between faster and slower speeds without having to pause or rewind your video at all!

How can we control the speed on Veed.io let’s have a look at some steps:

Step1 Open the tool and create an account

Check out Veed.io Video Speed Controller, a new tool that allows you to control the speed of your videos. It’s super easy to use and can be accessed from any browser. Just create an account and you’ll be able to adjust the speed of your video on the go!

Step2 Create, edit the video and add subtitles

Veed.io is a video speed controller that allows you to create videos, edit your footage, and add voice-over in one simple app.

This is perfect for content creators who want to create more engaging videos and increase their profits by selling subscriptions or advertising within their content. With Veed.io, you can use the built-in editor to easily add text overlays, adjust the speed of your video, and add voice-over effects to create professional videos that people will love watching!

Step3 Add elements, and emojis in the video

Are you tired of your videos just being boring? Worried that they’re not engaging enough? Don’t worry, Veed.io has a solution for that.

With this editor, you can add elements to your videos to increase engagement and make them more interesting. You can also select the size and color of each element, so you can customize the look of your video to stand out from the crowd!

Step4 Export video without the watermark

After all the editing you can export or download the video without watermarks. The resolution of the video will be HD.

5. Typito Time Lapse Maker

Typito Time Lapse Maker is a tool that allows you to create videos with a timelapse effect. It is easy to use, and the interface is extremely simple. The first step is to select your video source and output format. You can choose from several different video formats, including MP4, MOV, and AVI.

Next, you’ll be prompted to select what you want your video to do. You have the option of creating a looping video or not it’s up to you! Once you’ve made your choices, you will be taken to the final step: entering text into the text editor for your video. This is where you can add captions or text overlays to spice up your video’s storyline.

Move to steps to create a lapse video online:

Step1 Create an account and make a video

Firstly, create an account on Typito and once you are done with the creation of the account click on the “Create Video” button in the middle of the screen. The video creation tool will begin loading, so please be patient!

Step2 Add media, title, elements, music

Time-lapse is a great way to create visual content. But how do you do it without spending a fortune? Typito Time Lapse Maker can help you make your time-lapse videos with the click of a button!

Just select media, add titles, elements, and anything else you want, and we’ll handle the rest—whether you’re using your music or not. You can add music according to your taste.

Step3 Export video and re-edit

When you are done with the video export it. And the great thing is video can be re-edited again and again. You can apply changes many times.

Conclusion

We hope that these ideas can motivate you to make timelapse videos. If you want to create a time-lapse video but don’t want to use a big and expensive camera just set up your online time-lapse. Moreover, there are lots of excellent platforms out there to share the finished product. Refer to the above recommendations to choose your favorite one.

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Technology has always been in the business of amazing man with its extraordinary abilities. The brain of man has a role to play in this awe as these inventions are not without man’s input. As such, daily improvements are ensured to build upon the existing technology - the computer system.

We have always had one reason or the other to hire voiceover artistes. This could be for the purpose of storytelling and narration, advertisement and so on. As beautiful and reliable as that is in executing our tasks, many seem to consider it a waste of resources in terms of funds, energy and time. This is one of the reasons why the innovation of text-to-speech was established. It comes in handy when we do not need voiceover artistes as it serves as a perfect substitute.

Text-to-speech, which is also known as TTS, is a type of supportive technology that assists in reading digital text aloud. It’s sometimes called “read aloud” technology. The benefit of this technology cannot be overemphasised as it has gained a wide reach and global use across many devices such as computers and smartphones of different brands. With the help of softwares for computers (Windows and Mac), applications for smartphones (Android, iPhone, iPad) as well as online platforms, text-to-speech has been made possible and easy as technology keeps evolving.

Today, content creators are grateful for this life-saving innovation as it has dispelled the thoughts of having to do voiceovers themselves (which could be difficult for many). As such, this article comes in handy as it seeks to discuss ten applications or softwares and online platforms for TTS.

BALABOLKA

Balabolka is a Russian word; it can be translated as “chatterer” in English. It’s a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program that reads converts every written piece to audio. This program will install voices on your computer in different languages and deliver the lines in natural sounding voices. It really does a nice job of converting any text to speech. This software also helps with reading books aloud. In the case of reading a book, it can be converted to an audiobook by just copying and pasting it on the software while you select the voice and make necessary adjustments such as changing the range, pitch and volume control.

FEATURES

• Balabolka lets you customise fonts to your taste; this includes change of colour, background and font size and style.
• The program can extract content from documents, and it supports text file formats such as AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3, HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PRC, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS, XLSX.
• The software effortlessly converts texts to audio. Also, you can decide to save your audio in several file formats such as MP3, WAV, MPEG4 for free.
• Another good feature is that it echoes letters or words that you add in settings. More so, you can make Balabolka to pause between sentences.
• The spell check built-in operating system is functional in Balabolka. This feature is available in Windows beginning from Windows 8.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

AVAILABLE LANGUAGES

English, Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.

PROS

• Audio can be changed and designed to your taste. Also, the part of the text you wish to begin from can be selected.
• Balabolka boasts of quality and flexibility, which is amazing for a free text-to-speech software. It has multiple voice options, file formats, and more!
• For starters or inexperienced users, Balabolka is straightforward in terms of installation as it takes seconds to have it on Windows PC. Also, no technical skill is needed to initiate the process.
• Balabolka comes with a timer, which provides you with more flexibility while listening to recordings. Since the program can be controlled with keyboard shortcuts, it helps save a good amount of time that you’d have spent trying to find your way through the interface.
• It has bookmarking tools that let you jump to a specific part of a text. This feature is useful when you are searching for a particular word in the text that is difficult to find especially in a bulky text. This could be for the purpose of editing or proofreading, or for picking up the audio from your place of choice.

CONS

• The voice available in the software is somewhat robotic and reads devoid of expression.
• It does not have an Android version.
• There are limited languages, which strikes the need for update in that respect.
• It lags sometimes as the workload involves colour grading, correction and others.

PANOPRETER

Panopreter is a text-to-speech and text-to-mp3 software program that reads text aloud with natural sounding voices, and converts the text to audio files in WAV, MP3, OGG and flac formats. In a nutshell, you can listen to your own writing without reading it out loud to yourself.

FEATURES

• You can turn the web into an audiobook using Panopreter. If you can copy and paste it, it is certainly possible to listen to it. This includes having a toolbar for Internet Explorer where reading on the web page is made easy. This does not leave Word document and other formats behind.
• The reading speed can be adjusted. Here, you’re given full control in deciding how fast or slow you want the reading to play out.
• Panopreter supports a wide variety of languages and voices to suit your taste as it opens you to multiple choices to choose from to make your user experience worth it.
• Files can be converted in batches. This will save time, rather than having to convert files one after the other. With Panopreter, more can be done in little time.
• Panopreter allows users to customize interface layout, font, text size, text color, highlight color, and background colour.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

PROS

• It helps to highlight the word or sentence that is being read.
• Dictates in many languages and voices.
• It supports batch file conversion supported.
• It gives you a full command on the pitch, volume and speed
• It has keyboard shortcut keys.
• Music accompanies the end of the text reading.
• The inculcation of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word is a great feature that every other TTS software needs to have; Panopreter has made this advantageous.

CONS

• It does not have a mobile version.
• It is limited to Windows.

ZABAWARE

Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader is a software that that makes it possible for your written documents to be read aloud. This program is unique as it makes reading and voiceovers efficient. It will save energy, time and resources especially when you’re considering spending lots of money to hire a voiceover artist for your content creation.

FEATURES

• The Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader is more like a twin of the Windows program WordPad in that it opens any text file (.txt) or rich text file (.rtf). This program can be used to edit, format, and save text files. You can change font type, size, alignment and color using the controls in the toolbar and menu bar.
• Zabaware is capable of reading aloud any text you have copied to the Text-to-Speech Reader.
• The software can also convert text files to WAV format.
• The clipboard function of the Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader automatically monitors your

Clipboard for text changes. Every time you copy some text into the clipboard, this program will automatically read it out loud. This can be great for reading internet pages out loud and email messages.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

PROS

• It helps to place validity on the work you engage.
• Speech error detection is easy by listening to the audio that is being rendered.
• Both male and female voices are available. It also offers the option of listening directly from the window instead of copying and pasting the content on the program.

CONS

• It is available only on Windows.
• It runs for free, but you won’t get the benefits such as better voices, more natural speech and realistic sounds advertised until you purchase the premium version.
• The voiceover gets activated even when it’s not needed. This causes disturbances while working
• The formats it supports are very limited.
• The voice selection is limited.
• It has no merge feature: You can’t merge multiple audio files to make one big audio file. You have to use your own computer.
• It has a poor storage organisation.
• It has only 3000 Characters per voiceover.
• You can’t use multiple voiceovers in a single script.

NOTEVIBES

NoteVibes is an online text to speech application and software that provides both free and paid options for users. It allows you convert your text to natural sounding voices with free MP3 download. In the free version, you have 5000 characters available for testing its functionality. This is good for personal use in working on small projects as it makes it possible for you to hear multiple sentences at once. Notevibes has over 18 languages and 177 unique voices; you won’t have a hard time reading your text due to its natural sounding voices.

FEATURES

• It has 17 languages and 177 voices.
• You can easily add a Background Music.
• It has a DJ voice creation feature.
• You can add pauses, pitch and change the speed of your audio along with emphasis and voice control.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS, ANDROID

PROS

• Its editor is very advanced, and the user has luxury of control over so many things.
• A specific portion of the script can be emphasised; the volume can also be controlled alongside rate and pitch for the specific parts as well. Only few text-to-speech softwares have this feature. This one feature therefore makes it stand out from others. Its voice quality is no different from others.
• Notevibes also lets you make dialogue videos where you can use more than one voice to create a voiceover. Your narration then sounds more creative and captivating when this feature well utilised. There are total 201 voices available in NoteVibes.

CONS

• It has issues with speed, and also produces a highly concentrated robotic sound. Coming along these is its very expensive commercial options. Notevibes can also not read from PDF and docs.
• There is no preview in NoteVibes; you can’t listen to the voice preview of the script; rather, the voiceover has to be generated to listen and to know how a speaker sounds.
• Demos are unavailable. On the homepage, demo can be found and played, but while generating voiceovers, no demo will be found.
• It has no merge feature: You can’t combine multiple audio files to make it one. Almost all major text-to-speech tools have a merge feature, but, Notevibes lags in this respect.
• Voiceover & Editor Page is different. There is one specific page for generating the voiceover and one page for downloading audio files. Switching between both of them will consume time. If you have a big project, switching between both pages will be tiring.
• No Project-Based Structure: This is another feature that you need when you have big project. Keep multiple files in one place can create a mess. You can’t create any project inside Notevibes. This is a very immature structure.

LANGUAGES SUPPORTED

English (us, UK, AU, IN), Spanish, German, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Vietnamese, Korean, Indonesian, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese.

MAC OS TTS

Mac OS X is a built-in text-to-speech software for Mac. This can be used to read your written content aloud anywhere on your computer from Notes app and other formats. This means it has the ability to dictate to you what you have written in order to bring your writing to life. This could come in form of an audiobook, trailer, ads, videogames, tutorials and many more. It has a ton of voices and languages to select from alongside different accents in English language.

FEATURES

• A lot of languages are included other than English and there are a lot of voices to choose along with languages. Although some voices are very robotic, there is a few which aren’t and sound more like a human.
• Text-to-speech on Mac also supports converting your text into audio files.

PROS

• A lot of voice options are available for you to play around to get familiar with.
• Texts can be easily converted to iTunes track.

CONS

• It does not have Pause/Play option.
• For all the words to be read, they have to be selected manually.
• The software is very basic and does not have the feature of picking up or continuing from where it stopped reading like other TTS softwares have.

TTS MP3.com

It is an online software which is very easy to use. TTS MP3 Which converts your text to the English language. It has a variety of preset voices and languages which are related to different countries. This gives you flexibility as it concerns your language choice. The software is user friendly. You can easily gain access to it by visiting www.TTSMP3.com , and it’s free.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: ONLINE

FEATURES

• With TTSMP3.com, you can easily convert text to audio, change speech and pitch, or even whisper.
• A lot of languages are available for you to explore.

PROS

• It supports both Hindi and English languages.

CONS

• The software does not support formats such as DOC, TXT, FB2, DOCX, PDF, RTF, and HTML.

READ ALOUD

Read Aloud is not exactly a stand-alone Mac software but instead, a Chrome extension which might be appealing to some people. When we put to heart how articles and posts are read on the internet every day, Read Aloud had to be devised to come in handy in making reading easier and less stressful. It is completely free and once it is installed, its icon will be displayed in the extension bar which can now be use to read any webpage or any article found online just by a single click. When it is in use, you get a play/pause button alongside a forward or rewind button which can be useful in advancing or backtracking paragraphs. Considering the fact that it is free to use, the voice options are really good and sound very natural.

FEATURES

• It can extract texts online to convert them into audio files.
• It possesses an exceptional feature of backtracking paragraphs.
• It helps you listen to audio files at your own pace, speed in natural sounding voices and different accents. Text typed in the app and text extracted from any photo uploaded is converted to an audio file.

PROS

• It has a great natural voice.
• It is completely secure as it ensures confidentiality. This is useful for people who would love to keep their data private.
• It helps people with social needs to listen to any text in different languages. This is very useful for those who are limited in language varieties.

CONS

• It can work only on Chrome.

SPEAK4ME

As its name implies, Speak4me literally speaks for you! Like other TTS softwares and apps, Speak4Me works as an instrument of text conversion into audio. One advantage this application has is that it can enhance multitasking. When you have to read and make tea or coffee, or cook at the same time, you don’t have to move around with the text material; all you have to do is to allow Speak4me to do what it was made to do. This is therefore a software to consider in turning your writing to speaking without much stress. With amazing features like changing the rate and pitch of the voice alongside volume control and an array of voices to choose from which comes with a variety of languages, it affords you flexibility regarding your choice of usage. It also allows you to share your audio on the social media, and you can decide to save them locally for later use.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: iPHONE, iPAD

FEATURES

• With Speak4Me, you can easily navigate the control speech generator volume, pitch and rate of speech.
• It filters all the PDFs easily; it highlights the text as you go along too.
• It has a fully customizable reading experience: Adjustment font size, font and background colours, alignment, line spacing to best suit your preference and much more is available on the software.
• Speak4Me can speak PDF in languages such as English and Hindi.

PROS

• It comes with a Night Mode functionality to facilitate a comfortable reading in dark environments.
• The software has smooth navigation, auto scroll and can search for words to jump to a point in your text. This feature comes in handy especially when you have a bulky text to work on.
• With Speak4Me, your eyes are guarded from smartphone light rays.

CONS

• The languages are limited.
• If your device does not have a TTS engine of that language, speaking will not be supported.

NATURAL READER

Natural Reader is a text-to-speech app that covers your text, webpages, eBooks, and webpages aloud to you with quality and natural-sounding voices. NaturalReader is a useful tool for those who have dyslexia and other reading difficulties. 50 voices in over 20 languages are therefore available for you to open up your ears to.

FEATURES

• Adjustment of speaker’s speed: This feature enables you to adjust the speed of a selected speaker. This gives you control on how slow or fast you want the speech to be rendered.
• It is able to read email attachments; it also grants access to Dropbox, Google Drive or One Drive.

PROS

• The pronunciation editor gives you control on how you want certain words to be pronounced. This way, you can fine-tune the pronunciation of new or unusual words, or improve the readability of acronyms.

CONS

• Access can only be gained to additional features when you upgrade to the pro version.
• The application crashes lags a bit when there is too much text pasted for the application to process.
• It sometimes skips lines.
• Its sound becomes unpleasant when volume is too high.

NARRATOR’S VOICE

This application helps convert text to speech with a wide variety of voices in many languages. Narrator’s Voice app lets you create and share amusing messages using a narrator’s voice of your choice with a wide range of languages and reliable, pleasant sound voices. The end result is a customised narration of your original message, which you can share as desired. Videos are one of the hottest projects for Narrator’s Voice, letting the narrator explain or comment on whatever is happening on the screen. In fact, many people have been using the Narrator’s Voice app to add audio to their YouTube and TikTok videos, giving them a distinct voice that enhances the overall video’s vibe.

FEATURES SUPPORT SYSTEM: iPHONE, iPAD AND WINDOWS

• It executes your tasks with voices alongside effects in many languages.
• New voices have been added, which makes it +380 voices in total.
• It has waveform graphics for your to monitor the height and depth of the sound of your audio.

PROS

• Theme can be changed to Dark or Light.
• It has the ability to turn images to text.

CONS

• Too many ads roll out in the free version.
• The sound and vocal is not loud enough.

Technology has always been in the business of amazing man with its extraordinary abilities. The brain of man has a role to play in this awe as these inventions are not without man’s input. As such, daily improvements are ensured to build upon the existing technology - the computer system.

We have always had one reason or the other to hire voiceover artistes. This could be for the purpose of storytelling and narration, advertisement and so on. As beautiful and reliable as that is in executing our tasks, many seem to consider it a waste of resources in terms of funds, energy and time. This is one of the reasons why the innovation of text-to-speech was established. It comes in handy when we do not need voiceover artistes as it serves as a perfect substitute.

Text-to-speech, which is also known as TTS, is a type of supportive technology that assists in reading digital text aloud. It’s sometimes called “read aloud” technology. The benefit of this technology cannot be overemphasised as it has gained a wide reach and global use across many devices such as computers and smartphones of different brands. With the help of softwares for computers (Windows and Mac), applications for smartphones (Android, iPhone, iPad) as well as online platforms, text-to-speech has been made possible and easy as technology keeps evolving.

Today, content creators are grateful for this life-saving innovation as it has dispelled the thoughts of having to do voiceovers themselves (which could be difficult for many). As such, this article comes in handy as it seeks to discuss ten applications or softwares and online platforms for TTS.

BALABOLKA

Balabolka is a Russian word; it can be translated as “chatterer” in English. It’s a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program that reads converts every written piece to audio. This program will install voices on your computer in different languages and deliver the lines in natural sounding voices. It really does a nice job of converting any text to speech. This software also helps with reading books aloud. In the case of reading a book, it can be converted to an audiobook by just copying and pasting it on the software while you select the voice and make necessary adjustments such as changing the range, pitch and volume control.

FEATURES

• Balabolka lets you customise fonts to your taste; this includes change of colour, background and font size and style.
• The program can extract content from documents, and it supports text file formats such as AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3, HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PRC, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS, XLSX.
• The software effortlessly converts texts to audio. Also, you can decide to save your audio in several file formats such as MP3, WAV, MPEG4 for free.
• Another good feature is that it echoes letters or words that you add in settings. More so, you can make Balabolka to pause between sentences.
• The spell check built-in operating system is functional in Balabolka. This feature is available in Windows beginning from Windows 8.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

AVAILABLE LANGUAGES

English, Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.

PROS

• Audio can be changed and designed to your taste. Also, the part of the text you wish to begin from can be selected.
• Balabolka boasts of quality and flexibility, which is amazing for a free text-to-speech software. It has multiple voice options, file formats, and more!
• For starters or inexperienced users, Balabolka is straightforward in terms of installation as it takes seconds to have it on Windows PC. Also, no technical skill is needed to initiate the process.
• Balabolka comes with a timer, which provides you with more flexibility while listening to recordings. Since the program can be controlled with keyboard shortcuts, it helps save a good amount of time that you’d have spent trying to find your way through the interface.
• It has bookmarking tools that let you jump to a specific part of a text. This feature is useful when you are searching for a particular word in the text that is difficult to find especially in a bulky text. This could be for the purpose of editing or proofreading, or for picking up the audio from your place of choice.

CONS

• The voice available in the software is somewhat robotic and reads devoid of expression.
• It does not have an Android version.
• There are limited languages, which strikes the need for update in that respect.
• It lags sometimes as the workload involves colour grading, correction and others.

PANOPRETER

Panopreter is a text-to-speech and text-to-mp3 software program that reads text aloud with natural sounding voices, and converts the text to audio files in WAV, MP3, OGG and flac formats. In a nutshell, you can listen to your own writing without reading it out loud to yourself.

FEATURES

• You can turn the web into an audiobook using Panopreter. If you can copy and paste it, it is certainly possible to listen to it. This includes having a toolbar for Internet Explorer where reading on the web page is made easy. This does not leave Word document and other formats behind.
• The reading speed can be adjusted. Here, you’re given full control in deciding how fast or slow you want the reading to play out.
• Panopreter supports a wide variety of languages and voices to suit your taste as it opens you to multiple choices to choose from to make your user experience worth it.
• Files can be converted in batches. This will save time, rather than having to convert files one after the other. With Panopreter, more can be done in little time.
• Panopreter allows users to customize interface layout, font, text size, text color, highlight color, and background colour.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

PROS

• It helps to highlight the word or sentence that is being read.
• Dictates in many languages and voices.
• It supports batch file conversion supported.
• It gives you a full command on the pitch, volume and speed
• It has keyboard shortcut keys.
• Music accompanies the end of the text reading.
• The inculcation of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word is a great feature that every other TTS software needs to have; Panopreter has made this advantageous.

CONS

• It does not have a mobile version.
• It is limited to Windows.

ZABAWARE

Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader is a software that that makes it possible for your written documents to be read aloud. This program is unique as it makes reading and voiceovers efficient. It will save energy, time and resources especially when you’re considering spending lots of money to hire a voiceover artist for your content creation.

FEATURES

• The Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader is more like a twin of the Windows program WordPad in that it opens any text file (.txt) or rich text file (.rtf). This program can be used to edit, format, and save text files. You can change font type, size, alignment and color using the controls in the toolbar and menu bar.
• Zabaware is capable of reading aloud any text you have copied to the Text-to-Speech Reader.
• The software can also convert text files to WAV format.
• The clipboard function of the Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader automatically monitors your

Clipboard for text changes. Every time you copy some text into the clipboard, this program will automatically read it out loud. This can be great for reading internet pages out loud and email messages.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

PROS

• It helps to place validity on the work you engage.
• Speech error detection is easy by listening to the audio that is being rendered.
• Both male and female voices are available. It also offers the option of listening directly from the window instead of copying and pasting the content on the program.

CONS

• It is available only on Windows.
• It runs for free, but you won’t get the benefits such as better voices, more natural speech and realistic sounds advertised until you purchase the premium version.
• The voiceover gets activated even when it’s not needed. This causes disturbances while working
• The formats it supports are very limited.
• The voice selection is limited.
• It has no merge feature: You can’t merge multiple audio files to make one big audio file. You have to use your own computer.
• It has a poor storage organisation.
• It has only 3000 Characters per voiceover.
• You can’t use multiple voiceovers in a single script.

NOTEVIBES

NoteVibes is an online text to speech application and software that provides both free and paid options for users. It allows you convert your text to natural sounding voices with free MP3 download. In the free version, you have 5000 characters available for testing its functionality. This is good for personal use in working on small projects as it makes it possible for you to hear multiple sentences at once. Notevibes has over 18 languages and 177 unique voices; you won’t have a hard time reading your text due to its natural sounding voices.

FEATURES

• It has 17 languages and 177 voices.
• You can easily add a Background Music.
• It has a DJ voice creation feature.
• You can add pauses, pitch and change the speed of your audio along with emphasis and voice control.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS, ANDROID

PROS

• Its editor is very advanced, and the user has luxury of control over so many things.
• A specific portion of the script can be emphasised; the volume can also be controlled alongside rate and pitch for the specific parts as well. Only few text-to-speech softwares have this feature. This one feature therefore makes it stand out from others. Its voice quality is no different from others.
• Notevibes also lets you make dialogue videos where you can use more than one voice to create a voiceover. Your narration then sounds more creative and captivating when this feature well utilised. There are total 201 voices available in NoteVibes.

CONS

• It has issues with speed, and also produces a highly concentrated robotic sound. Coming along these is its very expensive commercial options. Notevibes can also not read from PDF and docs.
• There is no preview in NoteVibes; you can’t listen to the voice preview of the script; rather, the voiceover has to be generated to listen and to know how a speaker sounds.
• Demos are unavailable. On the homepage, demo can be found and played, but while generating voiceovers, no demo will be found.
• It has no merge feature: You can’t combine multiple audio files to make it one. Almost all major text-to-speech tools have a merge feature, but, Notevibes lags in this respect.
• Voiceover & Editor Page is different. There is one specific page for generating the voiceover and one page for downloading audio files. Switching between both of them will consume time. If you have a big project, switching between both pages will be tiring.
• No Project-Based Structure: This is another feature that you need when you have big project. Keep multiple files in one place can create a mess. You can’t create any project inside Notevibes. This is a very immature structure.

LANGUAGES SUPPORTED

English (us, UK, AU, IN), Spanish, German, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Vietnamese, Korean, Indonesian, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese.

MAC OS TTS

Mac OS X is a built-in text-to-speech software for Mac. This can be used to read your written content aloud anywhere on your computer from Notes app and other formats. This means it has the ability to dictate to you what you have written in order to bring your writing to life. This could come in form of an audiobook, trailer, ads, videogames, tutorials and many more. It has a ton of voices and languages to select from alongside different accents in English language.

FEATURES

• A lot of languages are included other than English and there are a lot of voices to choose along with languages. Although some voices are very robotic, there is a few which aren’t and sound more like a human.
• Text-to-speech on Mac also supports converting your text into audio files.

PROS

• A lot of voice options are available for you to play around to get familiar with.
• Texts can be easily converted to iTunes track.

CONS

• It does not have Pause/Play option.
• For all the words to be read, they have to be selected manually.
• The software is very basic and does not have the feature of picking up or continuing from where it stopped reading like other TTS softwares have.

TTS MP3.com

It is an online software which is very easy to use. TTS MP3 Which converts your text to the English language. It has a variety of preset voices and languages which are related to different countries. This gives you flexibility as it concerns your language choice. The software is user friendly. You can easily gain access to it by visiting www.TTSMP3.com , and it’s free.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: ONLINE

FEATURES

• With TTSMP3.com, you can easily convert text to audio, change speech and pitch, or even whisper.
• A lot of languages are available for you to explore.

PROS

• It supports both Hindi and English languages.

CONS

• The software does not support formats such as DOC, TXT, FB2, DOCX, PDF, RTF, and HTML.

READ ALOUD

Read Aloud is not exactly a stand-alone Mac software but instead, a Chrome extension which might be appealing to some people. When we put to heart how articles and posts are read on the internet every day, Read Aloud had to be devised to come in handy in making reading easier and less stressful. It is completely free and once it is installed, its icon will be displayed in the extension bar which can now be use to read any webpage or any article found online just by a single click. When it is in use, you get a play/pause button alongside a forward or rewind button which can be useful in advancing or backtracking paragraphs. Considering the fact that it is free to use, the voice options are really good and sound very natural.

FEATURES

• It can extract texts online to convert them into audio files.
• It possesses an exceptional feature of backtracking paragraphs.
• It helps you listen to audio files at your own pace, speed in natural sounding voices and different accents. Text typed in the app and text extracted from any photo uploaded is converted to an audio file.

PROS

• It has a great natural voice.
• It is completely secure as it ensures confidentiality. This is useful for people who would love to keep their data private.
• It helps people with social needs to listen to any text in different languages. This is very useful for those who are limited in language varieties.

CONS

• It can work only on Chrome.

SPEAK4ME

As its name implies, Speak4me literally speaks for you! Like other TTS softwares and apps, Speak4Me works as an instrument of text conversion into audio. One advantage this application has is that it can enhance multitasking. When you have to read and make tea or coffee, or cook at the same time, you don’t have to move around with the text material; all you have to do is to allow Speak4me to do what it was made to do. This is therefore a software to consider in turning your writing to speaking without much stress. With amazing features like changing the rate and pitch of the voice alongside volume control and an array of voices to choose from which comes with a variety of languages, it affords you flexibility regarding your choice of usage. It also allows you to share your audio on the social media, and you can decide to save them locally for later use.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: iPHONE, iPAD

FEATURES

• With Speak4Me, you can easily navigate the control speech generator volume, pitch and rate of speech.
• It filters all the PDFs easily; it highlights the text as you go along too.
• It has a fully customizable reading experience: Adjustment font size, font and background colours, alignment, line spacing to best suit your preference and much more is available on the software.
• Speak4Me can speak PDF in languages such as English and Hindi.

PROS

• It comes with a Night Mode functionality to facilitate a comfortable reading in dark environments.
• The software has smooth navigation, auto scroll and can search for words to jump to a point in your text. This feature comes in handy especially when you have a bulky text to work on.
• With Speak4Me, your eyes are guarded from smartphone light rays.

CONS

• The languages are limited.
• If your device does not have a TTS engine of that language, speaking will not be supported.

NATURAL READER

Natural Reader is a text-to-speech app that covers your text, webpages, eBooks, and webpages aloud to you with quality and natural-sounding voices. NaturalReader is a useful tool for those who have dyslexia and other reading difficulties. 50 voices in over 20 languages are therefore available for you to open up your ears to.

FEATURES

• Adjustment of speaker’s speed: This feature enables you to adjust the speed of a selected speaker. This gives you control on how slow or fast you want the speech to be rendered.
• It is able to read email attachments; it also grants access to Dropbox, Google Drive or One Drive.

PROS

• The pronunciation editor gives you control on how you want certain words to be pronounced. This way, you can fine-tune the pronunciation of new or unusual words, or improve the readability of acronyms.

CONS

• Access can only be gained to additional features when you upgrade to the pro version.
• The application crashes lags a bit when there is too much text pasted for the application to process.
• It sometimes skips lines.
• Its sound becomes unpleasant when volume is too high.

NARRATOR’S VOICE

This application helps convert text to speech with a wide variety of voices in many languages. Narrator’s Voice app lets you create and share amusing messages using a narrator’s voice of your choice with a wide range of languages and reliable, pleasant sound voices. The end result is a customised narration of your original message, which you can share as desired. Videos are one of the hottest projects for Narrator’s Voice, letting the narrator explain or comment on whatever is happening on the screen. In fact, many people have been using the Narrator’s Voice app to add audio to their YouTube and TikTok videos, giving them a distinct voice that enhances the overall video’s vibe.

FEATURES SUPPORT SYSTEM: iPHONE, iPAD AND WINDOWS

• It executes your tasks with voices alongside effects in many languages.
• New voices have been added, which makes it +380 voices in total.
• It has waveform graphics for your to monitor the height and depth of the sound of your audio.

PROS

• Theme can be changed to Dark or Light.
• It has the ability to turn images to text.

CONS

• Too many ads roll out in the free version.
• The sound and vocal is not loud enough.

Technology has always been in the business of amazing man with its extraordinary abilities. The brain of man has a role to play in this awe as these inventions are not without man’s input. As such, daily improvements are ensured to build upon the existing technology - the computer system.

We have always had one reason or the other to hire voiceover artistes. This could be for the purpose of storytelling and narration, advertisement and so on. As beautiful and reliable as that is in executing our tasks, many seem to consider it a waste of resources in terms of funds, energy and time. This is one of the reasons why the innovation of text-to-speech was established. It comes in handy when we do not need voiceover artistes as it serves as a perfect substitute.

Text-to-speech, which is also known as TTS, is a type of supportive technology that assists in reading digital text aloud. It’s sometimes called “read aloud” technology. The benefit of this technology cannot be overemphasised as it has gained a wide reach and global use across many devices such as computers and smartphones of different brands. With the help of softwares for computers (Windows and Mac), applications for smartphones (Android, iPhone, iPad) as well as online platforms, text-to-speech has been made possible and easy as technology keeps evolving.

Today, content creators are grateful for this life-saving innovation as it has dispelled the thoughts of having to do voiceovers themselves (which could be difficult for many). As such, this article comes in handy as it seeks to discuss ten applications or softwares and online platforms for TTS.

BALABOLKA

Balabolka is a Russian word; it can be translated as “chatterer” in English. It’s a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program that reads converts every written piece to audio. This program will install voices on your computer in different languages and deliver the lines in natural sounding voices. It really does a nice job of converting any text to speech. This software also helps with reading books aloud. In the case of reading a book, it can be converted to an audiobook by just copying and pasting it on the software while you select the voice and make necessary adjustments such as changing the range, pitch and volume control.

FEATURES

• Balabolka lets you customise fonts to your taste; this includes change of colour, background and font size and style.
• The program can extract content from documents, and it supports text file formats such as AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3, HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PRC, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS, XLSX.
• The software effortlessly converts texts to audio. Also, you can decide to save your audio in several file formats such as MP3, WAV, MPEG4 for free.
• Another good feature is that it echoes letters or words that you add in settings. More so, you can make Balabolka to pause between sentences.
• The spell check built-in operating system is functional in Balabolka. This feature is available in Windows beginning from Windows 8.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

AVAILABLE LANGUAGES

English, Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.

PROS

• Audio can be changed and designed to your taste. Also, the part of the text you wish to begin from can be selected.
• Balabolka boasts of quality and flexibility, which is amazing for a free text-to-speech software. It has multiple voice options, file formats, and more!
• For starters or inexperienced users, Balabolka is straightforward in terms of installation as it takes seconds to have it on Windows PC. Also, no technical skill is needed to initiate the process.
• Balabolka comes with a timer, which provides you with more flexibility while listening to recordings. Since the program can be controlled with keyboard shortcuts, it helps save a good amount of time that you’d have spent trying to find your way through the interface.
• It has bookmarking tools that let you jump to a specific part of a text. This feature is useful when you are searching for a particular word in the text that is difficult to find especially in a bulky text. This could be for the purpose of editing or proofreading, or for picking up the audio from your place of choice.

CONS

• The voice available in the software is somewhat robotic and reads devoid of expression.
• It does not have an Android version.
• There are limited languages, which strikes the need for update in that respect.
• It lags sometimes as the workload involves colour grading, correction and others.

PANOPRETER

Panopreter is a text-to-speech and text-to-mp3 software program that reads text aloud with natural sounding voices, and converts the text to audio files in WAV, MP3, OGG and flac formats. In a nutshell, you can listen to your own writing without reading it out loud to yourself.

FEATURES

• You can turn the web into an audiobook using Panopreter. If you can copy and paste it, it is certainly possible to listen to it. This includes having a toolbar for Internet Explorer where reading on the web page is made easy. This does not leave Word document and other formats behind.
• The reading speed can be adjusted. Here, you’re given full control in deciding how fast or slow you want the reading to play out.
• Panopreter supports a wide variety of languages and voices to suit your taste as it opens you to multiple choices to choose from to make your user experience worth it.
• Files can be converted in batches. This will save time, rather than having to convert files one after the other. With Panopreter, more can be done in little time.
• Panopreter allows users to customize interface layout, font, text size, text color, highlight color, and background colour.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

PROS

• It helps to highlight the word or sentence that is being read.
• Dictates in many languages and voices.
• It supports batch file conversion supported.
• It gives you a full command on the pitch, volume and speed
• It has keyboard shortcut keys.
• Music accompanies the end of the text reading.
• The inculcation of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word is a great feature that every other TTS software needs to have; Panopreter has made this advantageous.

CONS

• It does not have a mobile version.
• It is limited to Windows.

ZABAWARE

Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader is a software that that makes it possible for your written documents to be read aloud. This program is unique as it makes reading and voiceovers efficient. It will save energy, time and resources especially when you’re considering spending lots of money to hire a voiceover artist for your content creation.

FEATURES

• The Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader is more like a twin of the Windows program WordPad in that it opens any text file (.txt) or rich text file (.rtf). This program can be used to edit, format, and save text files. You can change font type, size, alignment and color using the controls in the toolbar and menu bar.
• Zabaware is capable of reading aloud any text you have copied to the Text-to-Speech Reader.
• The software can also convert text files to WAV format.
• The clipboard function of the Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader automatically monitors your

Clipboard for text changes. Every time you copy some text into the clipboard, this program will automatically read it out loud. This can be great for reading internet pages out loud and email messages.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

PROS

• It helps to place validity on the work you engage.
• Speech error detection is easy by listening to the audio that is being rendered.
• Both male and female voices are available. It also offers the option of listening directly from the window instead of copying and pasting the content on the program.

CONS

• It is available only on Windows.
• It runs for free, but you won’t get the benefits such as better voices, more natural speech and realistic sounds advertised until you purchase the premium version.
• The voiceover gets activated even when it’s not needed. This causes disturbances while working
• The formats it supports are very limited.
• The voice selection is limited.
• It has no merge feature: You can’t merge multiple audio files to make one big audio file. You have to use your own computer.
• It has a poor storage organisation.
• It has only 3000 Characters per voiceover.
• You can’t use multiple voiceovers in a single script.

NOTEVIBES

NoteVibes is an online text to speech application and software that provides both free and paid options for users. It allows you convert your text to natural sounding voices with free MP3 download. In the free version, you have 5000 characters available for testing its functionality. This is good for personal use in working on small projects as it makes it possible for you to hear multiple sentences at once. Notevibes has over 18 languages and 177 unique voices; you won’t have a hard time reading your text due to its natural sounding voices.

FEATURES

• It has 17 languages and 177 voices.
• You can easily add a Background Music.
• It has a DJ voice creation feature.
• You can add pauses, pitch and change the speed of your audio along with emphasis and voice control.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS, ANDROID

PROS

• Its editor is very advanced, and the user has luxury of control over so many things.
• A specific portion of the script can be emphasised; the volume can also be controlled alongside rate and pitch for the specific parts as well. Only few text-to-speech softwares have this feature. This one feature therefore makes it stand out from others. Its voice quality is no different from others.
• Notevibes also lets you make dialogue videos where you can use more than one voice to create a voiceover. Your narration then sounds more creative and captivating when this feature well utilised. There are total 201 voices available in NoteVibes.

CONS

• It has issues with speed, and also produces a highly concentrated robotic sound. Coming along these is its very expensive commercial options. Notevibes can also not read from PDF and docs.
• There is no preview in NoteVibes; you can’t listen to the voice preview of the script; rather, the voiceover has to be generated to listen and to know how a speaker sounds.
• Demos are unavailable. On the homepage, demo can be found and played, but while generating voiceovers, no demo will be found.
• It has no merge feature: You can’t combine multiple audio files to make it one. Almost all major text-to-speech tools have a merge feature, but, Notevibes lags in this respect.
• Voiceover & Editor Page is different. There is one specific page for generating the voiceover and one page for downloading audio files. Switching between both of them will consume time. If you have a big project, switching between both pages will be tiring.
• No Project-Based Structure: This is another feature that you need when you have big project. Keep multiple files in one place can create a mess. You can’t create any project inside Notevibes. This is a very immature structure.

LANGUAGES SUPPORTED

English (us, UK, AU, IN), Spanish, German, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Vietnamese, Korean, Indonesian, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese.

MAC OS TTS

Mac OS X is a built-in text-to-speech software for Mac. This can be used to read your written content aloud anywhere on your computer from Notes app and other formats. This means it has the ability to dictate to you what you have written in order to bring your writing to life. This could come in form of an audiobook, trailer, ads, videogames, tutorials and many more. It has a ton of voices and languages to select from alongside different accents in English language.

FEATURES

• A lot of languages are included other than English and there are a lot of voices to choose along with languages. Although some voices are very robotic, there is a few which aren’t and sound more like a human.
• Text-to-speech on Mac also supports converting your text into audio files.

PROS

• A lot of voice options are available for you to play around to get familiar with.
• Texts can be easily converted to iTunes track.

CONS

• It does not have Pause/Play option.
• For all the words to be read, they have to be selected manually.
• The software is very basic and does not have the feature of picking up or continuing from where it stopped reading like other TTS softwares have.

TTS MP3.com

It is an online software which is very easy to use. TTS MP3 Which converts your text to the English language. It has a variety of preset voices and languages which are related to different countries. This gives you flexibility as it concerns your language choice. The software is user friendly. You can easily gain access to it by visiting www.TTSMP3.com , and it’s free.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: ONLINE

FEATURES

• With TTSMP3.com, you can easily convert text to audio, change speech and pitch, or even whisper.
• A lot of languages are available for you to explore.

PROS

• It supports both Hindi and English languages.

CONS

• The software does not support formats such as DOC, TXT, FB2, DOCX, PDF, RTF, and HTML.

READ ALOUD

Read Aloud is not exactly a stand-alone Mac software but instead, a Chrome extension which might be appealing to some people. When we put to heart how articles and posts are read on the internet every day, Read Aloud had to be devised to come in handy in making reading easier and less stressful. It is completely free and once it is installed, its icon will be displayed in the extension bar which can now be use to read any webpage or any article found online just by a single click. When it is in use, you get a play/pause button alongside a forward or rewind button which can be useful in advancing or backtracking paragraphs. Considering the fact that it is free to use, the voice options are really good and sound very natural.

FEATURES

• It can extract texts online to convert them into audio files.
• It possesses an exceptional feature of backtracking paragraphs.
• It helps you listen to audio files at your own pace, speed in natural sounding voices and different accents. Text typed in the app and text extracted from any photo uploaded is converted to an audio file.

PROS

• It has a great natural voice.
• It is completely secure as it ensures confidentiality. This is useful for people who would love to keep their data private.
• It helps people with social needs to listen to any text in different languages. This is very useful for those who are limited in language varieties.

CONS

• It can work only on Chrome.

SPEAK4ME

As its name implies, Speak4me literally speaks for you! Like other TTS softwares and apps, Speak4Me works as an instrument of text conversion into audio. One advantage this application has is that it can enhance multitasking. When you have to read and make tea or coffee, or cook at the same time, you don’t have to move around with the text material; all you have to do is to allow Speak4me to do what it was made to do. This is therefore a software to consider in turning your writing to speaking without much stress. With amazing features like changing the rate and pitch of the voice alongside volume control and an array of voices to choose from which comes with a variety of languages, it affords you flexibility regarding your choice of usage. It also allows you to share your audio on the social media, and you can decide to save them locally for later use.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: iPHONE, iPAD

FEATURES

• With Speak4Me, you can easily navigate the control speech generator volume, pitch and rate of speech.
• It filters all the PDFs easily; it highlights the text as you go along too.
• It has a fully customizable reading experience: Adjustment font size, font and background colours, alignment, line spacing to best suit your preference and much more is available on the software.
• Speak4Me can speak PDF in languages such as English and Hindi.

PROS

• It comes with a Night Mode functionality to facilitate a comfortable reading in dark environments.
• The software has smooth navigation, auto scroll and can search for words to jump to a point in your text. This feature comes in handy especially when you have a bulky text to work on.
• With Speak4Me, your eyes are guarded from smartphone light rays.

CONS

• The languages are limited.
• If your device does not have a TTS engine of that language, speaking will not be supported.

NATURAL READER

Natural Reader is a text-to-speech app that covers your text, webpages, eBooks, and webpages aloud to you with quality and natural-sounding voices. NaturalReader is a useful tool for those who have dyslexia and other reading difficulties. 50 voices in over 20 languages are therefore available for you to open up your ears to.

FEATURES

• Adjustment of speaker’s speed: This feature enables you to adjust the speed of a selected speaker. This gives you control on how slow or fast you want the speech to be rendered.
• It is able to read email attachments; it also grants access to Dropbox, Google Drive or One Drive.

PROS

• The pronunciation editor gives you control on how you want certain words to be pronounced. This way, you can fine-tune the pronunciation of new or unusual words, or improve the readability of acronyms.

CONS

• Access can only be gained to additional features when you upgrade to the pro version.
• The application crashes lags a bit when there is too much text pasted for the application to process.
• It sometimes skips lines.
• Its sound becomes unpleasant when volume is too high.

NARRATOR’S VOICE

This application helps convert text to speech with a wide variety of voices in many languages. Narrator’s Voice app lets you create and share amusing messages using a narrator’s voice of your choice with a wide range of languages and reliable, pleasant sound voices. The end result is a customised narration of your original message, which you can share as desired. Videos are one of the hottest projects for Narrator’s Voice, letting the narrator explain or comment on whatever is happening on the screen. In fact, many people have been using the Narrator’s Voice app to add audio to their YouTube and TikTok videos, giving them a distinct voice that enhances the overall video’s vibe.

FEATURES SUPPORT SYSTEM: iPHONE, iPAD AND WINDOWS

• It executes your tasks with voices alongside effects in many languages.
• New voices have been added, which makes it +380 voices in total.
• It has waveform graphics for your to monitor the height and depth of the sound of your audio.

PROS

• Theme can be changed to Dark or Light.
• It has the ability to turn images to text.

CONS

• Too many ads roll out in the free version.
• The sound and vocal is not loud enough.

Technology has always been in the business of amazing man with its extraordinary abilities. The brain of man has a role to play in this awe as these inventions are not without man’s input. As such, daily improvements are ensured to build upon the existing technology - the computer system.

We have always had one reason or the other to hire voiceover artistes. This could be for the purpose of storytelling and narration, advertisement and so on. As beautiful and reliable as that is in executing our tasks, many seem to consider it a waste of resources in terms of funds, energy and time. This is one of the reasons why the innovation of text-to-speech was established. It comes in handy when we do not need voiceover artistes as it serves as a perfect substitute.

Text-to-speech, which is also known as TTS, is a type of supportive technology that assists in reading digital text aloud. It’s sometimes called “read aloud” technology. The benefit of this technology cannot be overemphasised as it has gained a wide reach and global use across many devices such as computers and smartphones of different brands. With the help of softwares for computers (Windows and Mac), applications for smartphones (Android, iPhone, iPad) as well as online platforms, text-to-speech has been made possible and easy as technology keeps evolving.

Today, content creators are grateful for this life-saving innovation as it has dispelled the thoughts of having to do voiceovers themselves (which could be difficult for many). As such, this article comes in handy as it seeks to discuss ten applications or softwares and online platforms for TTS.

BALABOLKA

Balabolka is a Russian word; it can be translated as “chatterer” in English. It’s a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program that reads converts every written piece to audio. This program will install voices on your computer in different languages and deliver the lines in natural sounding voices. It really does a nice job of converting any text to speech. This software also helps with reading books aloud. In the case of reading a book, it can be converted to an audiobook by just copying and pasting it on the software while you select the voice and make necessary adjustments such as changing the range, pitch and volume control.

FEATURES

• Balabolka lets you customise fonts to your taste; this includes change of colour, background and font size and style.
• The program can extract content from documents, and it supports text file formats such as AZW, AZW3, CHM, DjVu, DOC, DOCX, EML, EPUB, FB2, FB3, HTML, LIT, MD, MOBI, ODP, ODS, ODT, PDB, PRC, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, TCR, WPD, XLS, XLSX.
• The software effortlessly converts texts to audio. Also, you can decide to save your audio in several file formats such as MP3, WAV, MPEG4 for free.
• Another good feature is that it echoes letters or words that you add in settings. More so, you can make Balabolka to pause between sentences.
• The spell check built-in operating system is functional in Balabolka. This feature is available in Windows beginning from Windows 8.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

AVAILABLE LANGUAGES

English, Arabic, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese.

PROS

• Audio can be changed and designed to your taste. Also, the part of the text you wish to begin from can be selected.
• Balabolka boasts of quality and flexibility, which is amazing for a free text-to-speech software. It has multiple voice options, file formats, and more!
• For starters or inexperienced users, Balabolka is straightforward in terms of installation as it takes seconds to have it on Windows PC. Also, no technical skill is needed to initiate the process.
• Balabolka comes with a timer, which provides you with more flexibility while listening to recordings. Since the program can be controlled with keyboard shortcuts, it helps save a good amount of time that you’d have spent trying to find your way through the interface.
• It has bookmarking tools that let you jump to a specific part of a text. This feature is useful when you are searching for a particular word in the text that is difficult to find especially in a bulky text. This could be for the purpose of editing or proofreading, or for picking up the audio from your place of choice.

CONS

• The voice available in the software is somewhat robotic and reads devoid of expression.
• It does not have an Android version.
• There are limited languages, which strikes the need for update in that respect.
• It lags sometimes as the workload involves colour grading, correction and others.

PANOPRETER

Panopreter is a text-to-speech and text-to-mp3 software program that reads text aloud with natural sounding voices, and converts the text to audio files in WAV, MP3, OGG and flac formats. In a nutshell, you can listen to your own writing without reading it out loud to yourself.

FEATURES

• You can turn the web into an audiobook using Panopreter. If you can copy and paste it, it is certainly possible to listen to it. This includes having a toolbar for Internet Explorer where reading on the web page is made easy. This does not leave Word document and other formats behind.
• The reading speed can be adjusted. Here, you’re given full control in deciding how fast or slow you want the reading to play out.
• Panopreter supports a wide variety of languages and voices to suit your taste as it opens you to multiple choices to choose from to make your user experience worth it.
• Files can be converted in batches. This will save time, rather than having to convert files one after the other. With Panopreter, more can be done in little time.
• Panopreter allows users to customize interface layout, font, text size, text color, highlight color, and background colour.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

PROS

• It helps to highlight the word or sentence that is being read.
• Dictates in many languages and voices.
• It supports batch file conversion supported.
• It gives you a full command on the pitch, volume and speed
• It has keyboard shortcut keys.
• Music accompanies the end of the text reading.
• The inculcation of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word is a great feature that every other TTS software needs to have; Panopreter has made this advantageous.

CONS

• It does not have a mobile version.
• It is limited to Windows.

ZABAWARE

Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader is a software that that makes it possible for your written documents to be read aloud. This program is unique as it makes reading and voiceovers efficient. It will save energy, time and resources especially when you’re considering spending lots of money to hire a voiceover artist for your content creation.

FEATURES

• The Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader is more like a twin of the Windows program WordPad in that it opens any text file (.txt) or rich text file (.rtf). This program can be used to edit, format, and save text files. You can change font type, size, alignment and color using the controls in the toolbar and menu bar.
• Zabaware is capable of reading aloud any text you have copied to the Text-to-Speech Reader.
• The software can also convert text files to WAV format.
• The clipboard function of the Zabaware Text-to-Speech Reader automatically monitors your

Clipboard for text changes. Every time you copy some text into the clipboard, this program will automatically read it out loud. This can be great for reading internet pages out loud and email messages.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS

PROS

• It helps to place validity on the work you engage.
• Speech error detection is easy by listening to the audio that is being rendered.
• Both male and female voices are available. It also offers the option of listening directly from the window instead of copying and pasting the content on the program.

CONS

• It is available only on Windows.
• It runs for free, but you won’t get the benefits such as better voices, more natural speech and realistic sounds advertised until you purchase the premium version.
• The voiceover gets activated even when it’s not needed. This causes disturbances while working
• The formats it supports are very limited.
• The voice selection is limited.
• It has no merge feature: You can’t merge multiple audio files to make one big audio file. You have to use your own computer.
• It has a poor storage organisation.
• It has only 3000 Characters per voiceover.
• You can’t use multiple voiceovers in a single script.

NOTEVIBES

NoteVibes is an online text to speech application and software that provides both free and paid options for users. It allows you convert your text to natural sounding voices with free MP3 download. In the free version, you have 5000 characters available for testing its functionality. This is good for personal use in working on small projects as it makes it possible for you to hear multiple sentences at once. Notevibes has over 18 languages and 177 unique voices; you won’t have a hard time reading your text due to its natural sounding voices.

FEATURES

• It has 17 languages and 177 voices.
• You can easily add a Background Music.
• It has a DJ voice creation feature.
• You can add pauses, pitch and change the speed of your audio along with emphasis and voice control.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: WINDOWS, ANDROID

PROS

• Its editor is very advanced, and the user has luxury of control over so many things.
• A specific portion of the script can be emphasised; the volume can also be controlled alongside rate and pitch for the specific parts as well. Only few text-to-speech softwares have this feature. This one feature therefore makes it stand out from others. Its voice quality is no different from others.
• Notevibes also lets you make dialogue videos where you can use more than one voice to create a voiceover. Your narration then sounds more creative and captivating when this feature well utilised. There are total 201 voices available in NoteVibes.

CONS

• It has issues with speed, and also produces a highly concentrated robotic sound. Coming along these is its very expensive commercial options. Notevibes can also not read from PDF and docs.
• There is no preview in NoteVibes; you can’t listen to the voice preview of the script; rather, the voiceover has to be generated to listen and to know how a speaker sounds.
• Demos are unavailable. On the homepage, demo can be found and played, but while generating voiceovers, no demo will be found.
• It has no merge feature: You can’t combine multiple audio files to make it one. Almost all major text-to-speech tools have a merge feature, but, Notevibes lags in this respect.
• Voiceover & Editor Page is different. There is one specific page for generating the voiceover and one page for downloading audio files. Switching between both of them will consume time. If you have a big project, switching between both pages will be tiring.
• No Project-Based Structure: This is another feature that you need when you have big project. Keep multiple files in one place can create a mess. You can’t create any project inside Notevibes. This is a very immature structure.

LANGUAGES SUPPORTED

English (us, UK, AU, IN), Spanish, German, Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Hindi, Vietnamese, Korean, Indonesian, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese.

MAC OS TTS

Mac OS X is a built-in text-to-speech software for Mac. This can be used to read your written content aloud anywhere on your computer from Notes app and other formats. This means it has the ability to dictate to you what you have written in order to bring your writing to life. This could come in form of an audiobook, trailer, ads, videogames, tutorials and many more. It has a ton of voices and languages to select from alongside different accents in English language.

FEATURES

• A lot of languages are included other than English and there are a lot of voices to choose along with languages. Although some voices are very robotic, there is a few which aren’t and sound more like a human.
• Text-to-speech on Mac also supports converting your text into audio files.

PROS

• A lot of voice options are available for you to play around to get familiar with.
• Texts can be easily converted to iTunes track.

CONS

• It does not have Pause/Play option.
• For all the words to be read, they have to be selected manually.
• The software is very basic and does not have the feature of picking up or continuing from where it stopped reading like other TTS softwares have.

TTS MP3.com

It is an online software which is very easy to use. TTS MP3 Which converts your text to the English language. It has a variety of preset voices and languages which are related to different countries. This gives you flexibility as it concerns your language choice. The software is user friendly. You can easily gain access to it by visiting www.TTSMP3.com , and it’s free.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: ONLINE

FEATURES

• With TTSMP3.com, you can easily convert text to audio, change speech and pitch, or even whisper.
• A lot of languages are available for you to explore.

PROS

• It supports both Hindi and English languages.

CONS

• The software does not support formats such as DOC, TXT, FB2, DOCX, PDF, RTF, and HTML.

READ ALOUD

Read Aloud is not exactly a stand-alone Mac software but instead, a Chrome extension which might be appealing to some people. When we put to heart how articles and posts are read on the internet every day, Read Aloud had to be devised to come in handy in making reading easier and less stressful. It is completely free and once it is installed, its icon will be displayed in the extension bar which can now be use to read any webpage or any article found online just by a single click. When it is in use, you get a play/pause button alongside a forward or rewind button which can be useful in advancing or backtracking paragraphs. Considering the fact that it is free to use, the voice options are really good and sound very natural.

FEATURES

• It can extract texts online to convert them into audio files.
• It possesses an exceptional feature of backtracking paragraphs.
• It helps you listen to audio files at your own pace, speed in natural sounding voices and different accents. Text typed in the app and text extracted from any photo uploaded is converted to an audio file.

PROS

• It has a great natural voice.
• It is completely secure as it ensures confidentiality. This is useful for people who would love to keep their data private.
• It helps people with social needs to listen to any text in different languages. This is very useful for those who are limited in language varieties.

CONS

• It can work only on Chrome.

SPEAK4ME

As its name implies, Speak4me literally speaks for you! Like other TTS softwares and apps, Speak4Me works as an instrument of text conversion into audio. One advantage this application has is that it can enhance multitasking. When you have to read and make tea or coffee, or cook at the same time, you don’t have to move around with the text material; all you have to do is to allow Speak4me to do what it was made to do. This is therefore a software to consider in turning your writing to speaking without much stress. With amazing features like changing the rate and pitch of the voice alongside volume control and an array of voices to choose from which comes with a variety of languages, it affords you flexibility regarding your choice of usage. It also allows you to share your audio on the social media, and you can decide to save them locally for later use.

SUPPORT SYSTEM: iPHONE, iPAD

FEATURES

• With Speak4Me, you can easily navigate the control speech generator volume, pitch and rate of speech.
• It filters all the PDFs easily; it highlights the text as you go along too.
• It has a fully customizable reading experience: Adjustment font size, font and background colours, alignment, line spacing to best suit your preference and much more is available on the software.
• Speak4Me can speak PDF in languages such as English and Hindi.

PROS

• It comes with a Night Mode functionality to facilitate a comfortable reading in dark environments.
• The software has smooth navigation, auto scroll and can search for words to jump to a point in your text. This feature comes in handy especially when you have a bulky text to work on.
• With Speak4Me, your eyes are guarded from smartphone light rays.

CONS

• The languages are limited.
• If your device does not have a TTS engine of that language, speaking will not be supported.

NATURAL READER

Natural Reader is a text-to-speech app that covers your text, webpages, eBooks, and webpages aloud to you with quality and natural-sounding voices. NaturalReader is a useful tool for those who have dyslexia and other reading difficulties. 50 voices in over 20 languages are therefore available for you to open up your ears to.

FEATURES

• Adjustment of speaker’s speed: This feature enables you to adjust the speed of a selected speaker. This gives you control on how slow or fast you want the speech to be rendered.
• It is able to read email attachments; it also grants access to Dropbox, Google Drive or One Drive.

PROS

• The pronunciation editor gives you control on how you want certain words to be pronounced. This way, you can fine-tune the pronunciation of new or unusual words, or improve the readability of acronyms.

CONS

• Access can only be gained to additional features when you upgrade to the pro version.
• The application crashes lags a bit when there is too much text pasted for the application to process.
• It sometimes skips lines.
• Its sound becomes unpleasant when volume is too high.

NARRATOR’S VOICE

This application helps convert text to speech with a wide variety of voices in many languages. Narrator’s Voice app lets you create and share amusing messages using a narrator’s voice of your choice with a wide range of languages and reliable, pleasant sound voices. The end result is a customised narration of your original message, which you can share as desired. Videos are one of the hottest projects for Narrator’s Voice, letting the narrator explain or comment on whatever is happening on the screen. In fact, many people have been using the Narrator’s Voice app to add audio to their YouTube and TikTok videos, giving them a distinct voice that enhances the overall video’s vibe.

FEATURES SUPPORT SYSTEM: iPHONE, iPAD AND WINDOWS

• It executes your tasks with voices alongside effects in many languages.
• New voices have been added, which makes it +380 voices in total.
• It has waveform graphics for your to monitor the height and depth of the sound of your audio.

PROS

• Theme can be changed to Dark or Light.
• It has the ability to turn images to text.

CONS

• Too many ads roll out in the free version.
• The sound and vocal is not loud enough.

Top 5 Tools to Help You Know More Freeze-Frame Video Editing Skills

Best 5 Tools to Help You Know More Freeze Frame Video Editing Skills

An easy yet powerful editor

Numerous effects to choose from

Detailed tutorials provided by the official channel

Try It Free Try It Free

The freeze-frame video editing effect is a technique used to stop the moving image of a video and hold it still onscreen. This effect aims to pause the world the video is living in and allow the audience to process the scene and gain more context fully. Note that the world around us keeps ongoing, and time never stops. But luckily for us, we can pause film and video with a simple but powerful video effect known as the freeze-frame.

In addition, a freeze-frame can be carried out in a video to showcase a specific frame in your clip by extending the length of Time that frame is displayed. For example, you can decide to freeze a frame to show the video frame where a goal is being scored in a sporting event or use it to showcase a captured reaction or a smile. When a freeze-frame applies to a video clip, the clip automatically splits at the freezing point, and the chosen frame is inserted as an image file (BMP) and displayed on screen for the duration you set. This article will teach how to use the freeze-frame editing service ideally.

In this article

01 [How to Add a Freeze-frame to Video Clips in all Tools](#Part 1)

02 [SUPER COOL Freeze-frame Effect with Filmora 11](#Part 2)

Part 1 How to Add a Freeze-frame to Video Clips in all Tools

Do you want to draw your audience’s attention to a point or for dramatic flair by stopping your video and holding on to a single frame? This section will give you the best tools for freeze-frame editing via a step-by-step guide on how to do it.

01After Effects

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in After Effects:

Step 1: Download After Effects

Download and install Adobe After Effects and open it on your desktop. This software works with both macOS and Windows.

Step 2: New Composition

Next is to open a new project or drag and drop your video and add it to the timeline. Another way is to click on “New Composition from Footage” and then browse the video you want to edit.

Step 3: Select the Frame

There is a Playhead or slider above the slide, which will help you to select the frame needed to be frozen. Press the “Space bar” to play and pause the video. Then, with the help of the slider, select the frame and pause the video at that instant.

Step 4: Create a New Layer

After you pause the video at the place you want to freeze, Press “Ctrl + Shift + D” to cut the video at that instant, then another layer of the video will add just after the moment.

Step 5: Freeze the Frame

Next is to right-click on the layer, and the settings will pop up. Go to Time> Freeze-frame, and your selected frame will get frozen.

Step 6: Save the Video

Finally, go to File > Export to save the video per your PC requirement.

02**Wondershare Filmora Video Editor **

Try It Free

For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

Try It Free

For macOS 10.12 or later

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in Wondershare Filmora:

Step 1: Import your media files

After installing the software on your PC, drag and drop all files into the primary window or click on “Import” to browse your file folder. Also, this program supports a variety of media files, including MP4, MKV, WMV, MOV, DV, AVI, MTS, TS, 3GP, M4V, etc. After uploading the video, drag them to the Video Timeline.

Step 2: Freeze video with ease

Now play the video clip you want to add freeze-frame and pause it when it comes to the correct position. Then click the “Snapshot” icon under the Viewer panel. Immediately, a picture will add to the media library. Drag and drop the Picture to the PIP track over the main video track, and set the duration of the still image.

Step 3: Save your video

When satisfied with your result, click “Export” to export your video. In the pop-up window that appears, please select the file format options to save onto your computer, or you can directly upload it to Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook, to share with your family and friends.

03Premiere Pro

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in Premiere Pro using a video frame for the duration of a clip:

Step 1: Download Premiere Pro

Download and install Adobe Premiere Pro on your PC and open it to start editing your video. Import video to Premiere Pro and drag and drop to the timeline.

Step 2: Select a clip in a Timeline panel.

To freeze a frame using other methods than the In or Out point, open the video portion in the Source Monitor, and set the Marker 0 (zero) to the frame you wish to pause in the video.

Step 3: Choose Clip > Video Options > Frame Hold.

Next is to tap Hold On and select the frame you want to hold from the menu. However, you can choose the frame based on Source Timecode, In Point, Out Point, Sequence Timecode, or Playhead position.

Step 4: Finally, specify “Hold Filters” and click OK.

Effect settings use the values at the holding frame to prevent keyframed effect settings (if any are present) from animating during the clip’s duration.

04Kapwing

Step 1: Upload and edit your video with Kapwing.

Choose to “Get Started,” upload a file from your device, or paste a video link from a third-party site like YouTube, Vimeo, or TikTok. In any case, you’ll be whisked away to your very own video editing studio.

Step 2: Give your video a freeze-frame effect.

Select the “Timing” tab in the right navigation bar and click “Freeze Frame” after uploading your video to Kapwing.

In Kapwing, you may add a freeze-frame to a video.

As you can see, clicking “Freeze Frame” instantly creates an image layer for the frame your timeline slider was on. Click on the image layer and choose from the “Duration” dropdown option under the “Edit” tab in the right navigation bar to change the length of the freeze-frame. Alternatively, you may drag the image layer onto your timeline by clicking and dragging it.

That’s all there is to it!

05Animotica

Step 1: Creating a New Project

To begin, open your video editor and select Create a New Project. Choose Empty Project, give your project a name, and click the Create a New Project button.

Step 2: Selecting the Video to Freeze

Select Add Video/Photo Clips from the drop-down menu.

You can add video clips to Animotica by navigating to where you saved your video clip, selecting it, and opening it. You’ll now return to the project window, where your video will display. You can enable a wide range of enhancing options by tapping on the video clip with your mouse.

Step 3: The Freeze Effect

To activate your options, tap on the video clip. You must now decide which segment of the video you want to freeze. To make things easy for you, press the play and pause buttons when you reach the part you want to freeze.

Take a picture of the video by dragging your pointer down to the camera icon and pressing it to take a photo while keeping the clip paused, where you want it to be frozen. When you do that, a menu of three options will appear; select Take Snapshots and Insert in Current Position. This choice will split the movie in half and insert the scene you just recorded in the middle, resulting in a freeze.

Part 2 SUPER COOL Freeze-frame Effect with Filmora 11

With no prior experience in video editing, you may get started right away.

Filmora 11 is a scalable experience built for new and seasoned content creators who want freeze-frame editing. You may start cutting and editing your videos like an expert, even if you’re a beginner, and access anything you need from the toolbar once the software launches on your computer, including media, audio, titles, effects, split-screen formatting, elements, and transitions.

Hundreds of extra alternatives are available for each of these elements, which you can drag and drop over your chosen film. You can also use the scissors symbol to cut the movie by pausing on a specific frame within your shot and clicking it. Filmora 11 also comes with pre-set aspect ratios and resolutions for your chosen media to get started right away.

● Ending Thoughts →

● This article provided users with a guide to using Mac and Windows video editor freeze-frame for your video effects. Aside from the editor listed here, Movavi video editor freeze-frame and other editors are available on the Internet.

● However, the ones listed in this blog are our top picks for the best you can use. In addition, Filmora is the best freeze-frame effect editor with a lot of effects you can use in your video editing

Try It Free Try It Free

The freeze-frame video editing effect is a technique used to stop the moving image of a video and hold it still onscreen. This effect aims to pause the world the video is living in and allow the audience to process the scene and gain more context fully. Note that the world around us keeps ongoing, and time never stops. But luckily for us, we can pause film and video with a simple but powerful video effect known as the freeze-frame.

In addition, a freeze-frame can be carried out in a video to showcase a specific frame in your clip by extending the length of Time that frame is displayed. For example, you can decide to freeze a frame to show the video frame where a goal is being scored in a sporting event or use it to showcase a captured reaction or a smile. When a freeze-frame applies to a video clip, the clip automatically splits at the freezing point, and the chosen frame is inserted as an image file (BMP) and displayed on screen for the duration you set. This article will teach how to use the freeze-frame editing service ideally.

In this article

01 [How to Add a Freeze-frame to Video Clips in all Tools](#Part 1)

02 [SUPER COOL Freeze-frame Effect with Filmora 11](#Part 2)

Part 1 How to Add a Freeze-frame to Video Clips in all Tools

Do you want to draw your audience’s attention to a point or for dramatic flair by stopping your video and holding on to a single frame? This section will give you the best tools for freeze-frame editing via a step-by-step guide on how to do it.

01After Effects

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in After Effects:

Step 1: Download After Effects

Download and install Adobe After Effects and open it on your desktop. This software works with both macOS and Windows.

Step 2: New Composition

Next is to open a new project or drag and drop your video and add it to the timeline. Another way is to click on “New Composition from Footage” and then browse the video you want to edit.

Step 3: Select the Frame

There is a Playhead or slider above the slide, which will help you to select the frame needed to be frozen. Press the “Space bar” to play and pause the video. Then, with the help of the slider, select the frame and pause the video at that instant.

Step 4: Create a New Layer

After you pause the video at the place you want to freeze, Press “Ctrl + Shift + D” to cut the video at that instant, then another layer of the video will add just after the moment.

Step 5: Freeze the Frame

Next is to right-click on the layer, and the settings will pop up. Go to Time> Freeze-frame, and your selected frame will get frozen.

Step 6: Save the Video

Finally, go to File > Export to save the video per your PC requirement.

02**Wondershare Filmora Video Editor **

Try It Free

For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

Try It Free

For macOS 10.12 or later

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in Wondershare Filmora:

Step 1: Import your media files

After installing the software on your PC, drag and drop all files into the primary window or click on “Import” to browse your file folder. Also, this program supports a variety of media files, including MP4, MKV, WMV, MOV, DV, AVI, MTS, TS, 3GP, M4V, etc. After uploading the video, drag them to the Video Timeline.

Step 2: Freeze video with ease

Now play the video clip you want to add freeze-frame and pause it when it comes to the correct position. Then click the “Snapshot” icon under the Viewer panel. Immediately, a picture will add to the media library. Drag and drop the Picture to the PIP track over the main video track, and set the duration of the still image.

Step 3: Save your video

When satisfied with your result, click “Export” to export your video. In the pop-up window that appears, please select the file format options to save onto your computer, or you can directly upload it to Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook, to share with your family and friends.

03Premiere Pro

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in Premiere Pro using a video frame for the duration of a clip:

Step 1: Download Premiere Pro

Download and install Adobe Premiere Pro on your PC and open it to start editing your video. Import video to Premiere Pro and drag and drop to the timeline.

Step 2: Select a clip in a Timeline panel.

To freeze a frame using other methods than the In or Out point, open the video portion in the Source Monitor, and set the Marker 0 (zero) to the frame you wish to pause in the video.

Step 3: Choose Clip > Video Options > Frame Hold.

Next is to tap Hold On and select the frame you want to hold from the menu. However, you can choose the frame based on Source Timecode, In Point, Out Point, Sequence Timecode, or Playhead position.

Step 4: Finally, specify “Hold Filters” and click OK.

Effect settings use the values at the holding frame to prevent keyframed effect settings (if any are present) from animating during the clip’s duration.

04Kapwing

Step 1: Upload and edit your video with Kapwing.

Choose to “Get Started,” upload a file from your device, or paste a video link from a third-party site like YouTube, Vimeo, or TikTok. In any case, you’ll be whisked away to your very own video editing studio.

Step 2: Give your video a freeze-frame effect.

Select the “Timing” tab in the right navigation bar and click “Freeze Frame” after uploading your video to Kapwing.

In Kapwing, you may add a freeze-frame to a video.

As you can see, clicking “Freeze Frame” instantly creates an image layer for the frame your timeline slider was on. Click on the image layer and choose from the “Duration” dropdown option under the “Edit” tab in the right navigation bar to change the length of the freeze-frame. Alternatively, you may drag the image layer onto your timeline by clicking and dragging it.

That’s all there is to it!

05Animotica

Step 1: Creating a New Project

To begin, open your video editor and select Create a New Project. Choose Empty Project, give your project a name, and click the Create a New Project button.

Step 2: Selecting the Video to Freeze

Select Add Video/Photo Clips from the drop-down menu.

You can add video clips to Animotica by navigating to where you saved your video clip, selecting it, and opening it. You’ll now return to the project window, where your video will display. You can enable a wide range of enhancing options by tapping on the video clip with your mouse.

Step 3: The Freeze Effect

To activate your options, tap on the video clip. You must now decide which segment of the video you want to freeze. To make things easy for you, press the play and pause buttons when you reach the part you want to freeze.

Take a picture of the video by dragging your pointer down to the camera icon and pressing it to take a photo while keeping the clip paused, where you want it to be frozen. When you do that, a menu of three options will appear; select Take Snapshots and Insert in Current Position. This choice will split the movie in half and insert the scene you just recorded in the middle, resulting in a freeze.

Part 2 SUPER COOL Freeze-frame Effect with Filmora 11

With no prior experience in video editing, you may get started right away.

Filmora 11 is a scalable experience built for new and seasoned content creators who want freeze-frame editing. You may start cutting and editing your videos like an expert, even if you’re a beginner, and access anything you need from the toolbar once the software launches on your computer, including media, audio, titles, effects, split-screen formatting, elements, and transitions.

Hundreds of extra alternatives are available for each of these elements, which you can drag and drop over your chosen film. You can also use the scissors symbol to cut the movie by pausing on a specific frame within your shot and clicking it. Filmora 11 also comes with pre-set aspect ratios and resolutions for your chosen media to get started right away.

● Ending Thoughts →

● This article provided users with a guide to using Mac and Windows video editor freeze-frame for your video effects. Aside from the editor listed here, Movavi video editor freeze-frame and other editors are available on the Internet.

● However, the ones listed in this blog are our top picks for the best you can use. In addition, Filmora is the best freeze-frame effect editor with a lot of effects you can use in your video editing

Try It Free Try It Free

The freeze-frame video editing effect is a technique used to stop the moving image of a video and hold it still onscreen. This effect aims to pause the world the video is living in and allow the audience to process the scene and gain more context fully. Note that the world around us keeps ongoing, and time never stops. But luckily for us, we can pause film and video with a simple but powerful video effect known as the freeze-frame.

In addition, a freeze-frame can be carried out in a video to showcase a specific frame in your clip by extending the length of Time that frame is displayed. For example, you can decide to freeze a frame to show the video frame where a goal is being scored in a sporting event or use it to showcase a captured reaction or a smile. When a freeze-frame applies to a video clip, the clip automatically splits at the freezing point, and the chosen frame is inserted as an image file (BMP) and displayed on screen for the duration you set. This article will teach how to use the freeze-frame editing service ideally.

In this article

01 [How to Add a Freeze-frame to Video Clips in all Tools](#Part 1)

02 [SUPER COOL Freeze-frame Effect with Filmora 11](#Part 2)

Part 1 How to Add a Freeze-frame to Video Clips in all Tools

Do you want to draw your audience’s attention to a point or for dramatic flair by stopping your video and holding on to a single frame? This section will give you the best tools for freeze-frame editing via a step-by-step guide on how to do it.

01After Effects

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in After Effects:

Step 1: Download After Effects

Download and install Adobe After Effects and open it on your desktop. This software works with both macOS and Windows.

Step 2: New Composition

Next is to open a new project or drag and drop your video and add it to the timeline. Another way is to click on “New Composition from Footage” and then browse the video you want to edit.

Step 3: Select the Frame

There is a Playhead or slider above the slide, which will help you to select the frame needed to be frozen. Press the “Space bar” to play and pause the video. Then, with the help of the slider, select the frame and pause the video at that instant.

Step 4: Create a New Layer

After you pause the video at the place you want to freeze, Press “Ctrl + Shift + D” to cut the video at that instant, then another layer of the video will add just after the moment.

Step 5: Freeze the Frame

Next is to right-click on the layer, and the settings will pop up. Go to Time> Freeze-frame, and your selected frame will get frozen.

Step 6: Save the Video

Finally, go to File > Export to save the video per your PC requirement.

02**Wondershare Filmora Video Editor **

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For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

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For macOS 10.12 or later

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in Wondershare Filmora:

Step 1: Import your media files

After installing the software on your PC, drag and drop all files into the primary window or click on “Import” to browse your file folder. Also, this program supports a variety of media files, including MP4, MKV, WMV, MOV, DV, AVI, MTS, TS, 3GP, M4V, etc. After uploading the video, drag them to the Video Timeline.

Step 2: Freeze video with ease

Now play the video clip you want to add freeze-frame and pause it when it comes to the correct position. Then click the “Snapshot” icon under the Viewer panel. Immediately, a picture will add to the media library. Drag and drop the Picture to the PIP track over the main video track, and set the duration of the still image.

Step 3: Save your video

When satisfied with your result, click “Export” to export your video. In the pop-up window that appears, please select the file format options to save onto your computer, or you can directly upload it to Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook, to share with your family and friends.

03Premiere Pro

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in Premiere Pro using a video frame for the duration of a clip:

Step 1: Download Premiere Pro

Download and install Adobe Premiere Pro on your PC and open it to start editing your video. Import video to Premiere Pro and drag and drop to the timeline.

Step 2: Select a clip in a Timeline panel.

To freeze a frame using other methods than the In or Out point, open the video portion in the Source Monitor, and set the Marker 0 (zero) to the frame you wish to pause in the video.

Step 3: Choose Clip > Video Options > Frame Hold.

Next is to tap Hold On and select the frame you want to hold from the menu. However, you can choose the frame based on Source Timecode, In Point, Out Point, Sequence Timecode, or Playhead position.

Step 4: Finally, specify “Hold Filters” and click OK.

Effect settings use the values at the holding frame to prevent keyframed effect settings (if any are present) from animating during the clip’s duration.

04Kapwing

Step 1: Upload and edit your video with Kapwing.

Choose to “Get Started,” upload a file from your device, or paste a video link from a third-party site like YouTube, Vimeo, or TikTok. In any case, you’ll be whisked away to your very own video editing studio.

Step 2: Give your video a freeze-frame effect.

Select the “Timing” tab in the right navigation bar and click “Freeze Frame” after uploading your video to Kapwing.

In Kapwing, you may add a freeze-frame to a video.

As you can see, clicking “Freeze Frame” instantly creates an image layer for the frame your timeline slider was on. Click on the image layer and choose from the “Duration” dropdown option under the “Edit” tab in the right navigation bar to change the length of the freeze-frame. Alternatively, you may drag the image layer onto your timeline by clicking and dragging it.

That’s all there is to it!

05Animotica

Step 1: Creating a New Project

To begin, open your video editor and select Create a New Project. Choose Empty Project, give your project a name, and click the Create a New Project button.

Step 2: Selecting the Video to Freeze

Select Add Video/Photo Clips from the drop-down menu.

You can add video clips to Animotica by navigating to where you saved your video clip, selecting it, and opening it. You’ll now return to the project window, where your video will display. You can enable a wide range of enhancing options by tapping on the video clip with your mouse.

Step 3: The Freeze Effect

To activate your options, tap on the video clip. You must now decide which segment of the video you want to freeze. To make things easy for you, press the play and pause buttons when you reach the part you want to freeze.

Take a picture of the video by dragging your pointer down to the camera icon and pressing it to take a photo while keeping the clip paused, where you want it to be frozen. When you do that, a menu of three options will appear; select Take Snapshots and Insert in Current Position. This choice will split the movie in half and insert the scene you just recorded in the middle, resulting in a freeze.

Part 2 SUPER COOL Freeze-frame Effect with Filmora 11

With no prior experience in video editing, you may get started right away.

Filmora 11 is a scalable experience built for new and seasoned content creators who want freeze-frame editing. You may start cutting and editing your videos like an expert, even if you’re a beginner, and access anything you need from the toolbar once the software launches on your computer, including media, audio, titles, effects, split-screen formatting, elements, and transitions.

Hundreds of extra alternatives are available for each of these elements, which you can drag and drop over your chosen film. You can also use the scissors symbol to cut the movie by pausing on a specific frame within your shot and clicking it. Filmora 11 also comes with pre-set aspect ratios and resolutions for your chosen media to get started right away.

● Ending Thoughts →

● This article provided users with a guide to using Mac and Windows video editor freeze-frame for your video effects. Aside from the editor listed here, Movavi video editor freeze-frame and other editors are available on the Internet.

● However, the ones listed in this blog are our top picks for the best you can use. In addition, Filmora is the best freeze-frame effect editor with a lot of effects you can use in your video editing

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The freeze-frame video editing effect is a technique used to stop the moving image of a video and hold it still onscreen. This effect aims to pause the world the video is living in and allow the audience to process the scene and gain more context fully. Note that the world around us keeps ongoing, and time never stops. But luckily for us, we can pause film and video with a simple but powerful video effect known as the freeze-frame.

In addition, a freeze-frame can be carried out in a video to showcase a specific frame in your clip by extending the length of Time that frame is displayed. For example, you can decide to freeze a frame to show the video frame where a goal is being scored in a sporting event or use it to showcase a captured reaction or a smile. When a freeze-frame applies to a video clip, the clip automatically splits at the freezing point, and the chosen frame is inserted as an image file (BMP) and displayed on screen for the duration you set. This article will teach how to use the freeze-frame editing service ideally.

In this article

01 [How to Add a Freeze-frame to Video Clips in all Tools](#Part 1)

02 [SUPER COOL Freeze-frame Effect with Filmora 11](#Part 2)

Part 1 How to Add a Freeze-frame to Video Clips in all Tools

Do you want to draw your audience’s attention to a point or for dramatic flair by stopping your video and holding on to a single frame? This section will give you the best tools for freeze-frame editing via a step-by-step guide on how to do it.

01After Effects

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in After Effects:

Step 1: Download After Effects

Download and install Adobe After Effects and open it on your desktop. This software works with both macOS and Windows.

Step 2: New Composition

Next is to open a new project or drag and drop your video and add it to the timeline. Another way is to click on “New Composition from Footage” and then browse the video you want to edit.

Step 3: Select the Frame

There is a Playhead or slider above the slide, which will help you to select the frame needed to be frozen. Press the “Space bar” to play and pause the video. Then, with the help of the slider, select the frame and pause the video at that instant.

Step 4: Create a New Layer

After you pause the video at the place you want to freeze, Press “Ctrl + Shift + D” to cut the video at that instant, then another layer of the video will add just after the moment.

Step 5: Freeze the Frame

Next is to right-click on the layer, and the settings will pop up. Go to Time> Freeze-frame, and your selected frame will get frozen.

Step 6: Save the Video

Finally, go to File > Export to save the video per your PC requirement.

02**Wondershare Filmora Video Editor **

Try It Free

For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

Try It Free

For macOS 10.12 or later

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in Wondershare Filmora:

Step 1: Import your media files

After installing the software on your PC, drag and drop all files into the primary window or click on “Import” to browse your file folder. Also, this program supports a variety of media files, including MP4, MKV, WMV, MOV, DV, AVI, MTS, TS, 3GP, M4V, etc. After uploading the video, drag them to the Video Timeline.

Step 2: Freeze video with ease

Now play the video clip you want to add freeze-frame and pause it when it comes to the correct position. Then click the “Snapshot” icon under the Viewer panel. Immediately, a picture will add to the media library. Drag and drop the Picture to the PIP track over the main video track, and set the duration of the still image.

Step 3: Save your video

When satisfied with your result, click “Export” to export your video. In the pop-up window that appears, please select the file format options to save onto your computer, or you can directly upload it to Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook, to share with your family and friends.

03Premiere Pro

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to Freeze-frame in Premiere Pro using a video frame for the duration of a clip:

Step 1: Download Premiere Pro

Download and install Adobe Premiere Pro on your PC and open it to start editing your video. Import video to Premiere Pro and drag and drop to the timeline.

Step 2: Select a clip in a Timeline panel.

To freeze a frame using other methods than the In or Out point, open the video portion in the Source Monitor, and set the Marker 0 (zero) to the frame you wish to pause in the video.

Step 3: Choose Clip > Video Options > Frame Hold.

Next is to tap Hold On and select the frame you want to hold from the menu. However, you can choose the frame based on Source Timecode, In Point, Out Point, Sequence Timecode, or Playhead position.

Step 4: Finally, specify “Hold Filters” and click OK.

Effect settings use the values at the holding frame to prevent keyframed effect settings (if any are present) from animating during the clip’s duration.

04Kapwing

Step 1: Upload and edit your video with Kapwing.

Choose to “Get Started,” upload a file from your device, or paste a video link from a third-party site like YouTube, Vimeo, or TikTok. In any case, you’ll be whisked away to your very own video editing studio.

Step 2: Give your video a freeze-frame effect.

Select the “Timing” tab in the right navigation bar and click “Freeze Frame” after uploading your video to Kapwing.

In Kapwing, you may add a freeze-frame to a video.

As you can see, clicking “Freeze Frame” instantly creates an image layer for the frame your timeline slider was on. Click on the image layer and choose from the “Duration” dropdown option under the “Edit” tab in the right navigation bar to change the length of the freeze-frame. Alternatively, you may drag the image layer onto your timeline by clicking and dragging it.

That’s all there is to it!

05Animotica

Step 1: Creating a New Project

To begin, open your video editor and select Create a New Project. Choose Empty Project, give your project a name, and click the Create a New Project button.

Step 2: Selecting the Video to Freeze

Select Add Video/Photo Clips from the drop-down menu.

You can add video clips to Animotica by navigating to where you saved your video clip, selecting it, and opening it. You’ll now return to the project window, where your video will display. You can enable a wide range of enhancing options by tapping on the video clip with your mouse.

Step 3: The Freeze Effect

To activate your options, tap on the video clip. You must now decide which segment of the video you want to freeze. To make things easy for you, press the play and pause buttons when you reach the part you want to freeze.

Take a picture of the video by dragging your pointer down to the camera icon and pressing it to take a photo while keeping the clip paused, where you want it to be frozen. When you do that, a menu of three options will appear; select Take Snapshots and Insert in Current Position. This choice will split the movie in half and insert the scene you just recorded in the middle, resulting in a freeze.

Part 2 SUPER COOL Freeze-frame Effect with Filmora 11

With no prior experience in video editing, you may get started right away.

Filmora 11 is a scalable experience built for new and seasoned content creators who want freeze-frame editing. You may start cutting and editing your videos like an expert, even if you’re a beginner, and access anything you need from the toolbar once the software launches on your computer, including media, audio, titles, effects, split-screen formatting, elements, and transitions.

Hundreds of extra alternatives are available for each of these elements, which you can drag and drop over your chosen film. You can also use the scissors symbol to cut the movie by pausing on a specific frame within your shot and clicking it. Filmora 11 also comes with pre-set aspect ratios and resolutions for your chosen media to get started right away.

● Ending Thoughts →

● This article provided users with a guide to using Mac and Windows video editor freeze-frame for your video effects. Aside from the editor listed here, Movavi video editor freeze-frame and other editors are available on the Internet.

● However, the ones listed in this blog are our top picks for the best you can use. In addition, Filmora is the best freeze-frame effect editor with a lot of effects you can use in your video editing

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