Founders, how do you do product demos in a short video?
amir
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I mean, i enjoy giving live demos to the crowd and in person. but recording a demo as a video where you know nothing should go wrong because you only have 5 minutes, that's just hard. I've had about 50 tries today and no success to have one take.
of course another way would be to do it in part but that would require lots of editing and i don't have the tool nor the time.
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André J@sentry_co
5minutes? That's to long in todays world of short attention spans. Make it 30 seconds. And make sure you hock the viewer in the first 5 secs.
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@sentry_co that's interesting. Do you have any example of such a demo ?
@amirhouieh I think most videos have this anatomy now days. You can make an experiment, put a video on twitter (x) and watch the graph. the fall off graph hits hard after 5 seconds, unless the hock is strong, if its strong, you can curb the fall off.
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@sentry_co Sure! but I've never seen a 30-second demo (and I am not talking about explainers or promo videos). That's why I was wondering if you could share an example!
@amirhouieh I assume you're talking about product demo videos here on PH? The thing is that the attention span is very short here. I would make it a 5sec gif TBH. that's how long you have to wow a user. After the user is wowed. They will check out your website and try to figure out if it's for them. If it is, then they will go for longer videos etc.
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@sentry_co Ah no I surely did not mean the product promo video here on PH. I mean demoing your product over a video and explaining how it works. thanks for your response.
Premarket Bell
Remain Brief In the current digital era, people frequently have short attention spans, so try to make your demo film succinct and direct. Concentrate on emphasising the best features of your product in a condensed amount of time—roughly one to three minutes.
Hey, check out Storylane.io :)
Hey Amir, I can help you with that. We are launching a product to address this same challenge!
@amirhouieh we're launching in the coming few weeks - you can follow us here:
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@shambhavi_mahajan1 Cool, would like to hear more! I am going to try recordonce.com this week.
Btw how did you get that "Launching soon" badge?
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@shambhavi_mahajan1 cool looking forward to it!
What's your thoughts on this
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We do a personalised demonstration.
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Cool, what do you think about this?
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