Part 1: "Article to Video" Marketing Software Review

Camcorders, lighting, scripting, shooting, editing -- it all can be confusing and time consuming and expensive for the novice.

Of course, there will always be a need for live video, but if I were Camtasia, I would be worried as this technology progresses.

Any video production technology that requires no equipment, and which can be accessed from any computer, anywhere you have an internet connection, is a sure winner. When it takes only minutes to produce a video rather than hours, or days -- well, need I say more?

Enter "article to video" technology.

Since most successful internet marketers are comfortable with article marketing (and have a backlog of already-written articles,) article-to-video production is a natural progression for them to take.

Let's face it. What could be easier than:

1. Taking a pre-existing article
2. Pasting it into a box
3. Pushing a button and ...
4. Popping out a ready-to-publish marketing video?

What we wanted to determine was ...

- Is it really this easy?

- What are the major article-to-video software products?

- What are the pros and cons of each piece of software?

- Which article to video software -- if any -- is right for YOU?

Our research unveiled three primary article-to-video contenders:

VideoGoRound

Article2Video

Article Video Robot

Let's take a look at what each one offers ....

Videogoround offers a video creation software package that is quite unique. Is is a text to video converter that produces a virtual talking character, or avatar.

"Text to video" technologytakes the text (or article) you type or paste in the message box, and converts it into a real live video featuring a talking avatar. You can choose from one of 6 characters, and three background settings.

The end result is quite remarkable, seeing a surprisingly life-like and human-acting virtual salesperson saying YOUR words.

Article2Video uses the same "paste some text in a box" technique, but with a far different end-result.

Instead of using the talking avatar characters that VideoGoRound produces, "Article 2 Video" uses a similar text-to-voice technology combined with some text overlay on dynamic moving video backgrounds (like flying through clouds) to produce a riveting final text-to-video movie.

"Article Video Robot" uses a still-simple, but slightly more sophisticat,ed interface to produce results similar to those of Article2Video.

They actually provides two ways to interact with the software -- the quicker "One Click" Wizard -- which reduces options (and opportunities to mess up) -- along with the highly interactive Full Editor which gives a surprising amount of control over each frame of your video.

If you are the sort who likes to "fine-tune" things, you will enjoy this feature.

All three products really do throw video production into a whole new realm; we could easily call this "article to video" approach a marketing game changer.

But which one is right for you?

Because we went on the INSIDE of each piece of article to video software, we took the time to give more detailed feedback, as well as suggest which one would best fit with different marketing styles, and even different personalities.

There is no one size fits all solution, and you don't want to throw your money away on the wrong product.

The reality is that video is changing the internet marketing world, and you are either ON the video marketing train, or getting left further behind every day. One billion YouTube viewers are waiting for your message each day.

Will your video message be there? Can you get it there QUICKLY? Can you produce the QUANTITY of QUALITY videos needed to dominate your niche or market?

To learn more about the pros and cons of each of these three outstanding article to video products, as well as our final overall winner, read our complete Part 2 Article to Video Software Review here. >>