Now that Zazzle allows us to add short videos to product pages it would be interesting to see what people are creating with this new feature. It could be to show the product in a real life scenario (insitu), to educate how to adjust something, to make the product shine, ..
Post your (image) links to the product with the video below.
This is my one and only video - Used canva (free version) - made it square (1080 x 1080) and learned that if you put text at the bottom it will be hidden by the ‘view collection’ overlay. 😂
@Pixelan I decided against doing animations in blender - for a 6 second video at 30 fps - you need at least 180 renders - got enough on my plate with all the cover photos/collection photos plus it fills space on my hard drive. 😂
I rendered in Eevee which was doable, but some quality render in cycles and creating a good more complex scene will take hours. Bit to much for a cover video, maybe one day.
@LMGildersleeve 😂 I draw the line at blender animations - far too time consuming (plus as I said to Pixelan - my hard drive doesn’t have the space for the renders needed for a realistic one. It’s only just holding up from all the cover photos I’ve done. 🤣
I use blender for cover photos though because once you’ve made a model - you can use it so many times over just change the texture/scene props/camera angle etc
Looks good, I think square looks even better since all the other product pics are square.
Got so used to the “weird” 1080x1920 format from making vids for social media and Zazzle’s examples are also vertical. But square video might be better in these cases.
@Pixelan I’m used to making square videos from my time when Vine was a thing. Ideally though - work at whatever size you can share to all the platforms. I’m only testing out square ones here - need to have that 1080 x 1920 for youtube/pinterest/instagram etc as I don’t think square would work as good there (apart from instagram I suppose) Just wanted to share how to do one if anyone was feeling a bit overwhelmed by it. (I was)
And seeing as we’ve yet to receive best practices from the powers that be - anything goes
lol…thanks @KeegansCreation . At this rate I figure I should be finished videos for my existing invites by 2026. Made a second one today and it did go a bit faster so maybe I’m not to old to learn new tricks after all … lol.
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