Personally I would just think of Canva, Meld, or Opus, and call it a day. However content creation is more than just videos or images, there are things like written content, audio, and copywriting. Etc.

Finding the right tool for you has always been the point of these posts. Here are a variety of tools that I thought could help you!

#10 - Submagic

While more of an enhancer, such as with effects and captions. Many people have taken their recorded shorts, and brought it into tools like Submagic to give it more ooomph.

#9 - StoryShort

Following that viral style of informational tiktoks, with an automatic generator for video creation.

While I'm not saying it is a good thing to have more of that out there. I am telling you this tool exists. There were plenty like it on my list, but I chose this one for overall best case.

I could see this being useful to a traditional creator to fill in the gaps when they aren't making as much themselves.

#8 - Runway

More of an auto-generated tool, but a creation/generation tool nonetheless.

With a couple dozen different mini tools within it, and that helps you repackage things you've already made too. Not just generating from nothing.

Even image to video being one of their strong suits.

#7 - Bannerbear/Placid App

Speaking of images.

I found myself in the early days of blogging really getting tired of creating new thumbnails for every post. Whether it was a blog or video, or a post to pinterest. I had so many things I needed to create.

While I never got around to using these tools as much as I'd like, the use case is still there. Create a template and have it automatically generate a thumbnail for you. Both tools are useful in their own right, but I felt they landed the same spot.

#6 - Invideo

One of the first video generation tools. They've had the most time to develop their features, and ecosystem of tools.

#5 - BeyondWords

Basically the first text to speech tool on the market. They came out as a wordpress plugin back in the day called Speechkit.

Now advanced to a more powerful audio content management system. It is a powerful way to transform your written posts into audio, and even video posts.

#4 - VideoBolt

One of the first tools like it on the market, and one of the first lifetime deals I got. Even now that my deal doesn't include the full scope of what it did. I still think this is one of the best tools for coming up with motion graphics, overlays, intros/outros, visualizers, etc.

#3 - Agent Opus

Agent Opus is a unique AI video agent, that helps you create what you envision on your head. While other video generators just present you with a final outcome. Not letting you truly tweak to your needs.

Agent is more of an editor, and allows you to have different ways of adding in detail. From the voiceover, to motion graphics, and more.

#2 - Canva

I can't tell you how many youtube thumbnails, podcast cover art, or instagram posts I have made in this tool. I've experimented with book covers, and even made business cards (printed and shipped to me too) all within Canva.

Now that they own Affinity Serif too, which is one of the only alternatives to the Adobe suite as well. That is something I have to include here too.

#1 - Recording and Editing Tools

Now I get this might seem like a bit of a cop out, but keep in mind none of these tools will actually fully BEAT just you sitting down to MAKE content.

Using something like Meld Studio, Google Docs, Ghost CMS, or even OBS, in order to create the best video or blog post you can. Then throwing it into Davinci Resolve or Hemingway to edit it into a masterpiece.

That is completely the best content creation tool.

Find the right tool for YOU:

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