Kizoa

I love the features of the product but a few things. I cant figure out how to delete extra slides that are not needed. The music selections are not the greatest. And I've now lost my project twice due to the website freezing. Even if I don't close my computer down. When I go back my work is gone. It is frustrating. I spend many hours personalizing my project for my loves birthday today..

I had this application for awhile, but noticed, lately when I try to forward the link or email to my friends they are unable to view the movie. My membership is limited and in the past we had no problems and I enjoy using this application. Presently, I am unable to send my movies via email or link, it comes out blank to my friends. Not sure what is going on. Would love to continue using, but it is not useful if my friends cannot see my movies. Thank you and hope others are not having this issue?

I create a Kizoa slideshow of my son every holiday season for the family, all of whom live far away. I was so excited this year to see that there were new sound options of volume control, fade in/out, and crossfade. The slideshow looked and sounded great from the kizoa site itself. However, once I downloaded the MP4 as well as the ISO files, I noticed that there were audio glitches in 3 places at transitions between songs. I haven't heard back yet about that but did hear back on the issue with the Youtube upload not working, which was acknowledged as a current issue with Kizoa that they're working on vs. an issue on my end. We're now down to the wire, and fortunately, the link to the site itself is fine, and recipients of an MP4 or Youtube link that they can cast or the DVD that I'll be burning for the grandparents will have to be viewed with the FYI that there are 3 hiccups in the audio.

The two instances of sudden increase in volume during a fade out and the sudden decrease-then-abrupt increase in volume at another spot aren't incredibly awful (well, the 2nd one kinda is), but the end result was very disappointing in that respect.

Another downside is that it does seem to take a small forever to download your file from the website, which first converts it, then indicates it's ready to be downloaded. It seems to take a longer-than-expected time, and my intenet is fast. If my son wasn't turning 18 next year, and I only had one more slideshow that I plan to create for the holidays, I would probably be looking at alternatives to Kizoa at this point. It's frustrating that I've upgraded twice in the past few years to use more features, only to have the functionality and quality go downhill.

I like the service but it is tied to more kids and wedding and family all the way. And to host the videos could be better players for running a business

The video process was excellent, but when I connected it to a VGA to show my class it became extremely laggy. Any suggestions?

Just used the program to make a slide show of photos I took in Israel,,, as a first time user. I may not have understood the process or the options, but the slide show did show the photos as clear as I expected... The photos that I used from my files were a lot clearer... suggestion?

Just played with the program but haven't really done anything with it yet. Plan to create a real program soon.

It would've been nice if the site had mentioned the fees/cost of package deals, instead of me wasting 4 hours of editing and realizing that I had to pay $50 for the deal, and the storage space is terrible, need to add more info about it. I like this new software, but the company did a bad job of presenting the product.

There are certainly some things that would improve this program (here not all, but some):
- possibility to change the music in the middle of a film
- the "contours" of all of the photos is visible in the next frame
- looks cheap, but when working with it you have to upgrade and in the end it's expensive...

There were multiple issues with the images after rendering was completed. It's a nice service, but way overpriced.

Tutorials need improvement, being able to get ahold of a customer service rep is extremely hard, and there is no explanation for terms...

I found that people involved do not really listen to the problem at hand.
Answer given not pertaining to the problem.

Each year I create a montage of video clips and photos of my son (7 years and counting). I use to use i-movie but the upgrade to Captain messed up my entire computer so much so that I am finally parting ways with my Mac. I was desperate to find something comparable. I paid the premium price. I put together a 319 slide movie with music (20 min). Problem #1 I can't see the song titles in the movie as I edit it. Problem #2 The way editing is laid out as a single line at the bottom makes it very difficult to edit longer works. It takes forever to scroll back and forth and you can only look at about 10 slides at a time, so finding something takes forever. Problem #3 I cannot hear the audio of my videos over the music. There is no fade in, fade out, or music trimming. These are features of I-movie that I sorely missed using Kizoa. I can't believe that there is not more demand for these features. Customer service was great, but they really couldn't help me because the things I was asking aren't part of was Kizoa can do yet.

Slow and sometime hang by itself when uploading big amount of photos. Limited design and does not cater for all people. Should improve on the design to get more selection, style in order to get more people to use it.

Great service. Great customer service.
But my issues with quality of uploads and pictures has never been resolved.
I have professional-grade high-res, screen-optimized images that never look as good once I upload them to Kizoa. So, I love the product, but may still go somewhere else.

Im a student and I used kizoa for my video project it took me 3 days to make it but when i tried to Email it, it said I had to become a premium member to access my video and it

Useful enough to do simple things, but could have more options in regards to effects and features in the editing section. As for the product market... it is abysmal. I would love to edit photos and order prints and mugs and canvas frames, but the service is horrible in this regard. The basic video editing is not really worth the price, but is just functional enough that I will use it for a specific need.

Kizoa has some serious potential and I will hold out hope that it improves.

My first burn to DVD worked great. After that, I can't burn anything directly to DVD. I have to wait for Kizoa to download. That's not what it's supposed to be.

Made a collage with a soundtrack. Works perfectly in the collage editor but when added to the movie the sound does not work. Why?

I like the site overall and I made some really nice videos. But I have a problem with the pictures I uploaded being too hard to see and the sort options is very limited.

Last year I purchased the lifetime starter package to create a movie for my speech class and it worked perfectly. I have been trying to create a movie for two days now because the videos are taking forever to upload.

Music on movie slides are behind from when you actually play them. If you put a collage into the movie it freezes. This sight freezes a lot, and it makes me really angry to have to reload it a bunch of times. I have used the site of many different computers and web browsers and it still is wonky.

Since 6:30am EST this morning I (and many others who are voicing their frustrations on other sites like Twitter) have not been able to access www.kizoa.com whenenever I try I get this message: "www.kizoa.com's server DNS address could not be found.
I have paid to be a premium lifetime member and at 9am EST this morning I called the company's Customer Care Line for Premium Members and briefly spoke with a woman who informed me they were have some issues, but they would be resolved and the site would be back up in an hour - that was 9.5 hours ago! I have tried contacted the company no one is there, nor do they have any recorded messages to inform customers of what is going on. I have searched the internet for any information Kizoa may have put up somewhere for their customers including checking on Twitter and FB, but to no avail. It is uncomfortable, disheartening and completely frustrating having paid for membership, needing to complete a project and this company has all my work thus far, all my photos, videos and music and I cannot access to work, but more than that this company doesnt have the customer service side working well to care enough to find a way to let their customers know what is going on, what to expect. Right now if feels and seems as if they are suddenly defunct and it is scary... What do we as consumers do? Its like this company has very important, very personal stuff of mine that they are holding hostage and not saying why.