ion compared with the usual ways to get a video edited
This page compares ways of working, not named products. It says what we know about ion; for any other tool, its own site and price list are the source, and they change.
Doing it yourself, an editor, or ion
| On your own | An editor | ion | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time per video | 1–3 hours | Days | About 5 minutes |
| Cost per video | Your evening | ₪190–₪500 | ₪10–₪14 |
| Something's off? | Back to the timeline | Another round, another wait | Fix it in words, at once |
Typical for a 30–90 second video. Editors' prices: price lists published by Israeli editors and studios, editing only.
Where ion is not the right fit
- ion works from the footage you upload: it doesn't film anything new or change what is in the picture. Any cutaways it adds come from public stock footage libraries.
- A video is priced by the length of its footage, in bands up to 20 minutes. The Clips window takes a long recording of up to 3 hours, up to 2 GB a file.
- The Business plan is priced with each team. There is no free plan.
Questions worth asking any video tool
- Are Hebrew captions right to left, with English words, numbers and @handles in place?
- ion was built for Hebrew first: captions run right to left, and English words, numbers, prices and @handles stay in place.
- What does one finished video cost, with VAT?
- ₪10–₪14 a video with footage up to 2 minutes (up to 5 on the Professional plan), VAT included. Longer footage takes more credits: 21, 35 or 56 instead of 14, by its length, up to 20 minutes.
- What happens when a video fails?
- A video that fails before it's ready costs nothing: its credits come back by themselves.
- Can you change something afterwards without another round of waiting?
- You change it yourself, in seconds and with no round of revisions: delete a word and the video is cut, click a caption or a graphic to change it, or ask the chat in your own words (“make the captions bigger”). Every change is a version you can go back from. Editing by hand and asking the chat are both unlimited.
- Does it ask whether the people in the video agreed to be edited and published?
- Before any edit you confirm that everyone who speaks in the video agreed to be edited and published. The confirmation is kept with the video.
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