Minvo is not ready at all. Definitely consider this a beta release. There is promise, but it needs A LOT of work.

I say this as a film professional... It is INCREDIBLY frustrating to use. There is 0% chance the team actually sat down with anyone who edits in any professional manner and watched them try and edit with this.

I have spent an hour trying to edit a 1 minute clip. It would have been far, far quicker for me to do this in Resolve. Editing on this is stuff of nightmares.

This should not have been released in its current state and, honestly, that makes me worried about leadership and if the product would stick around. It feels like one of those classic tech "MVP" releases.

THAT BEING SAID... There is something here, and it COULD end up really good, IF they focus on making it usable, and IF they sat down with people who edit and watched them use it.

I will try and list some thoughts. Please read this as frustration out of what COULD be, but just isn't there right now. Again, it COULD be really good.

1. Simply dragging of the playhead and scrolling left and right on the timeline is hard. Not a great start!

2. It buffers between EVERY CLIP. Good luck editing it to see if it's a watchable piece, because it buffers for 0.1 seconds between everything.

3. Clipping the end or beginning of a clip doesn't work properly - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Then, if you do, you can't move or extend captions to make them work better, you can't delete the gap left over, you can't move clips to fill the gap, etc.

4. Splitting a clip usually does not work. Sometimes it does. Usually, it does nothing.

5. There is no way to just delete empty space on the timeline.

6. You can't drag clips/captions around.

7. You can't extend captions.

8. You can't edit single captions to look different (well, you might be able to, but clicking "edit" on the text does not work).

9. No way to magic reframe/remove filler words and gaps/magic emoji/ one clip at a time - it does the whole timeline again.

10. Magic framing is okay, but doesn't get full-screen people right.

11. No subject tracking - Magic framing doesn't track subjects if they move, and there is also no way to manually track them.

12. Reframing is difficult - no snap options.

13. As far as I can tell, there is actually no way to edit the transcript before videos are made. Going to the transcript page and trying to edit it does not work at all. Not sure if that is a bug or intended. It seems you can only do it from the video page itself, which means you have to do it for every video you generate. Also, you can't edit from the Transcript page from the video. You must do it line-by-line on some other "fix typos" page.

14. Talking of which, you can't manually move text to a new line.

15. It is absolutely full of bugs - many buttons don't work (right click -> edit caption), cut, 1/3 option does not let you pick the top frame, etc etc etc.

The workflow of this also needs some thought. - They could do with a "quick generate" vs more granular approach. Quick edit could be like now, where it spits out some videos quickly. But, really, we need the ability to run the transcript first, edit it, then generate quick videos and/or manual from that. Otherwise you have to edit the text for absolutely every video individually, as you can't edit the transcript itself, and it also wastes resources on things I don't need - shorts with incorrect transcript, blog posts I don't need, quotes I don't need, etc.

Some good things:-

1. Captions work pretty well and have good animations, even if they are hard to edit. I am going to try editing clips myself and just using the caption feature for fun caption styles.

2. Framing options are good. I would like to see more, e.g., two circle heads over one big video. And snapping to the edge of the usable video.

3. Exports seem decently fast and good quality.

Again, Minvo has the potential to be a really useful piece of software IF they put the effort in to making that happen. But they need to sit down and watch people actually use this because it is SO FRUSTRATING to use that it's just not worth the time.

That being said, if you have simple one-person videos, or maybe simple two-person videos, it may be quick enough to use that it's worth it.