With Hippo Video, you can:

• Capture your screen, webcam, audio, or a combination of the options.
• Choose to record your whole screen or your current browser tab.
• Record videos via the desktop app (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook), web app, or Chrome extension.

Here’s what you can record with BombBomb’s webcam and screen recording feature:

• Screen and Webcam: Record both your screen and webcam simultaneously.
• Screen Recording Only: Option to record only your screen or a specific window.
• Webcam Recording Only: Feature to record only via your webcam, focusing on the speaker.

‍Note: BombBomb allows users to record videos directly from their inbox, mobile, or web. It offers unlimited video length and storage, with no need for downloads or attachments, as videos play directly.

Hippo Video offers numerous options for sharing videos publicly and privately:

• Copy a video link and send to a recipient
• Send videos directly via email
• Copy an embed code to insert the video on other platforms
• Set a password to protect private videos
• Set an access expiry date for videos
• Share videos with team members to review them before sharing with prospects
• Create video folders and select users or groups to share them with

BombBomb offers several video sharing options:

• Sharing Options: Share videos via direct links that can be pasted into social media platforms, text messages, or emails.
• ‍Password Protection: Offers password protection for individual videos, enhancing privacy for sensitive content.
• ‍Admin-Controlled Features: Team account admins can control access to features like mobile app usage and screen recording for policy compliance​​.

Hippo Video doesn’t have a native voice annotation feature.

BombBomb doesn’t offer voice annotation tools. But you can respond to videos with a video on all plans.

With Hippo Video, you can enable comments on your videos. Viewers can attach comments to the playhead to include a timecode.

BombBomb lets users react to videos via comments and likes. You can opt to turn this feature off. 

Users are notified of these interactions via email, and they have the option to manage these notifications in their account settings.

Hippo Video does not generate video transcripts for viewers to read and search.

However, the tool can create a transcript for editing with AI. You can delete words from the transcript to automatically edit the video accordingly. When you add words, the tool will add text interludes on screen.

BombBomb automatically generates video transcripts for every video you create — the process may take up to 15 minutes. This feature covers over 100 languages, ensuring accessibility for a diverse audience.

Hippo Video can generate subtitles for videos, or you can create and upload them yourself. You can also download the caption file in a .vvt or .srt format.

‍Note: Depending on your plan, you will have a limited number of subtitle credits available to you. Automated subtitles are available in 36 languages.

BombBomb also automatically generates closed captions for your videos. You can also rest assured that your video messages are ADA-compliant. 

‍Note: Transcripts and closed captions are only available on the BombBomb Plus, Individual Plus, and Team plan.

BombBomb lets you assign tasks to your team members or create workflows for multiple teams.

BombBomb lets you assign tasks to your team members or create workflows for multiple teams.

Hippo Video doesn’t offer a native feature for setting response deadlines and automating reminders.

BombBomb doesn’t offer reminders or deadlines. But you can integrate the tool with Keep-in-Touch Systems (KiTS) to get daily emails that remind you who to call and when.

You can create groups for different teams or clients on Hippo Video and add members to them. This allows you to share videos, folders, and sales page templates with an entire group. If video commenting is enabled, groups can also asynchronously discuss content within a video or folder.

‍Note: Groups are only available in the Teams and Enterprise plans.

If you’re using BombBomb’s Teams plan, you can:

• Share content within a team: Share and reuse videos, emails, and templates within a team.
• Create subteams: Organize team members into focused subteams.‍
• Customize your team’s workspace: Set specific permissions for team admins and create custom fields for your team.

You can import videos, images, and documents to Hippo Video from your local drive or Google Drive. You can edit, share, and track analytics for imported videos.

You can upload the following file types on to BombBomb (2 GB max):

• MP4
• MPG
• MOV
• AVI
• FLV
• MPEG
• WMV
• M4V

If you have a paid plan, you can download videos from your Hippo Video library.

BombBomb lets you download videos directly to your computer.

Hippo Video doesn’t offer users the option to capture screenshots.

BombBomb doesn’t offer a designated screenshots feature.

Hippo Video offers a Chrome extension that lets you start video and screen recordings from your browser.

Using BombBomb’s Chrome extension, users can record and send videos directly from the Chrome browser.

You can also monitor who has viewed your messages using the extension, and record and send videos from within Gmail.

Hippo Video doesn’t enable AI-generated video summaries or action items.

However, the tool does offer several AI features:

• Video details: Generate titles, descriptions, and chapters for videos
• Script Generator: Generate video scripts, that you can read off a teleprompter while recording
• AI Avatars: Convert text to video with realistic virtual presenters
• Humanize AI: Generate hundreds of personalized versions of your original video (E.g., adding prospect names)‍
• AI Editor: Edit a transcript of your video and let the AI make automatic edits to your video.

BombBomb doesn’t offer AI-generated summaries or actions items. But the tool does automatically generate transcripts.

Hippo Video offers the following default user profiles:

• Standard Admin: Has access to all features, including branding, subscriptions, and user management.
• Standard User: Has permissions set by the admins. By default, this excludes branding, subscriptions, and user management.

You can also create custom user profiles and change their permissions.

When it comes to content permissions, an admin or owner of a video or folder can allow users or groups to be editors (with the ability to edit videos) or viewers (view-only access).

BombBomb offers various levels of administrative permissions within team settings:

• Content Administrator: Can share emails, videos, forms, and campaigns within designated teams and also share snippets via the Chrome extension.
• QA Administrator: Allowed to log into accounts within their teams to review content, but can’t manage or share content or adjust team seats.
• Team Administrator: Can manage and share content, as well as handle team seats, but can’t log into owner's or other team administrators' accounts.‍
• Owner: Has access to all accounts within their teams, including subteam administrators, and can manage content and team seats. Owners can’t access other owners' accounts or subteam administrator accounts outside their designated teams.

Hippo Video is a ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certified provider. They host customer data in a segmented Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. They use TLS 1.2 encryption for data both in transit and at rest.

All BombBomb plans include essential security features like password protection and end-to-end encryption, ensuring data privacy.

Users can also set video expiration dates and access custom transcription services, offering better control over data retention and content management.

Hippo Video offers four pricing plans:

• Free: Free forever; includes 50 videos/month, a 30-minute recording length, and 10 minutes of closed captions.
• Pro: $30/user/month or $20/user/month billed annually; includes unlimited video recordings, a one-hour recording limit, and 30 minutes of closed captions.
• Teams: $60/user/month or $75/user/month billed annually; includes a two-hour recording limit, 200 minutes of closed captions, and 50 personalized videos.‍
• Enterprise: $80/user/month billed annually; includes a minimum of 10 seats, a three-hour recording limit, unlimited captions, and role-based access controls.

BombBomb offers three plans:

• Essentials $39/user/month or $33/user/month billed annually for unlimited videos, recording time, and storage.
• Plus: $69/user/month or $49/user/month billed annually for video analytics, mass emailing, and advanced video editing.‍
• Teams: Contact support for pricing; includes advanced security and compliance, SSO, custom onboarding, and priority support.

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Hippo Video offers a user-friendly way to create and share professional-looking sales and marketing videos. Its AI features, brand customization, CTAs, and analytics make this a great option for companies looking to connect with customers. It’s also well-suited for other use cases like education (E.g., teachers, coaches, etc.).

The website offers users a wealth of educational resources to learn more about the app — including how-to articles, a Q&A forum, videos, and more.

Another handy feature for making work easier is the customizable hotkeys for performing actions while recording (E.g., start/stop, pause/resume, and mouse emphasis).

That said, a few additional features (like meeting recording, AI summaries, screenshots, and transcription) would expand the tool's functionality and improve internal communication for businesses.

BombBomb’s Google Chrome extension makes it easy to record videos immediately. They also provide a wealth of resources to support their users including blog posts, a training center, a YouTube channel, and an extensive knowledge base. 

Additionally, BombBomb also allows users to create and share videos on-the-go using their iOS and Android devices. This way, you can video message anytime, anywhere.

Hippo Video offers a seven-day free trial for its Pro and Teams plans. You can also contact sales to request a custom demo.

You can take BombBomb for a test drive by opting for their 14-day free trials, available on the Essentials and Plus plans. And don’t worry, no credit card details are required.

Or you can schedule a demo via their website.