Over at Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed an amazing piece of software that im sure Google will purchase very soon. The software makes it easy to place and manipulate an image into a piece of video. Thus, could allow advertising to be simply placed in any video.
It works for videos as well – you can play a video on a wall inside your video. The technology can cheaply do some of the tricks normally performed by expensive commercial editing systems.
More information at ZunaVision but first watch the demo video:
This software would be perfect for video makers who place their videos onto Youtube, because they will be able to sell advertising very simply within the videos. This would also mean that they could place their videos and promote on Bittorrent related sites, cause the content owner is drawing an income. Just a thought!
Animoto is an introduction to movie making made easily. There is no need to brave the very steep learning curve of Final Cut Pro and for those not exposed to iMovie, this web application fit a suitable need with a limited amount of time.
I did a previous review of Animoto here. In that review I spoke about the finer points of Animoto and its uses for those looking at creating quick vids to share with friends and families, and even embed into websites.
I want to congratulate Animoto for hitting their one year celebration and wanted to share a few numbers they shared with me via their email announcement:
1. 4 million videos have been made on the Animoto platform
2. More than 250,000 users in 200-some countries have registered on Animoto.com
3. Animoto vids have been watched over 50 million times on Animoto.com, blogs, social networks, video sharing sites and web sites around the world!
I also want to share with all the readers of Crenk some new features for Animoto!
1. You can now pick your own images to use as the cover for your video as opposed to the static images provided by Animoto.
2. Animoto for your iPhone!!! That’s right, now you can watch your Animoto videos on your iPhone and a hint at a possible iPhone app. We’ll be sure to review it when it comes out.
3. you can now incorporate logos and panoramics into the videos which was a long standing issue.
Animoto is a definite most for those of us looking at creating videos for presentations, thank you cards, get well cards, parties/events.
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