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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Microstock News => Topic started by: audiomicro on February 22, 2010, 20:55
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Flixtime: Transforming web users into video producers
NEW YORK, NY, February 22, 2010 – Flixtime debuts a free site where users create custom, production-quality videos. Anyone with images, videos, and text can use Flixtime’s software to create, share, and download free 60-second videos on www.flixtime.com (http://www.flixtime.com). Nearly wo years in the making, Flixtime launches worldwide February 22, 2010.
Users create high-resolution videos on www.flixtime.com (http://www.flixtime.com) using their own photos and videos, or by choosing from a library of royalty-free stock images provided by Fotolia. AudioMicro also provides users with a selection of award-winning tracks, sound effects (http://www.audiomicro.com/sound-effects), and stock music (http://www.audiomicro.com). Flixtime videos are easy to produce with state-of-the-art technology that integrates the user’s choice of music, text, images, and videos. All Flixtime video productions can be used both for personal or independent commercial use.
“We have been getting more and more demand from users who want a tool that easily creates stunning videos by using images and text. Companies from all over the world have video needs, whether for websites, projects, or presentations. Until now, production costs were very high,” says Fotolia and Flixtime CEO Oleg Tscheltzoff. “Just like we democratized stock images on Fotolia by offering images for under $1 USD, we have made videos accessible and affordable to countless companies. Instead of investing tons of money in equipment, talent, and a location to produce videos, our users can simply use their content, or the images and music provided by Flixtime, to create the videos they envision.”
Visitors to www.flixtime.com (http://www.flixtime.com) create a free account and then follow three simple steps to create custom videos.
Ryan Born, CEO of AudioMicro says, “We are very pleased to partner with Flixtime to provide the music for such an amazing technology. With just one click, Flixtime users can bring energy and emotion to their videos by adding music. We've supplied a handpicked selection, spanning nearly every musical genre and style. With tracks for everyone, Flixtime users are sure to have the perfect soundtrack and take their videos to the next level."
About Fotolia
Over 1.5 million people prefer Fotolia, LLC for affordable, royalty-free images, graphics and HD videos. With the introduction of the Infinite Collection, Fotolia became the first worldwide microstock organization to offer both crowd-sourced and professional images on one site. Founded in New York City in 2004, Fotolia spans the globe with websites in 10 languages and offices in 12 countries. With over 8,000,000 images to choose from, find it on Fotolia. www.fotolia.com (http://www.fotolia.com)
About AudioMicro
AudioMicro offers advertisers, music supervisors, creative directors, webmasters, filmmakers, and “YouTubers” an affordable, high-quality solution for obtaining stock music and royalty free sound effects for use in creative projects. With content purchased from AudioMicro, a movie or webisode can be scored at a fraction of the cost of a traditional music library. AudioMicro offers the largest UGC royalty free music (http://www.audiomicro.com/royalty-free-music) library, with over 200,000 tracks from songwriters, publishers, composers, record labels, and sound designers worldwide.
www.audiomicro.com (http://www.audiomicro.com)
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Looks interesting. I hope people making videos will buy our photos from fotolia. I also hope this is good news for us for a change. My first question would be, do images need an extended license if the buyers are selling the video clips? What is meant by "independent commercial use"?
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How does the site make money? Are there ads in the videos? I love animoto, but I'm not paying a subscription fee for the occasional time I use it.
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I did mine from resized pictures at 1600 pixels, took about 10 minutes, I like the result: http://flixtime.com/video/detail/6bfd05d7ea27be3c19367718dd682ftwrQuab9Rx4lh5XPpdiJ/ (http://flixtime.com/video/detail/6bfd05d7ea27be3c19367718dd682ftwrQuab9Rx4lh5XPpdiJ/)
I don't think it will help to sell our FT pictures like it is: you can choose only 10 pictures on each categorie from FT.....
F my video I uploaded my pictures frm my harddrive
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I don't really feel like creating an account... Are the Fotolia images available for free?
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ldambies,
Can you choose the effects? I find all those variations a bit over. In Photodex ProShow Gold I can make a nice slideshow, but some advanced effects require extra plugins.
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Only few of FT pictures are available and I did not find any link back to the site, there is just a promotional link to FT on the frontpage.
No you cannot choose the transition, but I think it does a good job just to put up a quick video to promote your portfolio on social media.
Audiomicro brings audio files to the platform as well.