Story Blender as the name suggests is a way of creating and mixing stories using videos and other media.
In their own words”Its an online collaborative video production platform where people can work together to ‘blend’ their media for rich, interactive storytelling.”
StoryBlender - Collaborative Video Creation Platform for Interactive Storytelling
Their editor lets user create videos by blending images, sound, text, and video clips with animation effects. When users have created new video blends they can then share it with their friends and the StoryBlend community.
This website can be helpful in facilitating a teaching and learning process that might be keeping many people away from editing their own videos.
Some Unique Features of Story Blender
Their “Video Holiday Letter” service helps you create and share multimedia greetings with family, friends, clients and coworkers.
The service is built with casual internet users and busy parents in mind. It allows anyone to create a unique video Christmas letter or holiday letter using personal photos, web-cam videos and a variety of holiday themes and music.
Their new service “Make Me Talk” lets you stick some fake lips on the photo of your choosing and make them move realistically in sync with a voice recording. To use the service, just upload a photo, and choose from a handful of lip designs. Once you’ve re-sized and placed the lips, you’re asked to make your recording of up to 60 seconds.
Besides the standard web-cam and voice inputs, you can also “blend” in Google Maps overlays and data, which is something unique feature of StoryBlender.
Some Insight about Company
The company is based in San Francisco with an office in Seoul. It was founded by Hyoung Yong Joon who has been a founder of Cyworld, South Korea’s first and most popular social networking community.
#1 by cocktail mixing on April 5, 2009 - 1:21 pm
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