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San Francisco, May 4th, 2012 – Stupeflix released special Education plans for teachers to use digital storytelling in the classroom.

A powerful learning tool loved by teachers and students

Teachers have been the biggest fans of Stupeflix since the video creation site launched. Allowing students to express themselves via video is a sure way to keep them engaged and focused on topic, as attests Richard Byrne, teacher and author of freetech4teachers.com “Stupeflix wows the crowd – the video captivated the students in the classroom”. Creating videos with Stupeflix is as easy as can be: simply combine photos, videos, music, text to tell a story. You don’t need to master the intricacies of video editing to produce beautiful videos that tell meaningful stories. The simple interface provides an intuitive experience, students and teachers both love it.

Designed for the classroom and discounted for education

The new education accounts are designed specifically for teachers. With the new Classroom Accounts, each student gets an individual – and free – account, and can make unlimited videos. Teachers can access, edit and delete student videos. With classroom plans starting at $40 per year for 40 students, it represents a massive 95% discount on regular prices. What’s not to love? “I love the program and love the single classroom price – thanks for making it easier to use.” answers Jennifer Carlson. Thanks, Jennifer!

About Stupeflix:
Stupeflix is on a mission to simplify video creation.
Founded in January 2009, it is headquartered in Paris, France with an office in San Francisco.
Stupeflix won the SeedCamp 2008 startup competition, was finalist of the TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009 and selected as “Top 100 Innovative Company in Europe” by Red Herring in 2010.

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San Francisco, May 1st, 2012 – Stupeflix releases today Studio for Real Estate, a web application for realtors to easily make beautiful video tours, and market homes on mobile, YouTube and Facebook.

Marketing homes on social, mobile: forget about Flash, Video is the way to go

Ever passed a “for sale” sign, and tried to lookup the property site on your phone? If you’re lucky, it’s just difficult to navigate. And then there’s the occasional Flash slideshow…  game over. Today most real estate virtual tours are made with Flash, while most people search and browse real estate properties on their phones or iPads…  When on the go, video is the way to go.

Now let’s look at social. On Facebook, a shared video will drive 2 to 3 times more engagement than a link to a listing. More and more brokers use YouTube channels for marketing – after all YouTube is the World’s second largest search engine. People like to watch and share videos, when Flash-based slideshows slow down computers, don’t work on mobile, and can’t be shared.

How to use Stupeflix to market homes

The core idea behind Stupeflix is to make video creation super easy. Even with the best desktop video editing software (iMovie comes to mind), trying to make a simple video embarks you in a journey filled with riddles and traps (codec? timeline? audio sync?);  you never know when you’ll be done. With Stupeflix, all you need to do is upload your photos, video footage, select music, add  text… tell your story, the app will take care of the editing.

What you are able to make in a few minutes isn’t just a slideshow: maps show where the property is, automated voice-over turns your text description into speech. These tools really make a difference when selling properties. The end result is a full-on video ad complete with photos, price, contact info, neighborhood maps –  all the information you need to market properties on YouTube, Facebook and mobile.

About Stupeflix:

Stupeflix is a startup on a mission to simplify video creation. Founded in January 2009, it is headquartered in Paris, France with an office in San Francisco. Stupeflix won the SeedCamp 2008 startup competition, was finalist of the TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009 and selected as “Top 100 Innovative Company in Europe” by Red Herring in 2010.

Today we released a very exciting new feature, that lets you switch themes at any point of the editing process, right in the video editor!

When you’re making your video, you’ll see on the right side next to Project Settings an icon with the name of the theme you’ve selected. Click this to change the theme, and click Preview to see the result. Simple as pie!

If you were using some features that are theme-specific, for instance a white background on Classic, or a lower third on Snowflakes, don’t worry: you won’t lose anything when changing themes back and forth.

This has been a change requested for a long time, we hope you like it… let us know!

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Stupeflix Video Creation Platform Offers Self-Serve Plans with Disruptive Prices

MIAMI, February 2nd, 2012 – The Stupeflix API, a unique, open platform to integrate video creation into web and mobile applications, unveiled today, on stage at the Business Video Expo 2012, a new and self-serve commercial offering removing the need for contracts or negotiation, while dramatically reducing prices.

Creating videos at a large scale is incredibly hard and resource intensive. With its API, Stupeflix offers a complete video rendering architecture as a simple-to-integrate web service. Application developers can add video creation to user experiences with a few lines of code. The Stupeflix API has automatically generated more than 7 million videos to date, for brands including Visa, Lenovo, Coca-Cola and publishers including Orange, HomeFinder.com and MyNewPlace.com.

No more contracts, negotiation to add video creation to apps

Stupeflix offers powerful tools for developers to create videos on-demand combining existing media, content in complex and programmable animations. Whether the objective is to convert an e-commerce catalog into as many product videos, or to personalize brand videos with users personal photos, project requirements can be quite different. Drafting requirements, defining a business model and agreeing on terms can slow down an integration. Today, Stupeflix removes all commercial friction and delays, with a self-serve plans offering. Developers can register directly online, pick the plan that fits their needs, and start hacking right away: it only takes a minute to get started.

Disruptive Prices to Commoditize Video Creation

Video is the only format that works well across all connected devices: computers, smartphones, tablets, TV sets. While video is in high demand, it is still expensive to produce. “We have seen an increase of inquiries from developers all over the world who need to create videos automatically. We changed our business model, and lowered our prices, to give our customers the value and flexibility they need.” explains Francois Lagunas, Stupeflix co-founder and CTO. Now developers can use the Stupeflix API commercially for as low as $300 a month. Customers only pay for what they use, with prices as low as $0.20 per minute of video rendered.

Useful links
Stupeflix API home page: http://developer.stupeflix.com/
Stupeflix API plans and pricing: http://developer.stupeflix.com/pricing/
Sample API implementation: You+10 Draft Facebook application by Visa

About Stupeflix
Stupeflix simplifies video creation, for people and for developers. People use web applications – available on Stupeflix.com and partner sites (including YouTube, DailyMotion) – to make high quality videos in a few clicks, telling a story with their personal photos and videos. Developers use the Stupeflix API, a unique solution to build powerful applications requiring the creation of high quality video on-demand, at consumer scale.
Founded in 2009, headquartered in Paris, France with an office in San Francisco, Stupeflix is a Seedcamp laureate, a TechCrunch Europe Awards finalist, and recognized as one of the top 100 innovative companies in Europe by Red Herring.

Prices in US Dollars.

Reverse Video has been a frequent request of our community and of the windows Movie Maker community… and is now live in Stupeflix!

(Note: if reverse video doesn’t mean much to you, check out these examples)

If you look at the many tutorials about how to reverse a video, you’ll find that you either have to download some software or extract all frames of a video to put them back together in reverse.

Now with Stupeflix you can do it all in one-click.

Here’s how it works:
1. Upload your video in Stupeflix
2. Select Settings in the menu over your video
3. Click Reverse

Now you too can do like R Kelly!

We’re big fans of the Dropbox service. Like 45 million people, we use it to save our files, to backup our files, we use it to share our files, and we use it to access our files from our phones and tablets.

Wouldn’t it be awesome to be able to use Dropbox to import photos and videos in your Stupeflix video projects?

Well it’s already here, and it is indeed awesome!

In the Add Images menu, select the new Import from Dropbox option – and browse all your folders and files to find the photos and videos you want to use for your Stupeflix video project. Pretty easy!

Now this opens up many possibilities.

First – assuming you are a Dropbox user – it makes it very convenient for you to use photos and videos you take on your phone to make videos on Stupeflix: the Dropbox app on your phone allows you to upload photos from your phone – or tablet – in the cloud on your Dropbox account.
What this means is that not only do you not need to download your files from your phone to your computer, but you don’t need to upload them from your computer to Stupeflix also! End result: lots of time saved.
This is so cool it should be a blog post of its own.

Another exciting possibility is collaboration. Say you just came back from a holiday with friends and everybody took photos, Dropbox is a great solution to have everybody share their photos in a single shared folder. And now you can make a Stupeflix video with everybody’s photos as well!

Let us know if you’re using the Dropbox import feature, and what you think about it!

In time for Holiday Greetings extravaganza, here comes SnowFlakes, a new theme to take your photos on a snow laden journey.

I don’t know about you, but the whole card picking, photo printing, envelope writing, stamp licking seems like a lot of work to me.
I don’t know about you, but receiving a beautiful video from a family member filled with photos is just awesome.
If you’re like me, send your greetings with a video!

There are a few special things about Snowflakes.

First, Snowflakes comes in 3 styles: Day, Night and Fizz. Change the style in the movie settings: your video will look completely different.

All your photos will be in full screen. Double-click a photo in your timeline to set how it will be placed in the video.

We added 4 special transitions for Snowflakes. In the Add More menu, select “Custom Transition”: try them all!

Text elements can be used in different ways: as the usual Title Slide and Captions, but you can also set a photo under a title slide, or add text in an lower-third style for your photos.

Still reading? Go try it out already!

Variations for snowflakes: Day, Night and Fizz

Snowflakes Special Transitions

Fantastic new feature alert!

You can now record videos, and snap photos, using your webcam – right from Stupeflix.

Here’s how it works: Use the “Add Images” menu, select “Record from webcam”, allow the use of your webcam, and… watch yourself appear in your own photo booth!

From there it’s pretty self-explanatory: you can snap photos – 3, 2, 1, smile! – or record videos. Once you’re done the photo or video will appear in your timeline. Double-click it and you’ll be able to edit the photo duration, or trim the video.

Warning: this is a lot of fun and can be addictive!

This week we released a bundle of changes to the pages where your videos live, to make it easier to share your creations with your friends. If you’ve made a great video people love, we want you to be able to show it in the best possible light.

So here’s the deal we have for you: If you make a Free video and get 5 Likes for it (the Facebook kind of Like), we’ll offer a free upgrade to 360p for your video . You’ll be able to show your video in higher resolution, in full duration (no more 1-minute limit), and you’ll even be able to download it!

We hope you’ll take full advantage of this deal, and get people who love your videos to Like them too!

This new feature, available in the Outline theme, lets you set manually the key part of your photo, to make sure it won’t be cropped out of your video. Once you’ve set the important point in your photo, it will be shown in your video with a gentle pan and zoom effect (aka Kenburns) centered around that key point.

To set the key point of your photo in Outline, double-click on a photo or choose the “Edit” menu option for that photo, the same way you would set a custom duration for a photo, or trim a video.

In Outline, every photo or video is shown in full screen. If a photo in portrait orientation is shown in a landscape-shaped frame, Stupeflix applies a pan and zoom effect to show it completely. When everything is moving fast with transitions left and right, it can result in the edges of a photo not being shown in the video. Which is unfortunate, because oftentimes a full body portrait has the head on its edge, and showing these photos without the head is not ideal, to say the least. This is why we’ve added this feature; so you can make sure that the most important part of your picture is not left out of your video.

We hope this will improve your video making in Stupeflix. Let us know what you think!