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3, 2, 1… LaunchPad! Stupeflix selected to demo on stage at Web 2.0 Expo

Stupeflix finalist LaunchPad

It is ON! We’re thrilled, honored to be selected to demo our greatest and latest at the LaunchPad event during the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco.

Stupeflix is one of 5 startups selected by experts (obviously…) amongst more than 80 submissions, based on the innovation and the value brought to the market (makes sense… ).

Save the date: May 5th at 1:15PM at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. It’s not too late to grab your free expo pass (use discount code EXPOPASS), if you’re around come support us!


Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010

Share on Facebook, Upload to YouTube: Make your Videos Reach and Impress

Facebook YouTube upload

We make videos for a purpose. We make videos because we have stories to tell, memories to share.

After carefully choosing the pictures and videos to include in your Studio project, arranging them, grouping them, adding captions, messages, subtitles, a soundtrack maybe, after you’ve finally exported your work into a finalized video, you’re not going to just leave it there are you?
You are probably going to download it, and either send it to friends or publish it somewhere.

With the Studio you’ve been able to do all this, but really what most of us want to do is either post it on our Facebook profile, or upload it on YouTube for the whole world to be able to watch it. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could do that right after creating the video, without having to download, then upload the video again?

No need to wait, because we’ve already made it happen.

When exporting your video, whether it’s with a Free, High Quality or High Definition format, you have two free options to do just that: Share it on Facebook, and/or Upload to YouTube. Sign in to your Facebook and/or YouTube account right there, and we’ll upload it automatically for you.

Happy Sharing!

Play First, Register Later: Updated Studio Sign Up Process

Sign Up Update Play First, Register Later: Updated Studio Sign Up Process

Since we launched the new version of the Stupeflix Studio we enjoyed lots of feedback and great advice from our users. Thanks!

A popular request was to remove the sign in / sign up form so people can start making videos and testing the Studio before actually registering for an account.

We listened!

Now you don’t need to sign in or create an account before creating videos. You can even export your video creation to a Free, High Quality or High Definition version without signing in. If you want to save your work though, make sure to do so!

New feature: Dailymotion upload from the Stupeflix API

dailymotion logo june08 New feature: Dailymotion upload from the Stupeflix API

The Stupeflix API is a unique tool for developers to create massive amounts of videos upon fully customized templates.

An eCommerce site catalog can be transformed into as many videos as there are products. A classifieds website can add to each listing a video based on the listings information. Real-time information can be rendered into a customized video report.

The Stupeflix API takes as input a XML video description file and outputs a video rendered in the desired resolution and encoded with the chosen codec. But where does the video content go from there?

Today, a new option is available to our API users, and we are happy to announce that videos created with the Stupeflix API can now be directly uploaded to a Dailymotion account.

In addition to the new Dailymotion upload feature, current available options include uploading to a YouTube account, an Amazon S3 account, and via http. Practical information about how to implement these options is available with the Stupeflix SDK.

Is there another online video platform you would like to be able to upload your videos to?

Stupeflix Studio: Your Online Video Production Headquarters

Stupeflix comes with a bundle of tools to make video creation easy for everyone, from single video creation by casual users to thousands videos a day automation for hardcore developers.

The Stupeflix Studio is your new personal space, where you can access all the video tools and goods:

screenshot Studio Stupeflix Studio: Your Online Video Production Headquarters

To make it easier to find, edit and manage videos under your account, we created a special page accessible under “Your Videos”:

screenshot your videos Stupeflix Studio: Your Online Video Production Headquarters

Also easily accessible from the Studio, all the cool tools to make your next video creation project a breeze, whatever your needs are:

Do you want to quickly put together a beautiful video from a trip or wedding pictures and videos? The Stupeflix Online Editor puts video creation at everyone’s fingertips. Upload pictures, videos, arrange them in groups, add texts, musics, transitions, effects, all in your browser, in a few clicks.

screenshot editor Stupeflix Studio: Your Online Video Production Headquarters

Do you want to experience the full extent of video creation possibilities offered by Stupeflix, and micro-manage your video by the pixel and millisecond? The Stupeflix XML Editor gives you full command. Program videos by writing in a simple, descriptive XML language, and generate at will.  Don’t forget to read the manual before taking off!

screenshot XMLeditor Stupeflix Studio: Your Online Video Production Headquarters

Do you want to automatically convert thousands of data records (text, images, videos, audio) into engaging videos? There’s an API for that. Do you want to let your website users create and edit their own videos on your site with a private label solution? There’s an app for that too!

So enjoy the Studio, and please let us know how it works out for you.

Stupeflix Editor Sports A New Interface

Be aware: this is the first post in a stream of new features announcements for the Stupeflix Editor. We have been working hard this summer to make online video creation more powerful and convenient than ever. Today we’ll start with what’s most immediately visible: a new user interface for the Stupeflix Editor.

Remember how you used to add images and videos to your video project? Let me refresh your memory: you were using a small menu in the bottom-left corner of the page (see below). In order to add text captions and soundtracks, the (only) way to go was to click on the “+” icon on the corresponding image, video or group.

screenshot video upload 2 Stupeflix Editor Sports A New Interface

Now, ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce to higher feng shui, interface-ly speaking. The Stupeflix Editor today comes with a very visible, accessible set of clickable icons on the bottom-right corner of the page, to add media content (images and videos), text captions, soundtracks, to edit your project in the XML editor for further customization and to generate your video (that’s what you came here to do after all).

screenshot editor new menu Stupeflix Editor Sports A New Interface

It’s all here. And even better, the actions triggered by these buttons are contextual, meaning they apply to whatever object (image, video, group) you are currently selecting. It does what you want to do, where you want to do it. We’re pretty happy about it, what do you think?

We would like to thank our users for all their useful and valuable feedback which drives our efforts towards the best video creation application on the web. Keep it coming!

Stupeflix Editor: Latest and Greatest Features

Ever since the Stupeflix Editor was launched, we received great feedback from our community and users, and many additional features have been suggested and discussed. Every week Stupeflix silently introduces some of these new features into the Editor. This post puts the spotlight on our top three:

right arrow2 Stupeflix Editor: Latest and Greatest Features New Video Creation Wizard

When firing up the Stupeflix Editor, you may want to do different things. Maybe you are discovering Stupeflix and would like to instantly load and interact with a video creation example. Maybe you are new to Stupeflix but would like to be guided in starting a video project of your own. Maybe you are Stupeflix-fluent and just want to do your magic on a clean sheet.

The Video Creation Wizard is here to help. Whatever your needs or experience level, it will guide you right where you want to be.

screenshot wizard Stupeflix Editor: Latest and Greatest Features

right arrow2 Stupeflix Editor: Latest and Greatest Features Mix Videos in your Videos

Using  pictures to create stunning videos is really powerful, but what about mixing in videos as well? Now you can do exactly that with the Editor and upload videos from your computer to insert them in your movie, just like you would add a still picture. This feature opens up a world of new possibilities, as you can now use Stupeflix to add subtitles, soundtracks, to mix videos together, or for any video processing task!

screenshot video upload 2 Stupeflix Editor: Latest and Greatest Features

right arrow2 Stupeflix Editor: Latest and Greatest Features Pop-Up Helper

Not sure what to do with the element you are selecting in the Editor? A special pop up window, aka the Inspector, will tell you exactly what you can do, and will tell you only what you need to know.

screeshot inspector Stupeflix Editor: Latest and Greatest Features

Use the Inspector window to select the options and make the changes to the group you have selected, and grab and drop it wherever it suits best your workspace.

We would like to thank all our users who keep contributing to Stupeflix by suggesting and discussing new features with us. If you have a special request, or just want to give feedback, please contact us!

How to turn Wikipedia into videos?

Today we are thrilled to announce two important updates to Stupeflix.com!

First, the “Demos” tab at the top of this page.
This page features a demo we are excited to release because it illustrates the scale at which the Stupeflix service can operate.
Shortly put, we scrapped images and legends from the Wikipedia’s famous touristic landmarks. We then described a video template in XML (position of the logo, effects and transitions, text styling and animation). Lastly, we sent that XML file to the Stupeflix API, along with the urls of our pictures, and everything got processed into thousands of videos in an hour.
We’ve put a thousand of those videos on the Demos page for you to watch.

Those are very simple videos meant to demonstrate the speed, automation and scale, as well as fine customization options of the Stupeflix service. There is much more to it in terms of video montage capabilities.

Last but not least, the service processes video inputs as well, so you can mix video clips, add graphic design packaging or text, soundtracks, at an industrial scale.

So please help yourself with an API key and try and build your own mashup !

Watch the Wiki Videos screencast
Try the Wiki Videos demo

Second big update of the day is a totally revamped online editor to create your videos. More details in an upcoming post!

Meet the new Stupeflix.com !

Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our new website !

This new design should make it more obvious how we expect our service to ease production of videos on the web, so check how you can use the Stupeflix API to add video content to your website, promote your products or business using videos, or make additional revenue selling video-based products.

We did not forget playtime : our video editor is now entirely registration free, so your friends will be able to discover it without even registering.
And we will be working hard to let you create videos with all the new features now available in the API:

  • Multi-image 3D/2D effects
  • Include video clips in place of still images
  • Add some nice filters (black and white, sepia, blur, frames) and animate them !
  • Animated texts

You can discover all these new features on our home page videos.