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Press Release: Show some love with Valentine’s video greetings

Jeff Feb 9th

Valentine's video greetings theme

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Show some love with Stupeflix Valentine’s video greetings

SAN FRANCISCO, February 9th, 2010 – How to move your loved one with a simple yet meaningful gesture? Take pictures and video clips from the best memories of the past year and create a beautiful, romantic video filled with emotion on the Stupeflix Studio.

Use your pictures to tell your love story
The Stupeflix Studio, a newly released online application to easily create videos from your digital memories, is offering today a Valentine video theme to share heartfelt sentiments. “My hard drive is filled with beautiful personal pictures which never see the light of day”, says Sebastien Perier, creator of the Valentine theme. “I want people to use theirs to craft a personal message of love.”

Create, inspire, impress
The Studio puts you in control to easily tell your digital story in video in a few minutes. Upload pictures and videos from your hard drive, Flickr, or Picasa account. Arrange them, group them, add texts and soundtracks. Preview until you are happy with the result. You can then publish, download, or upload to Facebook or YouTube your video masterpiece. Free videos are limited to one minute, while full-length High Quality versions cost $3 and High Definition versions (720p) cost $5.

Save on paper, not on emotions
Email greetings cards lack sentiment. Paper greeting cards quickly end up in the bin. A Stupeflix Valentine’s video delivers a handcrafted, heartwarming message which will be kept and cherished for years to come.

About Stupeflix
Stupeflix turns digital content into wowing videos.
The Stupeflix Studio is an online tool to easily create custom videos with your pictures and videos.
Stupeflix.TV is a free web TV service to watch the latest real-time web updates (Twitter, Flickr) about anything you want.
The Stupeflix video production platform is the most powerful solution for classifieds, ecommerce, directories websites and video publishers to create high volume, high quality video applications.

Stupeflix is a French startup which developed a disruptive technology to render video orders of magnitude faster than currently available solutions. Stupeflix won the SeedCamp 2008 startup competition, was finalist of the TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009, and won the 2009 national innovation competition organized by France’s OSEO.

Tags: Facebook, press release, stupeflix editor, Valentine's day, video greetings, video template, video theme, YouTube
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Share on Facebook, Upload to YouTube: Make your Videos Reach and Impress

Jeff Jan 28th

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!

Tags: Facebook, features, new feature, stupeflix editor, user interface, YouTube
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Play First, Register Later: Updated Studio Sign Up Process

Jeff Jan 20th

Sign_Up_Update

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!

Tags: features, new feature, stupeflix editor, user interface
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Happy 2010 in video from Stupeflix!

Jeff Jan 14th

Happy 2010 from Stupeflix!

Stupeflix wishes you the best for 2010, in video!

We had a blast in 2009 and kept improving our products thanks to our users feedback. In September 2009 we launched Stupeflix.TV, a free web-TV service to watch the real-time web unfold in video with the latest updates from Twitter and Flickr.

And now we’re kicking off 2010 with a brand new Stupeflix Studio! Don’t miss out on the cool new features, and make your own video greeting cards with your personal pictures and videos!

Watch our 2010 video greeting, or create your own with the Stupeflix Studio

Tags: 2010, stupeflix editor, stupeflix.tv, video greetings
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Press Release: Stupeflix Studio Released, With HD and Video Greetings

Jeff Dec 29th

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Stupeflix launches online video creation studio
with HD and free Holiday video greetings

SAN FRANCISCO, December 29th, 2009 – With cameras at our fingertips, digital memories overflow our hard drives. How can we share it in a meaningful way with friends and family? Launching today, the Stupeflix Studio allows you to create in a few clicks powerful videos to showcase your pictures and video clips.

Whether you have a story to tell, want to make a video scrapbook, or want to send Holiday video greetings to your loved ones, the Stupeflix Studio will reveal the awe-inspiring video producer in you.

Stunning videos in a few minutes: here’s how

Creating a video is a simple process. Start by choosing a video theme to insert your pictures and video clips into: the elegant Classic theme to showcase your artwork, the Scrapbook theme to share memories or the Holiday theme to send greetings. Upload and arrange your pictures and videos in the intuitive online editor interface. Add texts, music, transitions, oohs and aahs. Preview your video work until you are proud. Publish a short video for free to share with friends and family, or purchase a high definition version up to 720p to download for a few dollars.

Save on paper, not on emotions

Email greetings cards lack sentiment. Stupeflix video greetings show personal pictures and videos, so you can deliver a heartwarming, meaningful message that will move and impress.

About Stupeflix

Stupeflix turns digital content into wowing videos.

The Stupeflix Studio is an online tool to easily create custom videos with your pictures and videos.

Stupeflix.TV is a free web TV service to watch the latest real-time web updates (Twitter, Flickr) about anything you want.

The Stupeflix API is the most affordable and scalable solution for content-rich web properties to automatically generate massive amounts of video content along custom-tailored templates.

Stupeflix is a French startup which developed a groundbreaking video production platform, unique for its speed of rendering (HD faster than real time), scalability (millions of videos), flexibility (video scenes described in XML, REST API available). Stupeflix won the SeedCamp 2008 startup competition and was finalist of the TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009.

Useful Links

Stupeflix logo (web or print)

Sample videos using the Classic theme, the Scrapbook theme, the Holiday greetings theme.

Screenshot of the Stupeflix Studio Home Page and online editor.

Tags: announcement, features, HD video, new feature, stupeflix editor, video greetings
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With Flickr Pictures Import, Creating Videos Is Faster and Easier than Ever

Jeff Oct 9th

When creating a new video with the Stupeflix Editor, the first thing to do is to gather and upload images and videos to be included in your glorious project. But what if you’re missing a nice picture to illustrate your message? What if you don’t have pictures at all? What if you’d like to use an already created album on Flickr.com?

Stress not: the new Flickr pictures import is the solution to all your problems. It lets you search Flickr for pictures directly within the Editor, or select an already created picture Set:

screenshot-Flickr1 The upload wizard then retrieves the images on Flickr matching your query. You can now select the images you want to include in your video by clicking on their thumbnail. You can also select all the pictures you see with the “Select All” link, or request to see more images matching your query if you haven’t found the perfect match just yet:

screenshot-Flickr2 Once ready, your images are directly imported in your video project, so you can group them, order them, add effects, transitions, musics, texts, and all that great stuff.

Creating killer videos is faster and easier than ever. Don’t forget to thank the Flickr photographers for their good work!

Tags: features, flickr, stupeflix editor, tutorial, user interface
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Demo Girl Shows You How To Be a Superstar Movie Maker

Jeff Sep 29th

Demo Girl released last week an excellent screencast showing in four minutes how to use the Stupeflix Studio to create custom videos.

The screencast is a great, straightforward tutorial, and we wanted to share it with you. Check it out below!

Thanks Molly, keep on the good work!

Tags: screencast, stupeflix editor, tutorial
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Stupeflix Studio: Your Online Video Production Headquarters

Jeff Sep 14th

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:

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

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.

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!

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.

Tags: features, stupeflix editor, SXML, user interface, xml editor
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Stupeflix Editor Sports A New Interface

Jeff Sep 9th

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

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).

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!

Tags: features, stupeflix editor, user interface, xml editor
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Tutorial Series: How To Use Masks To Filter Images, Videos

Jeff Aug 31st

The Stupeflix XML (SXML) Video Description Language is a powerful language which describes videos generated by the Stupeflix REST API via our publicly available XML Editor or a third-party website. Applying and combining effects, filters, animators, transitions to text, images and videos opens up a limitless universe of creative possibilities for video production. The Tutorial Series blog posts bring the focus on a particular video editing feature.

We show you in this post how you can create dynamic masks to reveal and/or hide parts of an image or video. More information and source SXML code for the video examples below are available on the Masking Tutorial available in the Stupeflix Developer Center.

Applying a mask is a common image or video editing technique to reveal or hide parts of the image or video. An intermediary greyscale image or video is created that defines which area is going to be shown (for instance white parts), or hidden (for instance black parts), or partially transparent (for instance grey parts).

For instance, this video is the result:

of applying this mask:

To the following original video:

The syntax used to apply a video mask on content is the following, where the parameter opaqueColor (color on the mask which indicates hidden content) is set to #ffffff (hexadecimal for black), where transparentColor (color on the mask which indicates shown content) is set to #000000 (hexadecimal for white), and where the source for the video mask (second video above) can be found at http://assets.stupeflix.com/code/tutorials/masking/wbmask.mp4

<filter type="mask" opaqueColor="#ffffff" transparentColor="#000000">
   <video filename="http://assets.stupeflix.com/code/tutorials/masking/wbmask.mp4"/>
</filter>

Such mask filters can be applied on any object (overlay with images and videos, stacks, sequences, effects…).

And such masks can be defined with any video, image, or combination of stacks, sequences, overlays, and effects. For instance, the two following SXML codes will produce the exact same video, try to paste both in the XML Editor if you want to try yourself!

<movie service="craftsman-1.0">
  <body>
    <overlay duration="10.0" top="0.1">
      <video filename="http://assets.stupeflix.com/code/tutorials/masking/sts120_launch.mov">
        <filter type="mask" opaqueColor="#ffffff" transparentColor="#000000">
           <video filename="http://assets.stupeflix.com/code/tutorials/masking/wbmask.mp4"/>
        </filter>
      </video>
    </overlay>
  </body>
</movie>

In this example, we inserted the source SXML that we used to generate the mask video shown above:

<movie service="craftsman-1.0">
  <body>
    <overlay duration="10.0" top="0.1">
      <video filename="http://assets.stupeflix.com/code/tutorials/masking/sts120_launch.mov">
        <filter type="mask" opaqueColor="#ffffff" transparentColor="#000000">
          <stack duration="10.0">
            <overlay right="0.15" width="0.45" top="0.15" height="0.45">
              <image color="#ffffff"/>
              <animator type="slide-in" duration="1.0" direction="left"/>
              <animator type="slide-out" duration="1.0" direction="up"/>
              <animator type="grow" growEnd="0.7"/>
            </overlay>
            <overlay left="0.10" width="0.45" top="0.10" height="0.45">
              <image color="#ffffff"/>
              <animator type="slide-in" duration="1.0" direction="down"/>
              <animator type="slide-out" duration="1.0" direction="left"/>
              <animator type="grow" growEnd="0.7"/>
            </overlay>
            <overlay left="0.15" width="0.45" bottom="0.10" height="0.45">
              <image color="#ffffff"/>
              <animator type="slide-in" duration="1.0" direction="up"/>
              <animator type="slide-out" duration="1.0" direction="left"/>
              <animator type="grow" growEnd="0.7"/>
            </overlay>
            <overlay right="0.10" width="0.45" bottom="0.15" height="0.45">
              <image color="#ffffff"/>
              <animator type="slide-in" duration="1.0" direction="left"/>
              <animator type="slide-out" duration="1.0" direction="down"/>
              <animator type="grow" growEnd="0.7"/>
            </overlay>
          </stack>
        </filter>
      </video>
    </overlay>
  </body>
</movie>

Now, another thing to consider when playing with the mask filter: any intermediate color between the opaque and the transparent one will reveal the content with a partially transparent effect. So if black is your opaque color and white the transparent one, a dark grey will slightly reveal the underlying content, while a light grey will show most of it. What this means is that you can use the mask filter to obtain a dynamic and fully customizable alpha channel for your videos!

Finally, adding a mask filter at the top of your SXML means that the mask will apply to your whole movie project. Use this feature for adding a convenient post-processing effect to your videos with a couple lines of code!

Tags: filters, stupeflix editor, SXML, tutorial, xml editor
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