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Use your Facebook pictures to make videos!

Connect to your Facebook account to import photos

With 3 billion pictures uploaded a month, Facebook is becoming the place where we keep and share our personal pictures, the shots we’ve taken on the go.

When you’re making a video in the Studio, you may want to use this profile picture, that shot you took with your phone, all images stored in your Facebook account.

To make it quick and easy for you, we’ve added the possibility to import pictures right from your Facebook account. We hope you’ll find it useful and easy to use.

Here’s how it works:
When starting a video or adding pictures to your project, select “Facebook Import”, then click on “Connect to my Facebook account”.

If you are already connected (for instance if you already have a browser window open on Facebook), we’ll take you right there! Otherwise you can login to your Facebook account and then access all your photo albums and select as many of these pictures as you like.

Upload pictures from your Facebook photo albums

Whether you store your photos on Flickr, Picasa or Facebook, you can import them all easily  to make your videos with the Stupeflix Studio!

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!

With Flickr Pictures Import, Creating Videos Is Faster and Easier than Ever

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 With Flickr Pictures Import, Creating Videos Is Faster and Easier than EverThe 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 With Flickr Pictures Import, Creating Videos Is Faster and Easier than EverOnce 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!

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!