Whether you’re taking video of your children playing on vacation, or snapping photos of your teen heading off to summer camp, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to share those stories with your friends and family in just a few taps from your iPhone?
Flixlab announced today the launch of its new social video platform, including an initial consumer application for the iPhone that instantly shares video clips and pictures among friends, allowing individuals to automatically create great movies that can be published to Facebook.
With Flixlab, people can turn raw videos and photos from their iPhone—and even their friends’ iPhones—into fun, compelling stories with just a few taps and immediately share them on Facebook. Whether you’re at a baby shower or at your child’s t-ball game, Flixlab helps capture the best footage shot by all of your friends and family members, not just what you shot.
After years in stealth mode, Flixlab’s proprietary, cloud-based social video platform enables consumers to easily create and share compelling movies about their daily lives using the video clips and pictures on their smartphones and their friends’ smartphones.
The Flixlab platform uses sophisticated, patent-pending video and audio analysis algorithms to parse video footage together and in doing so solves many of the most common consumer video production challenges. Flixlab’s algorithms intelligently and automatically make editing and clip decisions so that people don’t have to invest a lot of time or acquire a special skill set just to produce an engaging movie. Flixlab also solves the complexities around creating movies of shared social events—source video and picture assets are instantly shared so that friends can interact, share, and even remix clips and photos from the same event.
“Smartphones are increasingly becoming the device of choice for consumers to capture photos and video. Yet, most people do nothing with this footage—they just leave it on their phones, or at best upload single clips” said David Slater, CEO of Flixlab. “Our research has shown that true sharing experiences require more than just single pictures and video clips; people want to share their lives by combining multiple video clips and pictures to tell a complete story. Flixlab solves this by automatically making great movies from what individuals and their friends have captured together.”
The Flixlab team is comprised of video, technology, social media and marketing experts from companies like Electronic Arts, Macromedia, Audible, Sony, Adobe and Disney. Flixlab’s Executive Chairman is Tim Mott, co-founder of Electronic Arts, Macromedia and Audible.
“Flixlab is the next big thing,” said Tim Mott, executive chairman of Flixlab. “No one else offers anything like our social video creation and sharing platform. Our accumulated research and knowledge of what people find most interesting and moving has allowed us to combine multiple proprietary algorithms that analyze source footage and deliver a unique, high-quality product that is truly unprecedented in the market.”
To date Flixlab has raised a total of $6M to fund development and launch from angels Tim Mott (EA, Macromedia, Audible) and Michael Marks (Flextronics, Audible, Crocs, Tesla, Zappos, KKR, Riverwood Capital).
I downloaded the app on an iPhone 4. Installation as very intuitive, and making your first movie takes seconds. Basically, you pick the photos, you pick the transition options from a list, add music and you’re done. You can save them to your phone (currently supports all iOS device types: 3G, 3GS, 4 and both iPads), or save them to your Facebook profile.
The real magic with Flixlab is its convenience. Without blinking an eye, you can create a pretty professional looking movie without even looking at a PC. It can all be done from your iPhone or iPad. All you have to do is select the photos/videos, add fade, music and save. Information is sent to the Flixlab servers, and in minutes, you are sent a link to the finished product. You can save the movie and/or you can post it to your Facebook profile.
You can also tag ‘friends’ in the movie, so those in the movie will automatically be notified of the new production. Additionally, friends using the Flixlab app can manipulate the movie you created (if they are tagged in the movie), and create a new version of that movie from your clips. Awesome.
You can download it today here.
Flixlab is the fast and fun way to tell engaging stories about life’s events by mixing the videos and pictures on your smartphone and your friends’ smartphones to create great movies you are thrilled to share on Facebook. The Flixlab team is comprised of social media, online video, technology, and marketing experts from companies like Electronic Arts, Macromedia, Audible, Sony, Adobe and Disney, all of whom are dedicated to enabling people to tell their everyday stories through video. After several years in stealth mode developing a proprietary, cloud-based social video platform that enables the creation of truly great consumer social videos, Flixlab is now launching its first application for the iPhone, with applications on other mobile devices soon to follow.
For more information visit Flixlab’s website here.
Check out a couple of the videos taken using Flixlab…..
