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The online movie-making service Animoto has updated their service with a fairly comprehensive refresh. Among the changes, you’ll find a more streamlined movie-making process – you can create an online video in about five clicks, if you forgo any customization. There’s a larger work space, which can accommodate up to 300 thumbnail images. You’ll also find [...]

Get out your director’s chair and start making far more memorable video clips. That is certainly what Corel is suggesting with their new MotionStudio 3D, software program. The $99 software can help you create dozens of unique title sequences by making text bounce, twist and explode and also allows you to create and embellish 3D [...]

It’s easy to capture hours of video, but it can be a bit difficult and time-consuming to edit your footage down into coherent clips. A new service called Magisto aims to change that. It will automatically edit up to 600MB or 16 individual clips totally 600MB into a single video. Best of all – it’s [...]

Most of us do our video editing in a lonely corner of the house, working with footage while everyone is enjoying their life. A new startup called Stroome looks to change that with a web browser-based “social” editing program. Here’s how it works: you upload a piece of video content to a Stroome library. Those [...]

It’s getting down to the wire, but there’s still time to do something nice for the old man for Father’s Day. One simple option is to make him a video for Father’s Day – a multimedia collection of still photos and videos combined into a single movie, complete with captions and a soundtrack. This movie [...]

It’s very easy to take video on your iPhone, iPod Touch and (kind of) your iPad, but not so easy to edit it. That’s where Viddy comes in. Viddy is a new iPhone app that lets you take iPhone video and create a bona-fide movie out of it. (It works with iPod Touches and iPads, [...]

If you’re big into editing your home movies, Corel just announced a new version of its VideoStudio Pro X software (Pro X4 to be precise). Among the new features in Pro X4 is the ability to create time lapse effects from your movies and digital photos plus a stop motion tool which simplifies the animation [...]

Animoto is an online movie creator which lets you grab your photos and videos and, in three simple steps, create a multimedia video of your footage. It’s a browser-based service, which means you won’t have any software to download – although you can download your videos when you’re done creating them. Price: It’s free if [...]

3D cameras and camcorders have just started to seep out into the market, so chances are you’re not sitting on a whole lot of 3D footage just yet. But in case you jumped on the bandwagon early, Roxio’s newest Video Lab HD will support 3D video editing. It can also convert 2D footage into 3D [...]

Software company muvee has just released the latest version of its Reveal movie-making program. Reveal lets you create movies using your camcorder footage, still photos and digital music. (You can see a list of supported digital file formats here, but suffice it to say it supports almost everything your camera or camcorder could produce.) How [...]