Animated “explainer” videos that introduce a new product have become a way of life for many marketing introductions, but there has always been a drawback. It was not commercially practical for a small to medium business to make the movement of the on-screen avatar character’s lips to the words being spoken. Disney has the budget for it, but the average marketer doesn’t. The new software, VideoBuilder, now lets any business bring more-life-like videos into their marketing. And that’s not the end of the innovations in VideoBuilder. You now have a fully flexible animation... [...]

Astroblu LTD, headed by Fachrul Stream, is releasing a large collection of video clips especially designed to benefit online marketers. They are calling this new collection Gigavid. What’s included in This all-new Packages? As the name implies, this is a large collection of a wide variety of clips suitable for including in videos you create. In the basic package of video clips you are getting: ■ 50 opener video templates ■ 30 promotion video templates ■ 20 social media video templates ■ 10 HD Business video footage ■ 10 HD Holiday video footage ■ 10 HD Slow motion video footage ■... [...]

Viddyoze Live Action is new software, just released and unprecedented, that creates your marketing videos that can include both live action footage and animated footage. And its degree of automation will surprise you. You will be able to upload your own logos, images and text into a real moving cinematic scene, with your uploads becoming part of the action. But the bad news is that this is your last chance to get in on the launch sale. This time tomorrow, Viddyoze Live Action will cost $197 + $97/month. But today, it’s just a one-time investment of only $67. This is a sophisticated animation... [...]

Viddyoze was the first video “intro” creation software. Their long experience has kept them ahead of the pack of their newer competitors. Now there’s a new video tool available that dwarfs what Viddyoze can do. It’s called Viddyoze Live Action. Yes, it’s by the same team that created the original Viddyoze and then Viddyoze 2.0 (Joey Xoto, Jamie Garside and David Chamberlain), but this new software beats the originals hands down. For the first time ever with any software, you can use Viddyoze Live Action to put your logo straight into live-action video footage. And... [...]

Videos make good sales tools– if people watch them. Get them to watch for a few seconds, and they are more likely to watch the whole video. Jimmy Mancini has put together a tool that makes your videos stand out from the crowd, Intro Video Creator. This is Adobe Air software that creates Logo Stingers. It does this using your choice of 2D or 3D animations. As you use it for building your videos you can easily customize the fonts that are used and choose the background you want. The goal is to build a subdued but eye-catching introductory scene for your video. Often you would use your logo,... [...]

Video Producer Pro is new software, just released by Jimmy Mancini, for making and editing videos. It allows anyone to create professional looking videos by adding Intros, Titles, Outros and special effects to videos. It can work with videos it creates (including screen recording or video merger), or with any other video you have on your computer or even with any YouTube video that you download using the software. Take a look at what it can do for you. ■ You can add a title screen at the beginning of your video. ■ You can add an animated 3D or 2D introductory clip before your video, proper,... [...]

Paul Ponna and Todd Gross are releasing their new video tool (VideoPal) that creates 3D spokespeople on your website, either a 3D artistic rendering or a video of a live human. Whether artistic or live actor, your video will both talk and move naturally for whatever script you create. You get multiple men and multiple women avatars (47 in all), and they can speak 24 languages, including 4 accent versions of English (US, UK, Australian and Indian), Parisian French, Canadian French, Castilian Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese, Icelandic and over 10 more. The videos these characters appear... [...]

In the last few years, a new photography effect has been adopted by large marketers and by photo artists, in general. It’s called cinemagraphs It is a photograph in which one small area is moving, so it’s half-way between a still photo and a video. This new technique is taking the marketing world by storm. Marketers large and small are finding cinemagraphs helpful. For example, Toronto-based start-up Inkbox showed 117% increase in click-through rate for its Facebook ads, plus a 41% decrease in cost per click, and 4 points increase in relevance score after they started using cinemagraphs. That... [...]

This new generation of Explaindio makes this video creation tool unbeatable for the foreseeable future. It has always done an excellent job of creating animated sales videos. Now it can do “composite” or, as they refer to them, “compiled” videos, consisting not just animation but of a combination of video elements. Here are some of the new elements in this new version of the software: • Multiple animations at the same time • Full 3D animations • You can import external 3D elements • 3D models and animation customization • A new easy video creation wizard • Keyframe... [...]

If you want your online web pages, videos and presentations to be eye-catching, adding a little motion can’t be beat. This is true for green screen videos, presentations, website backgrounds, anywhere your you want to attract viewer attention. Mark Mason and Pat Flannagon are releasing a package of Action Backgrounds at 11 AM EDT, today. These new video graphics are 100% new and unique. The package includes 40 video backgrounds (plus color variations for each) and, as a bonus, 6 4K-ultra high definition backgrounds. You have a choice choice of either personal or developer license. These beautiful... [...]