Earlier this year, I wrote about funding for a stealthy video-editing app called Directr, which had raised $1.1 million in seed funding to help people make better mobile videos. But we didn’t really know how it was planning to do so.
Well, the wait is over. The Directr app has officially launched, with an interesting approach to making actual watchable short mobile movies.
Video distribution platform Ooyala wants to make videos available wherever users may be. That means enabling its customers to distribute their content onto all sorts of mobile phones and tablets and connected TVs and crap like that.
Vine, in case you missed it, is a standalone iOS app from Twitter that lets users create short, 6-second videos that run on a loop.
Users record by holding their thumb against the screen, and stop by releasing.
Video discovery is becoming a big deal, as startups seek to help users sort through the millions of videos that are now available over the Internet. But until now, the vast majority of video discovery apps have been focused mostly on on-demand video libraries. What about the growing inventory of live video streams appearing in web browsers and on mobile devices?
First, Magisto launched a cloud-based video-editing platform for the web, which allowed users to upload their content and have it automatically stitched together into wonderful, watchable videos. Then it brought that capability to iOS and Android devices, which helped users make viewable content out of usually crappy mobile videos.
Video sharing startup Vilynx launched to enable its users to quickly and easily manage videos that they have shot and stored across multiple devices. Linking in to a wide range of cloud storage devices, and with a ready stable of mobile apps, the company hopes to make users’ personal video assets easily accessible wherever they are.
Visual effects company GenArts is introducing a new app that it hopes will leverage some of the same technology used by movie and TV production studios to improve mobile videos and make them actually watchable, and hence, shareable.
Vine launched a week ago today, yet has still managed to swing to the top 10 free apps in the App Store, and has taken the number one spot in the Social category.
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