1. One True Media
One True Media, a free online service that helps people easily turn their video and photos into online video stories. It focuses on the creative process, making it fun to tell and share video stories set to music with the most important network you have — your friends and family. It is quick and easy to use with no software downloads and immediate results. One True Media also offers an unmatched experience combined with a rich array of customizable DVDs, online sharing options and photo book keepsakes so users can build, tailor or update their personal video stories with ease. An already established company with a staff of around 20, One True Media has over 3 million registered users producing about 70,000 videos a week that see 4 million views a week.


2. Animoto
Animoto generates custom, professional-looking slideshows from user-uploaded music and photos. Once a video is created, Animoto tries to make it easy to consume the videos on any device or platform. The integration with YouTube is as simple as adding a YouTube button as an option under the finished video.
Animoto, the DIY-music-video-meets-slideshow tool, has released a new version of its iPhone app that brings it a little closer to its desktop counterpart. The app also lets you download any videos you’ve created directly to your phone for offline viewing, which means you can play them back even if you’re in the depths of a concrete bunker. This is by far the most important feature in an app like this, and something that should have been included in the very first version.

3. JayCut
JayCut is a flash-based online video editor. The service allows you to create movies, clips and slideshows and also mixes the video. JayCut has websites in four languages; English, Spanish, Swedish and Polish. The first languages (English and Swedish). You can upload clips from your camera, mobile phone or webcam then compile them into a nice video by adding captions and music. Jaycut has a two-track timeline interface called “Mix It” where users can drag and rearrange their uploaded clips and time the transition between clips.

4. Brightcove.com
Brightcove.com is an online video platform that allows video content makers to create, distribute and monetize their video content.
The site features browser-based tools for creating video content, adding advertising to it and distributing it.
The Brightcove video player is top of its class, with a smart delivery system, high definition capabilities, and customizable player framework that helps video publishers extend their brand. With the addition of the Clearspring sharing menu, which allows content to be shared across more than 80 social networking, blogging and bookmarking services, the viewing audience of Brightcove-based content will increase dramatically, as will Clearspring’s already extensive reach. Using newly released Livestream APIs, the companies have developed a way for customers to feed their pre-recorded live video streams into the Brightcove video management system. Customers can also use any custom video players or templates that have been built through Brightcove for new live streams, ensuring the same user experience, whether a stream is live or on-demand.

5. Livestream
Livestream can be accurately defined as one of the most powerful online video broadcast websites on the internet. One of the good things about this site is the fact that it gives you the chance to create and produce your own broadcasts in a short period of time. Animated Television Graphics Make your channel look like a major network broadcast using our graphics library. Livestream gives you a wealth of broadcast graphics including ticker, bumper, lower third name, and logo bug. Additionally, you can customize these graphics using your own logos and colors. Best of all, you don’t need to be a designer to style your channel – you’ll be amazed how simply Livestream operates. According to company sources, more than 300,000 people have registered and launched live video channels using Mogulus/Livestream since its introduction in 2007. Livestream service is available to producers and aspiring broadcasters two ways: as a free, advertising-supported service; and Livestream Pro, a $350/month advertising-free “premium service” with advanced features.

6. Viddler
Viddler is a video sharing website. It has the ability to tag and comment any particular moment of time in a video, essentially enabling users to annotate and add searchable metadata to any video. Viddler is a great choice for anyone wishing to share content with the world and to communicate with the viewers. Through easy to manage video comments, tags and text-based comments, users and creators share information and views on all of the videos on Viddler. With cross-blog posting, viddler makes it even easier to share your videos with an audience while still maintaining the conversation style timelineUploading to Viddler is a snap. You can upload videos in bulk through a simple Flash-based uploader with real-time progress indicators and upload videos in 14 different formats (.avi .dv .mov .qt .mpg .mpg2 .mpeg2 .mpeg4 .mp4 .3gp .3g2 .asf .wmv .flv). Viddler’s also very generous in allowing up to 500MB each video while Youtube and Google Video only allow up to 100MB.

7. Xtranormal
Xtranormal allows all people with a computer and Internet connection to make their own animated movies. There is no long membership process required, so making a cartoon short is quick, easy and effortless. As the website itself puts it: “If you can type, you can make movies.” The site is popular with kids and seeing their words spoken on screen is a great motivator. Xtranormal is especially useful for livening up textbook dialogues or getting students to write similar conversations, and also has various other uses.The coolest feature of the site is that the characters say anything the user writes: whatever text is typed into the dialogue boxes, the little animated character repeats. This feature provides so many possibilities for users; people can create movies to re-enact an inside joke, tell a funny story or even do something over-the-top like recite a love poem to send to a significant other. It’s a lot of fun.

8. BrushVideo
BrushVideo is a simple to use online video editor program. The site lets you upload a video from URL and perform some basic video editing tasks right in your browser. The service, geared towards teens and young adults, will allow users to upload a video and use an online video editor to cut movies, add music and mix webcam videos. After the movie is generated, the user can upload it automatically to YouTube or use it on any page they like. Thousands of people upload their videos every single day and this application allows them to work on their creations. BrushVideo gives people free access to an easy to use online video editor where they can personalize their own movies before uploading it to popular video site.

9. Shwup
Shwup is the easiest way to combine and share everyone’s photos and videos in a private online album On shwup, you also have the option to use muvee’s award-winning automatic video editing tool that allows you to create personalized home movies, namely “muvees!”. Just create an account and start uploading the pictures. Once you are done, send your friends invitations and they’ll be able to enjoy the pictures and videos you uploaded. The fact that most picture hosting sites are very public has been keeping some people away from them.

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