Silver Screen Tele-Reality released a beta of pic2vid on the 27th last month. Nothing big you’d think, but it’s worth mentioning. You upload a few pictures, and the images become an animated sequence. A movie. Worth a try.
The Drag-N-Drop Java Uploader module allows you to drag one picture, multiple pictures, or whole folders from your Windows Explorer. You can even drag pictures directly from another web site. Pretty nifty, I must say. Don’t forget to agree to the terms, every time you start a session. (it doesn’t ask it twice or more if you upload pics separately)
After uploading the pics, you can manage them very easily in the library, dragging them in the right order to appear in the film. In fact, what you are making will turn out to look like an MSN Spaces photo album. You can chose from six styles of transition for the images to be rendered.The basic horizontal, vertical, a fade, clockwise etc. Then you can modify the speed of the animation. Also comes in handy. I tried to modify my movie and get the pics to load through a fade, but it kept switching it back to horizontal. Probably a small bug?
After the images have been set chronologically you can type in a text that then becomes transformed to a spoken version. Very fluently a male or female voice then ‘narrates’ what you have entered in the box.
You can use the workbench to send Pic2VID-Mail; get the HTML code to embed the video in your webpage, blogs, or newsletter; get the link to your video; or download the video.
Very easy, very fast service. [visit my workbench at pic2vid] [join] or visit [pic2vid]
I also noticed that when you change the audio file, the text isn’t republished to match the new audio. Also a small bug, I presume. But hey, it’s a beta, and it’s working great so far ! I took advantage of that to try out the emotions of the speech-rendering-bot. ;)
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