Okay, there’s been quite a few video sharing apps the last year or so such as Socialcam, Klip and Vlix but a new one we’ve stumbled on called GivIt adds a different wrinkle that makes it worth a look.

GivIt, available on the web and now also on the iPhone, is designed so you can control the number of viewers who can watch the videos you upload.

Unlike most of the other social video sharing apps, Givit isn’t designed for mass distribution of videos into…

Well, we’ve raved in the past about the fun, creative and easy way the online video service Animoto allows you to create personal videos with your stills and video clips and now these geniuses are giving us a free mobile app for creating these masterpieces on the fly.

While creating and editing video on the iPhone’s small screen would seem to present some challenges, the Animoto app does all the work for you. All you need to do is pick the style, song, photos, and text you want…

If you’re sitting on some longer-length videos you’d like to post online, SmugMug has just announced that they’ve raised their video caps – you can now upload a high definition video up to 3GB in size and up to 20 minutes in length. The more generous video storage is available to Power ($60/yr) and Pro ($150/yr) SmugMug users.

The nice thing about this is that you can dump an unlimited number of videos onto the site, provided they’re the right length and file size. However, they do not retain an…

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 a new style, dubbed Vintage Voyage, to give your movies an old-school feel.

Read our original review of Animoto here.

Unlike other movie-making software that you download, Animoto’s tools are accessed through a web browser on…

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 objects by adding realistic motion blur and lighting, as well as particle effects such as fire, smoke and snow.

The program’s Easy Pallet quickly applies 3D pre-sets to text or objects and can export 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 free.

Magisto does this editing by computer algorithm, scanning your clips to detect important pieces (i.e. those with people or pets, etc.) and slicing out the rest. It also promises to remove digital noise as…

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 clips can be seen and edited by other Stroome members – either for you to use of them. So if everyone went to the same event but only one of you is any good…

Struggling to find an all-in-one media player to tackle all the various digital video, audio and photo formats piling up on your hard drive? CyberLink’s Power DVD11 is up to the task.

New for version 11 is a Digital Media Server, which supports wireless transfer and playback of media between computers, tablets and devices that are compatible with the DLNA networking standard (pretty common these days). You can even stream Blu-ray and high definition content and the software now supports some more 3D formats as well - MVC 1080i 3D and M2TS…

Looking for a free piece of video-editing software?  Serif is making its MoviePlus software available in a free starter edition. With MoviePlus you can import and edit WMV, AVI and MOV video files – in other words, the popular formats created by the Flip and other pocket camcorders in addition to digital cameras.

It’s free because several crucial capabilities are not included, such as the ability to burn movies to DVD and the ability to export to Quicktime files. This you’ll have to purchase with a $9 upgrade. Even…

The creators of the Face Movie software in Google’s Picasa is giving us a look under the hood of a far more robust software program that can create chronological bios using our photos. Daily Tech’s Tiffany Kaiser gives us the scoop:

The new tool works by scanning through a person’s photo collection (if you fall into the “boxes of 4×6 prints” category, you’ll have to scan them all onto the computer first). Facial recognition technology allows the owner to tag the photos and manually enter dates if possible, and…