Photoblurr: Not a video. Definitely not a slideshow.

DIY instructions:

1. Put your camera on continuous shoot. My Canon 20D could do 3 frames/second. My 7D can do 7 frames/second.

2. Make sure your shutter speed maxes out at 1/10th of a second or so. Blurry pics are totally fine. Try to keep it landscape, though. Fixing the portrait shots is a pain.

3. Hold down your shutter button a lot. Turn on AF and give your camera to other people and tell them to do the same.

4. Download your 5000+ pictures to your computer later.

5. Open up VirtualDub, and load in all the JPEGs, tell it to resize to 1/4, and set the framerate to 10 frames/second or so.

6. Layer over with some music. I recommend sorting by duration in iTunes to find something that is as long as your video.

7. Ta-da: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIWek7YwS7w

The thing to remember is ease of use...

So your mom got a digital camera and recently took a trip...she wants to share the photos with her friends and maybe they listened to Jimmy Buffett the whole time...she drags and drops a folder of photos into the webapp (Can't do that on pummelvision) then picks a Jimmy Buffett song (yes there are licensing issues...we're working on it) and is able to post her photoblurr to her facebook page or email it to her friends. It's free and she can add that photoblurr to a "channel" and share all of her photoblurrs with people in her community.

Although it certainly could be used as a marketing tool by no means are we going to have 4 pricing plans or focus on B2B marketing (animoto).

The idea is keep it simple enough for your mom to use it, make it free and make it community oriented.

meh.

Here is a much better version of this effect, taken using a camera with a fast shutter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fe1b0NTLTA

I believe that this effect truly gives a feeling of motion.

Now that is how you should edit a party video.

Seems like the music is doing a lot of the heavy lifting on this one..

Also, you could just film the thing and run it through HighLightCam - http://highlightcam.com/

(although it appears to have turned into an iPhone app since last I checked.. huh.)

Check out http://pummelvision.com/ for something similar.

I think the interesting part of this product is that often times you have large collections of party pictures that aren't all that interesting to wade thru on FB or whatever. This makes all those potentially less interesting photos more valuable as frames in a movie instead.

I wonder if they licensed that Curtis Mayfield track.

my poor internet can't stream it fast enough, so I just end up with a few pics and a short bit of music, long pause, repeat. There seems to be no way to allow it to buffer or restart. I have no idea what it's supposed to be - a slideshow for people with severe adhd?

IMO Animoto.com does a better job.