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Vimeo has bought aboard a new app and new people that can transform your videos into animations.
The company announced today that it now owns Echograph, an app that lets iPhone and iPad users create antimations by blending together different parts of a video clip.
Purchased from Clear-Media, the Echograph app previously cost $ 2.99 but is now available for free.
As described in this online video, an Echograph is a photograph that contains small slices of animation. You start off by selecting a video and then trimming it to five seconds. You then pick a single still frame from the clip. From there, you actually paint over an area of that still frame with a moving element from the video, creating an image with touches of animation.
Through Vimeo, Echograph users can then share that animated image online. Vimeo has more than 15 million registered users and reaches an audience of more than 93 million each month, according to the company.
Along with the app, Vimeo has hired members of the Echograph team, who will report directly to Vimeo’s president Dae Mellencamp. Nick Alt, who created Echograph, will change roles from Clear-Media CEO to Vimeo’s VP of mobile, where he’ll handle development of the app across diffe… [Read more]
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