Smilebox Video Clips Empowers Consumers to Personalize and Share Digital Videos as Quickly and Easily as Photos

REDMOND, Wash., Feb 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Smilebox Inc., the innovator of multimedia expressions technology, today announced Smilebox Video Clips(TM), a new service feature making it easy to import, personalize and share personal videos in a matter of seconds. This breakthrough technology is the easiest way to share personal videos with friends and family.

Smilebox Video Clips provides consumers with the tools to drag and drop videos from a digital camera into hundreds of professionally designed slideshows, scrapbooks, greetings, postcards and photobooks. Users can combine multiple videos and photos in the same design, add captions and music, zoom, pan and rotate imported clips, making it easy to tell their story in a creative and compelling way.

"The addition of video capabilities transforms the Smilebox experience," said Andrew Wright, CEO, Smilebox Inc. "I am particularly excited that for the first time, anyone with a digital camera can quickly and easily share personal video."

Smilebox Video Clips improves on existing video sharing solutions in three fundamental ways:

• It's faster: Importing and sharing video with Smilebox is up to 30 times faster than existing video sharing sites. This is because Smilebox encodes video on the user's computer prior to uploading it to a site. Videos are presented in Flash video format in quality comparable to YouTube and Google Video.
• It's easier: Sharing personal videos with Smilebox is as easy as sharing photos. Users can import, drag and drop, rotate, zoom and pan videos in the same way they work with photos.
• It's more creative: Smilebox users can tell a richer story with personal videos. Users can drop multiple video clips into Smilebox's multimedia templates and combine them with photos, words, music and style. They can email their creation to family and friends or post it on their blog or personal profile.