MotionBox Goes Family-friendly

Motionbox is another video-sharing site which had to find a niche. They've re-focused on what they call "trusted family use." Shoot your video, upload it, edit it — then share it privately with family and personal friends.



The free service, launched last year, lets you upload 100 megabytes per video, and store 300 megabytes. In last November they launched “Motionbox Premium,” their subscription service at $29.99 that includes unlimited storage and “TV-quality” downloads for watching on various devices. It also launched Motionbooks, video flipbooks you can make with your personal videos. An interesting twist!

The premium service will eventually cost $34.99 a year. At least that's the plan. We'll see if it sticks ... my hunch is they will have to settle for $19.99.

JumpCut.com Beta Doesn't Cut it on Mac Safari

I'm quoting verbatim from the home page: "Be good to your video. The easiest way to edit, create, remix, and share your video and photos." Could be, and hopefully will be soon. I just checked it out, trying to get the embed code of "The Camera Race," a funny chase through a semi-dark kitchen, living room, and who-knows-what else. (I didn't watch the whole thing, but you can see the starting frame here.)





Someone gave it that love heart; however neither the "Post," "Share," nor the "Grab" features worked in my Mac’s Safari browser, so that wasn't me.

I trust the JumpCut folks check postings through Technorati, Diggs, or others and fix these issues post beta. Yes, free is good! Freedom to choose amongst online video editing services, like JumpCut, MotionBox, and EyeSpot is even better! Make it so for us Macophiles too....

And yes, reports on MotionBox, and EyeSpot will follow as I get to them.