Combine and Share Group iPhone Videos with Vitoto

vitoto video app for iPhone

More and more people are making amazing videos with nothing but their smartphones. It's pretty easy to do when you're shooting from just one perspective. Apps like Vitoto make it easy to get multiple angles of the same shot or at the same location from a different perspective by combining the videos together. You have to connect to Facebook to use the app, but once yet another app has access to your Facebook social graph, multiple people can quickly shoot videos and add them to one video thread using the simple functionality. Once a portion of the video is shot, users can create a thread and invite Facebook friends to join the thread (provided they also have the app).

Once they have accepted and start shooting there own videos, the app does the rest and automatically groups them all together to make one single shot. No figuring out the best way to coral all the videos together, and no manually splicing all the videos together. You also don't have to wait until all the video is shot, Vitoto constantly adds new videos to the thread. 

It looks as if Vitoto wants users to get social, because users need Facebook to create an account and invite other users to join video threads. But you can also view and even contribute to other public threads. The more people to join a thread, the more flavor a thread can have. Lurkers can comment on videos as well. The idea of an app like Vitoto is sound - I mean, who isn't on their smartphone shooting video of a party, vacation trip, or major event? Vitoto simply provides the conduit for a user to invite other people who may be shooting the same event but from their own perspective. 

The one main thing that stuck out the most is the lack of transition effects between videos - It just abruptly jumps from one video to the next. It would've been nice to include some sort of very basic "cross-dissolve-ish" effect, but I'm assuming that among other things like better video quality and more bandwidth, premium users will have access to better editing capabilities?

Overall, I think mobile video sharing is the next frontier, since everybody "and their momma" is squeezing the life out mobile photo-sharing. Apps like Streamweaver  and Vitoto are adding another level to videos that may be attractive enough for users to make their mobile videos more social. 

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