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Entry Date: March 7th, 2007
Mix Master Tip: Making muvees is a piece of cake!
We are not kidding. Here’s how easy it is.
1. Click on ‘Start’ to begin your journey to muveeStardom.
2. Click on ‘Add vid/pics’ to browse for the media files you would like to add to your muvee concoction. (Put in video if you can)
Move on by clicking on ‘Next’ or the ‘Add music’ tab on the progress bar.
3. Now, click on ‘My music’ to add your favorite piece of music, or give our in-house musician a pat on the back by picking one of his self-composed tunes.
4. Select a style, which are themed templates containing effects and transitions that dance to the beat of your chosen music. You can click on the ‘play’ button to view a short preview of each style. (Don’t know what styles to choose?)
5. Almost there! Give your muvee a title and credit or if you prefer not to, just click on ‘Make muvee’, sit back and let our mixing magic get to work.
6. Opps! One last thing (I promise). You will be prompted to sign in or register an account if you haven’t previously done so. Knowing your email address will help us deliver muvees to the rightful owners.
And for newbies, please remember to activate your account once you are done with registration. If you do not see any emails from muveeMix, dig into the spam/ junk folder. And if all else fails, holler for help by clicking on ‘Tell us’.
7. Your muvee will take about 3 to 10 minutes to arrive in your gallery depending on the amount of videos/pictures you have thrown into your mixing concoction. Even if the muvee thumbnail appears as ‘Coming soon’ in your gallery, you can still click on it and link/ embed the muvee player in your blog or website. Your muvee would automatically be loaded into the player residing on your blog or website once it is ready.
Entry Date: March 7th, 2007
Spread the love
With a marketing budget consisting of nothing but bumper accounts and lotsa love, we believe (not that we have much of a choice *winks*) that these would help increase our user base by a million every year!
So you heard us. Here’s a call to all of you who love, like, adore, fancy, dig, favor, hanker for (and any other synonyms that could possibly come out from the thesaurus) muveeMix just like we do, we need you to help us spread the word.
Email your friends through our ‘Get my friends mixing’ function and if 5 of them sign up, we’ll bump you up with extra storage space and 5 extra styles.
And if you are a blogger or a webmaster with designer blood flowing in your veins, try your hand at creating muveeMix/ muveeStar web buttons. Don’t worry if you know peanuts about html, send your graphic to us and we’ll transform the top designs into embeddable web buttons for all muveeMix users to use. Yes, we’ll throw in a bumper account if your design is chosen.
To get started:
1) Download the muveeMix graphic kit. We have templates in .psd, .ai and .gif formats for you to work on depending on your preference.
2) After creating the design, flatten the image to a .jpg, .gif or .png file.
3) Submit your design to ash@muveemix.com
And here are some guidelines:
1) You are free to submit as many designs as you wish.
2) You could add in additional images or graphics to spice up the web button but you must own the copyright of that image or graphic. Please do not use images or graphics that infringe on someone else’s copyright, trademark or license.
3) We reserve the right to use your submitted designs for ‘spread muveeMix’ initiatives, specifically in transforming the designs into embeddable web buttons and offering it to all users on the muveeMix site.
Entry Date: March 7th, 2007
Next 5 styles
For the folks who are wondering how the 5 styles for the bumper account look like, check out these previews.
Adrenalin
[SWF]http://www.muveemix.com/flash/style_preview_player.swf, 160, 120, video_url=adrenalin.flv[/SWF]
Get the energy going with hard-pumping vertical rays, twist zooms, screen jolts and desaturated colors.
Wicked
[SWF]http://www.muveemix.com/flash/style_preview_player.swf, 160, 120, video_url=wicked.flv[/SWF]
Add a wicked twist to your muvee with unexpected time warps and volumetric light effects.
Rush
[SWF]http://www.muveemix.com/flash/style_preview_player.swf, 160, 120, video_url=rush.flv[/SWF]
Includes rewind and replay effects and an on-screen timecode so you can track every move.
Contemporary 50s
[SWF]http://www.muveemix.com/flash/style_preview_player.swf, 160, 120, video_url=c50s.flv[/SWF]
Stylish black and white moving frames lend a mod touch of finesse to your media.
Dance Floor
[SWF]http://www.muveemix.com/flash/style_preview_player.swf, 160, 120, video_url=dancefloor.flv[/SWF]
Pulsing colored lights and fast, strobe beam wipes give a dance club effect to high-energy music beats.
Want a bumper account and not pay for it? Here’s how.
1) Tell 5 friends through ‘Get my friends mixing’ and force them to sign up!
2) Make mind-blowing muvees and ‘Tell Ash’
3) Design web buttons and send them to ash@muveemix.com
Entry Date: March 5th, 2007
Mix Master Tip: It’s all about the style
“What style should I choose?” - the all too familiar question that folks always ask when they hit the ‘Select a style’ page of their muvee making process. Hence, I figured the best person to answer this is the one who eats and sleeps with them, the Style Director! Her name’s Karen and here are some tips from the guru’s mouth.
Urban:
Get your blood pumping with Urban muveeStyle! We designed it for the adrenalin junkie in you! Oh yeah… Its great for those skateboarding, skydiving, bike racing, break dancing, snowboarding…etc photos/videos that you’ve been collecting! Next, add your favorite song that gets your booty shakin’… and trust me… your muvee is gonna rock the house down. *sizzle sizzle drizzle*
Recommended no. of photos: 30 to 40 photo Recommended amount of video: 5mins
Smoky:
Time to get seriously sentimental with this muveeStyle. Its classy, slow, its black and white, its all about milking the most out of those emotional moments.
Use this style with all of your most sentimental moments, like special birthday parties, weddings, graduation ceremonies… you get the idea…
*Have those hankies on standby. We’re gonna make your mothers weep.
Recommended no. of photos: 15 to 25 photos
Recommended amount of video: 3mins
Recommended music: Try classical music for a change muveeMakers. Mozart or Paganini is an absolute gem with this style.
…to be continued. It’s end day and all forms of witty style descriptions seemed to have eluded her. So yeah..stay tuned.
Updated: March 12th, 2007
Alright, the guru’s back with tips on 3 other styles…
Over-the-Top Music Video
Watch this style! And you’re an instant music video extraordinaire! Please use and abuse this off-the-wall muveeStyle with its fast cuts and flashes! Fractal effects and fluid transitions!
This style works well with photos, but it works wonders with video! Definitely use music with a fast, solid, thumping beat!
Recommended no. of Photos: 30-40
Recommended amount of video: 5mins
Classic Sepia
Fancy a bit of nostalgia? Wanna make your video look a funky kitsch? Try this style on for size. It makes your muvee all grainy and sepia (just like those movies in the 1950s)! Oh yeah… vaudeville, here we come! Think… Charlie Chaplin folks!
Best to use some clangy piano tunes!
Recommended no. of Photos: 25-30
Recommended amount of video: 3mins or more
Action
Its contemporary. Its cool. And its stylish. Vertical lines never looked soooo good
J Well move your photos
a little over here
and a little over there
spin your videos left and right, and voila! Heres a slick little muveeStyle for you.
Almost any type of music works with this style so express yourself! Try a cool jazzy number, some lounge music perhaps? Or is bossa nova more your cuppa tea?
Recommended no. of Photos: 20- 25
Recommended amount of video: 2mins
Entry Date: February 12th, 2007
So, are we HOT?
Well, Popstar! magazine said we are. 
What do you think? For those who have been using the on-site feedback form. Thank you and DO keep using it as your feedback is important to us.
Tell us if something doesn’t work for you.
Tell us your feature wishlist.
Tell us we are HOT!
Or if you think we are NOT!
Tell us how we can sizzle it up.
Last but not least, remember to ‘Tell Ash’ about your great muvee production.
Till then.
Entry Date: January 23rd, 2007
Justine picked us up
muveeMix was picked by Justine magazine as their ‘FaveMediaSite’ for the month of January ‘07. And I’m pleasantly surprised when I got mails from users commenting that they would never have known about this cool service if not for the article snippet. Kudos Justine! *big smiles*
Entry Date: January 18th, 2007
CollegeFest’s muveeStars
Yes, it took us awhile to go through all the great auditions of muveeStar hopefuls at CollegeFest’06 in Boston - muveeMix’s first ever show. We hope everyone had fun strutting their stuff in front of our camera. Check this out and see if you can spot yourself or your buds.
And after much squabbling among ourselves (we all have our personal favorites), we finally picked the new owners of a HP Notebook, a Nikon S6 camera and an Aiptek camera.
The Breakdancers [Spencer Linick & Andrew Dwyer]
The rapper gals [Brooke Nathanson & Brittany Lyte]
The Phat Girls [Alicia Wise & Catherine Walper]
Gratz guys! Keep mixing!
Entry Date: December 7th, 2006
Mix Master Tip: Want cooler muvees? Put that VIDEO in it!
We had some folks telling us how much they enjoyed muveeMix as a tool for creating photo slideshows. Thanks guys! And if you think our photo slideshows are cool, there’s more you could do to make it cooler - add videos. Yep! That’s it…
muveeMix works its magic best when short video clips are blended with an array of pictures so that the entire production is cut to the pace of music – just like how the transitions seem to come in at the right time and place in a music video.
[video clip(s) lasting 1 to 3 minutes each + 10 pictures at least + music lasting at least 1.5 minutes] should do the basic trick but do put in as much media as you can and reach that 100MB limit.
Besides, motion pictures always seem to be able to charge up that adrenalin or induce that nostalgia ache in us more readily than just static pictures. Well, that’s how we see it. Whatcha think?
So now you know how easy it is, remember to capture that few minutes of cake smashing action at the next birthday party or the dancing busker while touring the streets. And don’t worry about editing it. We’ll be with you on this. Just add it into your muveeMix concoction and enjoy that moment of marvel - true blue effortless cool. 
Entry Date: November 28th, 2006
Short review on Gear Live
Sheila Franklin posted a short review of our service on Gear Live, and this is what she had to say:
“MuveeMix is a new site that makes it possible to upload your MP3s and videos, then connect the two without doing any of your own editing. The service automatically cuts picture or video highlights to the beat of the music, and even adds other themed artistic elements. You simply register at the site, upload your info, then combine your tacky home movies from your last vacation with a song such as Mad World. Display it in their gallery or export to myspace or other sites of your choosing. They will keep up to 10 muvees active for one year.
Upgrade to a Bumper account for $60.00 a year and get 5 extra styles (for a total of 10.) …”
Entry Date: November 8th, 2006
muveeMix on Mashable
Our review on Mashable, muveeMix Launches - Instant Movie Mixes for Myspace. Pete Cashmore was really quick to grant us our first exposure to the web2.0 community the very day we launched muveeMix. Here’s a snippet of who, what and where we came from.
” muveeMix, which launches today, is a new service for mixing videos on the web and posting them straight to your social networking profile or blog - Friendster, MySpace, Blogger, Multiply, Xanga, LiveJournal and TypePad are among the suggested platforms. The new product comes the Singapore and New York-based video editing company Muvee, who also produce a desktop video mixer.
It’s an interesting tool - you can upload video clips, pictures and music, then wait for muveeMix to work its auto-mixing magic…”