In fact you’ve probably already noticed the animated images it makes because they are popping up all over Facebook & G+.
Cinemagr.am was launched in February as an iPhone-only app, but now the developers, Montreal-based Factyle Inc, have revealed they are working on an Android version.
The app combines still photos with short video clips, turning them into large animated GIF images.
With a little bit of creative thinking, the effects can be dramatic.
Using it is straightforward. You take a snapshot, then a short video clip. In the editing process you can select which part, or all, of the still you want to animate.
If the style looks familiar, that’s because the app includes Instagram-style filters, and, like Instagram it will post the finished results straight to several social media platforms.
What makes it interesting to travel bloggers is the attention it can draw. Writing on Media Culpa about his first encounter with it, Hans Kullin said:
One thing I noticed immediately is that creative uploads have the possibility to get a lot of attention. I had only just downloaded the app and had almost no followers, still my third video has got almost 500 likes during the first 24 hours since upload. One of the reasons that content may “go viral” within the app is that each time you “like” a video, it is re-posted by you in the app, sort of like a retweet on Twitter, so the content gets a lot of exposure. On top of that the videos with the most likes are displayed in one of the tabs in the app.
The Cinemagram app is currently free on IOS.
What do you think, will Cinemagram start making inroads into travel bloggers’ social media posts?
Feature Image: Steve Rhodes
Animation: Cinemagram/Nikolor
Old news kids ;) But it is a great app and if used the right way (read: creatively and sparingly) could really be of benefit to travel bloggers. The problem is, when not done well, it’s simply gimmicky and annoying.
Yeah… five days. But it is Sunday :)
Out since February is the same as 5 days?
Also, meant to add in original comment that for anyone who wants great examples of this done well – follow Jamie Beck. She calls them cinemagraphs but same dif I think and she rocks the technique: http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/
5 days since they let slip it was being ported to Android
I’ve been fooling around with a similar app – Flixel. http://mashable.com/2012/04/04/flixel-gif-app/ So far I’m pretty happy with the results, only that the files are quite big and caused troubles when I wanted to upload them to my WordPress blog. Downloading Cinemagram now…
To be honest, Instagram’s beauty is in its simplicity and speed of producing great images. If producing with this app takes time, then I haven’t got the time to use it…. especially when traveling. The app would have to compete with tweeting, checking in etc.
Can’t see myself using it a lot only once in a while.