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Vimeo buys app that turns your video stills into animations
Vimeo has brought aboard a new app (and new people) that can transform your videos into animations.
The company announced today that it now owns Echograph, an app that lets iPhone and iPad users create animations by blending together different parts of a video clip.
Purchased from Clear-Media, the Echograph app previously cost $3 but is now available free.
As described in a promotional video (see embedded clip below), an Echograph is a photograph that contains small slices of animation. You start off by selecting a video and then trimming it to 5 seconds. You then pick a single still frame from the clip. From there, you actually paint over an area of that still frame with a moving element from the video, creating an image with touches of animation.… Read more
