Video editing and sharing site Motionbox, which markets primarily to families, has announced the closing of a $7M round of Series B financing led by Constellation Ventures with participation by Canaan Partners and SAS Investors.
Motionbox recently released a premium version of its service that allows you to upload files of any size and enjoy unlimited storage for $30 per year. Videos can also now be downloaded for playback on an iPod or similar devices. If you really want to take your videos “offline”, you can order small flipbooks (naturally dubbed “motionbooks”) that will capture 15 seconds of a video on paper.
We recently covered Motionbox in our round up of online video sharing services.
It’s becoming a somewhat crowded space — even software vendors like Pinnacle now offers a free video editor called VideoSpin that can be downloaded.
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I really like motionbox and their offerings. They are in NYC so that helps too! They have some unique features. I especially like the targeting to families and people who want to be creative with their video but maybe don’t have hours of time to invest in full out editing.
Best of luck to motionbox.
Many companies are providing free storage, if they are charging that much amount they need to add more features.
Free storage is generally available on video sharing sites because they’re typically short video clips off camera phones, etc., or montage compilations of 5 minutes or less. Family home movies can be 2-3 hours long, however, so that’s a different storage problem altogether (think how many different still images make up just one second of video), and a fee makes sense.
Losers…Its a crowded space and it take too much work to deep linking and stupid things like that. Why would anybody pay for a service that they can get for free elsewhere. Unless they have another offering up their sleeve, their current box of tricks doesnt make any sense.
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