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This short video was produced to show how quick and easy it is to produce a video from an existing blog post using the free Lumen 5 video tool. 

Lumen 5 is an AI-powered video creation platform that turns blog posts into engaging videos. Using the tool is easy, intuitive and surprisingly fast. After producing a few Lumen 5 videos, I expect you could create one in as little as 10 minutes from existing content like a blog post. You can see my original blog post here http://bit.ly/LaoTzu8 to compare it with the video produced so effortlessly.

The creative and marketing possibilities are very intriguing and so far Lumen 5 is free although it may offer more features for a price in the future. For now, it's an interesting tool to explore.

Businesses, bloggers, trainers, authors and really anyone can use it to produce social content to drive audience engagement online. Great thing is you can focus on your message, visuals and creativity without having to touch the technology. 

You can get more info and demos for the app at www.lumen5.com.

Robin Good: Google Search Stories Video Creator is a free web service which allows you to specify up to seven queries that utilize one among Google search engines, and which then creates a video clip of those searches.

 

Each one of the searches can be run against a specific Google search engine between Google News, Google Web Search, Google Blog Search, Google Maps, News, Products and Books.

 

Once the video is ready and you are fine with it you can upload directly to your YouTube channel. 

 

Free to use.

 

Examples: https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/ ;

 

Try it out now: https://searchstories-intl.appspot.com/en-us/creator/  ;

Via Robin Good, Jeff Domansky

With YouTube Chad Hurley and Steve Chen made publishing videos easy. Now they want to make it just as easy to create them.When Google wanted to boost the quality of YouTube’s content, it gave out $5 million in grants to select creators. YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who sold the service to Google in 2006, are now tackling the same problem, but with a different philosophy.

They hope that a new app they are launching on Thursday, called MixBit, will make shooting quality video scalable and accessible to everyone.“Unfortunately I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content,” Hurley told Fast Company. “I can understand, it’s great to stimulate the community and make money available to them. But I feel that’s a more traditional approach to solving the problem. It’s basically replicating the studio model...I’m looking for something that doesn’t necessarily alienate any group of people, but gives them all equal access.

”That apparently includes people who never shoot any video. With MixBit, as with Instagram video and Vine, users touch their phones’ screens to take multiple video clips that the app combines into one video. But only MixBit allows other people to use those clips, if they’re public, in their own videos....

If you’re like a lot of startups or small businesses, the typical price for creating a professional explainer video just isn’t in the budget.

 

But don’t let that get you down. I’m here to give you a few insider tips on how you can create your own explainer video in a few weeks on a budget of $100 or less....