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The product enters the market here, even as Google is poised to kill YouTube Editor, come September, forcing users to look for third party alternatives
QuVideo Inc, makers of the free VivaVideo smartphone video editing tool have entered the Indian Market this month, starting an office in Bangalore. The company plans to create an Indian localization team here to make the product more attractive to users here.
Says CEO Han Sheng: "For Viva's existing 5-million users cross in India, we believe we can provide better localization services. Viva Video has recently launched the Viva Video Community, to improve user experience."
Viva Video users can create short videos using their smartphone to capture the images, then edit them with standard themes, customized background music and filter features. It offers easy-use video editing tools like Video Trim, Cut, Merge, Copy/Duplicate, Collage & Loop video clips in the video editing storyboard; advanced Video editing functions: Video Reverse, Resize, Playback, Background Blur; Video Audio Speed Adjustment, Fade in & out; Speed control with fast / slow motion: with ability to adjust video speed.
Once edited, videos can be shared at Facebook, YouTube, Instagram,WhatsApp, Google+, Vine, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, Line, Vimeo, Wechat and plain old email.
The Viva Video app which has over 350 million users worldwide, can be downloaded at Google Play or at App Store. A useful Tutorial on how to edit video is available on their website.
YouTube kills its video editor
Meanwhile, Google, owners of YouTube, has announced in a Notification at the YouTube help Forum last month, that it was going to kill the Video Editor that it had provided to help users create and then upload their videos. The notification says: " We wanted to let you know that the Video Editor (youtube.com/editor) and Photo slideshows will go away on September 20th, 2017. We’ve seen limited usage of these features, so we’re retiring them to focus our efforts on building new tools and improving on other existing features. You’ll have two months to finalize any video projects before we turn off the features completely. After that you will no longer have access to projects in the Video Editor, but any videos already published with the Video Editor will not be affected. "
However, the Enhancements features will remain: things like trimming, blurring, filters, audio library etc. But without the basic editor, Come September we have to find and use third party editors—like Viva Video.
