Ferris Launches Mobile Video App for iPhone
Austin, Texas (PRWEB) July 30, 2013 -- Ferris, a stunning mobile video app for creating and contributing to living stories, today launched into public beta. With Ferris, users can discover, explore and contribute to the people, places and topics they care about most. Ferris is now available for free download in the iTunes app store.
Ferris takes a fundamentally different approach to mobile video by joining together user-created video clips to create a fluid, ever-evolving stream of content. Snapping, viewing and sharing mobile video clips is simpler and more intuitive than ever before. Users can record video directly within the mobile interface and share clips up to two minutes in length. Once a video is posted to Ferris, it self-updates, joining any number of streams based on user, location, date and time, hashtag and category. Each person’s video is automatically woven into a single, united narrative for the most unique view of the world around them.
"Our team is passionate about shaking up the landscape of mobile video in a big way, and we can’t wait to get Ferris into the hands of users," said Paul Boukadakis, CEO and co-founder of Ferris. "There are too many missed moments in life, and we’re determined to change the experience of reliving and sharing these moments in a dynamic, fun way. Ferris provides a video timeline of your life and the lives of those around you. The sum really is greater than the individual parts."
Filmmakers have long understood the power that multiple perspectives have in telling a story. The idea for Ferris stemmed from the team’s experience in video production and entertainment. They believe the mobile video experience should offer that same depth in storytelling, but with an unparalleled ease of use and simplicity. Co-founders Paul Boukadakis, Chris Shaheen, J.B. Hager and Brian Daugherty each bring something unique to the table, contributing their talents in film, web development and radio to help round out the Ferris experience.
With Ferris, multiple people can contribute to a video story with virtually zero editing required. By automatically joining related clips together as they’re posted, storytelling becomes a collaborative effort. Rather than sitting isolated in a vertical news feed, videos become an integral part of a live, ever-evolving canvas. The timelapse feature then makes it possible to browse a video forward and backwards in a new, visually responsive way using a simple swipe-and-tap gesture. Ferris’ innovative user interface allows users to view multiple moments quickly as they unfold - a best friend’s wedding, a Sunday afternoon in Central Park or breaking news.
"A goal of ours is to provide a way to find and consume video faster, granting users the opportunity to spend time browsing the content they actually care about," said Chris Shaheen, lead engineer and co-founder of Ferris. "It’s very important to us that the collective playback experience be optimized with the user in mind. We recognize that other video applications highlight one or two features notably well, but we believe Ferris plays to a bigger vision. We want to give people the best collective user experience possible, and I think we’re off to a great start."
Key features of Ferris include:
- Innovative user interface that automatically stitches together related videos, updating constantly
- Timelapse browsing feature for experiencing multiple views at once
- Full landscape-mode video recording
- Ability to record videos within the mobile interface and share clips publicly up to two minutes in length
- Multiple ways to search and enjoy video streams including user, hashtag, location, date and time, and category
- Explore tab for discovering new videos and trending topics
For more information, please visit http://seeferris.com.
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About Ferris
Ferris is a stunning mobile video app for creating and contributing to living stories.
The application joins together user-created video clips based on user, location, date and time, hashtag and category to create a fluid, evolving and interactive stream of relevant content. It's dead simple. Record video clips through the mobile interface, assign them unique tags and Ferris joins them together automatically into elegant streams.
Ferris is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and is currently in public beta. For more information, visit: http://seeferris.com.
Jordan Bresler, Jones-Dilworth, Inc., 419-704-1936, [email protected]
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