Creating Cool Movies with the Magisto App

I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Magisto. I received a promotional code for premium features to facilitate my review and a promotional item as a thank you for participating.

I love finding new apps for my iPhone, especially ones that are cool and useful! I spend a lot of time using my iPhone to take photos and videos. It’s amazing the quality of photos and videos you can get with your iPhone, and carrying around something small and that you need anyway makes it convenient to use. I love my Nikon, but I don’t always want to carry it around.

As we live hours away from family and friends, I find that we use video and photos often so we can stay connected. I usually just upload my videos straight onto my phone and then share them on Facebook or through messaging. This new Magisto App I found makes it so I can take a video and have it look professional looking within minutes! I can also share straight from the app onto my Facebook page, Twitter feed, or on YouTube. I love the fact they put in titles, transitions, and background music for you all in minutes! It’s a great way to make those quick videos from your phone a bit more fun and fancy!

It was also very easy to download! I found it on my iPhone in the app store, downloaded it for FREE, uploaded a video I had taken on my phone to the app, it had me select a theme (I chose Mother’s Day because it was most appropriate for the video I made), as well as a song for the background. Once you’ve made your selections, you click to submit and it makes the video for you within minutes. You have the option to share your video through your social media channels once the video is complete.

Check out the fun Mother’s Day video my kids and I made below! They are too cute!

You can download the Magisto App on both iPhones and Android Phones. Again, it is super easy to use with just a few step. You can upgrade to paid versions for even more video making fun! If you use the promo code (MomsRule), you can actually get three FREE downloads that are redeemable through the end of May!

Details About the Magisto Mother’s Day Contest and Charitable Partnership with Joan Osborne:

Magisto has teamed up with multi-platinum selling recording artist and seven-time Grammy nominee Joan Osborne to celebrate Mother’s Day with a new form of music discovery that brings together video production technology and musical artistry. Joan’s new song “Born To See You Through”, which celebrates her role as a mother, will be featured as a musical selection in the Mother’s Day challenge when participants create their movies that tell “Why I love being a Mom” or “Why I love my Mom.” Since I made a Mother’s Day related movie this is the song I selected as well. Plus, it’s an awesome song!

From now until May 13, 2013, all Magisto-created movies that include the hashtag #MagistoMoms in their title will be entered to win special prizes. I entered my video! It was as easy as putting that hashtag in to be entered. Videos will be shared and available for viewing on a Mother’s Day-themed social scrapbook that will be hosted on the Magisto website. The users whose Movies get the most Likes on Magisto will win the following prizes:

• Grand Prize: Samsung Galaxy Note Tablet
• Second Place: Joan Osborne’s new CD + handwritten lyrics to ‘Born to See You Through’
• Runners up: 50 runners up will receive 1-year Magisto Pro upgrades

Pretty cool, don’t you think? Magisto’s Mother’s Day challenge also coincides with the first annual Mother’s Day benefit concert hosted by Osborne with special guests Ollabelle and Elizabeth Mitchell at NYC’s City Winery on May 12th. This concert will help benefit these two charities: Somaly Mam Foundation and Save the Children. The Magisto team will be at the concert to create and share videos of the special evening and the company will make a donation to the two charities. Osborne’s song will be available for listening on the Magisto site and available for digital sale at www.joanosborne.com with proceeds going to both charitable organizations. I love that!! You can watch the Magisto Joan Osborne created HERE! 

Have a great Mother’s Day! Maybe you can make a fun video with your kids tomorrow as well, or even one about your mom and why she is so special. Check out other Magisto Mother’s Day Videos and see which ones you like! Remember, just put #MagistoMoms in the title of your video and you are automatically entered into the contest! What fun!!!