Telling Stories Deluxe Plays on DVDs, CDs, Web & Cell Phones
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16 -- Creating personal histories of family members for the holidays, rich with pictures, sounds, home movies and videos, became easier and more fun today with the release of Telling Stories Deluxe, the new version of Telling Stories, Inc.'s (www.tellingstories.com) acclaimed personal storytelling software. Now, even people without computers can enjoy Telling Stories presentations on DVD, as well as the web, or even a video-capable mobile phone. The new Telling Stories Deluxe works alone or easily integrates with MyFamily.com's Family Tree Maker®, the world's most popular genealogy software.
"Telling Stories Deluxe is a natural complement to our Family Tree Maker® software," says Mike Dodd, General Manager of Commerce of MyFamily.com. "It adds rich multimedia presentation capabilities to our powerful genealogical tools."
Telling Stories provides memory-provoking wizards, suggesting interview questions, and prompting the addition of the users' own digital content such as movies, pictures, sounds and music. The easy-to-use interfaces help with scanning and inserting documents, souvenirs and artifacts and recording narration. The life stories created in Telling Stories Deluxe are ideal for honoring weddings, reunions, anniversaries, baby's first year and other milestones or for creating oral and visual histories with elders.
"Customers wanted to be able to create a DVD of their story to watch with family and friends on their TV. So our new Telling Stories Deluxe, lets you create a video file of your finished story to burn to DVD," said Seth Socolow, founder and CEO of Telling Stories, Inc. "The holiday season is a great time for families to pull together years of memorabilia into an easy-to-share video. The program itself or the results of working with it makes a touching gift for the holidays."
Key Features
- Import Family Members from Family Tree Maker® No need to start over again if you have already created you family tree.
- Use most popular digital media formats. Add photos, text, music, video, and voiceovers.
- Add web content. Integrated web search tools help you find and insert famous movie clips, songs, newspaper headlines, or photos.
- Include scannable items. The software suggests and helps scan mementos -- maps, ticket stubs, diplomas, marriage licenses, birth certificates and articles.
- Share cherished presentations. The software creates a moving presentation of your storyline with videos, background music and voiceover tracks, which can be output to DVD, CDROM, sent via email or posted to the web or even played on smart mobile phones.
Pricing and Availability
Telling Stories Deluxe is available for $49.95 from www.tellingstories.com
About MyFamily.com
MyFamily.com, Inc. is the leading online network connecting families, present and past. MyFamily's tools, content and community empower individuals to find the people most important to them -- and discover and share their unique family stories. The MyFamily network includes MyFamily.com, Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com, RootsWeb.com, Ancestry.co.uk, and Heritage Makers. MyFamily also publishes Family Tree Maker®, the #1 selling family tree software, Ancestry Magazine and over 50 book titles and numerous databases on CD-ROM. For more information on MyFamily.com, Inc., visit www.myfamilyinc.com.
About Telling Stories, Inc.
Telling Stories, Inc. creates Web-enhanced software products and services that make it easy and quick to capture and share family events, lifetime memories and moments in moving multimedia presentations. Telling Stories, Inc. is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Please visit www.tellingstories.com.
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