Download the emstory app on the Apple App Store, and open it. When using emstory for the first time, you will be prompted to register for a new emstory account using your email address. The emstory app is a tool for collaborative storytelling, available for iOS (iPhone, iPad), and coming soon to Android devices. Using emstory, people can quickly and easily create video messages by collaborating together in realtime on the same video project, which we call an emstory. Combine pictures, video, voice over, and more to tell a compelling story about life or business, and then share it anywhere using the convenient StoryServer link or export it as a video file.

For best results your profile picture should have an aspect ratio of 1:1. The focal point of your image should be centered. This depends on how you want to share your emstory. For instance, if you have a following on Instagram and want to post your story then a square 1:1 ratio is best for posts. However, if you like to share stories and shorts then you will want to make your emstory as 9:16. For a full screen appearance you will want to use a 16:9 ratio. We designed emstory so it won't stretch or distort your images. The export automatically selects a format that best fits your images and video clips. Some people prefer their pictures to be all the same size, others don't care. Play around with it - it's your story! Start by creating a story. Press the “Add Participant” button where you will then be prompted to type in the name of a registered emstory user. As the creator of the emstory you will then be given options to assign a role. The participant role can either be as a viewer or as an editor to the emstory. A scene is simply an image or video that acts as a building block for an emstory. Collaborators on an emstory can add and edit scenes simultaneously in the same emstory project over the internet. There's space for each picture where you can type what you want to say. We call this our scriptboard/teleprompter. Just read the text out loud while recording. If you don't like how it sounds, you can record over it as often as you like.

If your story contains video clips or if you want to post to Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo. Of course! When you finish your emstory in the app, you can share it using a convenient StoryServer link, or export the emstory as a video file to upload to YouTube. You can then embed the YouTube video or include a link to the upload on the StoryServer on your website or blog. This is a premium feature available only for distinct users. If you export an emstory to video, the last scene will by default show the emstory logo. The CI logo feature lets you replace that by an image of your choice. The story server is one way (video file export being another one) to export your story from the App and share it with the world. The upload to the server will transfer a zip file with the assets of your story (images, videos, audio track etc.) and return the URL to a website. Opening this URL in a browser will start our custom web player (story player) and replay the story like in the App. Beware that the story player does not yet support all the features offered by the App: You cannot use video scenes, there are no custom scene transitions and the Ken Burns effect cannot be disabled.

The emstory app is perfect for businesses to make promotional content easily in house. You can use emstory to introduce new products and hype a special sale with the option of placing promo codes to your store which can be added as a link within your emstory. You can introduce a new employee, intern or CEO by using one of our easy templates to show the faces of your company. emstory UGC (User Generated Content) is a growth hack marketing tool: interacting with your user base and growing it exponentially at the same time. User generated content has a much better conversion rate than corporate content (sometimes as high as 40% higher conversion rates!). The content feels genuine which makes it more relatable. emstory UGC is transparent, easy to handle, and risk free to your business. You only pay if people are buying more! The fanbase, followers and former visitors of a promoted company are the first target group to address as potential creators. The promoted company's online touch points are used to promote a new opportunity to earn a little extra money with the promoted company as an emstory creator. The emstory website and social media channels provide video tutorials to creators and announce the new promotions currently available at provided companies. The emspire group takes care of the payment to emstory creators, controls all the promotional campaigns, and tracks all creator activities and transactions. For any promotion, here is an example of how the transaction would work: The promo code value would first be deducted, then the emspire group would receive 20% of the value as payment from the promoted company. The emspire group would split that payment with the creator 50/50. The creator would be treated as an emspire group contractor and would be required to track all creator income for tax purposes. The promoted company would be wholly responsible for issuing promo codes to emspire group for emstory creator use. All activities and promotions will be co-branded. The cooperation between the promoted company and emstory will be obvious at all conference touch points, including websites, posters, banners, conference gaming materials, and all social media channels. A promoted company is a business offering products or services and has enrolled in the emstory UGC program for marketing. Legacy Bank is a future concept of a family tree style format of origins and memory branches for passing down the knowledge of the past.

The emstory Calendar helps you to organize stories you want to create on a regular basis. A good example are birthdays. When you set up your calendar the App will remind you of these events in advance. Navigate to the Calendar view by opening the Main Menu and tapping on “Calendar”. This will take you to the list of events. You can set up events manually or import them. For each event the App displays a local notification when the event is due (x days in advance). Tap on the notification and emstory will automatically open and take you to the story editor where you can start creating your story. To create events manually: (1) Tap on the Plus-Icon, (2) Specify values in the form, (3) Tap on Save Button. The event will automatically by scheduled in iOS If you already have events in your iOS calendar that you want to use in emstory you can easily import them: (1) Tap On the import Icon, (2) If asked: Grant access to your calendar, (3) Pick a calendar you want to import, (4) Pick events from that calendar and tap on the import button. All events will automatically be scheduled in iOS. The list shows all events you have set up. Green cells: These events are still scheduled in iOS. Repeating events are shown with a circle icon . Grey cells: These events have already been processed and are no longer scheduled. You can delete these or update them for new scheduling.

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