As summertime comes to an end, memorializing family vacations or long summer nights before the school year begins becomes an important task. Imagine a technology that takes your family photographs and instantly weaves them together with cinematic effects to create a Hollywood-style photo movie production or a professionally designed photo book, without requiring you to spend hours online or to learn complicated software tools.

“You shouldn’t have to learn how to make a DVD in order to watch a DVD,” says Chett B. Paulsen, President and CEO of aVinci® Media Corporation, a company based in Draper, Utah, that is revolutionizing the way life events and memories are shared and preserved. “Today’s typical photo offerings are unfortunately like a ‘kitchen,’ the only technology format that requires you to put the raw ingredients together yourself and bake the cake.”

Responding to the needs of consumers who aren’t software specialists, aVinci ’s patent-pending technology shatters three prevalent multimedia myths: (1) Digital photo productions take too long to make, with the average consumer spending more than 19 hours to create a quality digital photo book. (2) They cost too much, with the price tags traditionally in excess of $80. (3) They’re poor quality—made by an amateur.

Created to simplify and automate the process of transforming personal photos and videos into professional quality photo books and multi-media productions, the aVinci Experience delivers a complete, refined production as opposed to a complicated software tool requiring time and training to execute. “aVinci’s provides fast, easy, and fun pre-built themed photo templates for everyone to tell their ‘story’ using personal digital expressions.”

Rather than mere slideshows, aVinci’s photo movies are scene-based, and follow the satisfying storytelling arc of beginning, middle, and end we’re familiar with from traditional films. aVinci productions allow you to see Billy in scenes with the conductor from the Christmas holiday blockbuster The Polar Express, see Dick and Jane tie the knot in a Hollywood-style wedding production, and see Grandma Tilly celebrate her eightieth birthday in classic tearjerker fashion.

“People are amazed with the quality and beauty of the aVinci photo books and photo movies,” says Paulsen. “And, with products ranging from $12.86-$39.99, a Hollywood-style production is within anyone’s budget.” For more information please visit www.avincimedia.com.

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