"muvee Technologies, the pioneer and leader in Instant Personal Video, has licensed its muvee-making technology to Nikon to enable automatic video creation on its new Coolpix S5 and S6 style series cameras. muvee�s technology powers the embedded �Pictmotion� feature in these cameras, and enables photos and recorded video clips to be automatically styled to music to produce compelling in-camera shows � called �muvees� � that further enhance the digital photography experience."
muvee has had their technology running on Symbian Smartphones for a year or two now, but given the quality of camera phones I didn't think it ever made much sense. Having it run on these new Nikon cameras is an impressive feat - Nikon must have a fairly sophisticated operating system for their cameras to allow for a rich application such as this to work. And given the huge screen size of many modern point-and-shoot cameras, they're being used more often for playback, so why not add a little "wow" factor? You can check out a demo of how this feature works on the Nikon site.