A recap is a shape, not a length
The reason a camera roll is not a travel recap is that it has no beginning. A recap opens somewhere, moves through the days and ends — and once it does that, five minutes holds a fortnight comfortably. Nearly all of that comes from putting things in the order they happened, which your photographs already know how to do.
Nothing had to be kept up during the trip
Travel journals and route trackers make lovely films when you kept them going, and they hold something no other method has: your own words, written at the time. Most of us stop around day three, usually the day something interesting happened. Videmory rebuilds the trip afterwards from the dates your camera recorded, so the film does not depend on you having been organised while you were away.
Whatever kind of trip it was
A road trip with the days in order reads as a journey. A cruise reads as ports. A city break is two days and forty good photographs. A backpacking stretch, a ski season, a honeymoon, a festival weekend, a family reunion, a tour with thirty people on it — the film takes the shape of the trip, because it follows the dates.
One trip, or a year of them
You are not limited to a single holiday. Put a year of weekends into one project and you have a year in travel; put ten years of the same August into one and you have something better than that. The film runs through them in order either way.
What you end up with
A video file. Put it on a television at somebody’s house, send it to the group, keep it on a drive. That is the difference between a recap and a folder: somebody else can watch it without being handed your phone.
What Videmory does with it
One person starts the trip and shares a private link. Everybody who was there adds their own photos and video from their own phone — no account, nothing to install. Videmory reads the date and time your camera wrote into each file, puts the whole trip in the order it happened, trims the clips, and edits it to a soundtrack you choose. You watch the finished film before you decide to buy it.
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Your questions, answered
Does the film show a map of where we went?
No, and that is worth saying plainly rather than implying otherwise. Videmory does not draw routes or pin places on a map. What it does instead is chronology — the trip in the order it happened, which is the other way of making a fortnight make sense. If a map is the thing you want most, a trip-tracking app is the right tool for it, and there is nothing stopping you using both.
Do I need to have kept a travel diary or tracked my route?
No. Nothing had to be done during the trip. The film is reconstructed afterwards from the dates already inside your photographs, which is rather the point: most people mean to keep a journal and stop somewhere around the third day.
Can I put several trips into one recap?
Yes. A year of weekends, three trips in a row, or a decade of the same August — add them to one project and the film runs through them in order. It makes a good end-of-year recap.
How long should a trip recap be?
Three to six minutes suits most single trips: long enough to be the holiday, short enough that people watch to the end. A year of travel can carry more.
We were a big group — a tour, a school trip, a reunion. Does that work?
Yes, and it is where the collecting matters most. Everyone gets the same link and adds their own photographs; there is no per-person cost and nobody needs an account. The film is one payment by whoever organises it.
Can I share the recap on social media?
It is an ordinary video file, so yes. You can also build a vertical version for phones from the same trip as an additional version at AU$15.