Someone is always on the wrong side of a time zone: the son who cannot get the week off, the parents who are not travelling this year, the cousins who moved. One link gathers a short message from each of them, recorded whenever their evening is, and the family watches the lot together.
“Say it the way you would say it if you were standing there.”
“What is one thing from this year you want the family to know about?”
“What do you miss most about being home for this?”
“Ask the children what they want to tell everyone.”
A Diwali video solves a problem that gets worse the more spread out a family becomes: the group call that nobody can all make. Everyone who is not going to be there records a short message in their browser, no app and no account, at whatever hour suits them, and videos.me puts every clip into one film you can play in the room and keep afterwards. It works in both directions, which is the part people miss. The family who are together can send one to the relative who is on their own this year, and that is a harder thing to buy than a parcel.
A preview cut from the prompts on this page. Yours will be the clips your people record.
Three steps and a few minutes, and never an editor.
Add a prompt like “Say it the way you would say it if you were standing there” and get one shareable link in seconds.
Anyone with the link opens it and records a short clip in their browser. They never install an app or make an account.
We stitch the clips into one film that’s yours to watch, download, and share.
A week gives the relatives in other time zones a weekend inside the window, which is when most of them will actually record.
The family group plus a personal message to the ones abroad. The same link works in every country.
Give people something specific to answer. “Record a message” makes everyone freeze; a question gets a reply.
Compile before the day, play it when everyone is together, and download the film so next year has something to sit beside.
Pick one. One clear question gets more replies than four. People answer a question; they stall at a brief.
Make it theirs. Swap in the name and the detail only your group knows. “Share a memory of Dad” beats “share a memory”.
Say the length. Naming thirty seconds gives permission to stop, which is usually what someone is waiting for.
Say when you need it. A date does more for replies than any wording.
Give contributors a great question, or write your own.
“Say it the way you would say it if you were standing there.”
“What is one thing from this year you want the family to know about?”
“What do you miss most about being home for this?”
“Ask the children what they want to tell everyone.”
They are the reason the film exists. A personal message to each of them before the group link goes out, so they do not read it as a mass request.
People hesitate when they are not sure. One line telling them to record in whatever language they like removes the hesitation and usually improves the clip.
One unrehearsed clip from a seven-year-old outperforms every careful adult message in the collection.
The films stack up year on year and become the record. Keep each one on your own storage.
One link, the same effortless flow, whatever you're collecting for.
The whole family’s holiday messages, near and far, in one film.
Christmas videos →A montage of messages from everyone who loves them.
Birthday gifts →Celebrate the years with voices from across their life.
Anniversary videos →Mark the win with cheers from everyone who saw it coming.
Congrats videos →That is the point of it. Anyone with the link records in their browser, in any country, on any phone or laptop, with no app to download and no account to create.
No, and it is the main advantage over a call. Each person records whenever their own evening happens to be, and nobody has to be awake at the same moment as anybody else. You watch the finished film at yours.
Give people about a week. The relatives who care most are often the slowest to record, and a week of runway is the difference between eight clips and eighteen.
Yes, and they usually are. People record in whichever language they are most themselves in, and the film carries all of them as they were recorded.
As many as you like on pay as you go, from one household to the whole extended family. Bundles cover up to 10, 25, or 50 people.
Late clips land at the end, and you can re-compile any time, including for the relatives who record on the day itself.
Two minutes to set up, free to create, and nothing to pay until you unlock your videos.
Create your collection