Help: What is a Video eCard?
What is a Video eCard?
A video ecard is an online greeting card featuring your personal video.
Video ecards are not unlike those e cards you send with your personal photos. We just took the idea to another level and introduced video sharing with video e-cards.
When you send a video ecard, the recipients get an email with a link to the ecard that you've created. When they click the link, they see your video playing inside a beautifully designed, personalized ecard.
You can make video ecards for any occasion. For instance:
- Take a video of your newborn in the hospital and send a video birth announcement with baby's first cry to all your friends and extended family.
- Capture your child on video singing Happy Birthday to Grandma and send her a beautiful video ecard with a personalized message.
- The holidays are the perfect time to send video e-cards: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, even New Years - send personalized wishes to the whole family in a video e card.
Use your imagination!
To learn more about the ecard designs available or to send an ecard now, please see Create eCard.
How to Create an eCard
Creating video e-cards is simple - all it takes is 4 easy steps. During the process, you will need to select an e-card design, personalize it with your message, locate (on your computer) the video file you wish to attach and select family and friends to whom you want to email your e-card!
Videos associated with e-cards have the following size and file format requirements:
- 15 MB video size limit
- Formats: .avi, .mov, .mpg, (.mpeg), .wmv, .flv
- 320 X 240 screen size
Please see Preparing Your Video for more information.
Once your video is uploaded, you will immediately be able to preview your personalized e-card with your video before sending it to friends and family.
To send a video e-card now, please see Create eCard.
Who Can View Your e Cards
At Jalapenyo, we realize you may not want to share your videos with everyone on the Web. While there are places you can do that, this site is about sharing your videos with friends and family.
During the process of creating an e card, you designate who should receive a link to your video e card. Only the folks on your list get an email from Jalapenyo.com with a link to your personalized video e cards.
eCard Expiration
eCards are available for the recipients and sender to view as many times as they'd like for 30 days. After 30 days, the ecard and associated video are deleted from our system. The reason for this is that the cost of storing videos is high. We have determined that it is not cost effective to keep ecard videos on our system for more than 30 days. By removing them, we make room for new video ecards!