realtimes tablet If you’re anything like me, you took a ton of pictures this weekend. I took a few long hikes along the Oregon coast, capturing shots of rocky coastlines, gnarled trees and even a bald eagle that flew across my frame. But what do you do with all those photos now?

geekwireapp2RealNetworks’ latest app, RealTimes, tries to solve that problem by analyzing your photos and videos, then organizing them into short montages with professional soundtracks for sharing your memories. It also stores up to 7GB of photo and video in the cloud for free.

You can switch up the pictures, videos and music, along with the order, if you don’t like the initial results. You can also add text, drawings and perform other edits to your photos within the app. An upgrade to a premium tier grants you more filters, more storage and longer videos, which are limited to 30 seconds in the free version.

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The effects are simple, but some may enjoy the nostalgia-inducing sepia tones

For my video, I wanted to show a hike my partner and I took along Cape Lookout. I had taken photos on a DSLR, which I uploaded to iCloud with the new Photos app on my Mac, and my partner used her iPhone 6, which feeds into our shared photo stream as well.

I started with an automatically generated video that used shots from the day I wanted, but it included some shots of that night and another hike we took. Finding the right shots and getting them in the right order was a little tedious, since my DSLR’s time wasn’t right.

Also, the video looks best with landscape shots, but it’s hard to tell the orientation of the photos in the picker because everything is cropped to a square preview. It’s not until you preview the video or edit them that you find out that your picture is in portrait.

Those issues aside, it’s pretty easy and intuitive to change the title card, transitions, music and effects within the app. When you’re done with your video, you can share it via email, messages, social media or a custom link. The video is uploaded to RealNetworks’ servers and can be played back by anyone with the link. You can’t save the video directly to your camera roll, but you can download it from the link.

Here’s the video I put together in about 10 minutes.

I can see this being especially effective when combined with auto-playing videos in Instagram and Facebook. More shareable than a slideshow and smarter than a Facebook album, RealTimes is a nice way to make easily digestible recaps of your photo-worthy adventures.

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