Technology Today - Animoto
This week on net@night I heard about a very exciting new web service out called Animoto. Animoto is “a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos” from a selection of your photos and favorite music. It is amazingly simple to get a high quality video you can send to your friends and family, post on your blog, or use in a presentation. And best of all…it is totally free! (for a 30 second video)
To create your video you simply go to the Animoto website and walk through the easy 3-step process. First, you will need to select a bunch of photos you would like displayed in the video. They recommend no more than 15 for a 30 second video. With Animoto you can either upload them from your computer or grab your photos from a photo sharing sites like flickr, picasa, or photobucket. Next, you have the choice to upload your own DRM-free music or select from some of their tracks. Finally, you title the video and begin the production.
It takes between 15-20 minutes for the video to be encoded, and once it is complete you have quite a few options. You can either download the video to your local computer, email it to a friend, post it directly to Youtub, embed it in your website, or remix the video.
I created a Wii bloopers video to test it out, and it did a great job. Enjoy:
May 30th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Becky! This is a great resource!!! I’ve just made two shorts….one was just random photos from my files so I could see what it does, and the second a quick but less random collection…….I’m planning on using this for my sermon on June 8 with psalm 145. Oh my gosh, I love it!!!!!
Amy
May 30th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Amy, awesome! I am glad you found a use for it, and I can’t wait to see what you come up with. It is amazing the things people are able to do these days.