Create Film Quality Online Videos With Animoto

Posted on May 4, 2008
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Make a dynamic slideshow and embed your images in an Animoto video. Your images and music will never be the same again. A team of filmmakers and producers have formed a partnership to provide a unique service for creating online video with film quality finish.

So What Can You Do With Animoto?

With Animoto you can produce stunning slideshows similar to services other free applications like Slide and RockYou used on popular on social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. Animoto launched a Facebook application at SXSW in anticipation that the service will see further growth. Animoto lets you grab photos from free photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Picassa, Smugmug, Facebook, Photobucket, or from your own personal images stored on your computer.

Plus there are lots of music tracks to choose from to add to your videos with the option to purchase the full tracks from the artists. So if you are an artist you can submit your music and gain more exposure and sales. Featured tracks or scan through several musical genre’s from Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Classical, Jazz and more.

You can post an Animoto widget directly to your MySpace profile in the section you choose About Me, Films or other places on your pages. At first I thought it’s would be an excellent way to get my completed 30 second short on MySpace quickly without having to copy and past code into my profile manually. However after I sent the video to MySpace I went to check on its progress with great anticipation but my video could not be seen. The only visible code was a thin black banner link with the Animoto link back to their main site. So I had to manually remove the code easier just to select “Post/Embed” online and select MySpace from there to get the code to paste carefully into your MySpace profile. Also if you want to embed your Animoto video onto web pages select “Other Sites” to get the embed code.

In fact the best way to embed an Animoto video without the links back to the website as can be viewed on TechCrunch Music Video Slide Show. At the end “Make new video” and “What is this?” Even the new style YouTube videos can be a pain when your video shrinks into the background to reveal a row of other videos. This can be a killer for marketing affiliate programs as your competitors videos may appear after your own.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who hates this new layout at YouTube.

Advantages & Disadvantages of The Free Version and Premium Service

The limitations on free 30 second Animoto Short are you cannot download your video but you can upgrade and edit your video at a later date so it is versatile in that respects.

Only full-length videos can be downloaded, but you can upgrade this video by doing an “Editing Remix” and changing the type on the “Finalize” page. No two videos are ever the same even after completing your video you can go back and remix it to create a new version with little effort.

You can use the 30 second shorts as an intro or slideshow but to get the full benefits of the service the real value is in the long feature film length video. YOU CAN MAKE A FILM QUALITY VIDEO without having any special equipment so it does have a huge advantage over services like OneTrumedia. You still have an Animoto logo feature at the very end of your video when uploaded to YouTube but it isn’t intrusive at all. If this bothers you just upgrade and download your introduction pieces into your favorite video editing software like the free Windows Movie Maker so you can add more content to your video and make it look more professional.

For just $3.00 or equivalent of just and just $30 per year with free hosting you just can’t beat the service for incredible value. I plan to use it to create professional looking introduction to my future video tutorials.

How To Get The Premium Film Length Service For Free

Once you are a user of Animoto you can give your friends a $5 discount voucher and get 3 months free premium access for yourself. Why continue struggling with producing videos and compromising with quality when you can get it all for a measly sum of $3.00?

The simplicity of the service with the auto generated animations so you DO NOT have to configure this yourself. Even a child can do it! See a complete demo here: Animoto-Make Impressive Slide Shows/Intros _Easy To Use_

This video was created by a brilliant young genius is a member of the YouTube Partner Program status due to thousands of video views he generates from his Channel. This gives him a share of the ad revenue such as Google Adsense on his video pages. Incidentally I found this video after my initial with Animoto so I could of saved myself some valuable time. LOL

Watch Submit Your Videos To Multiple Websites Using TubeMogul at YouTube

“Animoto Productions is a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out.

Their first release is Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.

The heart of Animoto is its newly developed Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills & techniques that are used in television and film…”

–Animoto

To read more about Animoto and get $5.00 off using this code => fvngzoat. Visit Animoto to test run a free demo today. Once you are a user of Animoto you can give your friends a $5 discount voucher and get 3 months free premium access to make film length videos for yourself.

Even more reasons to get into creating online videos regardless if you want to feature yourself in the video or not.

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