Is This the Easiest way to Turn Photos into Videos?
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We all have tons of photos, whether they’re digital or print. What are you going to do with them all? You could throw them into some kind of video, but many of them are hard to use. All you want to do is create a “photo show”, right?
When one of our chat moderators four_ones sent me a link to this new site called Animoto, I had to check it out. You upload your photos, pick a song… and it creates the mashup for you. You can choose which photos you want. You can highlight certain photos over others.
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.
If you choose a free account, you can create 30 second videos. With a paid account, you get much more. Even better… you can click a button and upload your videos directly to your YouTube account! Take a look at the two quick videos I made, just playing around. It’s so easy… and fun! What a great way to capture those moments.
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36 Comments
ARC-ON Digital Design Blog
March 17th, 2008
at 11:53am
, right? When one of our chat moderators four_ones sent me a link to this new site called Animoto, I had to check it out. You upload your photos, pick a song… and it creates the mashup for you. You can choose..>>. This article is posted on internet. The strong idea of the post is worthy, superior, good strong and most of all to make no mistakes are quite impossible to attain. (more…)
Windows Vista Torrent
March 17th, 2008
at 3:48pm
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electrotek
March 17th, 2008
at 7:36am
nice keyboards and mouse too !! ;)
Cheers :)
T966ER
March 17th, 2008
at 7:44am
you should use the chris head one as your video intro
MonoKulen
March 17th, 2008
at 10:17am
Super, ultra great program…thanks a lot dude!!! Look my Trip to Assisi, I was a alone pilgrum, to the city of the Saint Francis.
alwaysmc2
March 17th, 2008
at 10:22am
What are you talking about, Chris? PhotoStory is stupid simple. You drag your photos into it and you’re done. If you want you can select some music too.
KantoDude
March 17th, 2008
at 11:03am
thanks chris!!… your alot of help!
i love you!!
<3
iMicrochip
March 17th, 2008
at 11:29am
Animoto Rocks!
cheeseman52
March 17th, 2008
at 11:58am
i tried it and liked it
lockergnome
March 17th, 2008
at 12:10pm
“Stupid” is right. It’s not the feature, it’s the implementation. Let me guess… you don’t have a problem browsing the Web with lynx? Just wondering. I dare you to produce something that flows EXACTLY the same as my video does – using any desktop software of your choosing. Good luck…
1000rev1000
March 17th, 2008
at 12:14pm
nice one
randy_nacol2022
March 17th, 2008
at 5:20am
I want to thank you for showing us Animoto. I am putting together a montage for my ladies cattery website. The only thing that I find a challenge is is picking the right music for the photo’s. Thank you
tehSrewolf
March 17th, 2008
at 1:01pm
Lol alwaysmc2 you got pwnt by Chris, anyway that program is great.
applesnumber1fanboy
March 17th, 2008
at 1:01pm
who names there dog pixie…
fernandop1
March 17th, 2008
at 2:23pm
Usually when you buy a DVD burner most of them come with features like that and pretty much every body buy once in a while a DVD burner anyway; and they all have tons of random of transitions also, plus the music of your choice. Of curse they all are different and the way you did it was pretty good, regards…
chrism2012
March 17th, 2008
at 4:03pm
you just found out??? i’ve been using this forever! its awesome!
305
March 17th, 2008
at 10:21am
Wow never seen Chris that happy before, the website looks cool, the site itself is super user friendly, easy to use, im gonna make a couple vids with my gfx work n see how that looks. Very good find from one of your mods, BOOKMARKED and ready to go. Btw Chris those vids you make look so cool and its still crazy how you dont have to do anything and it comes up with such cool concepts n effects.
Gracias,
305
bigbeckster1234
March 17th, 2008
at 5:35pm
wow he actually replied
gamermasterman
March 17th, 2008
at 6:21pm
“I’m sure you’ve already paused this video or have me running in the background.”
Wow your good, I paused several times while watching this video to go to Animoto :)
53531640
March 17th, 2008
at 7:13pm
I was a bit dubious about your level of enthusiasm … but you are right, the end product is quite good. I would love to know the intelligent software used to mix the photos as good as it does.
FabioCrow07770
March 17th, 2008
at 12:57pm
I saw Your Video on youtube this morning and Tried it for myself. Animoto actually is very easy to use took me like 15 minutes to get everything set and uploaded,Even sent the final product as a video response to your video on youtube. I’m very happy with the way the Photo video came Out,Surprisingly they even had a decent amount of songs to choose from. I’m going to use the 30 second clip I made there as an intro to my videos.
hichez
March 17th, 2008
at 1:38pm
I been watching you for awhile and you said you don’t like/want to but things before your videos start. But I think the video with the heads would be cool to put in the begging of your videos. You might need to short’n it. I don’t think web 2.0 exist or will exist but there is a web1.5 coming whether we like or not.
DaRemixBoi
March 17th, 2008
at 9:43pm
Animoto rules!
It’s Teh Total WINZ
DavinTerrizzi
March 17th, 2008
at 10:35pm
Chris, I agree with you 100%.
Animoto is phenomenal and revolutionary in its way of simplicity. I love it.
VVindows
March 17th, 2008
at 10:38pm
wow the owner of animato website lucky because now he dont need to buy an ads 4 his site ;p
galaxydreams
March 18th, 2008
at 12:41am
“tell me what you dont like here!!” haha
pyper16
March 17th, 2008
at 6:05pm
thank you so much chris i have been looking for a good and free program for my pics and like you said it is good you can upload to youtube like that
pspaddict01
March 18th, 2008
at 3:13am
The only thing i don’t like is that its not for linux.
Theirishnintendonerd
March 18th, 2008
at 7:15am
windows movie maker :P
electrotek
March 18th, 2008
at 7:50pm
Have used muveeDOTcom application that came installed on Vista PC,,,but, hey this is web based FREE 30 secs,,,agree the way to go…lol As, yet no text in slides but u can get round this easy…
Thanks Chris for your very informative vids
electrotek
March 18th, 2008
at 7:55pm
Have posted my 30 sec creation as vid response… Am, now ready to create short `intro video` for my YouTube account…
easy as pie…text can be added via Win Movie Maker as example…
Cheers and thanks Chris :) :) :)
MrBuzz
March 18th, 2008
at 5:51pm
Nice one. I’m editing a DVD at the moment and was trying to think of video to use in the menu screen. I reckon a couple of choice stills floating around would look pretty good.
I’ll definately look into this further.
Zacmac
March 18th, 2008
at 8:20pm
Chris, you gotta try putting photos into iMovie ‘08. It’s so easy. Start a new project, pull up the photo inspector, drag an album or event into your project, pull up music inspector, drag a song or two or three into your project, and your done. Publish it as a vid and you have a video slideshow with music with an automatic Ken Burns effect for the photos. I use it all the time. People think I worked on it for hours. High production values. GO MAC OS X!!!
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March 19th, 2008
at 1:09pm
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onlyonebowman
March 31st, 2008
at 8:19am
ive been using this since october
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May 26th, 2008
at 6:41pm
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