Sunday, September 30, 2007

It's Animoto Time

I found a great new site called Animoto where you can create your own 30 second (or longer) videos from your photos and music that you upload or choose on their site. The resulting videos look slicker than a slide show and it's super easy to put together.

The only thing a little limiting for me personally is that they have a very narrow selection of music to choose from. And the genres available are not necessarily my cup of tea. All that means is that I need to learn how to download mp3's I like from another source and then I can use them in Animoto videos. I have lots of friends well versed in downloading music to help me and I'm always up for learning something new.

Of course I had to try this out so I uploaded some pictures of my mom and photos of flowers in her yard. If you don't like the results you can have the same pictures "remixed" to create a new video. They say no two videos will come out the same. Here are my two 30 second videos using the same pictures and same music. Which do you like the best?





Animoto was created by some guys from the film production industry. Thirty second videos are free and full-length ones are $3 each. If you feel like taking on a fun project, give it a try yourself.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My vote goes to the first one! Very neat idea and beautiful pic's Carm. :-)

Colette