Animoto is a Super Easy Video Tool

Animoto finally got me. It's been on my list to experiment for some time, like ever since Lou Bortone and I put together our homestudy course, Online Video Made Easy. Lou talked about how easy Animoto is to create high quality video just from your images.

Then yesterday I saw a tweet from a client with a link to an animoto video she had just created. That moved me to give it a test drive.

In a nutshell, you upload some photos, add some text, choose a music track and click a button.  Within a few minutes of rendering, you have a really cool video. You can create 30 second videos for free. Longer videos cost $3 or you can spring for an annual pass for $30 which gives you unlimited access. That's what I did.

After you create your video, there options that allow you to simply upload your video to YouTube, post is on Facebook, your blog or any of 20 other sites. You can download your video and send a link by email. Sharing is easy.

OK, wanna see my video?

I gathered all the photos I took from my retreat on Useppa Island a few weeks ago and created a montage. Though this is a personal video, Animoto can easily be used to create business videos as well with screenshots from products or shots of you presenting or, or, or. You don't have to have a music soundtrack either. You can upload your own audio file. Why not narrate a series of tips with matching images to illustrate your points? That's next on my list. Now, with out further ado...

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Comments

[Carolann Jacobs]

Thanks for posting this, Denise. I boguth Microsoft's version to do a slideshow of my wedding pictures, and it makes a ginormous file which is nearly unusable on the web. This looks more robust and clearly produces something usable on the web.

[Maggie Bergman]

That looks great Denise! Something I'll have to look into soon! Thanks for putting this together, nice to see it in action

[melanie]

Hi Denise,

Thanks for sharing the link. I've been using Windows Movie Maker and been satisfied with the result. But the video you made is wonderful, so I think I'm gonna try it. Anyway, I don't think WMM can do that. And if it can I don't know how. ^__^

[Ron Givens]

Super Easy is right.

I had a video set up and emailed in no time flat. Like 5 minutes or so. Thanks for the heads up.

This is something that AWeber affiliates could certainly put in their arsenal.

Great post!