Making Movies - Making Videos Painlessly & Free -- Endorsed by Amazon
Animoto enables you to produce exciting videos in under 5 minutes - complete with music and cool transitions.
I love this service -- and so does Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.
"Here’s one that’s happening in real time just over the last few days. It’s a fantastic example of Amazon Web Services. A company called Animoto.
Basically what Animoto does is they make it really easy for people to create videos with their own photos or their own music. Or there’s also royalty-free music that Animoto has on their website.
The way it works is they have some “secret sauce” in their software that listens to the cadence of the music and it basically auto-edits the photos and aligns them with the music so it looks good. They cut from one photos to the next at the right point in the rhythm of the music and so on.
If you’ve ever hand-edited something, it’s actually quite difficult to do." April 19th, 2008
As a former TV commercial director and still photographer I can relate to what Jeff is saying -- in the old days it took dozens of hours in an expensive post-production studio to create even the simplest video from collections of stills.
Here is an example that I created in under 5 minutes from some random images from a nature center where my wife works (GumboLimbo.org)
note -- I subscribe to Animoto's premium service which give me some bells and whistles like longer video production time -- but it is very cheap -- and here is a $5 discount link to Animoto.
written on 02/05/08 04:02 PM