Easy Internet Video Production

I am totally blown away and impressed with Animoto, a new site that makes internet video production so easy my dog could do it.

My dog, Sweetheart, a rescued pound puppy who deserves her name.

With animoto.com, all it takes to produce a professional-looking video on  is a computer and a finger.

You upload some still pictures and music, then click one button and animoto edits everything together using their magic software and BINGO! You have a fancy, flashy, video full of digital and motion effects you can instantly download, email, or post to any website.

Here’s the one I made in about fifteen minutes using pictures of my daughter.

Aside from the fact that I goofed and accidentally uploaded her senior picture PROOFS instead of the real pictures (yeah, I paid for them) I think this is just amazing. As a long-time professional video producer and editor, I can guarantee you it would have taken 1-2 HOURS to edit this video in the traditional way. With animoto, it took about 15 minutes.

Holy jump cut Batman!

Animoto Productions describe themselves as a “bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out.” Luckily for us, their nerd-fest created a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using high-end motion design and digital effects.   They advertise it as the “end” of slide shows.

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. In other words, their software analyzes the rhythm and beat of your music and edits the images to match in spectacular style.

A 30-second video is free. I paid nothing for that masterpiece of my daughter. I already had all the pictures and music. Uploading them took about ten minutes and I did two edit mixes in less than three minutes. If you want to do a longer video, it will cost you a bit, but not much. Whatever length you choose, you can get a high resolution download for about twenty dollars. If you want to make a video with the least amount of trouble, animoto is the way to go.

If it gets any easier than this, even Sweetheart will shake her head in amazement.

Thanks for reading Video Production Tips

Lorraine Grula

Internet Video Gal

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