Being a photographer, I always enjoy the opportunity to peruse sites that offer services that help promote your images. Animoto does this indirectly by allowing you to create a "video" of your images and put it to music.
Overall, I found the interface to be a bit clunky when importing images from Picassa, but it is useable. The music selection offered is rather bleak in my opinion but again, musically I am stuck in the 80s and reaching a few years into the 70s and 90s. There is of course the option to upload music from your own collection, but as I am in the process of transferring files from the old laptop to the new one, my music is not yet available to me to test this feature.
Once your video is created, you can download it, post it to youtube, email it to friends and so on. For educators and the classroom, the possibilities are endless with this technology and that very feature is promoted visibly on the site.
Using the free account, things are pretty slow in the creation and you are limited to a mere 30-second clip. It would be kinda nice if they allowed you to build at least one full-length video, but then this is capitalism not Utopia.
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Brian,
ReplyDeleteI agree. I have been involved in photography for over twenty years. I think that Animoto is, overall, a fine product but could use a little bit of refinement in its interface. And, yes, the music
is not to my tastes as well. Good thing that an option to upload our own music is available. Without that option, I don't believe as many photographers would utilize Animoto.