This slideshow video was ridiculously easy to produce. I didn’t have to upload any photos (Though I could have) Pay any fees (Though I would if I wanted to produce a longer segment) or upload any of my own audio (Though I normally would)
It’s just fun, fun, fun and if you have never picture edited for video before using Animoto could be a a great tutorial.
Animoto lets you tap into any existing photo set you may have handy in Flickr, Facebook, Smugmug, Picasa, or Photobucket. There’s some built-in music for you to mashup. All the Final-Cut-Pro type effects are rendered on their server and when it’s ready you get code that you can embed in your blog.
Animoto uses patent-pending technology to analyze your images and everything about the selected music — its structure, genre, energy, build, rhythm — before developing a blueprint for the motion design of your video. The remaining time is spent rendering your video, using a giant farm of computer processors to custom-generate 24 new images per second for your final video.
Here’s another one I cooked up. Fun.
This is really early in the product’s development life but it is worth playing with and keeping an eye on. Soon you’ll be able to download the video segments you create and that is where there become a greater potential to use these mashups as a video editing tool. One that is used sparingly, mind you and only for the right story elements, like, robots perhaps.
This is pretty slick.
Looking at it, I can’t help but think of Keynote’s slick transitions.
You’d have to think this sort of “video photo slideshow” technology would show up in Apple’s iPhoto/.Mac