Animoto

**What is Animoto.** · Animoto is a web application where you can create a video, using photos and music. Animoto analyses your photos and music, automatically generating a trailer like video. · Animotos “Cinematic Artifical Intelligence” takes into consideration the music genre, rhythm, and tempo and will display the photos accordingly. · Quote: “250,000 users in over 200 countries have registered with the Animoto website with 4 million videos and 50 million views.” [|Animoto] [|Animoto education] (this is the animoto site for use in the classroom)   Pros

Easy to use Automatic Relatively fast Usually produces a great professional looking product

Cons

You cannot control the timing between slides The only background color is black You have a limited number of characters to use in the text slides The only text color is white You have no control over the font face or size

Summary: This is a great product for easily and quickly presenting a number of photos, creating a professional looking product. While it is simple, the highly automatic nature of the program limits customisation.

This would be a great program for students to use, presenting photos of a performance or for creating a review, but is limited in it’s uses outside this.

=Animoto vs PhotoStory 3 and I movie= Due to the nature of Animoto, your editing choices are somewhat limited. Using programmes such as imovie or PhotoStory. With imovie you can upload and edit both photos and movie clips. You can add music from the programme or upload your own. You can also compose your own music in garage band and export it to use with your clips. I movie enables you to edit the timing and style of transitions between photos, and the length of music can be fitted to the movie/ slideshow so nothing will be cut, which happens in Animoto. The down side with I movie is that it can be very time consuming. It would be the better option, however, if using a slide show as part of a production as you have more freedom with editing and can be precise with timing. Photostory3 also allows users to edit their slide show as in I movie. Animoto can be easily shared by blogging, but with Photostory you will have to upload to a third party before sharing. Once again, Photostory 3 is time consuming and would only be recommended when you require something precise. Photostory also only works on windows operating systems. There are also sites such as Slide and Rock you which are very similar to Animoto, although slide is aimed at the youth market mainly.  [|Slide] ( similar to Animoto) [|Rock you] (similar to Animoto)