Rich user experiences (Animoto)
March 28, 2010 at 12:36 am 5 comments
Animoto (http://animoto.com) provides rich user experience by producing TV quality videos using photos in just minutes. By uploading photos and video clips, then choosing a song file provided, Animoto will use its program to analyze and produce a unique video. Animoto’s best selling point is that, there are no two same video are ever the same (even uploaded from a same set of image).
Videos that are produced with Animoto can be shared by using e-mail, Facebook, upload to Youtube, burned into Dvd disc and also able to placed on blog or MySpace.
According to Animoto: “Animoto’s founders have produced shows for MTV, Comedy Central & ABC, studied classical music in London, played in rock bands in Seattle and developed software in Japan. They have developed a patent-pending, Cinematic Artificial Intelligence that thinks like an actual editor and director”.
Animoto also provides business service by producing professional videos and other extra functions such as call-to-action button which turns an Animoto video from a passive viewing experience into an active marketing tool for lead generation. With less than a minute, a well presented video can be created to bring an amazing presentation for the meeting.
Below is a simple guide how to create video with Animoto:
- Sign up for an account
- Choose create a short 30-sec video or a full length video
- Choose to upload images from your computer; or pick one of the following services: Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Photobucket, and others.
- Allow Animoto to retrieve images and processes them
- Once uploaded you can choose to use them all or remove other unwanted images.
- After confirm the images, choose a song from Animoto’s library or upload own music files.
- Then finalize your video with a title and description and let Animoto works it’s magic.
- Email the video, download it or even embed in a webpage to share in with others.
Animoto’s terms of use stated that videos that are created with Animoto is shareable with individuals but restricted for commercial use. Animoto’s video can be sold to individuals or couples as a gift but not prohibited to be sold to another businesses or company.
Below is an example of a video I made with Animoto, enjoy:
References links:
Animoto – http://animoto.com
Entry filed under: Web 2.0, Web 2.0 Applications. Tags: Animoto, Enterprise 2.0, Rich User Experiences, Video, Web 2.0.
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Hahsem Almakrami | March 28, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Hi Kok
Thank you for this valuable information about my interested web application..
Animoto is really enjoyable application; it is easy to use and impressive service. Ii also has easy integration with the most popular web 2.0 applications such as Facebook, Twitter and other social media, so what you want in one place.
I believe Animoto is increase the rich user experience
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Rebecca Lai | March 28, 2010 at 6:22 pm
What a wonderful ‘user experience’ Kok Poh. It is so simple and the results are effective. Appears anyone can be a director. Great find.
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Kok Poh Lim | March 28, 2010 at 7:57 pm
Thanks Hahsem and Rebecca.
One thing I like about Animoto is it’s usability, where we also have the option of uploading our own likings of music files, rather than just restricted to what Animoto provided for us. Although what they provided are kinda good enough though.
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Joanne Taylor | March 31, 2010 at 6:14 am
The integration with existing services like Flickr, Facebook, Picasa, Photobucket it a great feature for end users.
I noticed in their Blog that they have released an API as well allowing other sites to send content and get it rendered
@see http://animoto.com/developer
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Kok Poh Lim | May 11, 2010 at 11:33 pm
I agree with you. These integration really does help its users in easier sharing the video they produced, and also importing pictures from Flickr and Picasa.