7 Comments »Earlier this week at SXSW, Animoto announced the launch of their new Facebook application. Animoto is a really slick photo-video montage creation tool that integrates audio and smooth motion effects that move to the beat of the song you choose. I use Animoto anytime I’m in need of displaying a photo montage on my websites because it instantly adds a professional touch.
The new Facebook application enables you to instantly select photos from your existing Facebook albums. The one downfall of this application is that the videos are limited to 30 seconds unless you register at the main Animoto website. I’ve registered previously and it’s well worth it. While I think this may provide users with an incentive to their website, I think it would be better just to unlock it or try to charge a small fee for longer videos.
One of the best features of this application is an existing library of high quality music clips that can overlay your videos. The ultimate aim is to also provide musicians with a way to virally spread their music. One other feature announced just yesterday is one click publishing for YouTube. Unfortunately that feature is not currently included in the Facebook application but being able to display the slick video slideshows on your profile is really great.
I would like to be able to embed the videos on my website as well from the Facebook application but that feature is not included. If you would like to experience Animoto’s complete feature set, I highly recommend signing up for their main website. If you would like to integrate the videos into your profile, go grab the Animoto Videos application.
Animoto is awesome!!! They won a Web award at SXSW. On their main Web app, the sharing functionality for their widget is powered by the Clearspring Platform.
Animoto is awesome!!! They won a Web award at SXSW. On their main Web app, the sharing functionality for their widget is powered by the Clearspring Platform.
It’s my understanding that the 30 second videos are free but if you want to go longer it’s $3 per video or $30 for unlimited videos. Can you get longer videos without paying for them?
I tried it out this morning and have a couple videos posted on one of our blogs (http://www.skweddingwebsiteblog.com/2008/03/wedding-video-tool-at-animoto.html)
I think it’s a pretty sweet tool.
It's my understanding that the 30 second videos are free but if you want to go longer it's $3 per video or $30 for unlimited videos. Can you get longer videos without paying for them?
I tried it out this morning and have a couple videos posted on one of our blogs (http://www.skweddingwebsiteblog.com/2008/03/wed...)
I think it's a pretty sweet tool.
This doesn't even give you the option of picking anything. It creates a video without your knowledge and sends notifications to all of your friends saying that they were tagged in a video.
This is more of a Trojan than an application.
Please remove this from Facebook if they can't respect your privacy (I do understand that we checked “I allow this application to view my information”, but never did we agree to let it use our pictures without our consent.)
This doesn’t even give you the option of picking anything. It creates a video without your knowledge and sends notifications to all of your friends saying that they were tagged in a video.
This is more of a Trojan than an application.
Please remove this from Facebook if they can’t respect your privacy (I do understand that we checked “I allow this application to view my information”, but never did we agree to let it use our pictures without our consent.)
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