Creating a music video to make friends and family envious of your mad skills

Posted by Gregg on March 13, 2008 in Life Experiences |

Ran across a very cool tool on Techcrunch yesterday and wanted to show you what I came up with in 24 hours.

Janelle, my wife, and I celebrate our 6th wedding anniversary this Saturday so I put together a video of our kids (and a few of the parents) using a tool called, Animoto. You upload videos off your system or grab them off your preferred photo sharing site (mine was Flickr). Then you select from the music they provide, which is actually really good, or select and upload an mp3. Two options emerge, 30 second free video creations or for $3 one time fee $30 dollars a year the video will match the song or number of pics.

So best practice I found is to choose the mp3 you want to act as and then upload and organize the correct amount of pictures to meet the right time allotment (the estimate video length calculated on picture count is displayed on the left). One other suggestion is to size the videos before upload(for best quality use roughly 1024pxX768px as that is what the image is sized to by Animoto. After the video is finished you can download it or post directly to Youtube.

Highly recommended tool.

Here is the result:

3 Comments on Creating a music video to make friends and family envious of your mad skills

By Eddie on March 15, 2008 at 7:08 pm

Happy Anni-very-sorry buddy!

One Love.

By Khamis on March 20, 2008 at 12:21 am

So cool, I am going to do this with the best photos from the Seattle trip!

By Gregg Turnbull on April 4, 2008 at 9:21 am

very cool Khamis, saw the end result on facebook. Very jealous of your Seattle journeys.

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