Filed under: Fun, Internet, Photo, Video, Social Software
We’ve covered Animoto before. It’s a rocking web app that allows you to create a music video with your own pics or video in about 5 minutes or less. Now, Animoto has recently won the Film/TV Web award at the 2008 SXSW conference and has some new features we thought deserved a revisit.
For starters, Animoto has a new Facebook app which grants you to produce unlimited free 30 seconds spots using your Facebook photos. If any of your pics are tagged with your Facebook friends’ names, they too will get an alert in their News Feed informing them.
If you’re not too excited by that, (is it possible to get excited by Facebook apps anymore?), you can also now export any of your Animoto videos directly to YouTube by clicking a tiny button. The beauty here is there’s no video camera or video editing software required to produce professional results.
And there’s the ability to post your videos to most each social network around, like: MySpace, Friendster, Blogger, TypePad, Freewebs, Webwag, Pageflakes, Netvibes, Windows Live.com, iGoogle, Orkut, Hi5, LiveJournal, Xanga, myYearbook, LiveSpaces, Tagged, Multiply, BlackPlanet, Eons, Piczo, and Vox.
In our previous post, we stated we wanted the ability to add text to the pics. Apparently that idea has registered with Animoto but it is not live yet. A work around is to add your text to a photo and save it as a JPG or GIF and upload it like your other photos. They’re also still working on the capability to send videos to cellphones and downloading videos to your personal.
No word yet on a Lessig Method video tool. Now, wouldn’t that be something?
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