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Hints for Easily Creating Animoto Videos
By norman | October 11, 2009
Need a way to easily create videos for your website? Animoto is an online, easy-to-use tool for rendering quality videos that can be used for both personal and professional campaigns. Just upload your images to the Animoto site and choose your background music song from the Animoto library or upload your own music. Then include some text to direct your audience through the video and you’re done.
While Animoto takes a lot of the leg work out of creating professional-looking videos, a few tips can make your videos and slide shows look even better. Marketing agencies have seen the benefit of creating these Animoto videos, and have been so impressed with the results several have posted videos on their websites.
Here are some tips to create better videos with Animoto as well as some tips from the creators of Animoto:
1. When uploading photos, always pick photos or graphics with a landscape orientation as portrait photos can sometimes format incorrectly during the video rendeing process.
2. Animoto will automatically determine the duration of each picture in the video slideshow but if there’re pictures that you really want to emphasize in the video, select the images in the video editor and use the spotlight button.
3. When adding text to your video, always make sure that there are pictures on either side of the text slide else your text will lack any moving video in the background.
4. Your choice of music determines the transition speed. If you select a slow instrumental song, your music video will have slow transitions whereas if you choose rock, the transitions will happen fast.
5. You’ll need about 15-20 graphics or images for a thirty-second movie. If you upload more images, they are likely to be discarded in the final video so pick the best shots before starting the render process. For full-length videos, you an upload up to 300 shots but the number of pictures used would really depend on the choice of your music - slow music means less pictures.
6. While the 1x speed is fine for fast, engaging videos, you can choose the 1/2x speed for a more traditional slideshow.
7. You can brand your entire slideshow by creating an image with your logo and using it in the last frame.
8. Just put a 50-100 pixel border around your images to prevent edge clipping in the final video.
9. If you have a full-length video (business) account you are able to turn off the “created by Animoto” and music credits text that appears at the end of the slide show. Right before you go to render your video there will be options to turn off this text with the simple click of a button.
With Animoto and the above advice, you can generate very professional videos with little time and money.
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