Tuesday
Apr222008
Tasmania Animoto Style
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 5:27PM
Amber and I interviewed Brad Jefferson of Animoto.com tonight on net@night. It's a very cool site that auto-generates a video using pretty advanced software and your own pictures and music. During the interview I whipped this up with about three clicks of the mouse.
Reader Comments (41)
It's like I was there! I hope you liked the vid, Leo. Thanks again for having me on your show.
Best,
Brad
Wow, Animoto is very addictive... the end results look great!
Thanks for this, I will listen...
leo, amber,
Great discovery, I'm gonna talk about that on my podcast!
Wow animoto site is really cool been playing around there with photos! Cool site Leo!
Hey leo,nice little video of your photos. Never heard of animoto! sounds like a cool site to visit. nice music by the way made me want to dance.haha.
Leo, another great find, now I have something to show my photos off with, very cool.
Hey guys, just listened 2 net@nite, heard about Animoto, tried it, really impressed, so I blogged about it - http://www.techau.tv/blog/?p=419
That also includes my first Animoto video, that's some algorithm they got there!
Hey guys, just listened to net@nite, tried out Animoto and blogged about it - http://www.techau.tv/blog/?p=419.
A great service, a great interview.
Just played with it, pretty fun. However i am having trouble embedding the vid into my wordpress blog
It's a great little site. Recently Animoto opened up their All Access pass for educators. Check it out at http://biz.animoto.com/education/faq.html
OK, I'm done listening to ALL of Leo's podcasts. Everytime they come out with a show, especially like the recent Animoto episode of net@nite, I have to spend money! Animoto rocks but Leo, stop getting me to buy stuff...:-)
The shot of the stream comes right during what's called the "running stream" segment of Spring! Does Animoto have a Baroque Composer history algorithm?
Look out, a wombat!
I have to try this animoto out, looks great.
signed up for animoto and have already made 3 videos...thanks for a great recommendation
Very well done automation. I like the one with the Wombat and the way it was presented in the stream. I definitely need to try this out.
Anyone else find that with so many very cool transitions in the video the photos become secondary? I had to watch again to actually *see* the photos...
Animoto is definitely not a pro photographer's tool; try Photodex's ProShow Producer for creating remarkable vids using pics and/or videos.
http://www.photodex.com
No, I am not associated with Photodex --- just a very satisfied user.
I listened to Net@Night, watched your Animoto video and was really impressed. I'm now about to sign up for an Animoto account.
Well done Leo and Brad!
Three words ... needs more WOMBAT!
Seriously, this looks great, and I a listening to net@night now when you were creating this. Very cool!
a few more than three clicks, but yes, INSANELY easy.
from their site:
http://animoto.com/play/jbdRuJNN7b6FLiNrRaidSQ
from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMqV6jhET5o
next up: buy a real account, then feed them some pictures that are cropped and color corrected
I heard your interview on net@night & was impressed with how easy it is to create these slideshows. But after seeing the results, I was a little disappointed. I'm distracted by all the effects. I agree with Jonathan, the photos become secondary.
Yeah, what they said. Great site.
thats cool i like .
The video and technology is very impressive, but two things jump out at me.
First, it makes little sense for an app that's this processor
intensive to live on the web. There are many things centralized
servers are good for and rendering video for hundreds of thousands
(eventually millions) of users is not one of them. By setting it up
in this manner, Animoto is dooming themselves to a constant search for
more hardware to support their growing user base. That gets very
expensive very quickly.
Second, I agree with others here that the final product is too flashy.
The video is a wonderful showcase of Animoto's algorithm and
transitional effects, but they get in the way of the story that's
theoretically being told by the photos.
Both of these points could be solved by producing a desktop app.
First, it would decentralize and distribute the rendering task to each
user's own hardware (which is probably sitting idle 90% of the time
anyway.) And second, they could provide rich controls for tweaking
the algorithm and application of the graphical effects.
Sorry, I didn't mean to double post. I tried commenting around noon and it never went through. I checked back just now and it still hadn't gone through so I sent it again. I guess the first one got stuck in the tubes and the second one blew it out. :)