Everyone likes a good slide show. But until recently, your typical slideshow websites offer a product that’s lame and glittered with all kinds of messy visual bombardment. The end result is a tacky looking slideshow.
So it’s with great pleasure I can say that animoto.com has signaled the death of the slide show. What’s animoto? I’m glad you asked. Here is a 60 second clip explaining what it’s all about:
Looks pretty cool huh? The guys behind animoto are from the movie industry and their talent is obvious in their product - especially the transitions between photo’s. I’ve been with animoto since last August 07 and I’ve seen new transition released all the time.
Animoto allows you to make short 30 second video’s for free. Which is a great service in itself. But the real power behind the service is the ability to make full length video’s incorporating hundreds of your photo’s in one cool video clip.
To subscribe to this service, it costs US$30 per year - and gives you unlimited access to making video slideshows of your pic’s. You can make 1 video or a 1000 videos during the year - it really doesn’t matter.
However, animoto has just released a referral program where if you sign up and join through this link (or any of the links on this post), you get a $5.00 discount off your All Access Pass. Plus, as your referrer, I get to subscribe to the service for a little longer for free. So we both win!
Here is a video I just made today using animoto. It’s a slideshow of 3 years worth of holiday snaps my little family takes to the Gold Coast as outlined here:
So go ahead and check out animoto.com - you won’t be disappointed! Even if you start mixing your free 30 second video’s this service is well worth it. You can download the video’s, email them and post them on blogs and social platforms such as facebook and myspace. And when you’re ready, be sure to buy the All Access Pass to unleash the creative beast that is inside you - powered by animoto!
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