The coolest website ever!

The Guy's at Animoto

The coolest website ever.  Really.

Animoto.com let’s you create MTV-style videos right on your own computer.  You upload your photos, chose the ones you want highlighted, either choose a song from the Animoto library or upload your own, then tap a key and Animoto will automatically generate an unbelievably cool video for you in minutes. For three bucks. The special effects are top drawer: your finished piece looks like you spend thousands of dollars at a video production house – and no two videos are ever the same. Try it! Visit http://www.animoto.com and build a free 30 second video.

We’ve been on the road all of this week, speaking at a variety of conventions and conferences. We’ve shared Animoto.com at each of our presentations and attendees love it.  They’ve already put it to work, creating videos to post on their websites and send in their e-mail blasts.  Smart retailers are even using Animoto.com to create (and sell) one of a kind videos. Birthdays, graduations, weddings, funerals, baby’s first steps, Billy’s first football game, Suzie’s debut as the Sugar Plum Fairy: you name it -- 10 minutes on your computer means money in your pocket. The opportunities to use this application to grow your business are endless.

Here’s how Animoto describes its services:

Slideshows are boring. Your images are not. 

With all that's possible with TV & film these days, how is it that we are still in the "next slide please" stone age of image presentation? 

This question prompted the guys at Animoto Productions, a bunch of TV/film producers and techies, to lock themselves in a room and nerd-out. Their mission? To make the type of stuff they did while producing shows at MTV, Comedy Central & ABC available to everyone. Their first release, Animoto, does just that. 

Animoto users simply choose which images they'd like to display and a song. Animoto then produces a fully customized & unique video to them. Produced in a widescreen format, the result is a video that has the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer. 

Best of all, no two videos are ever the same. Ever. Even videos generated with an identical set of images and music selection will each have an entirely distinct set of motion design. Sharing them is easy too, as they can be emailed, downloaded, and embedded on websites including social network sites like Facebook and MySpace. 

And by the way, the Animoto guys credits include: The 2003 Video Music Awards (MTV); 2004 Video Music Awards (MTV); Shelter From The Storm: Katrina Benefit (ABC, NBC, CBS); The Showbiz Show with David Spade (Comedy Central); Viva La Bam (MTV); Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (Comedy Central); Crank Yankers (Comedy Central); Stankervision (MTV2); Worlds Aids Day Concert (MTV); Need For Speed (MTV2); The Big In '06 Awards (VH1); just to name a few.