The other day I was reading through posts from Moose Petereson on his Moose News Blog and he put together a video from his Coolpix photos using a service called Animoto. As soon as I was done watching his video I went over to the Animoto site to check it out and I must say I am thoroughly impressed. I started playing around with the free 30-second clips, and I was taken as this could very well be a new integration into getting my photos and services out to the masses. A 1 year all access pass is $30, which lets you create videos of unlimited length which includes being able to download the video in mp4 format. For an additional $5 per video created you can download a higher resolution DVD quality mp4 version. For $250 a year you can join the Animoto Business/Photography version, which gets you over 300 fully licensed songs for commercial use, unlimited DVD quality downloads and the video comes, white labeled, meaning it won’t be branded Animoto at the end, so that you may brand it with you logos. For more info check out Animoto’s site
Above is an Animoto Video that I created from my 2008 Head of the Charles Regatta photoshoot
