Domo Arigato, Mr. Animoto..
Okay, I’ll spill the beans on how I did the “Funky Fresh Look at Eastern Europe” remix.
I ran across a website called Animoto over the weekend – I think I saw it on Digg.com or something. Animoto works like this:
Upload your pictures
Upload your song (or select one of theirs)
It detects the beat of your music and it spits out a music video that is music synced.
You can get a 15-second short for free – or it’s $3 (with unlimited remixes) for a longer format video like the Eastern Europe video that I did. It’ll even suck pictures directly from all the popular photo hosting sites (like Smugmug!) saving all the upload time.
The video couldn’t have been easier to make. All in all, I had maybe 10 minutes of work preparing the Eastern Europe video – and that was mostly picking the songs. So far, they only have the small format embedded videos – but they claim that larger format downloadable videos are coming. I can’t wait!