If you want to create a video for an upcoming event as part of your publicity campaign, or for a product or service you’re launching, and you’re on a tight deadline, here’s a great alternative to a talking-head video where you have to look good.<\/p>\n
Animoto<\/a> lets you\u00a0produce\u00a0TV-quality music videos using your own photos, or stock photos,\u00a0in just minutes.\u00a0You don’t need any technical expertise. If you can click the mouse, you can create a professional-looking video that has a lot of pizzazz.<\/p>\n I’m doing publicity for\u00a0my\u00a0garden club’s\u00a0annual plant sale May 23. Yesterday,\u00a0I created this fun little video in less than an hour and\u00a0uploaded it to YouTube:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0How I did it:<\/strong><\/p>\n If you don’t like the way the video looks, you can ask Animoto to remix\u00a0it for you. No two videos are\u00a0the same, so you never know what the second version will look like. Sharing your videos is a\u00a0cinch.\u00a0Add them to your MySpace & Facebook profiles, on your blog, email them to friends, put them up on YouTube or download them onto your computer. I uploaded mine to YouTube,\u00a0added it to my\u00a0Facebook profile<\/a>\u00a0and sent it to everyone in the garden club. Later this week, I’ll upload the video to the local TV stations’ websites.<\/p>\n Some of Animoto’s founders used to produce shows for MTV, Comedy Central & ABC. They studied\u00a0classical music in London, played in rock bands in Seattle and developed software in Japan. They developed a patent-pending, Cinematic Artificial Intelligence that thinks like an actual editor and director. How much it costs <\/strong><\/p>\n You can create all the 30-second videos you want, for free. Each can\u00a0accommodate from 12 to 15 images.<\/p>\n An all-access, non-commercial pass costs $30. Or buy a non-commercial three-month pass for $99. I\u00a0paid $249 for an annual commercial pass which gives me several nice options the two others don’t have. First, I can remove the Animoto logo from the video. Second, I can include a button at the end that lets visitors click and visit a website.\u00a0<\/p>\n Animoto supports not-for-profits and other humanitarian causes with free pro accounts. You can apply at the site.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n One other thing I’ll do differently the next time I create a video. When I produced the video, Animoto gave me the option of mentioning the musician’s name and the name of the song, which I did.\u00a0 But after I uploaded it to YouTube, YoutTube notified me and said I might be violating copyright. It said I don’t need to do anything but I can refute that if I so choose. I decided to do nothing.<\/p>\n Also, when visitors click on the link to watch the YouTube video, YouTube gives them the option of buying the\u00a0music while the video is playing, which is distracting. Next time, I’ll remove the artist’s name from the video.<\/p>\n If you create Animoto videos, share them here. 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