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Make Online Slideshows Without the Making

by Evan Shamoon on February 20, 2009 at 10:49 AM




Do you like making stuff, but absolutely hate the idea of putting any effort into it? Well, we have just the thing for you.

Essentially, Animoto is a Web app that produces videos from photos and music that you upload to the site. It analyzes the data and automatically generates a slide show, pieced together with crazy cuts and visual transitions. It's sort of like a movie trailer, but with pictures of your cat sleeping and your car sitting in the driveway.

Supposedly, the engine even takes into consideration the rhythm, genre, and tempo of the music you insert and makes cuts appropriately. As a result, no two videos are ever the same. Even cooler, you can just point the service to your online photo collections (on Picasa, Flickr, etc), and have it use those for content, rather than having to upload images to the service directly. [From: Animoto]

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Tags: animation, animoto, flickr, new apps, NewApps, online slideshows, OnlineSlideshows, photo sharing, photography, photos, PhotoSharing, picasa, slideshow, techtip, techtips, web apps, WebApps

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