Animoto is a “cool tool” I’ve been fooling around with . . . it’s been fun. Basically you upload some photos from your hard drive or a photo-sharing site (I use Picasa), and then you can choose music from their collection or yours, and then it creates a video which you can keep or remix. It only takes a couple of minutes! When you are on the page with your photos, note the options for deleting or highlighting selected photos. Keep in mind that you have to have between 10-15 pics . . . For example, I made a separate ‘album’ of my Eiffel pics rather than uploading all our Europe photos which would have taken forever. Then you can email the finished product or upload it to your blog — the “Help” section walks you through any questions you might have. Best of all, these 30-second videos are free! They seem to have uploaded kind of funny . . . . they are a little too big for their frame and fuzzy. Maybe I’ll figure that out in the future but for now — Enjoy!
Hutch (the dog) Video
Eiffel Tower Video
The VW Van Video
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October 22nd, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Karen,
These videos are so cute! Also, I am wondering if you are able to create your own skin for your blog because it is so pretty! Is this a a template you can choose if you use a different place to start your blog from? Yes, it must be–wordpress.com, right? I am going to have to check that out!
October 22nd, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Thanks Lindsay — yep, it’s wordpress.com . . . we didn’t bring this up for MILI because it is not as intuitive as blogger. But it does offer some cool skins and layout options. There are some other options, too — I like the tag cloud. So, I’d recommend wordpress for you, but since you are helping a lot of other people get into blogging, I’d recommend sticking with blogger for that. Speaking of, I love reading about all the things you doing!
October 24th, 2007 at 8:40 am
These are really cool! And it sounds easy, with a great result.
By the way, Hutch is very handsome!