A couple months ago I became aware of a really cool video creating service on the web. It’s called Animoto.
The way the system works is you feed them a bunch of pictures/images along with some music and they create a video with a mixture of the pictures and a variety of special effects. The result is very cool and can look quite professional.
I’ll show you a sample video if you keep reading and click the “continue reading” part below. Then you’ll be able to see the video.
At the time I first heard of Animoto, I decided to create videos as a method of promotion for all of my websites. I even did some research into how I could imbed an automatic redirect to my site at the end of the video, since this isn’t a feature with Animoto yet. That’s still on my list of projects, and now I’m glad I haven’t put more work into it so far.
Here’s my initial video that I pulled together for a practice run using Animoto:
This is, of course, Yellow Dog herself. I know it’s rough, but you get the idea.
Today I learned of a tutorial on how to best use Animoto, which includes ideas for gathering the resources I’ll need. I find that it is much better use of my time and patience if I follow a tutorial rather than trying to figure out how to use new programs on my own. I can’t wait to get started.
The tutorial is here if you’re interested.
My plan is to start creating HubPages for feeder links to my sites and I’ll add the videos to these pages.
I’m also planning a bunch more social marketing. Jack Humphrey was a guest speaker at the “16 Steps to Success” webinar today, talking about web 2.0. It was excellent. Jack clearly knows web 2.0. He laid a foundation for where to get started utilizing some core sites and emphasized being a person first, to build a following, and then being a marketer flows from that. It was very valuable. Only 1 class left.
That’s all for now. Thanks for visiting.
Tags: Animoto, promotional videos, video tutorial
