Animoto To Add Video Clips Soon
Animoto is a great iPhone app that lets you create slick slide shows with soundtracks from your iPhone pictures, quickly and very easily. It ‘s been one of my top favorite apps for a long while (I listed it among my faves in our App Store One Year Anniversary post) “ so I was very glad to spot a post over at TechCrunch with some good news for fans of Animoto.
The app will soon add the ability for users to upload video clips as well as photos to make slide shows with. I was wondering whether Animoto would incorporate videos once the 3GS came out, and I ‘m so glad to hear that it will be doing so. There ‘s no specific date for when this feature will become available, but the TechCrunch article says it is ‘near ready to launch ‘.
Good stuff “ love it when favorite apps keep improving and adding features. Check out the TechCrunch post HERE for a demo video of this upcoming new feature.
I downloaded this the other day because of the "Favorite Things" post. Its high quality, high energy and attention grabbing slideshows surprised me. I envisioned simple, normal slide in/out; fade in/out type transitions.
I also wasn't sure how they would be able to implement video with the pace of the transitions they were doing. It seemed like videos would detract from the pace of the slide show. After watching the linked video, however, it looks like they may be able to still pull it off. It looks very nice but I guess they will have to have some method of specifying the portion of the video you want shown during the transition. If it were to play the whole video before going to the next, it would be less of a slide show than transitions between full videos
Glad to hear that you were pleasantly surprised. And yes it will definitely be interesting to see how, and how well, they implement the video clips inclusion.
Glad to hear that you were pleasantly surprised by this app. And yes it will definitely be interesting to see how, and how well, they implement the video clips inclusion.
Very cool, I'm going to check this out! Just got the 3GS and can finally take some video, so we'll see what Animoto can do for me on the iphone.
Cool – hope you like the app.