{"id":754,"date":"2009-01-02T00:12:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T00:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2009-01-02T00:12:35","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T00:12:35","slug":"animoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2009\/01\/02\/animoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Animoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom suggested that I use <a href=\"http:\/\/animoto.com\/\">Animoto<\/a> to jazz up the slideshow of Fog Creek pictures. Here\u2019s what came out of that:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/widgets.clearspring.com\/o\/46928cc51133af17\/495e689ac4005dae\/46928cc5552b8140\/b1ad052\/-cpid\/80ffdaa14efc8180\/autostart\/false\/widget.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Animoto is very simple: you give it a bunch of pictures and choose a soundtrack, and it gives you a video presentation. The part I liked best was how easy it was to get your pictures&#8230; you just point it at one of the five most popular online photo sharing services, and it shows you a list of your albums on that service. One click and all your pictures are imported:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"259\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/02-AnimotoImport.png?resize=350%2C259&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The service is free for 30 second videos (about 15 pictures worth). For longer videos, it\u2019s $3.00, which gets you a low res version. To upgrade to high res is another $5. There are all kinds of packages available if you plan to make a lot of videos. I was pretty impressed by the simplicity of the whole thing. It does take quite a while to render the video, though, so unless you have all day, you can\u2019t make very many adjustments before you get tired of fooling around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom suggested that I use Animoto to jazz up the slideshow of Fog Creek pictures. Here\u2019s what came out of that: Animoto is very simple: you give&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2009\/01\/02\/animoto\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Animoto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s83KNI-animoto","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}