Animoto - The End of Slide Shows?

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Animoto calls it “The end of slideshows”. This nascent website - just a few months old - takes your photos, your music selection, and wham, creates a pretty hot production that has the energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer in 3 easy steps:

• Step 1: Choose your images. You can upload from your PC, or if your photos are on one of the online photo hosting site, just tell it where to find it.
• Step 2: Choose your music. They have a nice collection of tunes to choose from, or you can upload from your computer.
• Step3: Then, the Animoto application painstakingly analyses your photos and your music, and Wham, you get a unique video production that’s totally customized to every nuances to your music.

Click here to watch a video tutorial on how to create an Animoto video.

Now you can email it to friends, or press the remix button and see what you get this time. No two videos are alike, you get a unique video creation every time.

Animoto offers 2 levels: Short videos (under 30 seconds) are FREE. Full-length video cost $30 a year. I’m pretty happy with the 30-second videos (free shorts, they call it), so I’m staying with FREE for now.

Below I use the same photos to create 2 slide shows, one using www.Animoto.com and the one following using www.Slide.com. Which one is more your style?

The slide show below is by another popular free web slide show maker, www.slide.com :

So which slide show is your style? Drop a comment below. Either way, your photos would be much happier dancing in a music slide show than being stashed away in your hard drive.