Animoto

=**Animoto**=

What is Animoto? A free, web-based tool that makes it easy to combine pictures, video and audio into powerful videos.

This example was created in about three minutes using stock images and music, all provided by Animoto:

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ACAHS has applied for a free Educator 'Pro' site key. Once approved, ACAHS can create as many 'Pro' accounts as desired. Until then, we have temporary accounts that can be used. These credentials will be provided at the workshop.

__**Planning**__

The key to a compelling video is selection of media. These storyboards can be used to help organize images, video and text prior to assembly.



__**Editing / Remixing**__

This is the process of changing your video - either the images, slide order, text effects, or music - to suit your taste. THIS CAN BE VERY TIME CONSUMING IF YOU ARE A PERFECTIONIST! Fortunately, it's easy, and the most difficult part is waiting for the finished movie to "render" so you can watch it. This is the editing screen:



__**Linking**__

Animoto videos, once created, can be shared in a variety of ways. The easiest way is linking. Just copy the URL from the browser when the movie is playing. Note: you can remove (or just NOT COPY) the part of the URL that says **?autostart=true**. This has the benefit of NOT PLAYING THE MOVIE AUTOMATICALLY when it is loaded. Alternatively, you could change the word 'true' to 'false.')



__**Embedding**__

This is the process of copying and pasting code from Animoto into another website to display your movie. Unfortunately this will not work with all sites, including Nings. For Nings, you have to upload the video file itself. Here are the relevant, current screenshots.





__**Downloading**__

This is how you download the video for watching offline or for uploading to another service.