Create a Video for Your Website for Free!

Use the animoto tool to turn still pictures into a cool video. You upload your pictures, choose display order and pictures to emphasize, and then pick a music clip. Animoto goes to work, stylizing your pictures for maximum effect, synchronizes them with the music, and creates a movie. You can link to it from your website, or share it on social networking sites such as Facebook.

According to the animoto website, they use “Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images, video clips and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills and techniques that are used in television & film.” Watch the video on the homepage for an example of what you can do.

A free account gets you unlimited 30 second (12 pictures) videos that are co-branded for animoto. You can’t download the movies you create with the free account, but you can link to them. With paid options, you can create videos of any length and download them—in DVD quality format. With a business account you can remove the co-branding, and create commercially licensed full length movies that can be used in websites, on DVDs or other marketing materials. (The free trial is very robust, and could be all you need. If you do want a paid account, use Promo Code NDLMZYOU for a discount.)

So gather some pictures of your team, your latest product, or your best marketing graphics and give animoto a try today. Use the free trial, and have some fun. You’ll be surprised at how fast and easy it is to create professional looking online videos.