The end of the slideshow?
One of the best things about SLICT was the number of links and suggestions that came up from so many different people.
My favourite of the lot so far has been Animoto. Accoring to the About Us section on the site Animoto is:
a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced on a widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer.
It’s an easy to use website that lets you upload photos and attach a soundtrack. The site then turns these photos into a music video style animation. So far we’ve made use of it at the photography club at school - the children took pictures around the school and then made some animations. You can see one of the examples on the school website. It’s pretty easy to embed the animations in a site (as shown on the school site) and it’s pretty simple to create the videos themselves.
At the moment we haven’t paid the $30 for the unlimited longer animations so we are restricted to 30 second files. This is quite restricted but there are a couple of things that need to be sorted before I would pay for the service - the first is, I think, on the way - the ability to download your animations once created. The second I don’t know about - the transitions are often too quick - the pictures have fancy looks applied to them too quickly. Sometimes you just want to see the picture. I guess this might be better if you have a longer video using fewer images.
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