A presentation on the website Animoto.com

2. ABOUT ANIMOTO
 Animoto is a video creation site that utilizes different given styles, music, photos,
and videos that can be personalized by the user.
 Animoto is dedicated to making it easy for the user to create and build their own
videos which enable them to communicate with the rest of the world about their
business, the classroom, or family events.
 A user can sign up for a Pro version or Pro Premium version, or a free version,
which of course has limitations on song variation, and cutting the video in general.
 Pro users can edit more from their video, and pace the music for certain images.
These users can also add a logo of their own creation instead of having the
Animoto Logo at the end.
 Animoto offers a phone app for on-the-go creation.
 The site is great for business users because they can purchase the pro package and
more utilize the logo and other features that could help promote their business.
 Videos for non-pro users can only be about thirty seconds long.

3. GETTING STARTED
Choose a style for your video format.
Several styles can only be selected if you have the upgraded, paid version of Animoto.
If you are unsure of how to begin there is a tutorial video that can help a lot with creating your
video and also a whole page called the “Beginner’s Guide.”
There are tons of other public videos to view, so that you can gain some inspiration from other
businesses, or educational videos to help build your own video.

4. BUILDING YOUR VIDEO
 After you have selected the style you want to use, now it is time to insert your
content and select your music.
 Videos, Photos or text can be easily added to your video by selecting one of the tabs
on the left side of site or clicking the plus button and adding either you text or
media.
 The tool bar on the left is where you can add media, change the style of the video or
edit certain texts, photos, or videos. Spotlighting certain photos, video or text, can
make the video linger on certain content. Duplicating and Rotating can be used as
well.

5. ADDING PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND TEXT
 For the free trial user the most
text you can add is a Title and
Subtitle which have a 40 and 50
word limit.
 Photos can have captions added
to them as well. They can be
uploaded from several different
sites, your computer files or
Animoto has their own selection
of photos, videos, and music to
choose from.
 Videos can be uploaded in the
same way, and can be edited by
moving the length of the time
and having it set to a certain time
in the video.

6. IMAGE AND VIDEO RESTRICTIONS

7. MUSIC
You can change the song by clicking on the
music symbol, from there you can
browse and select the song from what
is provided from Animoto or you can
upload your own song.
You can browse by categories, or most
popular selections if you decide to use
the Animoto offered songs.
Trimming and editing a song can only be
done with a premium account, along
with adding multiple songs.

8. SHARING YOUR VIDEO WITH THE WORLD
 Animoto does all of the hard work for you by editing and bringing the photos, video
and music together as a finished project.
 So all you have to do when you are happy with your finished video , click the preview
video button, and add your title, date and description and then it’s ready in a matter
of minutes.
 After you publish the video, you can add tags, and share it on several different
websites including Wordpress! Users can also Embed the video onto their own
websites. However only pro users can download their video in HD.
 This site makes it very easy and simple to create your own videos, which could help
in your project with displaying videos, pictures and some text with music to help
entertain the visitors to your project.

9. ANY QUESTIONS?