Animoto, the impressive startup that automatically generates high quality music videos from a set of photos, has unveiled a new feature for the holiday season that will allow users to append any of their videos with a holiday intro/outro movie and a snow-themed backdrop, making for a perfect holiday eGreeting. To activate the special holiday look, just click on the ‘Santa’ button beneath any video. Of course, you’ll have to come up with photos suitable for the holiday season yourself – Animoto will just make them look festive.
We’re big fans of Animoto – the site may not offer an expansive list of products or features, but it does a great job of automatically spicing up photo albums, with little effort needed on the users’ part. For other holiday eGreeting options, check out MyPunchbowl’s eCards, which we covered last week.
To see a sample Animoto holiday video, click on the photo below.
Reminds me of magmypic.com but this is more delightful
This is very cool!
Wasn’t expecting much. But wow, that’s pretty impressive.
That reminds me of the sock thing you can get in Mario 3!
cool app similar to slideshow
It is counter-productive to move still images in this way simply because it takes more effort for our brains to process the images and grasp details and makes one tire quickly. There is action as such. It is the same as erratically moving printed photos instead of giving you a photo album. I bet you’d prefer the latter.
Where is the disclosure? TC brings this up every so often, but nicely leaves out they have a stake in this company. They have been promoting the crap out of these guys including using them at TC50.
So sad. Wall street’s corrupt ways may change, but not the valleys.
Tech Crunch has a stake in this company? Now I love them even more! Animoto saved me from a lot of situations where I had only still images from events and I wanted to produce a spectacular video out of them. I like that they are adding features constantly.