Movie-Making with Animoto
Back to School Idea:
Create an amazing music video to show parents what students have been doing in class so far this year! Upload pictures and/or short video clips, set them to music, and let Animoto do the rest. Parents will love this back-to-school montage.
Getting Started:
1. In order to register, click here . Make sure to have your classroom promo code ready. Your code is: A4EAugust2011.
NOTE: This code will expire on August 30, 2011. At the end of August, you can receive a new code to use with your students by applying with this link.
2. Click on the bottom portion of the signup area and enter your code:
3. Once all registration information is entered, click "sign up" to receive access.
Before doing anything further with Animoto for Education, please check out the Animoto for Education overview.
More Tips-- Quoted from Animoto:
1. When uploading photos to Animoto, always pick photos that have a landscape orientation as portrait photos can sometimes format oddly during the video render process.
2. Animoto will automatically determine the duration of each picture in the video slideshow but if there’re pictures that you really want to emphasize in the video, select the images in the video editor and use the spotlight button.
3. When adding text to your video, always make sure that their pictures on either side of the text slide else your text will lack any moving video in the background.
4. Your choice of music determines the transition speed. If you select a slow classical song, your music video will have slow transitions whereas if you select rock, the transitions will happen fast - go for the latter if you are looking to create MTV style video clips.
5. Animoto consumes around 15-20 images for their 30 second shorts. If you upload more images, they are likely to be discarded in the final video so pick the best shots before starting the render process. For full-length videos, you an upload upto 300 shots but the number of pictures used would really depend on the choice of your music - slow music means less pictures.
6. While most people use Animoto for creating fast slideshows, you can adjust the video speed to 1/2x for a more traditional slideshow.
Create an amazing music video to show parents what students have been doing in class so far this year! Upload pictures and/or short video clips, set them to music, and let Animoto do the rest. Parents will love this back-to-school montage.
Getting Started:
1. In order to register, click here . Make sure to have your classroom promo code ready. Your code is: A4EAugust2011.
NOTE: This code will expire on August 30, 2011. At the end of August, you can receive a new code to use with your students by applying with this link.
2. Click on the bottom portion of the signup area and enter your code:
3. Once all registration information is entered, click "sign up" to receive access.
Before doing anything further with Animoto for Education, please check out the Animoto for Education overview.
More Tips-- Quoted from Animoto:
1. When uploading photos to Animoto, always pick photos that have a landscape orientation as portrait photos can sometimes format oddly during the video render process.
2. Animoto will automatically determine the duration of each picture in the video slideshow but if there’re pictures that you really want to emphasize in the video, select the images in the video editor and use the spotlight button.
3. When adding text to your video, always make sure that their pictures on either side of the text slide else your text will lack any moving video in the background.
4. Your choice of music determines the transition speed. If you select a slow classical song, your music video will have slow transitions whereas if you select rock, the transitions will happen fast - go for the latter if you are looking to create MTV style video clips.
5. Animoto consumes around 15-20 images for their 30 second shorts. If you upload more images, they are likely to be discarded in the final video so pick the best shots before starting the render process. For full-length videos, you an upload upto 300 shots but the number of pictures used would really depend on the choice of your music - slow music means less pictures.
6. While most people use Animoto for creating fast slideshows, you can adjust the video speed to 1/2x for a more traditional slideshow.
posted by Mrs. Younkers @ 6:24 PM
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