Animoto: Video killed the Slide Shows…

Animoto allows you to create videos based on images stored on your iPhone. Apple iPhone and iPod touch users have now a much better way to create and view high-quality music videos while on the go.

Animoto iPhone app lets you select photos from your picture library, select a music for the background and it creates a slideshow/video from your pics on the fly. You can watch it on your iPhone or email it to friends.

How to Create a Video in Animoto?

• Sign up for a free account,
• Choose to do a short 30-sec video or a full length video,
• Choose the pictures from the photo album,
• Then wait a few mins when Animoto gets your images and processes them,
• Once it grabs your pictures you can choose to keep them all or delete the ones you don’t want,
• Then choose a song from their collection or upload your own from the music library,
• Then finalize your video with a title and description and let Animoto works it’s magic.
• All heavy lifting is performed by Animoto’s servers.
• Email the video, download it or even embed in a webpage to share in with others.

The last release of Animoto app is able to completely sync with existing web accounts so you can create a video with the web-site and see it on the iphone and viceversa.

Animoto isn't a powerful mixing tool for creating visual presentations because you have no control over how the finished product will appear. However, if you are looking for a fun and easy way to share photos amongst friends, then this is a truly great service.

The Animoto iPhone app is available now in the iTunes App Store and is free! Requires at least a free Animoto account for video creation. You can download the app here!

You can also see the demo video I made in 4 minutes for this article here.