ANIMOTO

Movies in a minute!

Instructions for making Animoto movies created by Bonnie McCormick

Plan the video Create a storyboard (courtesy of Sandy Noles) Decide on what pictures you want.

• Create a word doc to record the copyright info. Find the music – Animoto has a great

collection, or you can import music files. Write the text. Gather all the elements in a file on your

computer.

Register in Animoto Animoto for Educators This account will give you unlimited video time. It will take a few days to get a confirmation for

this account. In the meantime… You can register, a second time, for a “basic”

account and begin immediately.

The “basic” account is only a 30 second video, but it’s enough to get started and familiar with the program.

Find Pictures

Infotopia Images MorgueFile Flickr @ Creative Commons Google Images Pics4learning.com Open Photo.com

Multi-Media Tools on RCMS Library webpage

Pictures Gather all photos to your

computer/drive Click on Upload button, and the

pictures will load. You can load

• photos, • PPT slides converted to JPG,• videos.

Music Animoto has a nice collection of copyright-

free music.

Multi-Media Tools• Purple Planet Royalty Free Music• Danosongs.com• Jamendo• Freesound Project

*If you are going to post your trailer outside your school’s network, the music must be copyright free or purchased.

Add Text Click on the T and type your text.

• Be sure to include credits for the photos. Create a PPT slide w/ bibliographies. Convert slide to JPG and put at the end of your video.

• The music credit will be included automatically by Animoto at the end if you use the basic template.

For other templates, you will have to add a music bibliography slide.

You can rearrange the tiles.

Render Click on Produce Video button. Rendering screen. You can edit, change anything and

render, again.

Share On your “My Videos” page:

• Click on green “Action” button• you have several options to share the video

Animoto w/ students Ronnie will set up classes in Animoto

• Law is vague regarding under 13 years-old• Get parent permission