From The Guys at Animoto

I thought it might be kinda interesting to post a glimpse of the type of feedback we get. So here’s what we’ve read in the past few hours:

09:23 “I love the site and must say I am a bit addicted already.”
09:22 “Its a great product… Really Like it.. Some ideas for future releases might be… to allow for Text Input over images or between images… Also as you grow, some sort of estimated delivery time of a completed video…”
09:16 “I accidentally uploaded a wma file and my video exploded! Tell me there is a way to get all the photos back as I had almost 100 of them!”
09:03 “I Love this site! Great job! I work for Apple, have all thier cool editing and composing tools, yet here am addicted and telling the world!”
08:58 “Get Photobucket working please!!!
08:58 “Any idea how soon we’ll be able to download high resolution verions to our desktops?”
08:53 “LOVE this app gentlemen…LOVE IT! !”
08:51 “I just made my first video. It’s addicting!”
08:51 “oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that was AWESOME!!!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU GUYS MADE IT WAS SO GREAT!THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! IT LOOKS LIKE A COMMERICAL!!”
08:44 “Hi guys, I have been playing around with the tool and I am quite positively impressed. Yes there are a few rough corners but overall this is very good as a start. The only very basic thing I regret is that I can’t edit a wrong description or mispelled title as this can easily happen.”
08:42 “i want for photobucket”
08:42 “Impressive system, but would love to make them on my pc rather than uploading, as we have 3rd world broadband in NZ. Or would a normal pc struggle to assemble these videos? Anyway very nice.
08:40 “Could use some more different music to choose from. Not all of us like Electronica and Hip Hop.”
08:39 “If I log in I see under the sign My video’s , the video you just made. But when I click on play, it doesn’t show???”
08:39 “Hi, I signed up yesterday and made a quick test 30s video. When I saw it I had a rare “wow” moment. I have made my own slide shows using Sony Vegas so I know how much work it would take to make one like this. I am not often this impressed with new Web2.0 services but Animoto has a lot of potential. I would happily sign up for your full-length service if I could: 1. Tweak the video a little. Having done my own I would like a little control over my videos. So Animoto gives me a great starter and does 95% of the work and then using some really simple, intuitive controls I can tweak the effects and timings. 2. Allow my friends to suggest other images to use in place of specific ones in my video or maybe even just to drop them in so I can preview and then either accept or reject them. 3. Merge videos from others together. Lets say different people had taken pictures at the same event and each produced their own Animoto video then they could all agree to merge them into one new video showing the event from lots of different perspectives. Hope my suggestions are helpful. I’m going to try another video later with my own music. Thanks again for a great new service.”
08:29 “Congratulations on the launch. When I first heard about this I had to try it out and I can’t beleive how good this is!! I don’t want to offend you guys as I can imaging how much work you have put in already, but here is a few suggestions (most you would have thought about already) for making this even more special: 1) Include the ability to add captions to the photos. 2) Much more variety of music, all CC licenced of course, but not everyone has the same taste in music as you. You mentioned in the FAQ, “if we like what we hear we may consider it”. I;d hope this is referencing quality rather than personal preferance to style etc. A bit of Jazz, folk etc ??? 3) Download the videos (I know youve thought of this already) 4) Integrate with video sharing sites. Check out http://heyspread.com/ 5) Keep up the good work.”
08:25 “Great, great great! I absolutely love the videos and the music. Do you have any idea when we will be able to download the videos? Thanks for such a wonderful product!”
08:25 “Guys, I hope that you are getting this all over Facebook, Myspace, etc. They are a perfect group of users that would love the simplicity and great end result you are delivering. I mentioned the site on Xing.com and there are some people starting to discuss Animoto. Best of luck and keep it up.”
08:23 “This the greatest and very easy to use! Thanks for putting it together.”
08:20 “I’m so excited for this and wish you the best. Let me know if/when you need investors. I’m totally buying your stock. Also, the pic on the employment page? HOT! :-)”
08:12 “Hey guys, where’s the “home” link. Add one down by the “about us” link.”
08:11 “You guys are awesome! I’m really impressed! Further suggestions for improvement would be the inclusion of captions & txt..but all in all this is an amazing tool =) will no doubt be making more animoto.”
08:02 “I just uploaded 115 pictures and only 30 something actually appear to make a video. I saw each picture uploaded. Am I doing something wrong? Is their a limit to the server space for a video? Thanks.”
08:01 “Will a future version of animoto take home movies and mix them into music videos?”
07:55 “It was better then I expected.”
07:55 “Hello, Animoto guys; I just finished my first try at creating a video. I think ANIMOTO is an AWESOME tool for creating video. It’s very simple and the video is sooo COOL! I’m planning to create a video for my sister’s wedding. I hope I can download the video. I hope you guys to have the download feature soon!”
07:51 “Hello ! Great, great, great, amazing work !!!!! One sad point, my friends and I were almost crying when we saw this : even the full videos are in low res !!! This is the reason that prevents me from buying a full unlimited access… It is such a waste to me !! such great work for such a disappointment… Congratulations, again !”
07:46 “Hello, you have done a amazing work and one of the best products, that I’m ever seen. Thanks and, Keep at it!”
07:45 “This is the best thing EVER!! I LOVE IT. What a great way to showcase your photos - for an event, photos of product that you design, etc. Great job!!”
07:40 “huh ? how can we retrieve our password once lost ? Thank you…”

[Btw, we read and respond to everything you write us. ]

~ by producer guy jason on August 20, 2007.