About Us
Animoto Productions is a bunch of techies and film/tv producers who decided to lock themselves in a room together and nerd out. Their first release is Animoto, a web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology and high-end motion design. Each video is a fully customized orchestration of user-selected images and music. Produced in widescreen format, Animoto videos have the visual energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer. Welcome to the end of slideshows.
The heart of Animoto is its newly developed Cinematic A.I. technology that thinks like an actual director and editor. It analyzes and combines user-selected images and music with the same sophisticated post-production skills & techniques that are used in television and film. The technology takes into account every nuance of a song – the genre, song structure, energy, rhythm, instrumentation, and vocals. Whether it’s punk, pop, hip-hop or a classical Mozart piece, every Animoto video is totally customized. Even videos generated with an identical set of images and music will each have a completely distinct set of motion design. No two videos are the same. They can be emailed, downloaded, and embedded in pages on websites including social network sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Animoto is also dedicated to supporting new artists and music. So while users can upload their own music, the guys at Animoto also proudly feature a regularly updated selection of fresh music that they truly dig. No stock music, no cover bands, no elevator music, and no wannabe bands.
Animoto is inspired by the digital camera revolution where taking dozens, even hundreds of pictures at a time gives people the ability to think more like a video producer capturing an entire experience, not just individual moments. As users are discovering the limits of traditional photo services, the guys at Animoto are innovating new ways for people to share their stories and express themselves through media.
Animoto’s front end is built on the open source web framework Ruby on Rails, facilitating rapid “Web 2.0″ (Ajax, etc) application development. Animoto has partnered with Amazon to leverage multiple offerings in their Web Services (AWS) platform which, in conjunction with Animoto’s own render farm, constitutes the Animoto web infrastructure.
Based in New York City with an office in San Francisco, the founders are veterans of the entertainment industry and have produced shows for MTV, Comedy Central, & ABC, studied music in London, and played in indie rock bands. They share a passion for helping people better share their stories and express themselves through online media by innovating technologies in the field of video production. They plan to acquire Google next year.
Stevie, you look GREAT in a track suit!!!!
This is Great
amazing, origional..great ..I want to make my little videos of photos…you are great…
There is any tool ..where i can star working with?
Congratulation guys and all your successes. I knew you were brilliant from the time I set eyes on you all those years ago in California and Seattle. Go and God be with you
I love this site. Thanks for creating such a useful application!
Good luck with your Google aquisition!
I’m obsessed with Animoto — thanks for creating it!
Oh,
Oops, sorry, I did not realize this was actually a blog, but thank you for creating such a wonderful website.
You are to be commended and deserve all of the success you have coming to you.
vlp/pondi/Grannie V
Found this site tonight and LOVE it!
Awesome work Dudes!!!
You guys rock!!
1 request, please don’t fill the site with bloatwares in the future…
what a great project !! i love the videos it makes !! i’m expecting to download my new videos soon.
good job guys, go on !!
bravo !
thanks from a france blogger !
Wow, love this site. I will be making plenty of videos with all of our photos. Thanks muchly!
I really enjoyed the ease with which I could bring many of the facets of my life together in a short video. Thanks.
Hi Guys,
Very pleased with the video BUT it didn’t reach the email addreses entered in the email box!!!! Tried twice!!!! Please help!!! Thanks.
Hey Rhoda,
We’ve been having some problems sending email to microsoft-based accounts (msn, hotmail) because of their uber-restrictive spam filtering. We have a solution that should be deployed in the next 2 weeks!
it seems like e very good web site but my English is not good. It would be great if it might be availible in other languages too. Thanks.
THIS ROCKs !!! i wonder if this will be even fair to describe it
It is very good
thank u for this topic. its very important for us
I wish this blog was in other languages as well, like in German.
I think that it is cool