Miss Tiramisu, Annapolis, MD/Maine
Age and Occupation: 26, Soon-to-be Eye Doctor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Project Manager/Real Estate Management grad student
Engagement Date: May 15, 2007
Wedding Date: July, 2008
Blogging Since: March 4, 2008
Venue: Oceanfront lawn and tent
About Me: I was born and raised in Maine, now living in Annapolis, Maryland and planning a hometown wedding from afar. I’m nothing short of obsessed with wedding planning, and am loving the do-it-yourself madness that has now taken over my life! As for me, I’m a craft-loving, martini-drinking, girly-girl who loves traveling, photography, my schnauzer, and above all, spending time with Mr. Tiramisu.
Animoto
May 17th, 2008 @ 10:36 am by Miss Tiramisu
Animoto is this great slideshow making tool that I found out about on the Soiree Special Events blog. I tested it out by uploading some of my favorites from the engagement shoot we had with Girls With Big Cameras. It turned out so cool that I wanted to share it with you all! It’s super easy to use - basically you just upload your pictures, choose music to set the slideshow to, and voila! It’s free for a 30-second slideshow. I decided to pony up the three bucks to try out the full-length version, and here’s what I came up with:
This would be a neat way to share your engagement/wedding/honeymoon pictures! I was able to add this slideshow to our wedding website for our guests to check out. Animoto also offers a year subscription where you can make as many slideshows as you want for $30. (Or to save $5, tell them I referred you, by clicking: here.)
Any other good free/cheap slideshow making programs out there? I’m about to start scanning in photos to make our rehearsal dinner slideshow, so I’m looking for a good one!
Photo credits all to: Girls With Big Cameras
20 Responses to “Animoto”
very cool… thanks!
very cool! Who sings that song?
that’s great– but what is that song?! love it!
super cute..aww….
Thank you sooo much for posting this! I was dreading spending hours putting together a slide show, but I did the 30 second film on their site in about 10 minutes and it is amazing! This will save me a lot of work 
you should check out http://www.scrapblog.com Very cool site for slideshows. My fiance is in charge of our slide shows for our wedding, I’m surprise he did an amazing job!!! Enjoy!
now this is a slideshow i wouldn’t mind sitting through. i love it! i think i might make one for the bf just because i can. lol.
Hey! Awesome! I’ve been dying to check out Animoto - could you choose your own music?
I can’t wait to try Animoto! Thanks so much for sharing - great slideshow!!!
wow!!! it looks great! so cute!
Wow, so cute! I love it! You make a great couple! Thanks for sharing.
did you add/choose the effects? It looks great, and is nicely timed to the music!
Sound Slides Plus might be another option (at least I THINK that’s what it’s called). I just found out about it last week at work… I believe its about $60–but it was super simple, with plenty of customization options. They were using it along with Audacity (free) to produce slide shows using edited voice overs with photos…
@Mani: Thanks! I will check it out!
@Mrs. Lovebug: Yes, you can pick from their library or upload one of your own… I couldn’t figure out how to upload from itunes, since the music is copyrighted, but I’m sure there is a way to do it if you were a little more computer savvy.
@brendalynn: Nope, that’s the best part- you just upload the pictures, choose the music, then they time it to the music for you. Once you buy a full length video ($3) you can “re-mix” it as many times as you want to get different effects, change the music, even “highlight” certain photos that you want shown more prominently.
What a cool program. This will be a PERFECT addition to my spend-no-real-money-but-let’s-have-a-lovely-day anniversary celebration next week! Thanks, Miss T!
On a side note, my mom lives in Eastport and it was fun seeing Annapolis in the background of all your shots!
This is awesome! I wish I knew about this before my wedding but I think I’ll use it to create one for our parents with our wedding photos. Just wondering though, do you have the option of saving it to a disk after you’re done?
Aw, your slideshow is so cute!
I used One True Media (i think its onetruemedia.com) for a couple of slideshows and loved it. It was simple and user friendly. SO user friendly that I even adjusted which order the pictures were so it showed up at a particular word in the song. I know they have an “upgrade” option but I’ve just used the free one. Oh - and if you LOVE IT - you can get them to send it to you in DVD format too.
Windows has “Movie Maker” which I have found easy to use, but you do need to add all of the effects yourself, similar to powerpoint.
