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"Animoto is a mashup tool that allows users to make movies from the images and music they already have on their hard drive. Over the last year they have introduced a variety of features and functions. The latest of these is Animoto for Photography.\nAnimoto takes the pictures as slide show concept a bit further than most by incorporating a kind of artificial intelligence into the process. This twist means that the movies you get often seem more like trailers than home videos. Over the last few months they've applied this approach to a variety of things, from creative music mixing to business videos and everything in between.\nThis new feature, Animoto for Photography, enables photographers to use Animoto's interesting technique to make their photography into a video. Animoto makes it easy to create these photography-based videos, freeing up a photographer's time by reducing the amount of time spent futzing with the computer.\n\n\n\nHow is this different from the existing Animoto mashups for music, business and more? The company has added adjustable speed to the image display. Formerly the \"intelligent\" Animoto program would match the images to the tempo of the song they were being displayed with, now photographers can make the images appear at the intervals they design. they can also let Animoto match images to the song tempo still, if that's what they want. Animoto for Photography gives them the choice.\nThe other feature Animoto has added is a button at the end that can call viewers to action. This makes Animoto a new way for photographers to market their work and services. Photographers who have tested the software seem to love it as a sharing and marketing tool:\n\"Animoto is a perfect fit for professional photographers,\" said award-winning wedding photographer, Linda Jennings. \"I can quickly upload my photos, pick just the right song, and Animoto automatically creates a show-stopping video. And when the video is complete, I can easily share it in more ways than ever before: email, blogs, my own website, Facebook, iPhone. The possibilities are endless with Animoto.\"\nAnimoto for Photography is not free. It will run you $99 for three months or $249 a year. The subscription does allow photographers access to a library of music that is licensed for public use, which is a great benefit in addition to the other features subscribers get access to. Animoto's claim to fame is that its artificial intelligence (aka Cinematic Artificial Intelligence) ensures that no two videos are ever the same, even if you use the exact same images and music."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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