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For the last six months, I’ve been looking for an easy way to use some of my photos to create animated videos. I had settled on ProShow, but it was still a fair amount of hard work and concentration, when really all I wanted was for the software to do it for me.

Today I received an email inviting me to try Animoto, and within ten minutes my first video had been created…and it was pretty impressive.

All I had to do was allow Animoto to use photographs from Flickr (though it could have been from a number of different sites), select a set, and upload an mp3. The system then took about five minutes to generate the video, analyzing the photographs and music to match them together perfectly.

The resulting video can then be shared on any number of social websites and in the future it will be possible to download the video in different formats.

This service is free for 30 second video, but a full-length option is available for $3 or unlimited use for $30 per year. Both these options seem like great value to me.

I’m extremely impressed with Animoto. I think it’s going to be huge on web-sites and social networks like Facebook and Myspace. The effort required to make a good looking video is next to none. How perfect for the current generation of web users.

Click to view my video. WordPress won’t let me embed these videos yet, but I’m sure it won’t be long. Give it a go yourself, and leave links in the comments so we can see your efforts too.

[UPDATE: Download Squad have picked up on Animoto today. Worth a read]

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