Animoto lets users easily create personalized, professional-quality music videos from their own photos and music. Animoto uses high-end motion design and music-analyzing technology to automatically produce dynamic videos. You can also now export your full-length Animoto videos directly to YouTube. “Animoto’s relationship with YouTube is particularly exciting since the integration will finally make uploading video content to YouTube accessible to people who only have digital photos but still want to contribute professional-looking video content to the YouTube community,” said Brad Jefferson, CEO and Co-founder of Animoto.

Animoto Press Release

Animoto Announces Video Exporting To YouTubeTM

Users Can Now Create Professional-Looking Animoto Videos Without A Video Camera and Share Them On YouTube

New York, NY, MARCH 12, 2008 – Animoto, the web application that lets users easily create personalized, professional-quality music videos from their own photos and music, today announced that users can now export their full-length Animoto videos directly to YouTube, the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos.  Animoto uses high-end motion design and music-analyzing technology to make it easy for users to automatically produce dynamic videos, which can now be uploaded to YouTube with a click of a button.

“Animoto’s relationship with YouTube is particularly exciting since the integration will finally make uploading video content to YouTube accessible to people who only have digital photos but still want to contribute professional-looking video content to the YouTube community,” said Brad Jefferson, CEO and Co-founder of Animoto.  “And there’s no bigger stage to showoff your prized Animoto videos to the world than YouTube.”

To export a full-length Animoto video to YouTube, an Animoto user clicks the ‘Export to YouTube’ button below their selected video.  After entering YouTube-specific descriptions and tags and clicking ‘Export,’ the video appears on YouTube a few minutes later under the user’s profile.

The integration is made possible by the new upload and write functionality released in the YouTube API today.  It is one of the growing number of video sharing features found on the Animoto.com site, including the ability to email to friends, embed on social networking sites and synchronize to mobile devices like the iPhone.

The heart of Animoto is its Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology that thinks like an actual director and editor using 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. No two videos are the same. Even videos generated with an identical set of images and music will each have a completely distinct set of motion design.

About Animoto
The founders of Animoto Productions include veterans of the entertainment industry who 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.  Animoto Productions won the 2008 SXSW Web Award in the “Film/TV” category. Founded in August 2006, Animoto Productions is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Visit http://animoto.com

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