Make Your Next Music Video for Just $3 – Animoto

In case you hadn’t noticed, online video is BIG deal these days.  Acorrding to this story posted in September 2008, by the CEO and Co-Founder of YouTube, the YouTube service alone receives 13 hours of video submission every MINUTE.   When I was doing some research for keywords on Google last week I noticed that the term “music video” was search 13.6 million times during the month of December. That was more that twice the average volume leading up to that month!

So if twice as many people are looking for music videos online where is yours?

Lucky for you, my broke but artistic friend, I have answer.  We just discovered Animoto this week and it’s actually pretty slick. You can try a 30 second clip for free, or you buy a credit for one song for $3 or, if you REALLY like it, you can get an all access pass for $30 for a year (which includes hosting). While this might be a tad more expensive than something like Blip.tv, there is a great feature, ideal for music videos.

After feeding your music track and a bunch of photos to Animoto, it looks at the sound of your music and creates a unique mix of your photos in time to your music, complete with effects! Where else can you take some still pix, your music and $3 and get a hosted video?  Nowhere – but Animoto.

Please give it a shot and then let us know what you think below. Better still, post the URLs to your new Animoto made videos!

-pjc