Convert Animoto to youTube August 27, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : animoto, Music, video, edublog , trackbackIs it possible to convert an Animoto video for uploading to youTube?
At first it would appear not, through conventional means. But I found a way to do it. Saving directly from the browser doesn’t work, not even with the Firefox video download extension so I came up a lateral way of getting there. Here’s a 30 second Animoto video which I made using my own digital photographs and an MP3 of my own performance of a song to which I own full copyright because it’s mine.
Once the Animoto production process was complete, I then cued the video to play and booted up my screencast software, which in this case is Snapz Pro but it could be any screencasting package. At this point I could have added a narrative voice over, using a microphone connected to my computer as in normal educational screencasting, but since this is a music video I didn’t. I saved the resulting quicktime movie in format mpeg4 and uploaded that file to youTube. Thats all there is to it, here’s the embedded youTube:
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Hey Andy, this is Tom, one of the guys over at Animoto. Awesome post man! I love that you’re hacking us…hehe. No but seriously, I just checked out the quality of that scraped/screencast vid and it’s pretty rubbish, no? That kinda sucks. I wish it would have worked better but I guess that’s all you’ve got for now since we don’t yet allow downloads. But fear not! We’ve got that in the pipeline, so pretty soon (within a few weeks…?) you’ll be able to download your vids from the site at an even higher resolution than the one on the site already and post THOSE to YouTube. Alright man, keep it up. Thanks for the post. TOM
Three months later I receive an email:
Happy New Year, everyone!
A quick announcement. Since so many of you have been asking for this, we thought we’d let everyone know: we just released Animoto Downloads. You can download any of your full-length videos in high quality and play them offline, upload them to your favorite video sharing site like YouTube, or put them on your iPod/iPhone.
For more info: http://animoto.com/help/faq/downloads.
Enjoy! And as always, never hesitate to write us if the fancy strikes.
The guys at Animoto
theguys@animoto.com