Selling Animoto videos in your business

thenimirra

Has anyone integrated the sale of videos in your photography packages? I'm thinking about starting up an Animoto account and was wondering how much to charge for a video and what kind of success others have had with selling vids to clients.

bendruckerphoto

I haven't done it yet. I find that a lot of people want to use iMovie and create their own slideshow. I'm not an expert on Animoto, so I have to give you some general advice. I'd charge $100/hr for the time it takes you to produce the video.

fredjclaus

The question I have is the music copyrights. Sure, you can use their songs, or upload your own from your computer. That's all good and well. The trouble comes in when you try to sell that DVD. Unless you have publishing rights for the music, you are violating Federal Copyright laws. I've looked into this with the program I use called Muvee. I was advised by 3 different attorneys that it becomes a violation of copyright laws when you sell the DVD.

Before you go about selling these DVD's, I would talk to your attorney to see if adding music could cause issues in your state.

bendruckerphoto

Animoto does have a $250/yr account that includes a library of tracks that are commercially licensed.

Mohamed.Ghuloom

I've bought a full-length animoto video for my homepage. I too think of adding it as an offer, in near future

FedererPhoto

Animoto sounds really cool - for the right photos and feel. I do wish it gave a bit more control (like, perhaps gave you some source file you could then tweak as needed) but overall a very cool product. I'm going to give it a try with the 3 month discount.

(shameless plug, we discussed slideshows on a new forum here)

AnimotoBecky

Yep, Animoto has 500+ free to use commercially licensed songs. We're hoping to have 1,000 in about 6 months time.

If anyone has any questions about Animoto, always feel free to DM me (I work there).

bendruckerphoto wrote:

Animoto does have a $250/yr account that includes a library of tracks that are commercially licensed.

AnimotoBecky

Hi,

I've heard of photographers charging sometimes upwards of $200-$300 per video. With that said, I'm assuming their overall charges for photography/prints are on the higher-side as well.

What I hear more than anything though is that photographers include Animoto videos in a larger (and more expensive) "premium package." They kick of a proof session with the Animoto vid, and apparently the client goes wild for it, in which case the photographer says "that vid is only available with this package..."

Kirk Voclain, who we feature a lot on our site, does this all the time. You can check out info about what he does at:

animoto.com/go/kirk

http://biz.animoto.com/interview/kirkvoclain.html

thenimirra wrote:

Has anyone integrated the sale of videos in your photography packages? I'm thinking about starting up an Animoto account and was wondering how much to charge for a video and what kind of success others have had with selling vids to clients.

thenimirra

AnimotoBecky wrote:

Hi,

I've heard of photographers charging sometimes upwards of $200-$300 per video. With that said, I'm assuming their overall charges for photography/prints are on the higher-side as well.

What I hear more than anything though is that photographers include Animoto videos in a larger (and more expensive) "premium package." They kick of a proof session with the Animoto vid, and apparently the client goes wild for it, in which case the photographer says "that vid is only available with this package..."

Kirk Voclain, who we feature a lot on our site, does this all the time. You can check out info about what he does at:


animoto.com/go/kirk

http://biz.animoto.com/interview/kirkvoclain.html

Thank you for this information!

thenimirra

thenimirra wrote:

Thank you for this information!

Really liked that interview. I don't have any seniors who purchased $1000 packages...that would be amazing! But I had seniors who couldn't get all of the images in their session.

I think I could offer them an Animoto vid showing all their images from the shoot for about $100!

AnimotoBecky

Nice! Let me know how that goes. We're always interested to hear how photographers price their vids!

thenimirra wrote:

Really liked that interview. I don't have any seniors who purchased $1000 packages...that would be amazing! But I had seniors who couldn't get all of the images in their session.

I think I could offer them an Animoto vid showing all their images from the shoot for about $100!

Strobegirl

What to charge for an animoto video on your site
The base rate for the lab is extremely low on my Smugmug Pro account. My question is what is a fare charge for selling different resolutions of one single Animoto video. I wanted my customers to be able to get one with their print 8x10. I could add a nominal price along with the print or sell the video separately. What do you think? How much would YOU pay for one video, high resolution from an event you went to for a company party or event, say? Let me hear from you!!!!