SM partners with Animoto?
beetle8
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Are we discussing this anywhere else?
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SmugMug users can now easily create Animoto videos from photos and video clips in their SmugMug accounts, while Animoto users can export their personalized video creations straight to SmugMug for storage, sharing, and reselling. The announcement was made today at the PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo in New York City.
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Yeah we were leaked the info at the Chicago SMUG on Tuesday, pretty exciting stuff.
My question is, for those who've tried it, does this still have animoto grabbing the watermarked copies? Because when I import a smugmug gallery from animoto, it always grabs the watermarked ones. Anyone try exporting to animoto from smugmug and does it still user the watermarked versions?
Also I'd like to know when we're going to be able to export the high res straight to smugmug, as that'd be awesome.
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As of last night, yes.
But I'm also unclear about reselling the videos... is that a feature that I should be seeing? There appears to be a "buy > this photo" button on my video, but clicking on it does... nothing. So, I'm assuming that means that I can't sell videos to clients?
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I tried it out (the 30 second freebie), but just have 1 question for now....
Lets say I have a gallery with 200 images in it, and I click the "animoto button" and it pulls all 200 images from that gallery to animoto...what if i only want a specific 25 images from that gallery to make the video out of, not all 200...did I miss where you can select which photo's to insert....
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Can't you just delete unwanted images within Animoto, that's what i do
Also, i'm already paying for Animoto ($30.00 a year version)
I don't think it's going to be free from Smug.
I tried to upload High res slideshow to smugmug and it wouldn't load. So i got stuck with a web version. You can always burn a CD with high res and sell it to the customer.
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Thanks for trying out the new capability! If you manually upload your hi-res mp4s from Animoto using SmugMug's video upload option, you can get the high res up there.
Let me know if you have any issues around that!
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I'm really sorry.
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We hope to have videos be available for sale on SmugMug in the future, but Phase 1 of our integration is simply the pulling of SmugMug images to Animoto and the subsequent export of Animoto vids back to SmugMug. We hope this is just the beginning though...
http://animoto.com/photography/upgrade
Pro-Exclusive Styles are here:
http://animoto.com/photography/elegance
In the meantime, I'm going to come up with some amazing Google Checkout brilliance that will enable my customers to purchase videos. I think. Or maybe not. We'll see.
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:cry bummer
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http://animoto.com/photography/upgrade
Pro-Exclusive Styles are here:
http://animoto.com/photography/elegance
Malte
Ok we fixed the Watermark issue! IF you have watermarks enabled in your gallery and choose to make an Animoto video, it will pull the Non-watermarked photos!
If you don't have watermarks on, Animoto pulls the 1024x768 size.
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But... if I'm on Animoto, and I choose to retrieve photos from SmugMug, it will pull the watermarks.
Not a big deal - I can easily go to SmugMug to get the files. Just thought I'd bring it up.
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http://animoto.com/photography/upgrade
Pro-Exclusive Styles are here:
http://animoto.com/photography/elegance
So I thought we were good to go. So I went to animoto and made a video tonight, only to have it pull images with a watermark. I had gone in through SmugMug and while there signed up for the $30/year account. I then paid the extra $5 for the hi res version of the video. Then when it played I see my watermark. :nah
Then I came back to this thread and see that there is an issue depending on how you get to animoto. But I went through SmugMug so I'm really confused and a little unhappy.
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I tried out Animoto for the first time about a month ago. I loved everything about it and was ready to shell out my $250 for the all access pass... until I saw the poor online video quality. From what I hear, the high res versions are much better; however, one of the reasons I loved the service was how quickly a video could be produced and then almost instantly placed on my website for viewing. If I have to mess with a hi res download to get a decent show and then have to manually put it on my website, much of the great time saving features of the service goes out the window. With this being said, my main questions are... is Animoto working on improving the quality of the online videos? If so, when can this be expected?
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Thanks for your candor!
We are indeed working on a few solution to this issue, one of which will eventually allow for streaming hi-res. We also hope to allow direct exporting of the hi-res vids to SmugMug, thus saving you the time of having to manually download the hi-res vid and then manually upload back to SmugMug.
I totally concur that Animoto is a product that saves time, so we are continually working on features that will make all our features more aligned with our time-saving ethos, but these features won't be ready until 2010. I'll be posting in here whenever some new feature rolls out that may be pertinent, of if you're registered at Animoto, we sporadically send out e-mails regarding new features. Either way... you'll definitely be kept in the loop as we make improvements to our product.
http://animoto.com/photography/upgrade
Pro-Exclusive Styles are here:
http://animoto.com/photography/elegance
My apologies for this! Our TechGuys are certainly looking into why Animoto is pulling the Watermarked images. Right now when you send images to Animoto via SmugMug, this doesn't happen. However, when Animoto retrieves images from SmugMug, it does.
In the meantime, I'd encourage you to send images to Animoto while signed-into SmugMug to avoid this. However, we are working on resolving this issue!
http://animoto.com/photography/upgrade
Pro-Exclusive Styles are here:
http://animoto.com/photography/elegance
Becky, I was logged into SmugMug and accessed animoto via SmugMug.
This is really weird. I have checked with our developer and rechecked myself and as long as I enter Animoto from the SmugMug "buy" button, I can't get it to push watermarked images.
In fact, I made a video with your photos just to make sure and there aren't watermarks. I will PM you the link.
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