Not only has You Tube taken a tad bit of thunder (and business) from professional producers and directors, but now new services are launching that can make our user generated content look pretty legit. Animoto lets you upload your pictures and music on their site. From there they’ll mash up all your pictures and create a pretty decent music video out of them. Cool part is - all the frames go with the music. The catch - 30 second shorts are free, but if you want a full length video it will cost you. I think they realize that their service fills a huge demand for a way to pimp out our ugc (without having to go into editing software)- and people are willing to pay for it.

Check out the Summer Time short I did….

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