Tips for Making Slide Shows
Tips for Making Slide Shows with Animoto
Animoto’s artificial intelligence handles virtually all the decision making when building your digital slide show. The AI choices are superb, and there are few choices you need to make. In fact, at this time, there are few choices you can make. Here are some tips for making slide shows do what you want.
1) Use strong images. The AI engine examines every frame in your digital slide show. It does an amazing job of picking out visual elements to work with. Give it strong visual elements and the AI weaves the picture transitions around them. Couples fly together, buildings split into floor shaped blocks, flowers appear in a swirl.
2) Tell a story. Animoto loves sequences of related photos, and so does your audience. Use the Animoto story board and picture preview to make sure your pictures tell a story.
3) Use video clips. You can insert 3 to 6 second video clips, but a 5 second limit works best. The story board image editor lets you pick the section of your clip to use.
4) Your music determines the intensity of the slide show. Powerful dance tracks produce snappier transitions while slower music allows slower and smoother transitions.
5) Determine how long your slides are shown. During the ‘Finalize’ phase of making your slide show, you can select the slide speed. ‘Normal’ speed (the default) displays each slide for approximately 4 1/2 to 5 seconds, and a 10 slide movie runs 50 seconds. Selecting 1/2 speed makes a longer movie from the same slides (66 seconds), while 2x speed runs through the pictures twice as fast (33 seconds). A 1/2 speed movie is twice as long as a 2X speed movie.
Here are three 10-slide examples. Each uses the same sound track, same photos, but different timings
The ‘normal’ speed video:
The ’1/2 speed’ video:
And the ’2X speed’ video:
