You Can Quickly Create A Stunning Funeral Tribute Video Using Your Photos
Say goodbye to humdrum photo PowerPoint presentations. Now you can easily make your own funeral tribute video that has a real wow factor.
Animoto.com
makes video slideshows from pictures. It is ideal for funeral or memorial service tribute videos with music.
Animoto.com takes your pictures, analyzes your music background, and melds the two together in a way that feels somewhat like a MTV video.
This is a video I made for my husband for Valentine's Day. It only took me a few minutes.
Recently my brother passed away, after a two year struggle with cancer.
Putting together a photo presentation was a very healing time for all of us - remembering the good times, after what we had just been through the last few weeks in the hospital.
The funeral home wanted to charge us $500 for a powerpoint presentation.
Instead, his children, wife, and I went through all of their photo albums selecting pictures for the video tribute for his memorial service. (Be sure to number each picture and put a corresponding number in the spot in the album you removed it from. Otherwise you'll never remember where each photo belongs.) We scanned them and then went through all the digital photos.
Then we went to
Animoto.com
- You can either upload your pictures manually or send Animoto to fetch them from other sites like your Facebook account, Picasa, or Flickr.
Adding music works the same way: upload your own mp3 or select a track from their growing library of music beds.
Once it has your pictures and music, it analyzes both and puts them together in a great video. And, for an extra measure of fun, send the pics and music through again and again to get other remixes of your slideshow. No two videos are ever the same.
Animoto.com also has several distribution options. Once the video is complete and you're satisfied with the output, you can easily download it, make a DVD, send it to YouTube, and more.
Thirty-second clips are free, but most of us will probably want to opt for the unlimited videos and downloads, which costs $30/year.
Or, you can pay $3/video.
With
Animoto.com
we only paid a few dollars and made a sensational presentation - and the whole family participated.
