This document provides a tutorial on how to use Animoto, an online video creator. It outlines the steps to sign up for a free trial account, choose a video style, add photos, text, captions and music, preview and produce the video, and share the finished video through email, social media or embedding. The tutorial demonstrates creating a travel-themed video by uploading photos, adding titles and subtitles as text, and producing a 30-second video within Animoto's free trial limits.

1. How to use
Animoto

2. What is
Animoto?

3. Animoto is a cloud based
online video creator.

4. Videos are produced
from:

5. •photos
•video clips &
•music

6. to become spectacular
masterpieces

7. You can share it to anyone
easily and for free

8. Now, let’s begin the
tutorial

9. Let’s open
our browser

10. Type animoto.com

11. You will see the
animoto website

12. There are two ways to
sign up to animoto

13. 1st-Click to sign up for a
new account

14. You will be lead to this page…

15. Then you click this sign up button

16. You will see this page…

17. You may choose from any
of the options

18. For this tutorial we are going
to use the Trial free option

19. For trial/free option the
videos will run
for maximum of
30 seconds only

20. For longer videos you
may choose from the
paid options

21. Let us use the 2nd way of
signing up. Click this button.

22. This page will appear on your screen

23. You may sign up
using your
facebook account

24. You must log in to your
facebook account
to sign up using this option.

25. Log in
here

26. Or you may
sign up
using your
email….

27. Type your email
I.D.

28. Type your full name

29. Choose a password and
type it here

30. Confirm your chosen
password

31. Click this box to choose
the option

32. Let’s choose Personal Use
option for this tutorial

33. You may choose other options
from this dropdown button:
• Pro Photography
• Business
• Education
• Other

34. Click the Start Trial button

35. This is the Animoto Dashboard

36. Click this button to
create a video

37. This is now the page

38. These are the different styles for personal option

39. You may choose from any of the
featured style

40. Or browse from any of the categories…

41. lets take a peek what to choose from kids category…

42. from school category…

43. for parties…

44. for weddings…

45. for travel…

46. for holiday…

47. and finally memorial…

48. Now lets start creating
our video…

49. For this tutorial let’s try
the travel category

50. Let’s use globetrotter…click on the button

51. This is now the page...

52. Click on the play button to try
globetrotter

53. Globetrotter movie preview plays…

54. After playing the preview let’s
now create our own video.

55. Click on the create video button

56. It’s now loading…

57. This is now our storyboard

58. You can edit the
title of your
video…
click this button

59. After clicking, this page appears…

60. Type the title of the video

61. Log in name will appear here

62. You may or may not write the date here…

63. Description is as well optional

64. You can still change style or category
by clicking here…

65. To add a logo you can click this button

66. Now let’s start adding
photos /videos
by

67. Clicking this button

68. You will see this after clicking the button

69. You may upload files from your
computer by clicking here

70. Choose photos from your files

71. or upload from facebook

72. Log in to your facebook account

73. It goes directly to your fb albums

74. To choose photos click ctrl button
and click on selected photos

75. Click to add the photos

76. Or upload from instagram…
you must be logged in to your account

77. Choose which photos

78. Click ctrl key and choose
which photos

79. Click to add the items

80. Or upload from dropbox

81. Sign in to dropbox

82. Choose photos…

83. Click on the photos and press choose

84. Push the choose button

85. Or choose from these sites

86. For our tutorial video we
will upload from the
image library

87. Click here to open

88. Click here…

89. Choose from the photos…
you may scroll down for more

90. Click ctrl key and
select photos

91. Click here to add

92. This is how our storyboard looks
after adding photos

93. This shows the video duration

94. Let’s add text by clicking this button

95. We will enter a title and subtitle
in this box

96. We already have our title and subtitle

97. Click here to save

98. The text is now added

99. Notice the video duration increased

100. Let’s add another text

101. Type and click save

102. The text is now added

103. See the video duration…

104. To add a caption..
double click on the photo

105. After adding caption, click save button

106. If you wish to change the music,
click here

107. You may choose from any of the
options …

108. For this tutorial we will stick to the
music which goes with the
style/category

109. To preview the video click the button

110. Generating preview…

111. Click play button to preview

112. Our video is now playing…

113. Click produce button

114. Click finish button

115. This is the finished product…now
ready for sharing

116. To share thru email click this button

117. Type the email I.D. and message then
click share video button

118. To share thru facebook click this button

119. Type on your timeline and click post

120. To share on tweeter click this button

121. Log in to tweeter, tweet and click

122. To share on You Tube click this button

123. Log in to You Tube and export

124. You may embed the video as
well…click the embed button

125. Click copy to clipboard

126. Or you may share to other social media
platforms

127. These are the other platforms where
you can share the video to

128. Paying for pro or premium will
give you longer videos and
remove the watermark as well.

129. Our Animoto tutorial ends here….for
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