04-26-2013, 06:02 PM
Here's a simple way to get your hands on Animoto videos so you can upload them, re-edit them etc etc.
If you've ever used Animoto (hxxp://animoto.com/) you'll know it's a great way to create cool videos - incredibly easy to use with several themes and lots of free music tracks. The free version is limited to 30 seconds and you can't download the videos to re-edit or upload to YouTube or your own site. Which is a bit of a limitation.
Not now though with an easy trick.
1) When you've created your video, go to the "share" menu and click the "..." MORE icon. You're presented with a link to the video page like this: hxxp://animoto.com/play/Cf96WklJIz5vQBgyaT18Xg.
2) Copy the final multicharacter string
3) Paste it into this URL:
hxxp://s3-p.animoto.com/Video/insert string here/360p.mp4
You'll end up downloading your video and you're then free to do whatever you want with it.
Here's one I made earlier that used this technique - took me five minutes! (shameless plug):
hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csk7HZlvpYI
It's not going to change the world, but I hope you found it useful :)
If you've ever used Animoto (hxxp://animoto.com/) you'll know it's a great way to create cool videos - incredibly easy to use with several themes and lots of free music tracks. The free version is limited to 30 seconds and you can't download the videos to re-edit or upload to YouTube or your own site. Which is a bit of a limitation.
Not now though with an easy trick.
1) When you've created your video, go to the "share" menu and click the "..." MORE icon. You're presented with a link to the video page like this: hxxp://animoto.com/play/Cf96WklJIz5vQBgyaT18Xg.
2) Copy the final multicharacter string
3) Paste it into this URL:
hxxp://s3-p.animoto.com/Video/insert string here/360p.mp4
You'll end up downloading your video and you're then free to do whatever you want with it.
Here's one I made earlier that used this technique - took me five minutes! (shameless plug):
hxxp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csk7HZlvpYI
It's not going to change the world, but I hope you found it useful :)