Animoto

Animoto is an interesting website and i can see its values for sure. There are too many videos on the internet made by amateur editors that are painful to sit through. For these people animoto would be a great tool because they can easily make a sequence look presentable.

However, it does undermine good editing and take away from a lot of the creativity, especially since they already have plenty of archive footage and music available. Somebody who has never even edited before create a video without knowing the first thing about editing or without even gathering any footage.

Overall, I'm alright with Animoto. Its not like a professional editor could make something on animoto and succeed on passing it off as original. If you already know about editing then its fun to check out and move on, if you don't know jack about editing you can put together an interesting presentation without having to buy expensive software or put in the time and hard work to learn how to edit well.