Animoto is now accepting your video clips in creating Animoto videos – a super addition to Animoto’s easy video creation service!

For those who aren’t familiar with Animoto, its proprietary engine spits out dynamic, music-video/video-trailer style videos, simply by combining your photos and music (or use their stock pics and music), along with captions, to produce engaging videos that are synced to your music, which you can embed anywhere or burn to DVDs. Learn more about growing your business using Animoto.

Previously, you could only upload your own (or use their stock) photos to create Animoto videos. With the recent addition of using video clips, you can easily knock out dynamic and engaging videos in a cinch.

I created the video below, simply with just their stock videos in the video library. I could’ve added stock photos, but I was curious how it’d look with just the use of videos. This opens up a new way of using Animoto videos, and creating engaging videos for your business. Play the video and let me know what you think. Could you imagine the possibilities for your business?

Simple 3-Step Process

1. Get your video clips – upload your video clips from their video collection, your computer  or retrieve it from another site (Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug, Picasa and Photobucket).

Animoto claims you can retrieve it from your phone, but I assume they mean when the phone’s connected to your computer and acting as an external drive.

Mix your videos liberally amongst your pictures and text captions.

2. Select your video highlights – spotlight the parts of your video/s you like best with their built-in video editor.

Animoto recommends 3-5 seconds for best flow, though you have up to 10 seconds to play with per video.

3. Fine tune your preferences – Animoto offers you the the choice to hear your clip’s audio or allow the soundtrack to to play instead. To select more than one highlight per clip, you can use the duplicate feature.

The UI and experience in creating the above sample video was so smooth and pleasant, I could see creating many more videos using video clips in my Animoto mixes. Congratulations Animoto – a job well done!

Register for your free Animoto account (with limited features) or an inexpensive business account (with important features like removing Animoto branding on your videos) today – it’ll make you look like a video editing genius!

What are your thoughts on this new feature? Do you like the process in using Animoto and their new video feature? Tell me about your experience…