SansBlogue: PodBible promo: the lively one

Monday, October 20, 2008

Here's the one I prefer... same photo credits: Photos by freecultureNYU, biblicone, kretyen, Edward B., futureatlas.com, terren in Virginia, Alan Joyce, liewcf, GeoWombats, Wonderlane, knowhimonline, the bright and morning star, nexus6

Update: In view of David's comments below I got an account at Animoto, and have tinkered with the video here are links to the improved version:

as MP4
and as WMV - bigger file :(
or 3GP for phones etc. only 0.5MB !

¶ 9:49 AM

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Love it! The music of course is more lively but I didn't find the images to be too disjointed. Stronger connection for me with how PodBible is a type of Bible. The URL just disappeared too fast for me to read it.

Bravo.

I think I might have to play with this. On the second thought, no new projects!!!

By David Ker, at October 20, 2008 10:19 AM

I found one blog that had embedded one of these at wordpress.com. As you might know javascript is a no-no so they must have another way of doing it (http://jayelyndesigns.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/animotocom/)

Two thoughts came to mind:

1. What would you use this for? The first idea was simply as an ad or promo for a product like PodBible. Certainly a nifty thing to have in a sidebar.

2. How would people in the developing world use a product like this? It's a bandwidth problem. A resourceful person can mash up a rather basic slideshow with audio using MMS.

Again, nice work. I'll let you know if I figure out how the embed works at WordPress.com. (The quickest workaround would be to upload it to YouTube which can be embedded.

By David Ker, at October 21, 2008 7:20 AM

If you trust Animoto with the keys to your kingdom, then just go to the URL like this one and there is an embed tool, the URL for the video above is: at this URL.

But they are on YouTube, just search for PodBible, when I get YouTube sussed I'll try to get them higher for more sensible search terms ;)

I'd have thought Animoto is ideal for 3rd world usage, you only have to upload a few small pictures 640x480 is ideal, or even provide URLs if they are already online. The music ius already there. So small upload, the processing takes place their end, and you get an email... and can embed it almost anywhere or send it to YouTube with a single click - VERY low bandwidth videoi creation. Even if you want your own voice over ust upload a small 1 minute 64kbps MP3 and you are away...

By Tim, at October 21, 2008 8:39 AM