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I gave autorisation to debit my Paypal account USD 10 each month.
However they have debited upfront the full annual amount of USD 120. They do not anwser to complaints.
After using it one time, I started getting billed automatically on my credit card monthly. After turning off auto renewal, they continued to bil my cc. Still trying to get a refund. They are refusing and want to give me a credit to use the mediocre service. Awful customer service! STAY AWAY! Find a free service and save yourself the aggravation.
They signed me up for a year subscription which i immediately called to cancel. Took several tries before i got a response but finally got a refund. I swore never to use the site again but then months later I come to find out they then signed me up for a monthly subscription (the highest one) and billed my credit card.
After many attempts, they said i signed up myself and refuse to refund me the money for providing NO services whatsoever.
Their "manager" refused to give me his name. Coward!
Buyer beware!
I'm an amateur and not a professional photographer. I signed up for the "free" one month trial. You basically get nothing "free" with these people! To get a decent video for my granddaughter's 10th birthday, I would have had to shell out $30. Really? Seriously? $30 for one video? I said no thank you and scraped the project. I kept getting "incentive" emails to continue which I ignored. No such thing as "free" with this company unless you want to do an inferior video which I would be embarrassed to give to anyone!
In Sept 2014, my daughter signed up for a one year subscription. In April, she signed up for a 1 month upgrade to try out. When she didn't renew her upgrade ($30 extra per month), they degraded her back to their "new" basic plan which gives you nothing. She asked them why she didn't have the plan she signed up for and their response was it wasn't offered any longer. They haggled back and forth for 2 weeks, Animoto gave in and gave her back her original plan MINUS the ability to upgrade from 360P to a higher quality picture. You have to pay an additional $5-$10 per song. Talk about $$$ you to death! One way or another, they are determined to get more money out of you!
Really expensive for what is provided. Paid for a one month subscription to make a video for my sons baseball team, then realized that I was taken to the cleaners because I guess I didn't read the fine print. They will automatically take money from your bank account every month if you don't cancel your account. I only signed in once to make the video then never used their services again, only to find out I had been charged $278 for 7 months worth of non use. I just assumed that a reputable company would only charge me for one month when that's all I signed up for. Never again will I be suckered by these scumbags again.
I love this site, i had my first video being nicely created using it, you guys deserved my respect!
Got to love them! Very easy and easier to produce a nice presentation or intro video to market your business. One thing I need to mention is, the free is good. To unlock better futures, I highly recommend upgrading.
My order is in process, lets see what they come up with.
Really great for making videos of the kids and family. I can upload random photos and it makes it look like it was professionally made, though i wish they had more templates
Love this site! So easy to use and the videos that it creates are top notch. I would definitely recommend this to any user trying to create a product demo video or a slideshow.
I just tried this out and now that they partnered with istock I expect more people will be using their features. The cost is now more than what I would expect. $250 for a pro account with access to songs? At that price you can buy a subscription to adobe CC and have every single adobe product for a year and create videos much more sophisticated than on animoto. For that matter almost any iphone program can create videos as easily as on animoto and for much less money.
I rarely need more than 30 seconds for the videos I create so the free version is perfect. When i need a full length then it is just 3 bucks. Videos are so easy to create!
Just saw this site on SJ and made a video of my vacation to disneyland. Sooo very cool. I know you can do this on a mac or even with cheap software but this site does a really good job of putting it all together. Best part is I was able to do it from my netbook while sitting in an airport.
Simply the best, ever and ever. Not words forI Love Thiis One. Animoto is a web application that produces videos from user-selected photos, video clips and music. It analyzes the provided photos, video clips and music, automatically generating a movie trailer-like video with them.
I love this site. Forget the old-fashioned way of making vision boards out of magazine cut outs, glue, and poster board. Just download the pics you like from the internet, load 'em up into animoto (the basic version is free... the more advanced version is still only $30 per year), create your own video and set it to music. Walla! You have your own "vision board" video and you can make as many of them as you like. I think it is great fun and I watch my animoto vids every night before I go to sleep so I can float away into the world of my dreams with visions of my future floating in front of me. Jack Canfield and The Secret people would be proud. ;)
