Producing videos

[Hughescov]

Hi all,

Does anyone know about creating videos, specifically animated (I think it is animation) videos for products.

Here is an example of what I am talking about

http://www.allenwatson.com/guided-auger-boring.html

What would be the best way of getting a video like this made and how hard is it to make these sort of videos without a professional? Any adobe programs that would do this work?

I am thinking along the lines of helping customers convert on our site.

Cheers

[TomRayner]

Hi Shaun

I'm afraid I can't help specifically with the software that made that video, but there are a couple of free tools out there which make video creation fairly easy.

Both Animoto and Jing are free tools with not much skill required.  GoAnimate is also free with a couple of other tiered membership plans.  CommonCraft is a pretty cheap option as well with a number of options and VideoScribe is pretty cheap too, allowing you to create some pretty cool hand-drawn whiteboard videos.

Not quite what you're looking for but hopefully a few other ideas that might be useful for you.

[Hughescov]

Tom,

Great response and some great examples there!

30 second videos from Animoto look really interesting. It is whether I can use these as a product promotional video.

Thanks again.