Personalize your Animoto videos in seconds by uploading and adding your own photos and clips. Adding your own media allows you to completely customize your videos, and even better, it’s really easy.
In this post, we’ll walk you through the different ways to upload and add your photos and clips to your Animoto video.
If you prefer to watch a video, check out our education center that will walk you through all your options step by step.
Let’s get started.
1) Upload before you start editing
After selecting one of our easily customizable templates or starting your video project from scratch, you’ll see the option to upload media before reaching your workspace.
Once you see this screen, you can either click in the media box to browse your computer, or drag and drop your media from your desktop or documents window. No pressure to upload your media now, you can always click Skip to add it later on.
2) Upload in the Media Library
If you skipped over your first upload option, or decide you’d like to upload additional photos and videos while you’re editing, you can upload media at any time by selecting the Project tab in the Media Library.
Here, you’ll have the same options of clicking to browse your device or dragging and dropping your media directly into your Media Library.
3) Import from the cloud
Click the "Import from…" button. A new window will open with five different integration options.
Simply select the drive of your choice from the icons and sign in. Once you’re signed in, you can select whatever photos, gifs, and video clips you want for your video. Press the "Upload files" button to seamlessly add them to the Media Library tab in your Animoto workspace. You can connect and share files from multiple sources for a single video project.
4) Collect media from anyone with a link
Need photos or videos from your clients, colleagues, friends, or family? Just send them a link! Click on the "Share link" button in your media library, then input their email addresses to send them a link via email or just copy and paste the link to send it anywhere.
They'll be able to upload unlimited photos or videos to this video, and this video only. Just refresh to see them automatically appear in your library.
5) Upload from your phone
Lastly, to get media from your phone to your video, all you have to do is scan a QR code.
Click on the phone button, use your phone to scan the code, select your media, and click upload. Your media will appear in your Animoto project in seconds.
Drag and drop into your video
Once you’ve uploaded media to your workspace, it’s time to add it to your video! The first way to do this is by simply dragging and dropping your photo or video clip directly into your video where you’d like to add it.
You can edit your added photos and videos by zooming, cropping, rotating, trimming, or adjusting any text in the template to work with your media.
Add to your timeline
Want to create a new block to showcase your media? You can always click the grey plus icon in your timeline to select a layout and add a new block, but you can make it even simpler by dragging and dropping your media from your Library directly into your timeline.
When you do this, we’ll automatically create a new, media-only block with your photo or clip. If you’ve selected a template, or if you started from scratch and selected a theme or video style, your new block will maintain the same design elements as the rest of your video.
Adding & editing multiple new blocks to your timeline
If you have multiple images or clips you’d like to add to your project, you can easily upload them using one of the methods above, then drag and drop them all into your timeline at once. Click and hold the Shift button on your keyboard to select multiple images or clips, we’ll also give you the option to Select all.
Once you drop your images and clips into your timeline, you can get a quick preview of all of your blocks by clicking Grid view. Here, you can easily rearrange your blocks with another simple drag and drop.
Add media frames
Want to break free from a layout and create something entirely new? Add a media frame!
These placeholders come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and styles so you can display your media wherever you like. Just click on the media frames button below the text button to browse by category. Then, simply drag and drop to add your photos and videos to your frames.
Start uploading now
Jump right in and upload your own photos and clips to your next video today!
