For those of you who have been too busy to plan your sweetheart’s Valentine’s gift, Animoto has the perfect solution for you! This online application allows you to easily create professional-looking videos using your own photos and music.  Animoto’s “Cinematic Artificial Intelligence” technology thinks and produces like a real director and editor — except the process is 10x easier.

The good news is you won’t have to sit at your computer all day trying to edit a video (as some of us have attempted before).  Animoto tailors to your needs for simplicity and quality with its clean web-interface and easy instructions…it’s so simple to use that creating a video can literally takes minutes. Too lazy to upload photos?  They’ve got you covered. Instead you can select to import your photos from popular online photo-sharing services like flickr, facebook, SmugMug, Picasa, and photobucket. Animoto also recently landed a partnership with istockphoto to allow its customers the option to import photos from these categories: Birthday, Valentines, Travel, Nature, and Scenes.  So if you’re not satisfied with your own sappy mugs, now you can mix ‘n match them with professional photos to get that flawless finish.

Really, it’s so simple.  Here’s all you have to do:

1. Choose your photos
2. Choose a soundtrack
3. Create your perfect video presentation
…. just in time for Valentine’s Day

Keep your photo selections to under 15 pictures for a FREE 30 second video.  Longer (low resolution) videos cost about $3.00, but you can also upgrade to a high resolution version for another $5.00.  Not too shabby.  Give it a try and make a Valentine’s memory that both lasts and has its own soundtrack.  Learn more >>