Video Editing Online
I was looking at 'video sites' last weekend. Oh man, a lot of websites now, offering Video Uploads, Share, Video Edit, video transitions, add music, choose templates etc., every thing online! (here are some: Blip TV, Boltfolio, Castpost, ClipShack, Daily Motion, Evideo Share, Eye Spot, Flukiest, Juss Press, OneTruemedia, Our Media, Revver, Sharkle, VarsityTV, Veoh, Vidilife, Vimeo, Vobbo, Vmix, vSocial, YouAreTV, YouTube and Zippy Videos ) Almost like Movie maker or any basic video editing app.
Powered by Flash media server, FLV and/or with On2 tools, these websites are offering innovative solutions with fun filled user experience. I have uploaded some video clips and pictures, and played with them online. Though some of them (ex. OneTruemedia, EyeSpot) seemed good, many of them are very poor in UI/ experience/ performance/ streaming. I don't understand why we don't make things simple for the user? What is the use of developing a great online video editing app, when you fail to give a good user experience? Look at the Flickr or YouTube. Millions of people come and use their service every day. Make it simple, works always. I remember one of the posts from KV's blog,
“During the space race back in the 1960’s, NASA was faced with a major problem. The astronaut needed a pen that would write in the vacuum of space. NASA went to work. At a cost of $1.5 million they developed the “Astronaut Pen”. Some of you may remember. It enjoyed minor success on the commercial market.
The Russians were faced with the same dilemma.
Well, they used a pencil.”
Keep it simple, stupid
Powered by Flash media server, FLV and/or with On2 tools, these websites are offering innovative solutions with fun filled user experience. I have uploaded some video clips and pictures, and played with them online. Though some of them (ex. OneTruemedia, EyeSpot) seemed good, many of them are very poor in UI/ experience/ performance/ streaming. I don't understand why we don't make things simple for the user? What is the use of developing a great online video editing app, when you fail to give a good user experience? Look at the Flickr or YouTube. Millions of people come and use their service every day. Make it simple, works always. I remember one of the posts from KV's blog,
“During the space race back in the 1960’s, NASA was faced with a major problem. The astronaut needed a pen that would write in the vacuum of space. NASA went to work. At a cost of $1.5 million they developed the “Astronaut Pen”. Some of you may remember. It enjoyed minor success on the commercial market.
The Russians were faced with the same dilemma.
Well, they used a pencil.”
Keep it simple, stupid
posted by Rama at
6:56 AM
2 Comments:
Nice post.
Would you say Castpost qualifies as simple?
Thank you.
Thanks!
I think, they should have created a platform/solution in terms of video format. They are not taking pain to convert uploaded video to single format and stream. Just pushing the original file as it is. I'm not able to view many of videos because of this. As a user I blame them not my box. Otherwise it is much like youTube. I can't comment much, becuase it's still on pre-Beta. These guys must be working hard!
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