Friday, April 28, 2006

Instant Music Videos online

Upload photos, choose a style and you are done! That simple, you have music video ready to share or to post on your blog! check this video I have made... wanna create your own? here is the link

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

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

Monday, April 03, 2006

Upload photos/video and share it. What next?

Yeah! This is hot now, people spending lot of time on internet video. YouTube itself has seen the number of viewings on the site shoot up from 3 million a day to 30 million since the Web site's December launch, according to YouTube spokeswoman Julie Supan (see more details here)
According to numbers provided by traffic-tracking company ComScore Networks, YouTube received 4.2 million unique visitors in February. Those numbers are good enough to outpace Apple Computer's iTunes (3.5 million) and put it within spitting distance of eBaumsworld.com (4.4 million) and AOL Video (4.7 million).

This clearly shows the viewers shift from the regular big movie related content providers to users created content (or reality video / User shot video). And I think this is going to be huge.

Shoot, upload and share... great! What next? As a user, can I make some good music videos using uploaded content online? and then download it to my ipod? or get them on DVD?
If you think similar, there is one website for all these solutions. Check out Pictureal, more than applications like muvee in video and offers more features than youtube, vimeo or many video websites coming up now a days, well I feel ;).

hey check these music videos I have created with Pictureal
My Photo Montage
more...