October 23, 2004
social video editing
From: Many-to-Many
October 19, 2004
Could we have social video editing? (posted by Kevin Marks)
Mark Cuban has some ideas for improving TiVos. However, only one of them is slightly social.
Last week I did a little experiment - I took David Weinberger's presidential debate irc chat heckling and combined it with an mp3, giving a recorded social interaction.
This reminded me of an idea I had while watching the Olympics on TiVo. TiVo collects data on which programs have been watched, which bits were fast-forwarded, and which were played more than once or in slow motion.
Imagine if it took the Olympics, or a baseball or football game, or presidential debate, and collated everyone's replay speeds, and then offered up various highlights packages- the most viewed 5 minutes; most viewed hour and so on. This would naturally edit out all commercials, and the commentators padding, and show which parts people as a whole found interesting.
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Didn't the Demo that the Keio folks had set up for the EA event do some experimenting with this idea -- video editing over the 10 G link? I've been doing some design for a mobile project that takes this into consideration, with the idea that you can take or send video / audio back and forth between mobile phones and compile a sort of collaboratively authored piece of video... interface issues abound, but I think it could be a pretty great application.
Posted by: will at October 24, 2004 05:53 PM
the flexibility of digital media demands new interfaces. especially considering that the youngest, most savvy media consumers have high expectations for all their entertainment experiences. a lot of the conversations about custom tv that i have with hp revolve around building a system that returns all the social elements of television viewing back into the pvr and then leverages the metadata to create new experiences. i think mark cuban has made a very timely observation and i hope he spends his time facilitating the development of new technology rather than his reality tv show...
Posted by: kurt at October 24, 2004 09:39 PM
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