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Doing more than Dumb Video

By Nick Hodge | April 17, 2007

Dumb Video is hard. You spend all your time edit­ing, fix­ing audio, encod­ing and uploading.

Smart Video is going to be easy with this Microsoft Sil­ver­light stuff. URLs, chapters, and deeper sub-tagging. All these ideas are flow­ing through my mind from this con­ver­sa­tion from Uncle Dave, the Life Kludger.

Ima­gine a can­vas of videos and pod­casts. Zoom into one, and see the “sub-tags” or links to other videos, or gen­eral searches. Sort of a doing what HTML does for text for other, non-textual content.

Time to learn some new stuff.

Topics: microsoft, mix07, silverlight, technology | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “Doing more than Dumb Video”

  1. Dave - Lifekludger Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    Ahh…then ima­gine get­ting the out­put feeds from the can­vas, sift­ing it through your ‘per­sonal sig­nal fil­ter’, and pip­ing it into your pre­ferred video viewer as river of con­nec­ted video snips.

  2. Andrew Smith Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 9:19 pm

    Yet another aisle in the Web 2.0 supermarket?

    I can’t see it tak­ing off, though, until the cre­at­ive applic­a­tions sup­port it … and those are cur­rently owned by Adobe (bene­vol­ent keeper of Flash video tech­no­logy et al).

  3. Paul Foster Says:
    April 18th, 2007 at 6:02 am

    But how quickly the fash­ion­able web houses jump tech­no­logy ship! We dis­covered most are up for tools and tech­no­logy that make their dreams more obtain­ably. When we took WPF to sev­eral in Lon­don they prac­tic­ally ripped our arms off in the rush to adopt the tech­no­logy. Change is about to happen.

  4. Dave the Lifekludger Says:
    April 19th, 2007 at 12:22 am

    As a stop gap until vendors catchup how about this. Feed video through some­thing that grabs audio and strips out the words (smart voice recog­ni­tion), builds index of everything spoken and matches up over­laps gen­er­at­ing a feed of the uncovered con­nec­tions with links back to the source video.

    Is video the one thing on the planet google aren’t index­ing? Yet.

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