We use Spin for collaborations. Usually one of us will have an idea, collect some video/audio/text, assemble a rough cut or sketch, compress it, and then drag all the media files into our Wreck & Salvage Spinxpress group and hand it off to whomever you are working with at the time. A lot of the time we'll be on IM with each other during the process, coaching, suggesting, brainstorming, about what the video needs, how to achieve certain things.
As for the text-to-video idea, Serra from headsoff made this thing last year, which is pretty sweet: http://www.videostring.net/ -Adam On 3/12/07, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The flash meeting chat that Harold highlighted had some interesting > talk about collaboration in it too. > > I guess its a subject that comes up quite often here, and yet I never > ending up recording much progress on that front. I know a stock answer > has become 'use spinxpress' and clearly it must work and be good > because it comes recommended by some people who will ahve used it for > such purposes. As I havent used it myself I remain pretty ignorant > about exactly what it offers beyond peer2peer filesharing, anybody got > a few moments to elaborate on how it fits into the process, and what > sort of collaborative processes fit well with this tool? > > Anyway I guess there are all sorts of non-technical reasons why > collaboration can be a challenge. Having time, being in sync with the > others, communicating ideas that may be hard to put into words, > differing aims of different people, different inspirations etc, can > all get in the way. > > I would guess that maybe some of these hurdles could be overcome with > something similar to the youtube phenomenon - tools that work in the > browser easily, and a critical mass of users and content. Im quite > interested in systems where there would be millions of very short > video fragments available in the system, and peple could construct > vidoes from these and their own pieces. I am interested in 'video' > type content being created semi-automatically from other sources (eg a > text-to-video thing based on keywords that relate to the clip fragments). > > Ive run out of time to waffle now, any thoughts on this or completely > different aspects of the collaboration thang? > > Cheers > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Adam Quirk Wreck & Salvage 551.208.4644 Brooklyn, NY http://wreckandsalvage.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
