> Technology has improved to the point where we can effortlessly output as > much material as we like or as much as we are able to produce. I think we're > facing a new issue of "How much SHOULD I output?". I've seen too much > footage hit the cutting room floor and eventually the tape erasure bins from > when I used to edit NYC news to throw away footage that I've shot that might > mean something to myself or someone else. At the same time, I don't want to > harp on one topic that I filmed two weeks ago for an entire month, because > I'm trying to output only 1-3 episodes per day.
This is such a great email Bill because it illustrates a problem I hear often. Shooting loads of video, but then swamped in the editing. As Adrian mentioned, maybe online video will take on the Flickr model where you upload lots of small video clips like you would photos. Then you would have tools to arrange the clips through tags, sets, projects, etc. As a viewer, I could then browse through your life in video as I want to. As a creator, you would have your whole archive easily categorized so you could still edit larger works when you wanted. The problem solved is simply that your archives are no longer stuck on your hard drive. Seth Keen recently did this for World Vision: http://www.worldvision.com.au/Learn/VirtualTour.aspx You can see how no one needed to edit a complicated video...instead its all just grouped by tags...which can grow as more clips are added. He's done quite a bit of work building a tagging/presentation system in Wordpress....which hopefully might someday be released. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
