Forgot to add another link to Seth's work: http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/2007/11/14/palabras-tagged-video-archive-2/ An example of how you could build projects out of raw clips...instead of needing to just edit complete works.
Jay On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jay dedman <jay.ded...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 > -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
