Hi all,
This should be interesting to folks -- Popcorn.js, the highest profile open
source video editing/assembly project that is web browser-based, was Mike
Nolan's summer internship project at Mozilla. His video presentation is
below.
Some of you may know he was at Wikimania in Mexico City and talked with a
number of us on the status of video in Wikimedia. He gives a shout out to
our efforts and the potential for Popcorn being part of the solution at the
end of this talk.
Mike and I also recently met with the Internet Archive folks in SF and
they're keen to keep working with us, and to look into funding for the
three entities -- the Wikimedia movement, Mozilla and Internet Archive.
-Andrew
https://air.mozilla.org/mnolan/
Mike Nolan: "Going the Extra 10%: The Next Generation Video Editor on the
Web"
Since the dawn of YouTube and smart phones, video content on the web has
grown an immense amount. Once, where web pages were simple collections of
long form text markup are now rich multi-media applications. The user's
ability to store video content on the web has evolved along with many of
the web standards today but even now in 2015, users are required to often
times purchase expensive and bulky video editing applications with steep
learning curves to edit existing content.
This talk goes over Mike Nolan's intern project to modify the Popcorn Maker
project into it's own modular javascript library and create a python
library for transcoding the Popcorn Maker editor json into a flat ".webm"
video file.