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
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.