Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Video Curation Tool

I'm looking for a video curation and annotation platform. I wonder if you can help me. 

Playlists are good because they're easy to share. That's important. But existing video platforms are too monogamous - you can't insert a vimeo clip into a you tube playlist for instance. Overcoming this disfunction would be a good start.

Yes - I could use Scoop.it or something else that sorts stuff into columns or rows... but I want both at the same time!

Video is too linear: it has a start and an end and that's it in terms of points in time that you can segue to another clip. What about all the points within the clip? What if it were more like text where I can copy a section of an article and paste it into a new document? Kind of like Storify. 

It would be great if I could annotate a video much as SoundCloud allows the viewer to leave comments on the timeline of the audio file, and then use these annotations as segue points to other clips.

What if, like Quicktime Pro, I could make an in point and an out point and copy that section into a playlist?

Finally, to protect the interests of the original producer, the platform should also automatically collect the attribution metadata.

Please world, find or invent this tool.


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