If all goes according to plan with this post, you should be seeing a video below…
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I mixed the video entirely online using Quick.tv’s beta point-and-click editing web system. Very, very smart indeed.
I’ve been hearing a lot about Quick.tv for some time and I finally got a beta invitation yesterday — so I thought I’d give it a whirl. It’s very intuitive. I logged in and was automatically assigned four demo clips to play with — one of which, conveniently, was from the Visiarc video we filmed a little while ago at Mobile World Congress. Kudos to the Quick.tv team for picking that as a demo clip.
Anyway I grabbed each clip and added them into the Quick.tv flash editor’s video timeline. Within seconds I was doing the equivalent of what I do when I’m producing video with iMovie — only using the much simplified Quick.tv controls. It works very well. Drag. Drop, point, click done.
There’s a lot of potential here. Theoretically I would be able to upload raw or semi raw footage directly to Quick.tv and use their flash mixer to knock the final production videos together.
No doubt there will be a direct-from-mobile upload facility or maybe even a QIK-style client for Quick.tv soon. Or perhaps a presence on the likes of ShoZu.
I can really imagine taking mobile video at, say, a party — and sending it straight into Quick.tv, so that when I got back to my desktop, I could easily produce a mashup proper edit of the event. I imagine we’ll soon see a Quick.tv send-to-Facebook function.
The beta is most certainly rough around the edges. I ‘got’ the interface more or less immediately but whilst I was playing around I mistakenly lost the video edit I was working on by navigating to another screen.
… But Quick.tv had done a Google. They’d autosaved my work — so I didn’t lose all of it. Smart thinking.
I reckon once they productionise this — and go through the various iterations they’re no doubt planning — it’ll be a genius, genius service.
I’m pretty confident I’d pay for it too. With the next generation of handsets sporting 720p quality HD video I can really see the demand for a nifty online video editing service like Quick. Point and click video editing for the masses. Brilliant!
You can sign-up for a beta code to try the service out at www.quick.tv. I strongly encourage you to do so!
Do follow them on Twitter (@QuickTV) and check out their blog too.
Update: Ok, so the video didn’t embed… I’m not too sure what the problem is yet…
Until the embed code works, you can see the vid here.
Original post by Ewan
Thanks. Looks very interesting. I've just requested an invite, although the site asked me to log in when I went to view your video, so I couldn't watch it.
Thanks. Looks very interesting. I've just requested an invite, although the site asked me to log in when I went to view your video, so I couldn't watch it.