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I created a Quick.tv demo video edit in 30 seconds

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

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