So you've shot your masterpiece, but it's a little rough around the edges. If you have any hope of winning that Oscar, you're going to need to do a little editing. But renting out an editing bay means thousands of dollars and figuring out what all the shortcut keys on the Avid keyboard do. But wait, you're in luck! Friday evening, YouTube launched their new video editing tool: YouTube Remixer, in partnership with Adobe. Avid it's not, but perhaps it's just what you need to turn your raw vacation footage into Spielberg or Coppola.
Unfortunately, YouTube's Remixer debuted to some rather tepid reviews, in part because it is more or less the same software Adobe rolled out with Photobucket in March. But wait, you're in luck again! There are a bunch of other online video editing tools, and we'll take a brief look at some of them below (though again, don't expect Avid).
Jumpcut lets you upload video, photos, and audio, or import from Flickr or Facebook, and edit using a Flash interface. Add titles, effects, transitions, music, and split and crop video tracks. Then publish your video and let others remix it. Jumpcut also has some social networking features (like groups). Jumpcut is probably the best of the online video editors, though I really wish there was a way to export videos off the site.
Of the bunch, Jumpcut's editor most resembles the feel of offline editors, like iMovie.
Eyespot is a full featured editor like Jumpcut. It lets you upload video, photos, and audio and then add transitions, effects, titles, and music. The editor isn't as attractive and easy to use, in my opinion, as Jumpcut's, but Eyespot offers a good deal of free media sets from partners like The Colbert Report, Public Enemy, and Dreamworks Pictures.
Movie Masher lets web site owners offer editing and remixing capabilities to their visitors via a sophisticated flash widget, which can be customized to match the look of your web site. The editing tools allow you to sequence and trim clips, add effects, transitions, titles, and music, using a familiar timeline editor.
Cuts lets you import video from MySpace, YouTube, and Google video (or anywhere you can get the direct .FLV URL) and then make your own "cut" by removing scenes, looping scenes, and adding captions and sound effects.
Mojiti isn't a video editing tool in the way that the YouTube Remixer, Jumpcut, Eyespot, Movie Masher, or even Cuts are, but it still probably warrants a mention in this round up. Instead, Mojiti lets you annotate videos you import from just about any video site out there. You can use it to add properly timed titles, captions, or translations to videos.
You could use Mojiti to put lyrics on a music video, for example.
Vidavee Graffiti lets you add effects to YouTube videos (like cartoon speech bubbles, titles, and frames). I found the interface kind of clumsy and hard to use, but maybe you'll have better luck.
muveeMix is a way to arrange your videos and photos to music, add titles and credits and export them to your blog or social network profile. It doesn't offer nearly as much control as, say, Jumpcut, but isn't as complicated either.
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Everytime I see new 2.0 apps I start to think that maybe now having a good internet connection is better than having a good computer because the tools run online!
Andrea
Posted by: Andrea Vascellari | June 18, 2007 10:32 PM
Have you heard of Bubbleply - i came across it about 2 months ago. It does similar things to the sites you mention. Closer to Mojiti i think since like you say you can do a bunch of stuff on alot of different sites. Personally I tried Mojiti and liked Bubbleply better - easier interface, but both are very cool.
Posted by: Dabeyo | June 19, 2007 12:13 AM
These online video editing tools are really great for simple straight cuts and titling.
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Posted by: anthony | June 19, 2007 6:38 AM
I heard from a reliable source that Jumpcut is working on different methods for exporting rendered video.. Stay tuned.
Posted by: Ben Long | June 19, 2007 10:39 AM
I personally use Jumpcut. I prefer it among the others because it combines richness of features (considering it's a web based editor) and a really user-friendly interface.
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Thanks for gathering all those helpful sites!
Posted by: Daniel | June 19, 2007 3:23 PM
Great tools you have here...
Posted by: cenourinha | June 19, 2007 5:06 PM
great list, I have all ready used cuts and it's cool
Posted by: Car Parts Guy | June 20, 2007 2:30 AM
theirs videoegg as well
Posted by: Live Television Anyone | June 20, 2007 5:57 AM
jumpcut is awesome, I'm glad it was mentioned!
Posted by: Motorcycle Guy | June 21, 2007 2:31 PM
My company Toonamation has developed tech for automatic video to cartoon conversion. It's not available for online videos yet, but we're looking for partners to make that happen. We have a bunch of sample output demos up at http://toonamation.com
Posted by: Toonerstan | June 21, 2007 3:17 PM
Technology wise Yahoo's Jumpcut looks pretty neat but the question is.. at what cost.. is the technology being pushed to it's limits?
Ever wonder why Google passed Yahoo in the dust in terms of search engine popularity? Because Google did not fight the technology the way Yahoo is doing, instead Google simply used technology in ways it worked so efficiently and smoothly, this is something you do not see with Yahoo, as far as Yahoo is concerned, it is all about more and more and more features... Here's my point..
Remember those "old-school" cowboy movies where the cowboy says.. " i don't like it.. to many moving parts ".. that concept still applies to everything humanity does..
Jumpcut and Youtube is great and there is another rising star which should not be ignored, that is "Motiono" here's a link : http://en.sevenload.com/videos/Ocb9YNx/Motiono-com-3
Posted by: Motiono | June 25, 2007 5:48 AM
Thanks for the nice mention of Movie Masher. FYI, the system has just been released under a free, open source license (MPL 1.1).
Posted by: Movie Masher | July 2, 2007 6:43 PM
there are great tools out there that are yet to become available for the general public to use and enjoy, Yahoo Jumpcut is demonstrating this with their newest features and so on, also on Motiono the uploading is so quick you can quickly upload and embed a video onto your blog or web site within minutes, without the wait for video to be converted and etc.. Most other video sharing web sites other than Motiono usually make you wait for the conversion however i think this problem will soon be solved for most video sharing sites with the help of Adobe and their new tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro.
Posted by: Motiono | July 4, 2007 5:55 PM
Hi!
Do you know any good and free video editing software that you can download and use offline?
Thanks.
Posted by: inspiroi | July 25, 2007 12:22 PM
Yep, try Avid FreeDV: http://avid.com/products/freedv/index.asp
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