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Free Online Video Editing Software

nicola — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:11:31 +0000

In this mini-guide from iyiz.com, a list of the most popular sites that allow users to edit videos online. Characterizing traits are:

Input file formats: which are the supported file formats of the video that can be edited online.
Output file formats: in which file formats can be saved the videos edited online.
Embedding support: the possibility to post the edited video on any webpage.
Upload from HD, Mobile or URL: whether the videos can be uploaded from the hard disk, mobile phone or URL.
Max video size: the maximum size of the video that can be uploaded.
Transition effects: the capability to add transition effects to separate different video clips.
Audio dubbing: the option to edit audio, reduce noise and add special effects to it.
Titling: the possibility to add titles and captions within the video.
Special video effects: the availability of special video effects that can be applied to the video.
Save video to desktop: the capability to save the edited video on the computer.
Price: information about the cost of the service.

Online Video Editing Tools :

Eyespot

Input file formats: .avi, .mpeg, .mov, DivX, .wmv, .mp3
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD, Mobile or URL: HD and mobile
Max video size: You can upload up to seven items at a time, with a 100 Mb file size limit.
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: YES
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: YES (both Windows and Mac)
Price: free

Eyespot is an online video mixer that makes it easy to upload, organize and share video, photos, and music. It allows you to apply special effect and add transitions to any videos; audio dubbing is supported too. You can also send your cell phone videos to your account via MMS. Eyespot organizes all your videos in albums and lets you embed them in any webpage. Eyespot works on any platform and within any browser.

Link: http://eyespot.com/

Jumpcut

Input file formats: .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .avi, .mov, .wmv, .flv, .rm, 3GP.
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD, Mobile or URL: HD and mobile
Max video size: 100MB
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: YES
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free

Jumpcut is an online video editing and remixing tool that lets you edit your videos, create slideshows and post them on any webpage. You can easily add and arrange content in your movie by dragging and dropping thumbnails, select the best parts of your video clips, change duration for your images, add your music or sound effects, choose transitions, add titles and special effects.

Link: http://www.jumpcut.com/

Motionbox

Input file formats: .avi, .mov, .dv, .mpg, .mp4, .wmv, .asf, and .qt.
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD or URL: HD
Max video size: 100MB per file.
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: NO
Titling: YES
Special video effects: NO
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free

Motionbox is a web-based video editing service that features the ability to link to a very specific point or “segment” within the clip itself. The integrated video sharing support gives users the power to select any number of highlights in their online videos, assign them with tags, and share them with friends, giving Motionbox a temporary space under the spotlight. Motionbox works on the most popular browsers, both with Windows and Mac.

Link: http://www.motionbox.com/

Photobucket

Input file formats: .avi, .mov, .dv, .mpg, .mp4, .wmv, .asf.
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD or URL: HD
Max video size: Max 10 minutes.
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: NO
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free

Photobucket enables video editing within a browser using Flash and lets users remix their photos and home videos with other elements, such as music, video captions, and transitions. Photobucket also provides a simple service that enables you to store, share and publish your visual digital content online. Images and videos can be directly linked from Photobucket to any site.

Link: http://photobucket.com/

StashSpace

Input file formats: .avi .mov .wmv
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD, mobile or URL: HD
Max video size: Not relevant
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: NO
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free with 5 Hours of Video / 500 photos. The Nickel Stash plans costs $5/month or $50/year with10 hours of video / 1,000 photos. The Dime Stash plan costs $10/month or $100/year with 25 Hours of Video / 2,500 photos.

StarterStash is a web-based service that allows you upload, store and edit your videos online. You can also record directly from your camcorder or digital camera with StashPad to create a library of video that you can organize on your local computer and sync with your online StashSpace. You can mash together scenes from any video in your stash to create new movies on the fly.

Link: http://stashspace.com/

Cuts

Input file formats: .flv
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD or URL: URL
Max video size: Not relevant
Transition effects: NO
Audio dubbing: NO
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: NO
Price: free

Cuts is a service that makes it easy to create and share your take of any online video. With Cut it’s only a few clicks to insert sound effects, add captions, loop the best parts and in minutes you can share your creation by embedding it on any webpage and blog, or emailing it to your friends. All you need is the page URL of your favorite video. Cuts works on any platform and within any browser.

Link: http://www.cuts.com/

VideoEgg

Input file formats: .mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .avi, .mov, .wmv, .flv, .rm, 3GP.
Output file formats: .flv
Embedding support: YES
Upload from HD, Mobile or URL: HD
Max video size: N/A
Transition effects: YES
Audio dubbing: N/A
Titling: YES
Special video effects: YES
Save video to desktop: N/A
Price: To be discussed with VideoEgg

If you want to build a video community, VideoEgg is a video editing platform that you can add to create a social network and offers opportunities for monetization. Users can take any file format, from anywhere (their hard drive, web cam, camcorder, etc.) drag it into the editing platform and then create a movie. And thanks to the publishing platform, users are able to edit, add effects, make slide shows, create mash-ups, etc- all within the context of your site.

Link: http://www.videoegg.com/

Consumers Guide to Donor Management Software

nicola — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:34:14 +0000

The Consumers Guide provides you the comparative information you need to narrow down your choices in a fundraising system. The information is divided into two reports:

Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems
- This 48 page report provides an overview of what donor management systems do, recommendations for systems based on particular needs, comparison charts, an Index that provides summaries of all 33 systems and a directory of consultants who can help you navigate your choices. (1.6 MB PDF file)

Detailed Reviews of Low Cost Donor Management Systems
- This 85 page report provides detailed reviews of twelve systems— Common Ground, Donation Director, Donor Perfect, DonorPro, eTapestry, Giftworks, Mission Assist, Neon by Z2, Orange Leap MPX, Sage Fundraising 50, and Total Info. For each system, you find information on each of 127 criteria and a summary chart. (1.6 MB PDF file)

Source: Nonprofit Technology Network – http://nten.org

Reality Browser…?!

nicola — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:41:53 +0000

The World’s First Augmented Reality Browser. Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone.

Layar is available for the T-Mobile G1, HTC Magic and other Android phones in Android Market for the Netherlands. Other countries will be added later. Planned roll-out dates for other countries are not known yet.

How do you use Layar?
By holding the phone in front of you like a camera, information is displayed on top of the camera display view.

For all points of interest which are displayed on the screen, information is shown at the bottom of the screen.

What do you see in the screen?
On top of the camera image (displaying reality) Layar adds content layers. Layers are the equivalent of webpages in normal browsers. Just like there are thousands of websites there will be thousands of layers. One can easily switch between layers by selecting another via the menu button, pressing the logobar or by swiping your finger across the screen.

We offer companies the possibility to publish their own layer in our browser(through an API). Currently several companies have already signed up for Layar and will publish their own content in their branded layer soon. We will share with you soon which layers will be available in your country.

Features of Layar
Layar has some cool features which include:

Switching easily between layers
Radar widget to give you an overview
Logobar to indicate which layer is active
Link through to mobile websites
Integrated map view
Custom filters for each layers (like distance, category, search box)

Who is the team behind Layar?
Layar is developed by SPRXmobile. A Mobile Innovation Company run by Raimo van der Klein, Claire Boonstra & Maarten Lens-FitzGerald.

Free software

nicola — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:31:15 +0000

Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license. The program was written from scratch by Mean, but code from other people and projects has been used as well. Patches, translations and even bug reports are always welcome.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

Amaya

Amaya is a Web editor. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.
Work on Amaya started at W3C in 1996 to showcase Web technologies in a fully-featured Web client. The main motivation for developing Amaya was to provide a framework that can integrate as many W3C technologies as possible. Amaya started as an HTML + CSS style sheets editor. Since that time it was extended to support XML and an increasing number of XML applications such as the XHTML family, MathML, and SVG. It allows all those vocabularies to be edited simultaneously in compound documents.
Amaya includes a collaborative annotation application based on Resource Description Framework (RDF), XLink, and XPointer. Visit the Annotea project home page.

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/

Jahshaka

Imagine if you could…

Edit with flexibility and speed
Create Effects in real time
Animate with unlimited features
Paint and design on moving video
Create music with all the tools the pros use
Work in any format at any resolution

…all while sharing files, projects and clips with users on your network or around the world, and all using a single, open source application where the code is yours… that runs on practically any workstation… Jahshaka v3.0 will let you do this, and much more.

http://jahshaka.org

Playing (?!) the virtual reality

nicola — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:58:59 +0000

from the website: www.intelligencegaming.com

Product: Immersive Cultural Simulation Project

Client: U.S. Military

Challenge:

There is a growing need for the U.S. military to rapidly and effectively train soldiers in increasing their awareness and knowledge of foreign cultures — particularly in the Middle East. When Intelligence Gaming was selected to deliver a training solution to the U.S. Military, we set out with the goals of:

Safely exposing soldiers to real-world cultural situations that involve stress, emotion, and require life or death decision-making.
Preparing personnel who may potentially face real world situations, to become situationally aware of their surroundings.
Enabling military leadership with the ability to assess a soldiers’ readiness prior to their tour of duty in a foreign culture.

Using the RealityV technology, trainees are placed within a completely immersive, 360-degree visual environment supported by state-of-the-art directional, binaural audio. It was recognized early on that existing serious game technology and computer-generated avatars cannot convey the subtleties of human gesture and expression required on this project. RealityV technology delivers an experience second only to “being there.” Through this method of recreating live action, trainees experience stress and are required to make spontaneous and difficult decisions as well as recognize signs of danger.

Solution:

The Immersive Cultural Simulation Project (ICS) is an immersive cultural experience based on RealityV and a customized Adobe Flash Player 10 that runs on nearly all platforms or in enhanced mode with a head mounted display.

Click here to view the embedded video.

> here the extended version: www.effectiveui.com/ig

“Intelligence Gaming delivers virtual training solutions that take you as close to reality as is possible without actually being there. Our focus is on invention and development in the serious games and training applications space.”

Data-profiling… and our privacy?

nikkey — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:10:46 +0000

I like the web. It is a place of freedom, community and knowledge.

However, you must follow some rules and know what goes on when you are sitting in front of your pc.

I am scared by the quantity of information about myself I end up sharing with others – and I don’t know who they are.

They track us down for business. Business is not devil, as Google teaches us, but spying on us every second might be.

If you care about your privacy, have a look at the software below:

TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one’s tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with the Firefox Browser and popular search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN) and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.
SCookies – Share your Cookies!
SCookies simply shares your cookies with other users that enabled it too. It sends your cookies to a centralized server and gets another user’s cookie in return. By doing so, your profile will then be built on many other user’ search queries, thus the profiles are not realiable.
It is a Firefox extension.
Scroogle is a web service that disguises the Internet address of users who want to run Google searches anonymously. Scroogle also gives users the option of having all communication between their computer and the search page be SSL encrypted.
Besides anonymous searches, the tool allows users to perform Google searches without receiving Google advertisements. There is support for 28 languages, and the tool is available as a browser plug-in. A secure connection to the Scroogle website is also possible.
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.