An online tool to make more dynamic video clips
This online tool would appear to not only
have significant potential to make videos more dynamic, but is also great fun
to experiment with! Mozilla Popcorn Maker is an online tool that makes it possible
to combine video with content pulled directly from the web including everything
from text, links and maps to pictures and live feeds. The creators’ aim was to
take “video beyond the box” citing that the only change in videos after a
decade on the web has been the size of the box and the quality of the picture!
Popcorn Maker is free to use and claims to
work in all browsers (although my web browser apparently “lacks some
functionality expected by Popcorn Maker to function properly”!). Working with
timelines just as you do when editing video, web events are pulled into the
timeline as opposed to clips.
For example, you can include a live feed
from Flickr by dragging the Flickr option into the timeline and it will pull in
images off the web according to the selected tags. As it is a live feed, it will be different
every time you access the video. Other options to include on the timeline, and
therefore in the video clip, are Google Maps, Wikipedia, pop-ups, Twitter and
images.
In short, it means that videos created like
this can work just like the web; dynamic, full of links and completely
remixable. Definitely worth a look! To see some
examples of what can be done or to take a tutorial, go to the Popcorn Maker website.
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