Multimedia Editing From The Comfort Of Your Web

The power of Flash has expanded considerably in recent times; the introduction of Flash MX about five years ago (aka Flash 6) saw the program implement viable full-motion video support. This functionality has now been extended to such a degree that one can actually edit audio and video in a Web browser…

On the audio side of things, Splice is an online music networking site that allows users to remix each other’s work and share their own. The interface is very impressive, and looks very much like an offline multitrack sequencer. As well as allowing you to pencil in note changes (in the familar MIDI style) it also allows for real-time effects application – flanger, chorus, delay – if you have the bandwidth. You can also save your work in progress and browse through the database for samples to use.

Similar networking principles apply to the online video editor at Jumpcut. Here you can select a few clips created by other users (and/or upload your own) and splice them into oblivion. The ease with which anyone can create a visual mashup here is quite remarkable. Such browser power would have been inconceivable not so long ago – in fact, Jumpcut can do things online now that only video professionals would have been able to do on an offline computer fifteen years ago. Although Jumpcut and Splice are still a long way away from competing with offline software, these advances in media technology may be an indication that we have barely scraped the surface of what the Internet can become.



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