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Top Video Sharing Services:
Eyespot
Appeal:
Easy-to-use video uploading and
remixing.
Interface: Bright and
colorful. Tagging, forums, groups.
Not a lot of community features.
Editing: Trim beginning and
end, reorder clips on a timeline,
add music and photos.
Sharing: Post to a group,
invite a friend to the service (but
not directly to your clip).
Verdict: Uploading
straightforward and painless.
But:
25MB filesize limit too
small. Mashup features fall short
of Grouper's "groovies," and it's
not even in the same ballpark as
Jumpcut when it comes to mixing and
editing. Not a lot of reason to use
Eyespot, in its current incarnation.
Google
Video
Appeal: It's Google.
Interface: Typically clean
and sparse Google layout. Uploading
requires you download the Google
Video Uploader. Allows you to add
plenty of metadata, including a
transcript. You can monetize your
content by assigning a sale price to
each clip (you can also give users a
"day pass," giving them access to
the content for a limited time, but
not ownership).
Editing: None.
Sharing: See below.
Verdict: Google Video
requires a "video verification"
process, where your submission is
reviewed to ensure it conforms to
Google's technical standards and
legal policies. This process "may
take several days," so check back
for an update.
Grouper
Appeal: YouTube with a
file-sharing application built on
top.
Interface: For full
functionality, requires an
application download. Windows Media
Player-based (converts other
formats). Ratings, tagging, groups,
RSS feeds.
Editing: Create mashups of
your videos and photos, set to music
("groovies").
Sharing: Post direct to
myspace, friendster, eBay. Download
to hard drive, iPod.
Verdict: "Groovies" are easy
to create and could be very
popular.
But:
File-sharing application seems
half-baked (and is undifferentiated
from existing options). "Groovies"
will prove much more popular if they
can be built online without having
to download the app. E-mail
registration system was a pain; had
to do it twice to get confirmed.
After several hours, my file was
still unavailable, as the service
was still "upload processing."
Jumpcut
Appeal:
Create,
edit, and remix video online.
Interface: Slick interface
feels more like an application than
a web page. Scales all videos to a
larger size than other sites, but
videos don't autoplay and there is
no indication of what portion of the
video has already been downloaded.
Editing: Bar-none the best
editing options of the bunch.
Splice your footage, reorder the
shots, add music, photos,
transitions, even effects--think
iMovie in an online interface.
Very, very slick.
Sharing: Email to a friend,
embed in a web page (worked
flawlessly in Wordpress).
Verdict: Playing with
Jumpcut's features, you immediately
understand that the future of online
video is here. No current
competitor can touch it.
But:
Get too effects crazy and your video
slows down. Jumpcut doesn't
re-render your files with every
remix--which leaves the original
video quality intact--but playback
of edited files is not perfectly
smooth. Don't throw out iMovie just
yet.
Video
Sites:
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Google Video
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YouTube
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iFilm
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Vimeo
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Metacafe
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Bolt (for Audio
& Video)
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Bofunk
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Break
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Jumpcut
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Current TV
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MySpace Video
Code
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Revver
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FreeVideoBlog
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Streetfire
Videos
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Crossroad Videos
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Anime Episodes
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Dropshots
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VideoEgg
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