Coolest video-editing toys I've seen in a long time...

[jducoeur]

Thanks to Aaron for the pointer to this remarkable little movie from Adobe. Suffice it to say, they figured out a reasonably simple and elegant mechanism for object-tracking in video -- and then started playing with what you can do with that technology. "Graffiti" that tracks objects in the video; drag-and-drop manipulation of the video timeline; even quick and easy video fumetti.

If Adobe doesn't commercialize this quickly, they're fools. The techies and artists would *love* this stuff: if the tool operates as illustrated, it brings a lot of clever and useful power to the end user. I'd bet good money that they'd see a million downloads of the tool in a week, and it would probably become a routine tool for the YouTube crowd. (And if they opened up the back end properly, I suspect that folks would quickly come up with a hundred more applications...)

Comments

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Pretty kewl (said the non-programmer in the crowd). How long before this stuff becomes so ubiquitous it's just assumed? I'd bet not very long at all.

Of course, it also brings up all the ethical questions that are attached to photoshopping stills, doesn't it?