Kaltura
Jan 18th, 2008 by Administrator
I found out about Kaltura, the embeddable, collaborative, video webware at New Tee Vee.
After you sign up Kaltura provides you a video editor that resembles imovie to either create/edit your own movies or collaborate with other members to make a community movie using your own clips or other video available on YouTube, MySpace, Flickr (photos) Photobucket, your webcam and video from your computer. Some of the community video on the Kaltura site is pretty trippy. Unfortunately Kaltura does not support Google video which limits its use here. I thought this might be a way for you to share the favorite parts of your poetry videos which are unfortunately on Google Video. Oh well, this tool does work well for Youtube video tho.
The movies you create are embeddable but as of this typing I haven’t figured it out how to embed them here because I’m a widget dependent code spaz. Duh, I just figured out after a year using WordPress that I have to disable the WYSIWYG editor when pasting the code into an entry.
Having said that, the online editor works smoothly and surprisingly like imovie. I hate imovie btw but I’m amazed that there’s that much functionality in an ONLINE editor. Don’t be intimidated if you’ve never used any video editing software before. There’s tutorials on the site that should get you going within minutes. The interface feels solid almost as if it was a client. In comparison the YouTube online editor is light years behind in usability. Below is my favorite part (the cadenza) of Haydn Hand Job, a movie of mine on YouTube.
