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YouTube offers online editing tools

YouTube is attempting to keep up with some of its competitors by offering video editing capabilities to its users via an online editing tool provided by Adobe Systems. The tool, dubbed "remixer", will allow users to easily create more professional looking videos by splicing together media such as video clips, photos, music, graphics and other effects, according to information found on the site.

Photobucket and Yahoo Video already offer similar services to users. Yahoo acquired Jumpcut last September, a pioneer in Internet-based editing tools. Photobucket launched an Abode-branded editor back in February. The online editing tools cater well to amateurs, particularly users who have just discovered digital video production in general.



Sites like YouTube have sparked a broad interest in the creation of professional-looking videos, with users of the sites often competing with each other or commenting on each others video editing/effects skills. This has created an opportunity for the developers of video editing software to market low-priced tools that can perform tasks that would cater well to amateur web video creators.

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Written by: James Delahunty @ 16 Jun 2007 17:32

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• 8 comments

• scott2k7

  nice might use it one day
  dont ya just use windows movie maker for that or is this helpin people with macs?

  17.6.2007 11:51 #1

• thelox714

  any newer mac comes with iLife. it does all that for you...
  and it is not expensive for everything it does.
  
  http://www.apple.com/ilife/

  17.6.2007 21:38 #2

• ZippyDSM

  YouTube is improving their service its, I love the comment approval system,its a shame while it might be neat they have odd rules and will remove random vids, between stifling fun and the media mafiaa YT days are numbered.

  18.6.2007 05:35 #3

• georgeluv

  youtube needs to:
  
  1. get higher quality video
  
  2. start paying the uploaders of orginal content

  18.6.2007 11:58 #4

• ray963

  Originally posted by thelox714:any newer mac comes with iLife. it does all that for you...
  and it is not expensive for everything it does.
  
  " target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/ilife/[/quote]
  
  but it does not with flash based technique, adobe alway do great works people never in mind

  19.6.2007 07:38 #5

• scott2k7

  Originally posted by georgeluv:youtube needs to:
  
  1. get higher quality video
  
  2. start paying the uploaders of orginal content
  quality? its the recorder not you-tube also the vids should have to pass a test to get onto if its crap quality

  19.6.2007 08:39 #6

• borhan9

  Online video editing will kinda compete with software packages that do this. I guess this is how the world is turning.

  21.6.2007 17:32 #7

• ZippyDSM

  Quote:Originally posted by georgeluv:youtube needs to:
  
  1. get higher quality video
  
  2. start paying the uploaders of orginal content
  quality? its the recorder not you-tube also the vids should have to pass a test to get onto if its crap qualityYT encodes at a low bitrate ontop of a limited resolution,I have noticed longer vids 7-10 min hold better qauilty than 1-3 min vids do.
  
  of course the online editing stuff wont super limit your vids but you wont get super quality either.

  21.6.2007 18:03 #8