Eyespot – AJAX App for Video Editing

Dietrich Kappe, Monday, July 17, 2006 @ 9:00 am

We've see AJAX bringing typical desktop applications like digital image editing (ala Photoshop) to the web. Video editing may seem like an upload too far, but as long as you keep the upload clips small, you can do some useful things with the Beta release of Eyespot. You can upload your clips, tag them, search for other clips. Trim them, assemble them via drag and drop with other clips into a timeline, apply effects and transitions, add a soundtrack and add title slides. You won't be able to edit The Godfather with this thing, but for some quick editing of a camera phone clip, it does the trick.

The application is a mix of multi-page and single-page, i.e., each major function -- selecting a clip, editing a clip, etc. -- is a seperate page, while actions within that page happen in a single-page AJAX manner. Under the hood, the application seems to be based on Rico, a venerable AJAX framework that I've neglected so far (I guess I figured everyone already knew about it).

Related posts:

1. “Ajax overhaul, Part 4: Retrofit existing sites with jQuery and Ajax forms” now live at IBM developerWorks
2. YouTube Killed the Video Star
3. Zohowriter – an Ajax based word processor
4. Google Maps for Mobile – Not AJAX?
5. Ajax Forms – Enhancing the user experience

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