{"id":10716,"date":"2014-01-09T08:03:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2014-01-09T08:03:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T16:03:39","slug":"social-filmmaking-do-people-actually-want-to-make-videos-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/social-filmmaking-do-people-actually-want-to-make-videos-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Social filmmaking: Do people actually *want* to make videos together?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019d think so, right? Weddings, concerts, school projects, etc. could all be made so much more interesting through varied points of view. And yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mixbit.com\">MixBit<\/a> (the YouTube founders\u2019 way to share &amp; combine short clips) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/siteinfo\/mixbit.com\">cratered<\/a>, and I haven\u2019t seen <a href=\"http:\/\/jumpcam.com\">JumpCam<\/a>\u00a0(&#8220;Just start a video and invite others to add their own clips\u201d) or <a href=\"http:\/\/cameo.tv\">Cameo<\/a>\u00a0(which enables easy pooling) take off.<\/li>\n<li>I likewise haven\u2019t seen much traction for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wevideo.com\">WeVideo<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vidmaker.com\">Vidmaker<\/a>, or other hosted collaborative video editors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4_PI-PqJARk\">Groovideo<\/a> made it easy to for groups of friends to contribute clips (e.g. to make a birthday card), but they died.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vyclone.com\">Vyclone<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/streamweaver.com\">Streamweaver<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/rashomonproject.org\/experimental\/\">Rashomon Project<\/a> take an interesting approach, auto-aligning simultaneously shot clips (e.g. from a concert) to easily create a multi-cam shoot, but I\u2019ve yet to see anyone I know use them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The bigger question, of course, is how much do people want to make videos <em>at all?<\/em> I think it\u2019s safe to say that&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most people like to capture videos on their phones, and they&#8217;ll watch\/show <em>some<\/em> of these via the phone.<\/li>\n<li>Only a fraction of those people will upload even a fraction of those vids.<\/li>\n<li>Only a fraction of <em>those<\/em>\u00a0will get combined into multi-shot videos.<\/li>\n<li>Instagram has helped far more people create multi-shot videos. (I\u2019m less convinced that any appreciable number of people <em>make<\/em> rather than just <em>watch<\/em> Vines, but feel free to prove me wrong.)<\/li>\n<li>Watching one\u2019s own (often dull) footage to pull out good parts is laborious. Watching other people\u2019s dull footage is likely even worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, will we see widespread social filmmaking in the future? Will totally automated upload + <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2013\/10\/automatic-videos-do-you-care.html\">automatic video creation<\/a> move the needle? I\u2019m curious to hear your take.\u00a0Do you have a problem here that you care about having solved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019d think so, right? Weddings, concerts, school projects, etc. could all be made so much more interesting through varied points of view. And yet&#8230; MixBit (the YouTube founders\u2019 way to share &amp; combine short clips) cratered, and I haven\u2019t seen JumpCam\u00a0(&#8220;Just start a video and invite others to add their own clips\u201d) or Cameo\u00a0(which enables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}