Mixing It Up with Yahoo! Research Berkeley
As those in the Bay Area may know, today marks the beginning of the 49th annual San Francisco International Film Festival, which shines a spotlight on great independent film projects from all over the world.
This year is a special one for us because the Festival features a web-based video remixer prototype created by Yahoo! Research Berkeley, in partnership with San Francisco Film Society and San Francisco State University Institute for Next Generation Internet.
So, what is this thing? International Remix enables you to create your very own movie mashups. Go crazy with creativity and re-edit, remix and mash-up film selections from this year’s festival into 1-minute remixes. You can then post your remixes to the
We want to especially thank all the directors — from Brazil, Canada, England, Macedonia, the Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, and the United States — who agreed to allow parts of their films to be sliced and diced by the world’s remixers (that’s you, us, anyone and everyone).
We’ve had fun flexing our media hacking muscles to build this research prototype over the past month and hope you’ll try it. Our team leader, Brian Williams, and his wife, had another baby right smack dab in the middle of development, so you could say we’ve experienced a couple of births as the same time. But what we’re really excited about is seeing what remixes you come up with and what we can learn from you to further our research.
So, what are you waiting for? Here’s your chance to be a film director and have your remix played on the big screen next Monday at the Edinburgh Castle. If you have any ideas, complaints, comments, feedback or just want to chat about the remixer, please let us know!
Happy remixing!
Jeannie Yang and Ryan Shaw
Yahoo! Research Berkeley
PS ‘ for more, head on over to Ryan’s blog.
I really enjoyed using this remixer. I was a director in the SFFIF 2003, so I appreciate the fact that the creators of these films allowed us to manipulate their work for this project. I look forward to viewing the highlights at the Edinburgh. Congratulations on the nice interaction design.
Remixer is a brilliant idea and artfully executed. One of the most powerful web applications I have ever seen. I can’t wait until this type of editing sees larger exposure.
Little tools like these are the happy feet of larger platforms.
I hope this emerges as an official Yahoo product. It has great possibilities.
This is brilliant!
Imagine a tool like this incorporated with Yahoo!’s own version of Google Video. Editing and remixing all the vids that people upload…
Ooh, the possibilities!?!?