techcrunch.com — DimP, a direct manipulation video player, lets users drag items on the video screen to move forward and back instead of just via a scroll bar on the bottom of the video. This is not only more fun, but it also allows users to scroll through video to where they want to be ?at least two times faster
May 23, 2008 View in Crawl 4
obkenobiMay 23, 2008
I want to see this implemented on ***porn.com as soon as possible.That was not sarcasm.
h4ppydotcomMay 24, 2008
It is not a method for changing the video or magically turning a linear video into an interactive/3D environment.What it IS, is a very interesting development that (provided it can become robust enough) I am fairly sure will quickly become a standard enhancement for video seek bars in the near future. Personally, though, I think it's important to keep the seek bar on the screen so you can see the (linear) effect of dragging the on-screen objects.My question is this, though: what happens when the same 'object' oscillates in the video or moves backwards and forwards? E.g. in the example it shows a spring at about 42secs. When it is dragged up and down the video seeks back and forwards in a small part of the video (one oscillation). What if I want to seek forward by, say, 5 oscillations?Perhaps holding down a key and dragging (or right-click-dragging) could be used to mean "always seek forwards if you can"?
thehmMay 24, 2008
Before this becomes useful online, they need to reduce the size of the motion path files: in one of the examples they provide, a 57 second video clip of 1.30MB has a motion path file of 5.1MB.
guiseMay 24, 2008
This would be even more awesome if integrated with touchscreen tech
honoredmuleMay 24, 2008
Someone skipped the "next week" part.
pfwdMay 27, 2008
I think it could have a lot of uses in video security but maybe not so much use as an online tool
dtinthJun 8, 2008
I wish it on YouTube someday. But before that I wish that Flash handles keyframes better.
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