millsworks

UPDATE: Check the bottom of this post for a July 19 update.

This is just a test of the new Kaltura plugin.

video management, video solution, video streaming

I’m just farting around here so please bear with me. Kaltura is a new open source video company that provides software and services that allow for the easy posting, uploading and online editing of video. This is pretty cool shit for independent bloggers because it allows for communities to develop and grow where video, and not just text, becomes the means by which ideas are expressed and shared.

It’s sort of like what you can do through YouTube; posting your own video comments connected to other videos, but running it all from your own web pages. The variety of options (free & paid) available are overwhelming and I’m only just getting my head wrapped around them. Using it here and now was dead simple - it’s just a Wordpress plugin that allows me a pantload of options. Very cool.

The video above has been posted here using Kaltura but the video source itself is from archive.org. It’s Superman and the Mechanical Monsters, an old Fleischer Bros. cartoon that is now in the public domain. One of the unique things about this particular cartoon is it was one of the key sources of inspiration for Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow; in fact you can spot some sequences that were reproduced in the Sky Captain feature virtually shot for shot.

I’ll blab more about Kultura and Open Video later.

Cheers.

UPDATE: ReadWriteWeb reports on Wikipedia going forward with open source video - in concert with Kaltura - and the possibilities inherent in such an expansive library of shared knowledge being wrought in video is making my head spin. More later.

Tags: cool shit, Kaltura, millsworks, one of these days I'm going to have most of this stuff figured out, open video, public domain, sky captain, superman

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