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Kids love YouTube, but video is currently very one-dimensional - play, rewind, fast-forward. In contrast, the Facebook "timeline" is actually a multimedia narrative, weaving in conversations, status updates, links to friends and so on. Your task is to make a non-linear version of YouTube, in which videos can be mixed with each other, and with text and drawings, allowing each user to create their own narrative storyline. The architecture to support arbitrary non-linear combinations of different media will be a technical challenge. You could model it on the SuperCollider system for sound and music synthesis, which constructs a graph of unit generators passing data streams between them, to allow filters, blends and graphic overlays. Start with a locally-hosted version, and think about a cloud service version (probably with lots of local media caching) as an extension.
Kids love YouTube, but video is currently very one-dimensional - play, rewind, fast-forward. In contrast, the Facebook "timeline" is actually a multimedia narrative, weaving in conversations, status updates, links to friends and so on. Your task is to make a non-linear version of YouTube, in which videos can be mixed with each other, and with text and drawings, allowing each user to create their own narrative storyline. The architecture to support arbitrary non-linear combinations of different media will be a technical challenge. You could model it on the SuperCollider system for sound and music synthesis, which constructs a graph of unit generators passing data streams between them, to allow filters, blends and graphic overlays. Start with a locally-hosted version, and think about a cloud service version (probably with lots of local media caching) as an extension.
Yet another alternative:
Architecture for a Video Facebook
Kids love YouTube, but video is currently very one-dimensional - play, rewind, fast-forwards. In contrast, the Facebook "timeline" is actually a multimedia narrative, weaving in conversations, status updates, links to friends and so on. Your task is to make a video alternative to Facebook, in which videos can be mixed with each other, and with text and drawings, allowing users to create their own narrative storyline - almost like a personalised video game (imagine a Mashup of Sims 3 and Little Big Planet 3). The architecture to support arbitrary non-linear combinations of different media will be a technical challenge. You could model it on the SuperCollider synthesis server for realtime networked music, but substituting (possibly low-res) video and graphics streams for audio data, and image blends or overlays for audio filters. Start with a locally-hosted version, and think about a cloud service version (probably with lots of local media caching) as an extension.


===2015 project===
===2015 project===


[[Micro-friends video diary]]
[[Micro-friends video diary]]

Revision as of 16:09, 5 November 2015

Contact: Richie Jones <richard.jones16@boeing.com>

2016

My suggestion:

Non-linear Video Synthesis

Digital video-editing suites such as Adobe Premiere and Apple iMovie are stuck in a 20th century linear film model: a sequence of clips is joined end-to-end, possibly with overlap transitions. However in today's films, live action and digital graphics are far more integrated, often with animated characters and blue screen footage composed onto a live video scene overlaid with simulated weather. We already have tools for digital music production that blend many overlapping tracks, some live and some synthesised, with many concurrent filters and effects. Your task is to build a system for creating non-linear combinations of video source material, animations and filters. You should model it on the SuperCollider system for sound and music synthesis, which constructs a graph of unit generators passing data streams between them.

Another alternative:

YouTube meets Facebook

Kids love YouTube, but video is currently very one-dimensional - play, rewind, fast-forward. In contrast, the Facebook "timeline" is actually a multimedia narrative, weaving in conversations, status updates, links to friends and so on. Your task is to make a non-linear version of YouTube, in which videos can be mixed with each other, and with text and drawings, allowing each user to create their own narrative storyline. The architecture to support arbitrary non-linear combinations of different media will be a technical challenge. You could model it on the SuperCollider system for sound and music synthesis, which constructs a graph of unit generators passing data streams between them, to allow filters, blends and graphic overlays. Start with a locally-hosted version, and think about a cloud service version (probably with lots of local media caching) as an extension.

Yet another alternative:

Architecture for a Video Facebook

Kids love YouTube, but video is currently very one-dimensional - play, rewind, fast-forwards. In contrast, the Facebook "timeline" is actually a multimedia narrative, weaving in conversations, status updates, links to friends and so on. Your task is to make a video alternative to Facebook, in which videos can be mixed with each other, and with text and drawings, allowing users to create their own narrative storyline - almost like a personalised video game (imagine a Mashup of Sims 3 and Little Big Planet 3). The architecture to support arbitrary non-linear combinations of different media will be a technical challenge. You could model it on the SuperCollider synthesis server for realtime networked music, but substituting (possibly low-res) video and graphics streams for audio data, and image blends or overlays for audio filters. Start with a locally-hosted version, and think about a cloud service version (probably with lots of local media caching) as an extension.

2015 project

Micro-friends video diary