But wait.
There's even more.
Edit now and we'll throw in a year's subscription to Video Editors 'R' Us, a bottle of cola and a package of Mentos.
:-)

Mike

great deal man. where do i sign?

can i get app for that as well?

It seems like this should be able to work from a Netbook. I wonder at what the end quality would be seeing as you would be editing video in a compressed uploadable format and it would need to be rerendered again after that.

You guys laugh, but mark my words, within 5 to 7 years there will be a GOOD online video editor. Video editing is the last "holy grail" of what can (or cannot) be done online, yet.

OK, maybe 10 years, mark those words.

Anyway, at some point in the somewhat near future, online video editing will be common and good.

Maybe Google will buy Sony and Vegas will be in the clouds. :)

And by that time a lot of us will be retired and won't care :-)

I can see it now.

(spoken in a Scotty from Star Trek voice):

"Computer. Take this 10 hours of out of focus, missing audio, improperly white balanced shaky cam footage and make it into an Oscar-winning film."

Mike

Maybe a lot of you will be retired, but that won't mean that the new generation of video editors won't reap the benefits of it.

I'm sure just the thought of this actually being a workable option is laughable to many of you, but I could list dozens of things that most people didn't dream would be done on computers or in "the could".

Youtube's been around just over 10 years now, before that, there wasn't that much video at all online. Yeah, some, but really, not much. Docs and spreadsheets online now, image editors online, voice and phone online, etc.

Think of it this way, and this might make some of you see the light, and this is my opinion, the ONLY real thing holding back online video editing is the bandwidth needed to transfer the initial files to the cloud.

The cuts, transitions, audio, multiple tracks, effects, and everything else could be done on the server side online.

Then, imagine the possibilities for example of using Google's servers as a render farm to then completely render your video to a high-def format in a fraction of the time it takes you now with your "super fancy high speed PC".

I take back the 10 year timeframe I gave originally and change it back to 5 now that I think about it more.

Here's a sample I made just now to test it (yeah, it sucks I know)

Example done with Youtube's video editor[/link]

Note: It was about as easy as editing AVCHD locally. :) Just kidding, it pretty much sucked, but hey, gotta start somewhere!