When I did the off the cuff reviews of the 2 sites yesterday, I was just trying to mix a couple small clips into something to show friends. I wasn’t trying to be fancy. I wasn’t trying to find bugs and break things. In both cases I understood that they where Beta and that I’d run into niggling details. What I didn’t expect was the outcome.
With JumpCut I found the tutorial a little… well light on substance and heavy on demeaning, but I was able to deal with it. The fact he kept going over the fact you hit the magnifying glass to zoom in on a clip is important… But I would of just loved more detail. But it didn’t color my judgment and I still was able to muddle through and as I noted I was able to work out the few bugs I ran across. The interface wasn’t extremely laggy, it just wasn’t as quick as YouTubes. The titles do allow editing, it’s just that they aren’t as easy and as powerful as the YouTube Remixer ones… just perhaps a bit better variety.
Now with YouTube the issues I had meant the project didn’t get done. I understand its a video sharing site and that’s why they don’t have picture upload, but it would of been nice to have some way to add custom photos. Also the videos played fine separately as individual clips, the interface just had issues with them, and refused to let me add them to the time line to do ANYTHING with them. So I WILL revisit the YouTube Remixer later… perhaps after they announce it actually works.
Tags: Interesting, Review, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
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