Thursday, March 5, 2009

Audio/Visual Creations on Mobile Devices

People have always liked doing Audio/Visual work. By this, I mainly mean movies. There are all kinds of hardware to record video and sound and software to edit video and sound. Not only videos recorded, but also animations that are made from scratch and drawing. But these take quite a bit of RAM, and a lot of input controls. But what if we could do these on mobile devices? Cell phones already record video today, why can't we edit video on them? Well, for one, screens are rather small, and input is very limited. There are many input devices that can be used for editing video such as mice, hotkeys, and even drawing pads which show up on a screen.

To solve this, the members of the Nokia research center developed a method of input which should allow for complex editing of media which is possible on mobile devices.

Basically, there are many toolbars and palettes when editing. On a computer, we have a huge screen of upwards of 27 inches which can handle everything including colors, sound, video, etc. On a mobile device, the interface isn't so easy because everything will be much smaller including the animation/video we are editting.
As you can see, basically we will rotate between toolbars, palettes, and the picture on the mobile device. For example, the top left image is our video. Top right is the screen where we can add sound. The bottom left screen is where we have an object added to the video and we can drag it around and such and place it on the video. The bottom right is where we can add in frames. So to handle the smaller screen for the interface, we have many different pages we can scroll through to perform many different actions. This is a great solution to do work on a small screen while at the same time retaining all of the features.

3 comments:

  1. Mobile devices are becoming more and more capable these days. This is pretty cool, although I'd be more inclined to work on a full size machine rather than a smartphone or PDA.

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  2. Through such advancements as 3G people can now upload videos directly from their phone to Youtube and other media sites. This creates the need to do at least basic video editing directly on the phone. Most notably clipping and splicing.

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  3. Video editing on my cell phone? Why not! It might work in a pinch but I would really like to see the kind of video that is so compelling that you absolutely cannot wait to edit it before you get home.

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