Video Editing Tool

I just came across this video editing site: Cuts- Share your Take. It is still in beta, but looks promising for teachers, since it is entirely web based. As the site states:

“No downloading, uploading or install required.”

What is Cuts?

Cuts is a service that makes it easy to create and share your take of any online video. With our easy CutMaker, it’s only a few clicks to insert sound effects, add captions, loop the best parts, and skip the boring stuff — and in minutes you can share your creation by embedding it on your MySpace page and blog, or emailing it to your friends. All you need is the page URL of your favorite video and something to say.

To try it out, I quickly pasted a URL of a short video that I had created last year. The interface seems pretty straight forward and intuitive.

One can add Sounds, like:

• gasp
• Yes
• Applause
• Muting
• Eww
• Baby crying
• Baby laughing
• Tada
• etc.

Then there is a possibility of adding CAPTIONS. Which again let’s me think of many new ways to integrate this tool in the classroom.

• Karaokee
• Explanations of an experiment
• Emphasis of on-screen activity
• Visual of an explanation (ex. Math)
• Spelling of Homophones (ESL or foreign language)
• Journaling
• Background or additional Information of topic discussed online

With SKIP/LOOP you can hide or repeat a scene.

As with any application that aspires to be a good Web 2.0 tool, there is the option of saving the cut with tags to share with others.

So far I wish the application would also include more of the typical movie editing tools, such as transitions and effects. I am having a hard time sometimes to keep all the different tools together that I want/need to use in order to edit my movies. Can’t someone come up with one Mega web based, free (of course) video editing tool that let’s me do EVERYTHING in one place?

Other web based movie editing tools that I am planning on exploring. Any feedback and suggestions to other sites are appreciated:

• Jumpcut
• Movie Masher
• Bubble Ply Add Bubbles to any video, Post it anywhere you wish!
• EyeSpot Use the Mixer to edit and combine your videos, photos and music online. Share mixes by email, blog, download or cell phone for free!