Thursday, February 1, 2018
Magisto
Magisto
So Ive been terribly busy lately but I noticed something at CES this year.
Magisto.
Whats that?
"Magisto automatically turns plain videos to beautifully edited and produced Movies, perfect for sharing."
Automatically!
Wait�Editing AND Producing? Wow.
Check out their FAQs for some interesting tid-bits like:
6. The clip I got was very short... What happened?
Part of what Magisto does with your videos is take out the parts that are less interesting. By doing this, the clip you will get will be significantly shorter than the original videos that you uploaded. In such cases we advise you to upload more videos or longer ones.
Why not clips that are more "interesting"? That is to say by whatever defines interesting. Isnt "interesting" subjective? Or are they just counting delta-frames or something?
Hows all this magic work?
2. How do I create a Magisto clip?
Simple! Creating a Magisto video is a 3-step process so all you need to do is:
� Upload your video (you can upload more than one if youd like)
� Create a title for your clip, which will appear in the beginning of your video (or not. Its not a mandatory step)
� Select a soundtrack from a variety of music genres and VOILA, youre done!
Youre done!
Oh, and its free.
Its a bit like iMovies automatic trailer making mode-thing with face-recognition and title slots and what not.
Although with Magisto in my head I can clearly imagine all your footage being uploaded (ie..outsourced) to some third-world country and row after row of chained-to-their-desks slave-editors in front of Windows Movie Maker slapping something together as footage comes in, then only being allowed sips of water from the communal ladle only after they upload it back to you.
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| What my imagination shows me when I think about how Magisto works. |
And this app is for iOS devices.
An iPhone that shoots 1080 and an app that edits it for you. (its not free to have it edit 1080 footage, only 720 apparently).
I havent played around with it too much but its certainly interesting. Ive already seen so very many corporate videos shots on Flip cameras or iPhones, iPads and other tablets that are "good enough for what we need" that Im beginning to think that outsourced video production companies are going to loose a lot of their low-end work in the long run. Ive already started to see it dry up for some of my work and even more so for some of my associates.
On the other hand its fascinating watching a...wait for it...paradigm shift like this taking place in real time.
So there you have it, you can no shoot HD video on your phone and then almost literally hit one button to "edit" it.
And its free, unlike iMovie for iOS. I believe that everything has a trade-off somewhere, somehow and placing this in the Project Triangle, this being easy and free, means its not good.
Give it a whirl though and see what you think. Keep in mind that this app requires you to log in via a Facebook account. Not really the best idea if you ask me. I see it as potentially more of a way to collect user data for advertising in the future.
Were done.
