Hypermasher is a must-see experience. You shouldn't trust my words and you just should head to http://www.hypermasher.com/hyperlapse, click play and watch for yourself.

The clips come from Hyperlapse, the new Instagram tool which allows you to shoot short videos, perfectly stabilized and which you can speed up to your liking, mixed up with some nice chill out, ambient music from soundcloud.

The result is a wonderful kaleidoscope of everyday life moments spinning in a neverending sequence.

A beautiful audio-visual experience about who we are, what we like and what we like to remember.

http://www.hypermasher.com/hyperlapse 

TimeTag is a new speech-to-text service for online video that makes it possible to make any video-based content, immediately searchable.

The TimeTag automated speech-to-text feature creates transcripts, meta tags and subtitles, making it possible to to search and share for specific information also within the video.

TimeTag makes it also very easy to record any live event, conference or presentation directly to the cloud, to sync the video recording with the presentation material and, as mentioned, to add full text captions over the video while making it fully searchable.

Key features include:

• Cloud-based video recording 
• Synchronize PowerPoint, PDF and Adobe SWF
• Upload video from Wirecast, Camtasia and Webex 
• Auto transcoding to H.264
• iOS and Android support
• SSL secure: Operates over HTTPS 
• Template designs for video player and branding options
• Integration with Google Analytics
• In-video search
• Video player integrating presentation, live video and captions
• Embedding of video player
• Password protection of specific content
• Video editing online 

Base price starts at £199/month for a max of 125 video clips and 4200mins of streaming.

Free 14-day trial available.

More info: https://www.timetag.tv/ 

oTranscribe is a free, open-source web app which allows you to easily transcribe your video by using a very simple interface.

You first upload your audio file and on the same web page you can start typing your transcription, while being able to easily start / stop the audio and to rewind or forward to any point you need to without ever needing to leave the keyboard.

The start / stop acts in a smart way, and everytime you restart the audio track after having paused it, the playback automatically starts from a second earlier from where you left. Lovely.

Playback speed control is available both through a slider and via keyboard shortcuts. You can also easily insert time stamps within the transcription by simply pressing Ctrl/Cmd+J, and then when you click one the audio jumps immediately to that specific point.

A set of useful shortcuts completes the toolkit:

Esc: Play/pause

F1: Rewind
F2: Fast-forward
F3: Slow down
F4: Speed up

Content is auto-saved automatically to your local browser.

Supported audio file formats: mp3, ogg, webm, wav

Excellent tool for anyone needing to easily transcribe any audio file. 

Free to use. Open-source.

Try it out now: http://otranscribe.com/ 

Find out more: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/journalist-creates-web-app-for-audio-transcription/s2/a555258/ 

Thanks a lot to Elliot Bentley who developed it.

If you are a videomaker looking for a less TV-like and more "cinematic" look of your clips, here some good basic advice on what you need to do from Noam Kroll.

Informative. Detailed. Useful. 8/10

Full guide: http://noamkroll.com/how-to-make-video-footage-look-like-film/