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Find, Discover and Curate The Best Part of Any Video Clip with ReelSurfer

Find, Discover and Curate The Best Part of Any Video Clip with ReelSurfer | Le Top des Applications Web et Logiciels Gratuits | Scoop.it

 

Despite the meteoric rise in online video consumption, the medium still faces a few systematic challenges. First and foremost is the fact that video is difficult – or impossible – to skim, relative to images or text. This means that viewers need to commit the time required to watch a video before knowing whether it’s something they’ll enjoy. Several companies have turned to social signaling to solve this problem.

 

Y Combinator alumni ReelSurfer has taken a different approach, focusing on allowing users to clip and share the best bite-sized moments from longer scenes – typically between three to 30 seconds in length. As a result, many have taken to calling the platform the “tl;dr for video.” Today, the company rolled out an entirely redesigned Web interface focused on allowing users to both create clips, and to discover clips that others have created and shared.

 

At the heart of the redesign is a significantly beefed up search and discovery engine that helps users identify relevant clips before needing to create their own. Users can copy and paste the URL of a target video directly into the ReelSurfer interface, or use an accompanying bookmarklet browser plugin. With each submitted video, ReelSurfer surfaces existing and related clips, inviting the user to easily share those clips.

 

The new interface also allows users to create reels of multiple videos, either from within a single longer video or reflecting a theme across multiple videos. All ReelSurfer videos link back to the original content source allowing the viewer to watch full length video should they choose. Because ReelSurfer doesn’t host videos, but rather links through to source content, all videos on its platform retain their native advertising such as pre-rolls and mid-rolls.

 

Along with the redesign, ReelSurfer added support for additional video platforms, including Ooyala and Brightcove which power the video content of ESPN, The New York Times, TED, and countless other mass media publishers. (The platform previously supported only YouTube and Vimeo.) ReelSurfer is currently available for both content consumption and creation on the Web and for consumption only on mobile, although mobile clipping will be added in a future release according to the company.

 

 

ReelSurfer : http://www.reelsurfer.com/

 


Via Robin Good
173 Sud's insight:

 

Robin Good : From my viewpoint, and having seen quite a few of these tools, I have to say that ReelSurfer is the easiest to use.

Neil Ferree's comment, April 25, 2013 3:16 PM
Next to last comment → once you guys at ReelSurfer finalize your case study → I'd like to read it 30 seconds later
ReelSurfer's comment, April 25, 2013 8:46 PM
Will do! We are also in a private beta to allow our clips to link back to promote a site or a product. Would love to invite anyone from this thread to take part. Please email neil@reelsurfer.com if you want more info.
Ness Crouch's curator insight, May 23, 2013 5:09 AM

Wow this could make presentations so much easier!!

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