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The tenth idea for my 365 social ideas is a site for mashing up Youtube-videos, playing with them across media etc. It could be done as simple as a website with a youtube player and a search field (with results). Then, when you have a video, that you like, you drag it onto your timeline, say maybe from 00:15 to 2:25 of video X, and 00:34 to 00:46 of video Y, and then you have created a new video 2 minutes and 22 seconds long.

The site could even feature separate tracks for video and sound, transitions (for both video and sound), picture-in-picture, split screen and all the other classic video manipulation tools.

The end result should be downloadable as an FLV or converted to several other video formats (or even animated gifs, which would allow you to create such from any youtube video for forum avatar pictures and similar effects). And of course should it be possible to re-upload the video to youtube.

Legal issues should of course be considered here, informing users, that they do not have the rights to the new videos just because they “created” them themselves. But as Youtube protects themselves under the “safe harbor” legislation, automated services based on Youtube can probably do the same.

Why?

Because mashing up videos is fun. Adding a completely different soundtrack to your favorite Star Trek clip or creating animated gifs from classic fails. Not much business in it though.

What’s next?

Do with this idea whatever you like – expand, implement, trash or forget. Just remember, that if you use it in anyway make sure to attribute me according to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, that all these 365 Social Ideas are published under.

Related posts:

1. Twikicatalyzer – January 2010 Ideas
2. Turn (Closed) Content Into an API – January 2010 Ideas
3. Open Data – January 2010 Ideas