{"id":613,"date":"2006-10-22T20:45:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T00:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/10\/22\/remixing-media-get-em-while-theyre-young\/"},"modified":"2006-10-22T20:45:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T00:45:14","slug":"remixing-media-get-em-while-theyre-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/10\/22\/remixing-media-get-em-while-theyre-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Remixing media — get ’em while they’re young"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this era of YouTube and Revver and video “mashups,” it seems like remixing media is the order of the day, and now there are half a dozen online video-editing tools like Jumpcut, Eyespot, MotionBox and VideoEgg that allow users to upload and edit video quickly and easily. It would be easy to dismiss this kind of thing as a goofy fad that appeals only to teenagers and people with a webcam and too much time on their hands, but I think things like this appeal to a real human desire to create and share, and the Zimmer Twins is a perfect example.<\/p>\n

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I’d never heard of the Zimmer Twins until this afternoon, but I happened to be watching my eight-year-old daughter Zoe playing on the computer next to mine, and she was doing something on a website, and laughing away to herself. Then she said: “Dad, do you want to watch my movie?” So I went over to her PC and she was at the Zimmer Twins<\/a> website, where you can mix and match short clips from the animated show on the Teletoon network — using a storyboard strip with drag and drop features — and write captions right into the panel.<\/p>\n

I have to say I was blown away. In just a few minutes, Zoe had created her own little animated short, complete with soundtrack and storyline (and some spelling mistakes too, of course, altough I pretended not to notice those). Pretty amazing. The YouTube of the future had better watch out.<\/p>\n

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In this era of YouTube and Revver and video “mashups,” it seems like remixing media is the order of the day, and now there are half a dozen online video-editing tools like Jumpcut, Eyespot, MotionBox and VideoEgg that allow users to upload and edit video quickly and easily. It would be easy to dismiss this … <\/p>\n

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