The future of video editing

[Corny]

You thought there is not much new to discover? Just today I saw a HUGE step forward in the field of video editing. This is just too awesome too explain, you need to see it for yourself:

automagical video enhancement through stills:
http://vimeo.com/1513129

semi-automatic object extraction out of raw video material:
http://vimeo.com/1513186
(kinda like "videotrace" if you ever saw that - just cooler )

another one about enhancing a low res video with hi-res stills through motion calculations for the b-frames
http://vimeo.com/2937785?pg=embed&sec=2937785

The paper:
http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancement.htm

 

[andysayshi]

I'm gonna need a new career soon...

 

[thermodynamics]

That's pretty amazing stuff.

 

[Paws]

I'm still waiting for a video editing program that automatically extracts my favourite porn scenes. Any new achievements are useless.

 

[Paws]

In a computer voice:
"Oh looky! It's Jason 'p-lover' Wilson breaking into your store. Jason is a 19 yr old white male who flunked out of high school in 2004. He was on pace for a baseball scholarship when he started doing meth. He has two brothers and a sister. He likes snatch-n-grabbing cartons of smokes from liquor stores, long walks on the beach, and women who like to dominate."

*plays Robocop theme*

 

[Telstra]

this type of job is really time consuming.

 

[Paws]

Yesterday I read that After Effects has a filter to extract moving objects out of an otherwise still scene...

 

[Corny]

^ that's not really new and relatively easy (depending on the encoding of the base material)