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Open Video on the web is about to just blow the
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top off what cinema and moving images are. We're
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about to change things in the same way that the
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invention of montage, you know, 100 years ago
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changed from, you know, the point where we
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just saw a train going across the screen to the
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point where we could actually build a story.
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And what's happening now is that video is going to
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blow out of the frame into and across the rest of
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the web, and the rest of the web is going to fold
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inside of video.
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So, videos are able to, um, effectively interact with
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the rest of the web, with individual web pages,
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with different sites, um, and can be used much
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more flexibly than when video is locked inside
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a Flash player.
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So, you copy in a long format video and then you
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can start to do transcription, and keyword search
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ability, for example, search according to a
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speaker with given keywords over a date range
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and sometimes, even like in relation to
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other formal references.
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Video on Wikipedia is an initiative to get video on
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Wikipedia, to get a new type of way of
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representing knowledge on Wikipedia.
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We have a new product called "Universal Subtitles"
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and the goal is to make every video on the web
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captionable and translatable. And that really has
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huge implications.
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Focusing first on allowing teachers and students to
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incorporate video in their teaching and learning
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activities. That means they can actually do things
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like video assignments. They can incorporate
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video lectures into their classwork. And the basic
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goal is not to treat video as some separate form
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that students would go to a separate interface,
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a separate site, to use, but to allow people to use
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video in education the way they would use text or
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other documents.
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There is a tremendous potential, um, in the
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capacity of anyone to capture their story, to share
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it, um, to manipulate it, to be able to download that
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material and share it with others, um, without
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restrictions imposed by proprietary or closed
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systems. We've only just seen the start of that,
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and that's the amazing potential of Open Video
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plus human rights.
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It's incredibly important that we be able to produce
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video in a way that is platform-independent, that's
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freely sharable, that's accessible via open
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source tools, and I think it's utterly critical
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that we work on ensuring that open video
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is accessible to everybody.
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The base materials, the base building blocks are
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now there for the Open Video revolution. It's now
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time for the creators, the people who are going to
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reinvent cinema, to step forward.
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The LEGO, the tools, the raw materials that
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they need are in place. And that's just taken
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the last year. It's been an amazing year.
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