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Deep Video

I have been writing and thinking (superficially, natch) recently about the future of net video. My belief is that we will soon reach the deep video stage.

And what on earth is deep video?

Deep Video is searchable in the same way that other internet documents are searchable. It’s also like DVDs - the extras will be the value. Say you make a video interview with me that you put on YouTube. You interviewed me for 45 minutes but only 5 minutes remain in the final cut. What happens to the other 40 minutes? Traditionally, they are on the oft-cited ‘cutting room floor’. Because you had to fit a 45 minute interview into a 5 minute slot.

We’re on the internet, now, though. There is no 5-minute slot. The slot is as long or as short as you want to make it. If you want to drill down into that particular news item, then there’s nothing to stop you. Most of the time, you want the top line - the traditional 5Ws of journalism - who when where what why. Most days, you also want a bit more, too, on the stories that really interest you.

So the idea, which I steal from David Dunkley Gyimah and, apparently, Microsoft and Google, is that video becomes three-dimensional. That you can click into it and find other angles and extra footage; perhaps you might find web links to the items that you see using a real-time equivalent to Like. In the future, the idea of watching television on a flat screen that you can’t prod at and explore will be laughable, I reckon.

What do I bring to the party? Bugger all, but a much better name for it than videohyperlinking.

16 March 2007

3 Comments

theo kuechel

16/Mar/2007

Excellent, name lets go with it. Interestingly Blinx http://www.blinkx.com/ and Veotag http://www.veotag.com/seem to be moving us in that direction.

david dunkley gyimah

18/Mar/2007

Can’t remember who it was that said no one owns ideas [ so no you didn't steal] and that when we come by them give them away as it forces you think about new ones. Not really a recipe for financial success some might argue, but I subscribe to it.
Good to meet up and yes deep video/ video link, they’ll all probably enter the tech lexicon at some point. It’s probaably an obvious one from deep linking so I’m afraid 1000s of us including you and me have had these mini epiphanies ( See article http://www.viewmagazine.tv/video hyerlinking2.html that rode the coat tails of The Economist who nicely gave me a ping last year on this.

Reminds me off the late 90s working with a famous advertiser we thought we had it nailed on Web Mk II, but alas web 2.0 courtesy of OReilly’s made it into the lingua franca.

A more recent idea has been the Blec or Wili ie Web lecture or wiki lecture as I tend to podcast my industry themed lectures .

But in the end I guess it’s the application - how we use it. These ideas have been in the ether for eons. It’s the shifting paradigm e.g. using tables to build web sites, even when that was intended, but gave easier access to all instead of using CSS, that bring these day dreams to fruition.

After thursday’s event ( Zer0 One) I popped over to Norway to give a presentation. I expand on some of the nascent ideas, including 3d web - my active imagination getting the better of me again.

Incidentally linking via video has been around from earlier versions of QT with hotspots, but is now being improved upon.

A feature I made on Trust in the Media San Antonio for viewmagazine.tv gives an earlier illustration of all this.

Catch up soon

Ian Delaney

19/Mar/2007

Nothing new under heaven and earth, they say. Not just about the application, I’d say, though. A lot of what went wrong in the late 90s with over-valuations and bubbles was also about inflated expectations of what consumers would work with. It’s taken the intervening five years for technology penetration and acceptance to catch up.