I may revile YouTube as the destroyer of our fair utopian society, but as it’s way more popular than I am, I’m consigned to wage this David vs. Goliath battle all by my lonesome. Fortunately, the ol’ Tube has added some spiffy new functionality designed to make the site appeal to those who fancy themselves the next Spielberg, Hitchcock, or, erm, Michael Bay (more explosions needed).
Yes Adobe’s Premiere Express brings video editing features to YouTube in the form of YouTube Remixer. Using a Flash interface, you can cut and splice clips, add transitions, borders, music, captions, and more to your thirty second videos of your cat looking cute. And because it relies on Flash, it’s platform independent: I loaded it up on my MacBook and it purred along nicely for the most part. Very snappy and responsive, and to my amazement, it didn’t even cause my MacBook’s fans to ramp up insanely, as they usually do when they encounter intensive Flash apps.
My choice of videos to edit (those I’ve uploaded) are rather limited, so please enjoy the above screenshot of my new magnum opus, featuring productivity heartthrob Merlin Mann (coming soon to a website near you).
[via Macworld]
