VideoPlay: Multi-Touch Video Editing

While exploring through publications from Microsoft Research, I came across another TUI design for video editing. Stuart Taylor, Shahram Izadi, Kursat Ozenc, and Richard Harper devised VideoPlay, a TUI that functions on the Microsoft Surface platform and allows interactive manipulation and editing of video clips mainly from mobile devices. This device encourages fluid transitions and collaboration between physical objects, such as physical tiles that can map a video on the surface and connect with each other, and the digital effects that execute many of the editing process.

 

The tiles are designed to lock with each other to signify transition, and this action is read by the surface to produce a preview. The user can also attach tiles that symbolize certain effects literally on to the video clips. 

The user can also directly manipulate the videos with touch. By sliding a tile while holding on to one end, the video unravels into a sequence, and the user can literally crop scenes by slashing one's finger through them.

VideoPlay successfully integrates the touch manipulation provided by a tabletop and the physicality of tile objects to produce an intuitive video editing system. I am interested in learning more about the TUI; for instance, I'm curious what kind of effects one can add to the videos. Overall, VideoPlay provides a beautifully designed tangible surface that is intuitive to users. I hope to see more development on the project such as additions of sound and visual editing.

Source: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/80351/VideoPlay.pdf