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SmashMash - Edit videos online, create slideshows, add video effects, create animations

Posted on January 8, 2008 at 6:11 am

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SmashMash is a new online web application that can edit videos online, edit audio online, add motion and effects to pictures, and create slideshows. Sounds like too much? Well, it’s definitely an impressive number of features for an online tool, and judging from it’s early beta capabilities, it looks like it can gain a lot of traction as an online media editing tool.

Using SmashMash, you can do some pretty cool stuff! You can either start off creating a new video from scratch by making your own animations or you can upload a video from your computer, record a video from your Webcam, or grab a video from video sharing sites like YouTube and Google Video.

And that’s just the beginning! Once a video is uploaded, you can trim it, split it, auto-cut it (makes it play as short random segments) or add video effects like making it faster or slower, add a fisheye effect, adjust brightness, or adjust the outline.

You can have even more fun with your videos by adding items on top of the videos including text items, draw or paint on the video, add an image, extract an image from a video, or copy the video clip.

If you want to play around with images, you can use basic editing tools, such as adjusting brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and add corners. You can also add text your images and paint/draw on them. However, the cool thing that you can do is make your photos talk! You can animate your photos by making people’s lips move or by putting words in their mouth.

You can also select portions of your images and just animate those parts. You can choose from the motion list and pick from breathe, bounce, cycle, counter cycle, swing, and wander.

The software has some powerful editing features, including a timeline editor that lets you manage photos, music, and videos in your presentations all at once.

It’s extremely easy to get started with SmashMash as you can get photos and videos into the app simply by dragging and dropping from your desktop. If you want to include a video from YouTube, simply copy the URL and then click on New and Download. Click the Paste button and the video will be downloaded from YouTube and inserted into your timeline.

You can then add titles, transition effects, images and photos and lots more to your clips. Since it’s still in beta, the software obviously has some bugs, but it’s an awesome tool that combines the editing tools of multiple web sites into one, while allowing for some fun at the same time.

Eventually, SmashMash will allows users to embed their creations on their blogs, websites, social networking sites, or save their videos to their local hard drives. Enjoy!