Posted By: Adam Kinney | Oct 12th, 2005 @ 6:06 PM | 74,128 Views | 47 Comments

The Clipster is a personal video recorder for video blogs like Channel 9 that we’ve integrated into our embedded media player.   

How do I use it?

It is so easy!  We’ve added a red record button to the embedded video player on Channel 9.  

  1. Select the red record button to start recording. Select it again when you are done.
  2. Specify the title of the clip(s) you’ve recorded.
  3. Select Save.  That is it!  

The clips are available from your Channel 9 Profile page.  We also provide links to clips below each of our videos to clips we and the community have created. Each clip has its own URL.  Link to it from your blog, share your clips with your friends and family.

Disclaimer:  At this time we are only supporting Internet Explorer, BUT we do want to work on getting Clipster to work in other browsers.  If you any suggestions towards that goal please send us an email.


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keeron
keeron
Obsessive Geek

AWESOME! This is really cool feature... a post-it type of tool for videos Smiley

How difficult would it be to add our own video? (if we mute the original one, can we record voice over it? like comments or suggestions, etc?)

We could build our own list of fav demos from Channel9 Videos out of this ... with an RSS feed!!! (Think amazon Lists mania Smiley )...

Ok, I need to go back to watching videos and saving these clips, I am getting too excited!

keep up the hard work guys!

scobleizer
scobleizer
I'm the video guy
It would be really hard, unfortunately. Getting a video uploaded to our download and streaming datafarms takes about 20 minutes each and you have to both be a Microsoft employee to do it, and you have to have a second employee sign off on it.

That said, I want this feature in the worst way too. There are a lot of sites around where you can upload videos, by the way.
MisterDonut
MisterDonut
The Disco Godfather
Nice job, Robert.

Two things, second one being in another post..

1) Any chance of re-adding that button to launch the video in WMP? I enjoy minimizing WMP and running it from the task bar while I'm working.

2) Any chance at all at having Channel 9 being more PDA friendly? As in, if I'm surfing the internet on my JasJar and want to swing by channel 9? It's interesting to how it looks.. Sad

scobleizer
scobleizer
I'm the video guy
If you wanna run in the separate player, you should click "download" and watch that link (the quality is usually better on the download link too cause I encode those at 500 kbps, while the ones in the player are only at 300kbps).
Larsenal
Larsenal
ready to give an answer
Very, very cool.

Feature request: show a list of clips for a particular video in the post for that video.  this would allow the community to essentially have bookmarks.

EDIT: I noticed that it's already there if the media has clips.  Again, good job.

Any chance of getting a behind-the-scenes look at how this was put together?  While I think most of us have a semantical understanding of how this is accomplished, it'd be neat to hear from Adam about the challenges he faced and what tools and methods he used to achieve a solution.

This is one of those "wow" features that will end up being only as cool as the C9 community makes it.  If we don't use it much, it will go down as a "cool work, but mostly we like to just watch videos and chat in the coffeehouse."

So let's use it!  I'd like to see some sort of best-of-C9 wiki with links to the best moments of the best C9 videos.
jeffsand
jeffsand
Inch by Inch
Larsenal wrote:
Very, very cool.

Feature request: show a list of clips for a particular video in the post for that video.  this would allow the community to essentially have bookmarks.

Any chance of getting a behind-the-scenes look at how this was put together?  While I think most of us have a semantical understanding of how this is accomplished, it'd be neat to hear from Adam about the challenges he faced and what tools and methods he used to achieve a solution.

This is one of those "wow" features that will end up being only as cool as the C9 community makes it.  If we don't use it much, it will go down as a "cool work, but mostly we like to just watch videos and chat in the coffeehouse."

So let's use it!  I'd like to see some sort of best-of-C9 wiki with links to the best moments of the best C9 videos.


We have the feature of highlighting clips for a particular video.

Check out this video and note the Clips: section above Tags:

We list out all clips there, if a [ more link ] is shown after this you'll see Clips made by the community too.   Smiley

Adam Kinney did some few clips tonight, check them out on his profile http://channel9.msdn.com/niners/adamkinney/

I think we need to also add a show me all the clips view to our videos page if this keeps off.

We'll do a behind the scenes video soon.
Larsenal
Larsenal
ready to give an answer
Thanks, Jeff.
HumanCompiler
HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code
Very cool, Adam!  Great job!  Smiley

I like that all the clips are shown for each video.  I didn't see it at first.

Can't wait to see the behind the scenes video!
HumanCompiler
HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code
Btw, I think once this takes off and lots of people are creating "highlights" for videos, people like me who don't have a whole lot of time can start watching more videos.  If I don't have a spare hour in my day to watch a video that I think will have some cool stuff I'm really interested in, I can now just wait for some people to clipperize the highlights and I can see what's interesting and important.  Very awesome!

Another thought: Any chance of getting an option down the road to be able to get a permalink per video?  Say I watch a video and think there are just 5 really cool parts that I'd love to blog about.  If I could get some sort of link per video that I've created that would be great to slam out a blog entry quickly.

Again, great job!
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