Viewmagazine.tv a hybrid video text magazine recently wrote an article on Hyperlinking video. The article focuses on online video news coverage and the concept of “drilling” into video segments. For example when presented with a news piece or video compilation, on-screen hyperlinks would allow you to click on sub-segments and view the source video for that portion of compilation.

“It’s a boon for broadcasters making good of all that waste on the floor, provides greater transparency and gives more control over to the user.”

This parallels the work we are doing with metavid in making source video footage available. We are currently working on wiki integrations which will make these edit sequences transparent and maluable.

Beyond shared sequence production and transparency the metavid project is researching user generated dynamic overlays. These have been talked about earlier but I will reiterate them here. These overlays are user generated scripts which run on the metadata of arbitrary streams. The working example in metavid is the open secrets overlay which pulls in campaign contributions for the given speaker. More complex overlays could pull up “related” streams from that speakers history or on the topic being discussed. Combined with analyzing tagging and time-linked urls very relevant material could be retrieved. For example when watching congressional members debate the torture amendment the most linked to/talked about video clips on torture could simultaneously be retrieved. Sort of like what google does for hypertext