Seems that there is much more to it than a toilet seat.

Nice, Marcel Duchamps’s toilet seat is an excellent choice of metaphor here. However I don’t think you would quite get a fountain when you turn production on it’s side in this way. Covered in urine possibly, but certainly not a piece of art. If my project required a pan of the Serengeti featuring two Zebras. I would do what any competent producer would do, call/email Getty Images or the BBC and have them send me a stock footage selects-bin of a hundred different versions to choose from, for free. If I needed it for professional purposes I would simply pay the $400 and have them send me a clean un-watermarked master emailed/ftp to me. Let me guess your solution would be to try and find some African kid/filmmaker with a DV camera to go into the desert for days, risk life and limb, to find a couple of zebra/unicorn. Then he would go home to his hut and upload his video to his PC. His family’s entire life salary probably wouldn’t cover the cost of that. This hilarious example you gave is priceless and a perfect proves my earlier point. My man, your 100% wrong and it’s totally apparent that you know very little about the complexities of quality video/film production.

Very good presentation for such short notice. Makes me wonder how many other companies out in the demo pit should have been on stage???

If your shit sandwich was any good, perhaps it would have ended up in the museum just like Marcel Duchamp’s toilet seat.

Wouldn’t you think that film makers could find on kaltura an easy platform to collaborate on? What if your project requires a pan of the Serengeti, featuring two zebra’s? Are you going to fly to Africa to get the shot?

As William Shakespeare wrote: it is better to have kaltura than not to have anything at all.

Look at the basics nuts and bolts of this thing. Imagine white/color balancing disparate videos transcoded in multiple bit rates, frame rates, aspect ratios etc. Just because you can patch a freak show together with technology doesn’t mean budding filmmakers will waste their (considerable) time doing it. Even if a small percentage of non-filmmakers did (say for a class project), where’s the revenue model? It’s not going to be user volume. Every filmmaker I know who’s invested time learning visual storytelling (news, local video ads, music videos, documentary, industrial, PR video, wedding videos, vlogs etc) would consider this elementary. This reeks of a few tech startup execs that thought they could disrupt the way video gets produced by solving it with a (blah) wiki (yawn) platform. Kaltura is an illogical Web2.0 Frankenstein-shit-sandwich and I imagine will end up being another waste of investors money. Does anyone understand filmmaking in the valley?

I, as a web developer, would recommend EVERYONE to use Firefox browser, which is currently the NO.1 to support web standards.

As Kaltura website is a very complicated site, which involves thousands of Javascript and CSS lines of code, it becomes an ugly fight to support all the non-Standard-Compliant browsers.
anyway, as site has just opened its gates to the world, i’m certain that much bugs will be closed in the shortest amount of time. be not worried.

Note for the Saffari team - Start making your browser to support Standard-Compliant Websites and not make our lives harder.
we developers has already tough life with IE6 and 7

I liked that cartoons on your digital refrigerator thing. I also liked that suggestion box idea, although I wasn’t clear on the business model.

They fact that they have had a seed round speaks volumes about the percieved value of their solution.

Will be interesting to read feedback from their presentation

Okay then, my first point of advice, support Safari.