Omnisio Syncs Slides with Video Presentations
Mark Hendrickson
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Omnisio has launched a tool that presenters will find very useful for conveying their messages to online audiences.
The new presentation tool takes slideshows uploaded in PDF format or to SlideShare and synchronizes them with videos uploaded to YouTube, Google Video or Blip.tv.
The synchronization allows viewers to jump around within presentations by clicking on particular slides, which show up in an area below each video that operates much like the dock on Mac OS X. As you watch a presentation, you’ll see the current slide sitting alongside the video so you can refer to it just as you would when watching a presentation in real life.
Publishers can create these video-slideshow compilations with a fairly easy drag-n-drop tool provided for free on Omnisio’s site. In addition to syncing slides, they can add markers for people and highlights that show up within a video. These too can be used to jump to particular spots during playback, such as when your favorite celebrity appears or a particularly good joke is made.
This is Omnisio’s second video compilation tool. The first, which debuted in March, lets you take multiple videos found on the net and stitch them together into new mashups.
Is this really news? I watched those Startup School videos weeks ago.
@1 The news is that we’ve launched the tool that allows anyone to create video + slide compilations (the startup school videos were a private beta test).
Cheers,
Ryan
There was another company that did this almost a year ago. I remember reading about it on Mashable, it was a Japanese company. Anyone remember?
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seems like your seesmic video comments end up in a 404 when watching.
Peter
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@Asad, maybe you think of vcasmo?
they did it, their product is called instant-vcasmo, it’s not as fancy as omnisio, and i think it only works with youtube.
http://tinyurl.com/36retx
Andreas
@Andreas
Ya Vcasmo was it, I dont know why I can never remember their name. Anyone ever use Vcasmo or this new Omnisio product and have any thoughts?
I like it, but it eats up my resource on my laptop. Youtube doesn’t do it. can this be fixed?
I have to end at half of it because I can’t tolerate the slowness to my computer.
Omnisio is sweet, except when the buffering times out and you have to reload the page.
I love the commenting features. I think Facebook connect integration could be amazing for comment filtering.
This is fantastic!
@9 we agree and are working on it
Ryan -
Congrats to you and your team on the slide launch. I’m curious to see who the early adopters will be amongst the public. It seems to be a natural fit for conferences and groups like the Stanford/MIT VLab, though I’m sure we’ll see some clever uses for it elsewhere.
Will there be a way to search the text slides themselves? So say I wanted to see every slide that contained the term “CPC” - could I do that?
Marc
Pretty limited applications of this tech.
Omnisio is very nicely done. I just posted about it to the SlideShare blog so that our users know about it.
As I pointed out, I am hoping that Omnisio will start pointing out where the slides are coming from just the way they do for video :->
All the best!
@12 Thanks Marc. Searching for content within slides is a great idea - we’ll look into it.
@14 Absolutely Rashmi, we have now added a link back to SlideShare for presentations that come from your site. The video you embedded on your blog was an early test case and didn’t have this link.
Cheers,
Ryan
I think people are really not seeing the full potential of this application and only seeing it to be of use for lectures etc…
what about
- infomercial television (similar to honeyshed.com)
- fashion shows
- cooking shows
I did a mock up to demo how it could be used in a fashion show
http://omnisio.com/v/Dg_ejVbdj.....-look-book
I thinks its wicked….
@Ryan, great stuff.
Don’t bother with Rashimi’s whining (though he’s got a point).
Keep going like you are. API’s galore!
@Asad
yeah!! Vcasmo.com I have used that couple times. To be honest, they are exactly the same.. ….Too bad Omnisio clone their site. And omnisio has used their layout too. Also, someone told me that Omnisio’s team has cloned the other Japanese video site before, but fail.
Omnisio comment on video concept is cloned from http://www.nicovideo.jp
Slideshare gotta build on of these themselves. Go slideshare go!