HighlightCam (YC S09) Releases Video Summarization API (opens in new tab)

Now I finally know what to do with all of my old videos filled with lots of crap. No more lengthy crappy videos.

What are the other YC companies that have released code under a open source / free software license ?

Looks neat, but with all that javascript, I can't watch the videos or even see the youtube page, so even though I'd like to earn more, I can't.

Looking at the youtube zeitgeist page you have, most of the videos seem insanely shortened. What is a more reasonable percentage choice to get just the highlights without feeling like you are talking to a meth-head?

It's fast. I tried a 17MB flv, chose 10% summary and got the response in 1min4sec. Screen: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1704650/camapi.png

It filters the boring moments well. The Animals and YouTube ZeitGeist examples opened my eyes.

Just for fun I tried to stump it with a video I had personally edited. See before and after: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1704650/hlcamtest.html. Pretty good result, all things considered.

Time to plug my own editing startup: http://videothink.com. Host any video file and I will personally cut all the boring moments and serve you the highlight movie. The site is very minimal now but it works.

This is a really cool product, yet not something I would have imagined there being a startup for. Regardless, great job guys and good luck!

I love the concept, but watching the example videos I kinda wish they'd implemented a transition in there. Some of videos were really jarring moving from "interesting" to "interesting" states. A small audio/visual fade out and then in again would help a lot.