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News

  • Concluded: The Workshop on "New directions in video editing, annotation and publishing" is over. The summary of the presentations is now available for download.
  • Concluded: The VIZARD Beta testing phase is over. The winners of the VIZARD Beta test prize draw have been selected. Among the testers the lucky winner
    is R. Paxton and among all test applicants the winner is R.D. Waterland.


 

 

 

Objectives
Target Market
Intended Products

 

 

 

 

 

Objectives

VIZARD will develop a new generation video publishing tool. The main objective of VIZARD is to change the way users deal with video content. A video editor should not be limited to simple time-line representations, but will have the possibility to manipulate the inner structure of a video document (video book paradigm) and work with hyper-video representations to build distributed and personalized collections. Publishing personalized video content should be as easy as writing a text document. VIZARD will set a strong focus on usability and mediate the market from the pro-sumer level by the distribution of a light edition as shareware product.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Target Market

A wide spectrum of users will profit from VIZARD. The big advantage of VIZARD is the easy-to-use application. Main target group are people who are not experienced in video editing. Since VIZARD is developed for standard PCs, the equipment of non-professional users should be sufficient for capturing and editing their home videos by VIZARD. Besides, VIZARD will also suit professional users since the smart viewing of VIZARD lets them save time by finding information faster in a video. Also the annotation capabilities of VIZARD meet profesional requirements.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intended Products

We intend to market the following products via the main exploitation partner SONY on VAIO notebooks:

§ VIZARD Trial Version:   The trial edition consists of an intuitive desktop to navigate
                                 through and preview pre-produced video collections as well
                                 as limited to a trial period of 30 days.

 

§ VIZARD Full Version:    The full edition ships with the full functionality developed and
                                  is not limited to the trial period.

 

 

 

VIDEO WIZARD is funded by the EU-IST (Information Society Technologies) Programme under Contract No. IST-2000-26354.