From: rdshydur@MIT.EDU
Message-Id: <9402151420.AA00157@vongole.MIT.EDU>
To: e-club@MIT.EDU
Subject: at e-club: Eddie Elliott (MIT Media Lab) presents Video Streamer;
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 94 09:20:46 EST


	*	Greetings From The MIT Entrepreneurs Club	*
			    aka: "The E-Club"

		               Eddie Elliot
		       The Interactive Cinema Group
			      MIT Media Lab

			    "Video Streamer"

		   Open Meeting Today, Tuesday, 15 Feb
			      6pm in 66-144

	    talk, video demo, critical feedback & discussion
	       plus a hold-in-your-hand product extension
		       (all welcome to participate)


Eddie Elliot (finally) graduated from the Media Lab's Interactive Cinema
Group a year ago.  Before MIT he worked mostly in video post production
doing special effects and animation.  

(from Mr. Elliot's e-club bio file)

While working on my master's thesis project I developed a piece of software
I call the Video Streamer.  The Streamer suggests a way of looking at
motion picture time so that temporal things like editing tempo and camera
motions are visible at a glance.  It turns chunks of video time into tangible
objects.  It also just looks good.  Almost any footage generates surprising
images passing through the Streamer.

The main use for the current Streamer is as a video capture utility, but it
suggests dozens of other applications.  Worded differently, I have only
implemented this interface for video capture so far, but it should prove
valuable in numerous situations where one deals with motion picture time
(editing, translation, transcription, logging, filtering or selecting
footage, parsing video tapes, ...).  The Streamer also makes for a
compelling "patterns of motion" exhibit.  I've presented a slimmed down
version of the Streamer as an interactive exhibit at art shows.  I will
have it set up for public poking at SIGCHI here in Boston in April.  

I am seeking ways to commercialize the Streamer.  I would like to strike
quickly with its most immediate application, and, with a little success,
hopefully build on that towards its more sophisticated possibilities.  The
Media Lab has a patent pending for the Streamer.

(note:  the e-club meeting is open, and all are welcome to attend.
eddie elliot will also be the guest alum new-technology start-up case
in the seminar (sem095) immediately following the e-club meeting, in
66-148 from 7-9pm.  seating in the seminar is very limited, and guests
are especially welcome if they are mit students contemplating taking
the seminar for (6) credits.  others sit-in on a space-available basis.
thanks for passing this along to other students.     - richard shyduroff)

	- richard shyduroff, Co-Founder, Co-Director
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