Cliplets Mac
Microsoft's Research Cliplets is an interesting tool which enables you to extract one precious moment from a video, and focus specifically on that, producing something that's not quite a still, not really a video, but something in between.Imagine a video of your daughter's fifth birthday, for instance: shaky camera work, lots of movement, it's all a little messy. Pass it through Cliplets, though, and you may be able to create something where the background is entirely still, the guests all motionless, and all you have is your daughter blowing out a candle, then smiling at the camera.Or there's that holiday movie you took, in Rome.
Again, maybe there's a lot of movement as you focus on many different things, but Cliplets can help you zoom in. So you might have a view of a fountain in the square, say: people passing by are frozen, motionless, but the water still cascades down just as it always did.How does it work?
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Cliplets is a research project from Microsoft Research. This project explores a form of visual media that juxtaposes still image and video segments, both spatially and temporally, to expressively abstract a moment. The tension between static and dynamic elements in a cliplet reinforces both aspects, strongly focusing the viewer’s attention or conveying a narrative. We develop a set of idioms, essentially spatiotemporal mappings, that characterize these cliplet elements, and use these idioms in an interactive system to quickly compose a cliplet from ordinary handheld video. A key challenge is to avoid seam artifacts by maintaining spatiotemporal continuity in the cliplet composition. We address this using several algorithms from computer graphics and vision.The publically available app is a result of this research project.
Here is a Techinical Report describing the underlying research:Neel Joshi, Sisil Mehta, Steven Drucker, Eric Stollnitz, Hugues Hoppe, Matt Uyttendaele, and Michael Cohen. 15 May 2012.Compatibility. shows how to make a simple Cliplet with a still background and one repeating “loop” layer. continues Tutorial One by adding one repeating “mirror” layer. shows how to make a Cliplet with a still background, one repeating “loop,” and a “play” layer that begins in the middle of the Cliplet. shows how to make a Cliplet with temporally juxstaposed layers.
Microsoft Runtime 2010
shows a bit more complex Cliplet with a “play” layer that holds, then plays, then holds. This is overlaid with a “loop” layer during the first hold, and a “mirror” layer during the final hold. The result depicts a classic blowing-out-candles moment.Support.