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YouTube have just added a feature which I predict will become a game changer in the months to come. Users can now easily edit their own videos right inside the browser and reupload them to YouTube when they’re done. Currently, it’s just a nice feature that allows you to make better use of your own videos.



What if I upload a video and apply a creative commons license that allows people to make attributed remixes of my work using the YouTube editor? YouTube would have millions of these kinds of videos online and all of a sudden YouTube becomes it’s very own footage archive with thousands of amateur film makers stringing the footage together in new and compelling ways.

Expect an explosion in documentary, satire, comedy, art, music, news, science to come from YouTube the moment this feature is announced.  People will  be able to make feature length documentaries without ever having to download a single piece of video to their hard drive, and all YouTube need to do to make it happen is flick a switch to allow users to edit other peoples videos.

It’s technology like this that will eventually make the BBC completely irrelevant unless they do something drastic to catch up.