Thursday, 8 August 2013
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the founders of YouTube, have unveiled MixBit, an
app which allows users to edit and share videos. The application is similar to Instagram and Twitter’s Vine, but with MixBit
the emphasis is on collaboration and editing clips together.
Users can upload up to around an hour of 16-second clips edited together,
meaning the finished product could be far longer that possible on Vine or
Instagram.
Hurley and Chen, who co-created YouTube in 2005 and sold it to Google for
$1.65 billion (£1.06 billion) the following year, said they hoped the site
would inspire people to “make great videos.” In a statement on MixBit.com, the pair said:
“The MixBit website is a community of creators. We believe everyone has
something interesting to say.
“We give people fun, intuitive tools to help them tell stories together. We
think video should be a living, breathing entity and that creativity is a
collaborative process. More than simply capturing brief moments in time, we
help people bring stories to life.”
Launched as a free download for iPhone today, it's the latest product from their company AVOS Systems. The app is currently only available on iOS, but an Android version is set to
be released in the coming weeks.
