Category Archives: Web Made Movies

Webmaker – Sequencing Web Media

By david.humphrey | Published: February 12, 2013
One of the most requested new features we get for Mozilla Webmaker is web media sequencing.  Users want to be able to use multiple video or audio clips in a single experience.  This past week Scott and Kate, with help from Matt and Chris, have been building and testing a solution in Popcorn Maker. The idea [...]
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Web App JavaScript Crash Reporting

By david.humphrey | Published: November 13, 2012
We just launched Popcorn Maker 1.0 this weekend at Mozilla Festival 2012, and while the focus of the app is obviously web video remixing, one of our favourite features as a dev team was the JavaScript Crash Reporter.  Bobby and I wrote a little bit about it in our Mozilla Hacks post, but I wanted [...]
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Popcorn Maker 1.0 Beta – TED Launch

By david.humphrey | Published: October 19, 2012
We’re about 3 weeks away from the Popcorn Maker 1.0 launch at this year’s Mozilla Festival in London.  Just to raise my blood pressure a bit, we’ve shipped a beta today.  It coincides with the release of an amazing TED talk by Mozilla’s Ryan Merkley about Popcorn.js and Popcorn Maker.  “It would be cool if [...]
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HTML5 media and non-HTML5 media

By david.humphrey | Published: May 30, 2012
I’m spending almost all of my time these days on three Mozilla video projects: Popcorn.js, the Butter SDK, and the soon-to-be-beta Popcorn Maker tool.  Yesterday, after weeks of bug fixing and reviews, we hit code freeze for the 0.5 release of Butter and Popcorn Maker (due out in late June).  The 1.3 release of Popcorn.js [...]
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Focus and Select: a cross-browser bed time story

By david.humphrey | Published: May 14, 2012
Here’s an annoying little DOM’ism that stumped me last week (don’t worry, there’s a happy ending if you keep reading).  In Popcorn Maker’s UI I wanted to fix a few places where we have textboxes that contain data from json manifests.  When you click on such a pre-populated textbox, it’s nice if the contents of [...]
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On the joys of 1.0

By david.humphrey | Published: October 21, 2011
In a little less than two weeks, we’re going to be releasing Popcorn.js version 1.0.  Our team is pretty excited, not least because we’ll be doing the release at the Mozilla Media Festival in London.  We’re also excited because getting to 1.0 is a really big deal, and we’re happy to have made it. A year [...]
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Nature vs. Nurture

By david.humphrey | Published: June 1, 2011
I spend a lot of time thinking about, and actively pursing, ways to better enable community around software projects.  My motivation is to work with people vs on certain technology.  I’m blessed to be involved with quite a few thriving communities, and I wanted to say something about community based on my experience in them. Joel [...]
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Popcorn.js and Khan Academy

By david.humphrey | Published: May 3, 2011
Last week Mozilla’s Bobby Richter and I spent some time building a demo of what’s possible with Popcorn.js’s new YouTube support.  Steven Weerdenburg has been working with me at Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology over the winter, and among other projects, he wrote a bunch of player plugins.  In Popcorn.js, a player plugin [...]
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“Do it on the web”

By david.humphrey | Published: April 19, 2011
One night last week David Ascher sent me a challenge on twitter: @humphd challenge: do http://t.co/XImyz11 on the web Funnily enough, I’d seen this demo earlier in the day.  It’s a fantastically simple, yet captivating video by Joerg Piringer.  He describes it like this: i made video called “unicode”. it shows all displayable characters in [...]
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No Comply

By david.humphrey | Published: March 28, 2011
On Friday Mozilla released our latest Audio API/WebGL demo on Mozilla Hacks, called No Comply.  We’ve already written a post about it, so I won’t repeat all that now.  If you haven’t seen it yet, please check it out.  We’re really proud of it. What I wanted to mention today are some of the cool things [...]
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