Last week I wrote about Cuts.com, the free video editing and remixing website, arriving in private beta and today I got an invite to try it out. I think I’m one of only 100 people who got invited. Here is what cuts.com said:

With just a few clicks our CutMaker helps you:
- Shorten a video to showcase the 2 minutes that matter 
- Insert sound effects or your own laugh track to spice up any scene
- Offer a running text commentary to express your opinion or offer links to relevant sites
- Repeat something (over and over) to bring new life to a worthy moment or make the boring funny
- Create a combination of any or all of the above

It sounds good, looks good, and appears pretty simple. Take a look at the screenshot below:

 
Cuts.com main page

Cuts.com has just opened up private beta testing of its new video editing and remixing service which has been in development for a year. Cuts.com will be entering the marketplace along side the likes of Jumpcut (owned by Yahoo) and Motionbox,

ChewTV is a brand new internet television channel that aims to be an outlet for young aspiring video producers and even helps fund and support youth video production projects.

I recently caught up with Greg Davies who manages ChewTV on a day to day basis and gave him my 15 Questions.

Before I jump in with the interview here are some interesting facts about ChewTV:

• ChewTV aims to create a more familiar TV environment by having its TV station change its content throughout the day, for example having kids videos in the morning.
• All the TV content on ChewTV is produced by youngsters.
• ChewTV helps fund and support youth based video productions.
• Chew TV is from the UK but is open to receiving and supporting projects on a larger scale.
• Chew TV launched in November in 2006.

And here’s the interview with Greg Davies from ChewTV.com

1. Sum up the goal of ChewTV

Chew TV’s ambitions stretch way beyond simply hosting content. We aim to create an interface between young people and the powers that be, making their opinions count, getting their voices heard, generating critical thinking and debate and helping them to be involved in making change within and beyond the media world. 

The PSV-351 is the follow on from Pure Digital’s disposable video camera from last year, except this time around it is reusable. The camera has been built with the user generated internet video phenomenon in mind.

The 512MB PSV-351 is a very amateur friendly camera being a cheap device which is very easy to use with only a few nice big buttons for fat hands. Being small, cheap and easy to use makes a perfect companion for “spare of the moment” video shots for any amateur documentary, reality TV show, or news program. Its not the highest quality video but more than sufficient for internet video.