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Ninety minutes of conservatively edited film was summarized it into a six-minute and an eighteen-minute version. We thus have three different versions of the same sequence, and a crude interface to move between the three streams. At any time in the film, one can choose to go the corresponding point in another film, and the other version will continue from a corresponding place in the sequence.

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This study was a genre experiment, probing whether stretchtext for home video might be a good idea. At the initial stage, this is a creative process, and formal, quantitative user testing was not considered to be worthwhile, at least not in this phase. The plans did include some small-scale qualitative testing, however, using about five users. As it turned out, the altitude selector interface created so many problems with the editing that it became apparent that it would not be successful. User testing was thus abandoned, a decision that takes away the possibility of a thorough comparison, but such a comparison should be reserved for two candidates that the researcher (or author) actually believes in. In this case, I was not able to make a version of the travel video that I felt it was useful to test.

I do not want to claim here that it is impossible to make a well-functioning stretchvideo with general altitude selection and replacement editing, someone else my certainly be able to do that. I am merely reporting on the challenges I faced, and trying to extract some experiences from them that may be useful for others.

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At four points in the wedding ceremony, the film pauses briefly, and the viewer is offered the possibility to watch more of the arriving guests, the bride's arrival, the priest's speech, and the guests congratulating the couple.

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