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What is Stroome?
Stroome is the world’s most comprehensive collaborative online video editing community. A place where anyone with a camera and a point of view can polish, publish and promote their content to a potential audience of millions.
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Who uses Stroome?
Students, journalists, filmmakers, musicians, sports enthusiasts, travelers, activists, bloggers - basically anyonewho wants to create original content for the web... or for themselves.
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Why use Stroome?
Pioneering a field called “Participatory Video,” Stroome enables you to share content, exchange comments, collaboratively edit and then push your piece out to the people who will take notice.
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What can Stroome do for me?
With Stroome, you can:
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Stream content to the site so that it’s immediately accessible to the community
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Grab clips from the largest collaborative, rights-cleared clip pool on the web
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Connect to other aspiring andestablished content providers, editors, and producers
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Edit and remix your content with your network of friends and colleagues in real time
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Publish those edits and remixes to all the popular social networks
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What’s on my Dashboard?
Your Dashboard helps you discover what’s going on in Stroome. Here, you’ll be able to do lots of cool things. Like upload and remix videos. Or be kept up to date on the most recently updated videos you’re interested in seeing with our elaborate alerts system. There’s also a Playlist of relevant videos that your colleagues have edited and published. And you’ll be able to view, comment, and rate videos right from your Dashboard. But using the Dashboard a the central point of discovery doesn’t stop there. Looking for possible colleagues to collaborate? Your Dashboard let’s you know who’s new to Stroome. Want to know what’s the most popular tags? You’ll see them towards the bottom of the page. Your Dashboard is the one stop shop overview of Stroome.
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I’ve heard about the 'Clip Pool' - What is it?
Let’s say you’re looking for that ‘killer’ shot. That one piece of film that’s really going to set your project apart. Well, just because youdon’t have the shot, doesn’t mean some else hasn’t got it. Take a dip in the clip pool, grab a clip from any one of the thousands of clips uploaded daily to Stroome, and get a refreshing new take on your project.
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How do I use the editing suite
We could tell you. By why not go to the source. You’ll be able to find tutorials for Kaltura’s editing suite here: corp.kaltura.com/userzone/tutorials. Or just click on one of the tutorials below.
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What powers Stroome?
People, of course. But it doesn’t hurt that we’ve partnered with Kaltura - the most comprehensive Web 2.0 browser-based editing suite on the market.
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Do I need to download Stroome?
Nope. There’s nothing to download. It all happens in your browser. And the best part? It’s free. Supported browsers include: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
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What kinds of files can I upload?
Video, audio, images. Whether it’s straight from your computer, a live stream from your webcam or something imported from another social networking site like YouTube, Flickr, Photobucket or MySpace - we’ll take it.
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Where are my files stored?
We’ll hang on to them for you. All we ask it that you don’t take advantage of our hospitality. Go over 3 GB and we’re going to start asking for a little something for the effort.
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How can I show people what I’ve done in Stroome?
There are a couple of ways, actually. The first is within the Stroome community itself. Automatic alerts, dropping your clips off at the ‘Clip Pool,’ or sending your projects to a colleague’s Playlist are just three ways to let people know you’ve got something to share.
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