{"id":61969,"date":"2012-11-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2012\/11\/11\/popcorn-maker\/"},"modified":"2021-05-24T20:58:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:58:29","slug":"popcorn-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/mozilla\/popcorn-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Popcorn Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brett Gaylor launching Popcorn Maker at the Mozilla Festival this morning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today at the Mozilla Festival<\/a><\/strong>, we’re extremely proud to launch the 1.0 version of Popcorn Maker<\/a><\/strong>, a free web app that makes video pop with interactivity, context and the magic of the web.<\/p>\n

Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video<\/strong>. Using Popcorn Maker’s simple drag and drop interface, you can add live content to any video \u2014 photos, maps, links, social media feeds and more. All right from your browser.<\/p>\n

The result is a new way to tell stories on the web, with videos that are rich with context, full of links, and unique each time you watch them.<\/p>\n

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The Popcorn Maker story<\/h3>\n

“Until now, video on the web has been stuck inside a little black box<\/strong>,”\u00a0says Mozilla’s Director of Popcorn, Brett Gaylor<\/a>. “Popcorn Maker changes that, making video work like the rest of the web: hackable, linkable, remixable, and connected to the world around it.”<\/p>\n

Last year Mozilla launched Popcorn.js<\/a>, a Javascript library for developers that resulted in ground-breaking productions like the NFB’s One Millionth Tower<\/a>, PBS and NPR’s 2012 election coverage<\/a>, and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“But until now, the power of Popcorn has been available mostly just to developers<\/strong>,”\u00a0 Brett says. “Popcorn Maker puts that power in everyone’s<\/em> hands, through an intuitive interface anyone can use. We’re really excited to see what the world will make with it.”<\/p>\n

Developed as part of Mozilla\u2019s Webmaker<\/a> program, Popcorn Maker is a unique collaboration with filmmakers, developers, young media makers, and the Centre for Development of Open Technology at Seneca College<\/a>, all working to design and build together.<\/p>\n

Popcorn Maker is built entirely using open web elements, written in HTML, CSS and Javascript. “It’s essentially a web page that makes other web pages. We think it’s a great example of Mozilla’s larger vision for what web apps can be,” Brett says.<\/p>\n