Technology is getting better every day. Computers use to be huge machines that filled a room, now that same computing power is ten times better and faster in the palm of your hand with smartphones. That blows my mind! Now we are headed to a digital cloud and cloud based computing. Soon, the computers that we use today will only be access points that house nothing as all of our pictures, info, documents, and memories will all be sitting in a white fluffy cloud. Even as I write this article I've used a computer, my smartphone, and my tablet to put it together. By using one program that saves the document to the cloud I've given myself the opportunity to work from almost anywhere, from any device. In my line of work I've done almost anything you can think of with a computer and media. From typing up this article, making a presentation, preparing a spreadsheet, to touching up a photo, I have yet to miss a beat even away from my desk. The only thing I do that has eluded quickness and cloud access has been video editing. That is where the monster size files and computer crunching power of over clocked CPUs battle on a daily basis. Fortunately, that is changing as well.

As my most loyal readers know, I've adopted a purely Apple Computer-based life style. I've done this, not out of misguided fanboy love of Apple, but out of necessity. I like to see my family once in a blue moon and having the same equipment I have at work makes sense. This way I have the ability to work from home if given the chance. But, like I said before, video editing is not as portable as everything else and, for some reason, that is what most of you are asking me about. The question of the week is, "Can you edit purely off the web (cloud)?" I have to say that after doing a little research, I can say, "Surprising, yes you can!"

One of my favorite sites that boast about video editing is WeVideo. For a monthly subscription you can have access to 20GBs of cloud storage, a small music library, and the freedom to upload and edit from anywhere. For someone getting their feet wet in video editing this is the most advanced, cloud based, beginners program. In fact, I'm thinking about getting my own account and seeing what I can do with it as well.

Loopster is another good product that does cloud based editing. Just like WeVideo you can do a monthly subscription only this one is five bucks cheaper. This product is not as polished, in my opinion, as WeVideo as they don't do 1080p and limit you to 2GBs per upload. That might be a deal breaker for some of you file hogs. Other then those downfalls Loopster seems to be a close second in editing video online.

The last online editor that I want to talk about is magisto. This takes a different approach to editing. All you have to do is choose your videos, select a theme, pick a song, and the program does the rest. Magisto will pick and choose video for you and it will spit out a finished (edited) "masterpiece." To me this program will either be your best editing partner or your worst nightmare.

These online editors are pioneers headed for a brave new world in editing. They are ahead of their time and I hope to see them grow and develop. That said I have two things to add. One. Even though these programs are great in their own right, they have a long road ahead before taking on industry leads like Final Cut Pro X or Avid. Two. As long as you apply yourself in shooting the video correctly off the camera, the better off you are going to be in the editing. No amount of editing can fix badly shot video. That does it for this edition of Tech Talk and as always, we would love your feedback/suggestions for this or our next edition, so feel free to send your comments to our resident Tech Guy Lonnie Valencia.

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Tech Talk Tuesday: Cloud Editing