I feel kind of bad about this. A couple months back I went to see how the folks working on opensource real time video and effects editor Jahshaka (Link) were coming along and saw a new post asking for users to vote on a user-interface (Link). The entries seemed really nice just from what I saw posted (I’ve never loaded Jahshaka an am now just waiting for release 2.0 to go gold), but I decided then to wait to report on the winner. Well, I forgot all about it until I posted an entry over on the Core77 site today reminding me of exactly this kind of socially-networked product development (you can read that Here). So, better late than never I guess and here are the co-winners. Above is the “SuperG” interface (explanatory Link) by Ron7, and below is “Almost Flat” (explanatory Link) by EMC.

I’m looking forward to playing with this software but, I have to confess, that’s now partly because I’m getting a chuckle out of this bit from the site:

While the Super G design is by far the most popular, the Almost Flat design was developed with the community and was a great project in and of itself for us, as we got to see the design grow as it was nurtured by others! The final jahshaka 2.0 design will combine elements of both of these!

Seems the ol’ “combine elements of both” tactic transcends the boundaries of corporate R&D.

{Top image Copyright © 2005 Ron7 and bottom image Copyright © 2005 EMC}