Microsoft Research has released a great little app that allows you to create amazing, compact little 10 second videos. Here’s Microsoft’s description:
Microsoft Research Cliplets is an interactive app that gives users the power to create “Cliplets” — a type of imagery that sits between stills and video, including imagery such as video textures and “cinemagraphs”. The app provides a simple, yet expressive way to mix static and dynamic elements from a video clip.
Cliplet 001: A tree blowing in the wind while the two small trees on both sides, don’t.
![](<iframe title="Cliplet 001" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;" src="https://embedr.flickr.com/photos/7136275633" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>)
Cliplet 002: A tractor on Bates Road with the canopy flapping.
![](<iframe loading="lazy" title="Cliplet 002" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;" src="https://embedr.flickr.com/photos/6990849118" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>)
Cliplet 003: Birds swimming.
![](<iframe loading="lazy" title="Cliplet 003" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;" src="https://embedr.flickr.com/photos/6990893324" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>)
Wedding 01: Jessica Bangert held by her sisters.
![](<iframe loading="lazy" title="Wedding 01" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;" src="https://embedr.flickr.com/photos/6991151106" width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen></iframe>)
Is this because the two small trees have no leafs on them? Or maybe there was a mole digging under the bigger tree. Puzzled?
Think of these as still pictures with isolated portions playing back as moving video. Combine this with the fact that they’re presented as Flickr moving pictures and it just kinda boggles the old mind :-)
p.s. I’m glad I’ve lived this long, to enjoy these toys…
It is a still picture with just one thing moving. Jim found this great program that’s called Cliplets, the other stuff in the picture is not moving because it’s a still picture