Video playground Binumi looks to help students be better storytellers
Based in Thailand, Binumi aims to allow students to venture beyond their own classrooms with videos.
Imagine this: you’re a 13-year-old student tasked to work on a video presentation detailing the challenges a mountaineer might face en route Mount Everest. What’s the best you could do? I’m guessing there might be a few static images of the Earth’s highest mountain flashing on the screen as you share your presentation. You can’t get royalty-free images (unless you’re willing to spend a ton of money on it) and you certainly can’t go to Mount Everest.
タイに拠点を置くBinumiは、学生が教室の外でもビデオで冒険できるように、を目標にしている。
想像してみてほしい。あなたは13歳の学生だとする。課題として、エベレストに登攀中の登山家の苦難を詳細にビデオプレゼンをするよう言われた。あなたはどこまで頑張れるだろうか？ プレゼンの最中に、世界最高峰の画像をいくつかぱっぱとスクリーンに映すのがせいぜいだろう。多額の金を費やすことをいとわなければ別だが、あなたは使用料不要の画像も手に入れられず、エベレスト登山に行くことも絶対にできない。
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タイに本拠地のあるBinumiは、学生達が動画を使って教室外を冒険できるように取り組んでいる。
自分が１３歳の学生で、登山家がエベレスト登山中に出くわすであろう困難な場面をビデオで発表するという課題を与えられたと想像しよう。自分にできる最善策は何か？発表中に世界で最も高い山の静止画が数枚、スクリーン上でフラッシュするぐらいであると思う。著作権の無い画像を手に入れることなどできない。（あなたが大金をつぎ込めるのなら話は別だが）エベレストに実際に行くなど以ての外だ。
Enter Binumi. The startup, founded by Anthony Copping, a former documentary filmmaker and avid traveler, has over a million videos and special effects clips, and more than 7,000 audio tracks – all royalty-free. His team, positioned all over the world, would go out and shoot videos and contribute to the enormous content pool we see today.
In fact, since their launch earlier this month, they have partnered up with 50 Thai educational institutions to see some 150,000 students on board.
実際、今月初めのローンチ以降、タイにある50の教育機関と提携して15万ほどの学生の参加があった。
Pricing
The official website shows three pricing packages: personal, commercial and education.
For personal accounts, there are three tiers to look at: trial, starter and plus. For trial personal accounts, it will only be free for 30 days and provide up to five music tracks, 10 video and audio clip downloads, 500 mb of storage space and a small 480 x 360 p video quality. Sounds reasonable, given how massive the content pool is.
Starter personal accounts go at US$9.99 per month, and offer up to over 200 music tracks, unlimited video and audio clip downloads, a medium 640 x 360 p video quality and unlimited still image downloads. Plus personal accounts then charge users US$24.99 per month and provide them with unlimited music tracks, video and audio clip downloads, still images and a high video quality of 1920 x 1080 p. It is important to note that these accounts also go at a discounted rate when users subscribe to more than three or 12 months at point of billing.
While commercial and education rates are undisclosed, it seems that users can store up to 10 gb of clips with the commercial account and only two gb on the education account. One thing I do not understand is why commercial accounts still have to keep the Binumi watermark on videos.
