Today, one of the designers I work with asked me a pretty simple question about a Views-based list of videos. The listing displays thumbnails of videos being pulled from YouTube and Viemo. The question was: how do I change the size of the thumbnails?

It's easy enough to change the size of images, but the process gets fairly confusing when it comes to other content types. Here's a quick breakdown of the steps I took to enable video thumbnail resizing:

1. Create an image style.
2. Set the effect you want on the image style.
3. Create a file style.

EchoNest has basically taken the web API to a completely new level with their new Remix API.

The API allows not just the analysis of beats and musical characteristics that their basic API offered, it additionally allows coders to modify audio and video files based on the analysis information for programatic remixing.

To get a sense of the amazing results, check out these initial exploratory vids: http://musicmachinery.com/2009/06/21/wheres-the-pow/

More info: http://code.google.com/p/echo-nest-remix/

Does anyone know of any other multimedia API's that allow for the modification of audiovisual assets via API calls?
Any on your wishlist?

Personally, I'd love some good web-based speech to text and face recognition APIs.

(via O'Reilly Radar)