Posts Tagged ‘You Tube’
YouTubers Can Now Edit Videos Online
Most new devices loaded with video capture capabilities like mobile phones, camcorders, digicams and pocket camcorders all have YouTube video settings in common it seems. While that makes it real easy to capture and upload, there are those times when you might just want to do a bit of editing before uploading and finding the right editor can sometimes be a bit of a pain. So trust Google to make things simple and easy. They’ve now got an online video editor for YouTube that should simplify the whole deal.
With this new editor, you’ll be able to:
• Combine multiple videos you’ve uploaded to create a new longer video
• Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos
• Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs
• Create new videos without worrying about file formats and publish them to YouTube with one click—no upload necessary
There’s no need to install any software on your PC and while that’s a good thing, online editing would also depend considerably on bandwidth. A lower bandwidth would mean slower work so it would be easier to provide users with a downloadable app.
Google to Insert Automated Captions on YouTube
Google is to add automatic captions to the tens of millions of English-language videos it hosts on YouTube, the web search giant said Friday.
The move will make the videos more accessible to deaf viewers but will also help Google index the content and supply relevant ads alongside it, analysts said.
Google has been experimenting with the automated captions for several months with a handful of high profile partners like the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University and National Geographic. All other captions on YouTube videos were provided by the videos’ producers.
Google has been working on speech recognition technology for some five years, and uses the technology to transcribe audio voice mails through its Google Voice service, and to provide spoken Web searches from smart phones.
However, engineers warned that the technology is far from perfect and that the machine translations are sure to contain mistakes.
“We know it’s not perfect, and sometimes it will be funny,” said Google engineer Ken Harrenstien, who is deaf. “But it’s better than nothing.”
YouTube Shuts Its Video Downloads Program
YouTube shuts down its short-lived video downloads program. Some of you must be wondering, if there even was a ‘video downloads beta-program’
YouTube in February, launched this service which allowed content creators to post both free and paid downloads to YouTube.
YouTube sent emails to the users who were allowed to upload content to this service saying that current downloads will be available, but no new ones can be posted.
David Rodriguez of StuffWeLike.com posted a video explaining the move.
YouTube to be Profitable in Not-too-distant Future
Web video site YouTube will be profitable for Google Inc in the near future, the Internet search leader said on Thursday.
Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, but has lost money on the site that lets people post and share videos free. Analysts have raised concerns about the huge costs involved in streaming millions of videos with only a tiny swathe of them being supported by advertising. “YouTube is now on a trajectory that we’re very pleased with,” Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said during an earnings call on Thursday. He added that Google is helping marketers and advertising agencies create “great ads easily” for YouTube. Google executives have recently made bullish remarks on YouTube’s revenue growth. Schmidt told reporters at the Sun Valley technology and media conference this month that new advertising formats, such as pre-roll ads that appear before a Web video program, will draw in more revenue. On Thursday, Google’s head of product management and marketing, Jonathan Rosenberg, said “monetized views” – people viewing videos that are supported by advertising – more than tripled in the past year. “We’re now monetizing billions of views of partner videos every month,” he said. In response to an analyst question, Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette said recent efforts to introduce new ad formats and promote videos have helped to establish YouTube’s home page among advertisers as relevant and “desirable for customers.” “We’re really pleased both in terms of (YouTube’s) revenue growth, which is really material to YouTube, and… in the not long, too-long-distant future, we actually see a very profitable and good business for us,” Pichette said.
Youtube Updates Its Mobile Site Adding More Features
YouTube has launched an updated version of its YouTube Mobile website (m.youtube.com ) designed for HTML5-capable browsers such as the iPhone’s Safari and those on Android-based phones.
“(The update) incorporates the features and functionality you’ve come to expect from the .com site, like search query suggestions, the options to create playlists, the ability to designate ‘favorite,’ ‘like’ or ‘unlike’ videos directly from your device,” YouTube product manager Andrey Doronichev writes in a introductory blog post.
“YouTube Mobile now receives more than 100 million video playbacks a day,” writes Doronichev. “This is roughly the number of daily playbacks that YouTube.com was streaming when we joined forces with Google in 2006.”
This website is designed for the iPhone in particular, which already has a Youtube application. The website however, aims to look much better in comparison.