Posts Tagged ‘YouTube’
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.
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Asus O Play Air HDP-R3 Media Player
HD media players have sprung out of every rabbit hole in wonderland, the concept has proliferated faster than you can imagine. It’s a great concept no doubt, who needs those bulky old DVD players anyways now that we have HDD form factors that play even our high def 1080p video files? But all of them don’t play these files alike, and that’s where we come in to separate the quality out, and today we have Asus latest offering up for examination. It’s called the O! Play Unlimited, and going by the fact that its parent brand has impressed us in many ways previously, let’s not waste any more time in checking this one out.
Design
The device is typical in that it resembles uncannily a 1 TB Hard disk these days, but functionally it has no storage. You have to connect your own storage to it. The top and bottom edges are matte finished, with 3 of the 4 sides covered by a glossy black strip. The lone backside is again matte, and has the connections located therein. The features of this player are quite good, besides the regular connectors of USB 2.0 we also have eSATA, which is MUCH faster than the former. There is also Memory card reader support.
Beside playing off storage this unit has other capabilities, and those have to do with a certain something called the internet. Besides playing HD files off a remote storage with Wi-Fi (upto Wi-Fi ‘n’), this unit also connects to the world wide web and accesses the Youtube, NBC, Fox sports, PICASA, Flickrs of the world. Not only that it also syncs to Internet radio stations, loads of them (according to the specs).
One of the most important things in this category of products is file format compatibility. The more the merrier, for sure; Asus sure gets this, and have tried to incorporate lots of audio video formats dear to our hearts.
Specs
Input:
• DC Power In
•1xUSB 2.0 Port
•1xUSB 2.0 / eSATA Combo Port
•RJ-45 LAN Port
•Card readers CF, SD+MMC, MS+MS Duo
•802.11n Wireless Networking
Output:
•Composite Video
•Composite Audio L/R
•S/PDIF Out
•HDMI 1.3
Supported Formats
•Video: MPEG1/2/4,RM/RMVB,VC-1,H.264
•Video File: .trp,.mp4,.mov,.xvid,.avi,.divx,.asf,.wmv,.mkv,.rm,.rmvb,.flv,.ts,.m2ts,.dat,.mpg,.vob,.mts,
•Audio: MP3,WAV,AAC,OGG,FLAC,AIFF,Dolby Digital AC3,Dolby Digital Plus,DTS Digital Surround,Tag ID3
•Image: JPEG,BMP,PNG,GIF,TIFF
•Subtitle: SRT,SUB,SMI,SSA,TXT(SRT)
Performance
The first thing to talk about was the menu, which had large icons arranged in a circle, which rotates around to display the main one. I would prefer a list form of UI to this any day. The color schema dn font size are alritght, no problem in readability.
The video output was sharp and crisp detail wise, it was very impressive in terms of the absence of dirty edge distortion or blurry edges in motion. The motion was stutter free almost, except in a full bitrate VOB file, which took a little while to start and sync up. The colors again were nicely saturated, we could not gauge any blotchiness or color banding, again a very impressive feat. This was observed in even 1080p MKVs.
Setting up wireless connections is as easy as selecting it from the list of detected networks, and entering your password. HD files streamed almost flawlessly from a distance of 8 feet, with a wall in the middle. thast mpressive.
Rs. 10,500 excluding taxes is the rate one has to shell out, which we feel is a decent price to ask, considering the market has product similarly priced. This model has superior wireless performance, plus core playback of all formats was handled with confidence. The menu was alright; could have been less quirky, but then that’s the only complaint we have. It’s a solid player.
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YouTube Aims for ‘Stickiness’ With Redesign
In December, I wrote about YouTube’s multifaceted effort to keep users on its site longer as it sought to compete more effectively with television. Much of the work to make YouTube more “sticky” focused on helping users discover videos they might want to watch based on what they had watched or liked before.
Now YouTube is hoping to shine a spotlight on some of those behind-the-scene improvements with a new design of its “watch page.” YouTube says some version of this page is seen 1 billion times each day, so the redesign, which YouTube is to roll out on Wednesday afternoon, is likely to be noticed.
By and large, the new watch page is simpler and more streamlined. It has big search box at the top, underscoring the fact that YouTube is the second-most-used search engine after Google, which owns YouTube.
Perhaps the biggest change is on the right-hand side of the page, where YouTube replaced a clutter of modules and links with a long list of suggested follow-on videos. The list is curated using many of the techniques I talked about in the December story.
“We want to offer more choice to users and really make this page optimized for viewing sessions rather than a single view,” said Shiva Rajaraman, a senior product manager at YouTube. If a user watches a music video, for instance, Mr. Rajaraman said that YouTube would tee up a mix of related music videos in the hope that users would sit back and watch.
“We create an option for you to watch 15, 20 or 30 minutes of content,” Mr. Rajaraman said. “You can sit back and click ‘next,’ ‘next,’ ‘next.’ We want users to leave because they run out of time, not because they run out of things to watch.”
YouTube is also making it easier to find interesting comments and has simplified its rating systems to a simple thumbs up or thumbs down from a system using one to five stars,.
The new “watch page” will not be new to everyone. In January, YouTube made an early version of its redesign available on an opt-in basis. It has since rolled out the new page design to some 10 percent of its audience, and the company says the results are good.
Mr. Rajaraman said that in the limited release, the playlists had increased the number of videos users viewed by 6 percent. The changes in comments and ratings have helped “engagement” on the site rise by 7 percent.
That is a good start. But it’s still a long way before YouTube catches up with television, which the average viewer watches about 5 hours each day. By comparison, people spend an average of about 15 minutes on YouTube.
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.