The art of video production and editing to get your video ready for broadcasting over the internet. Here you will find articles, guides, tutorials and reviews that look into various video editing and production tools, the world of video compression and an insider look at videography.
YouTube now not only offers a place to easily and speedily upload videos to, but also the ability to edit them after the process has been completed. And the new YouTube editor has proved a big hit in the two months since it debuted.
YouTube has long been keen on improving the quality of content on the site. Cute cat videos are great, but premium content is better. And while badly-shot video is better than no video, video you can actually watch without having to skint to see any detail is better.
YouTube has offered editing options to its users for some time, with simple, on-site tools having been available since 2010. And in September 2011 YouTube launched a new editor which upped the number of options and usability of the features on offer by a considerable margin.
Two things are probably key for any tech startup looking to make it beyond the first year: funding, and a partner willing and able to push you into the mainstream. Magisto already has both, despite having been up and running for just a few months, most of it in a closed beta.
Magisto is a online video editor unlike any other. Because although there are many already out there that offer a range of tools designed to make the user’s experience as simple as possible, Magisto goes one stage further and does everything automatically.
We covered Magisto in some depth just a few days ago on the news that it was launching to the general public after five months in a closed beta. Helping the Israeli-based company along the way was Li Ka-Shing, who put part of the $5.5 million up that represents Series B funding.
But Magisto had potentially bigger news under its belt.
Automatic video editor Magisto is now open to the public. A public which is taking more video footage than ever thanks to smartphones, but which has less time than ever to edit them before posting to the Web. These guys could be onto something.
How often have you shot hours of video and promised yourself that one day soon you’ll find the time to edit it down to the bare essentials, deleting all the parts that don’t matter, that you didn’t look right, that won’t need keeping for your grandkids to look at?
Magisto is hoping that lots of you out there answered with a resounding chorus of, “I do it all the time!” Because anyone that did is a potential customer for the Web application which automatically (perhaps automagically is more fitting) edits your videos.
YouTube now has a dedicated editor built in to the site giving all users the opportunity to edit video they have previously uploaded. The range of options has even been expanded to include Instagram-style effects.
Google first rolled out a video editor on YouTube last year with a simple affair offering the chance to trim, drag and drop, add metadata, and add music made available through TestTube. But a team has been quiet beavering away on improving the offering for the past 12 months.
The new YouTube Editor has now gone live, and it’s a vast improvement over the last effort. It allows for the editing of all videos which haven’t yet managed to gain 1,000 views, which is the vast majority. Those which have become popular will be left intact, with a new post-edit video uploaded alongside it.
YouTube has introduced multiple Creative Commons options for video uploaders and video remixers. This opens up thousands of clips to be used in videos and allows creators to offer more liberal licensing to other users of the site.
The Creative Commons licensing system has been around since 2002 and allowed content creators to easily license their works on the Internet. There are six different Creative Commons licenses available, ranging from Attribution Alone to Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike. All of which make various demands of those using the licensed works.
Creative Commons has been used extensively on photographs, with Flickr now hosting almost 200 million images licensed under the system. But video hasn’t really made the most of the Creative Commons licensing system. At least until now.
Have you always wanted to create a YouTube video but were unable or unwilling to do so? Now is your best chance of doing so, thanks to a trio of third-party apps YouTube has teamed up with to help you do so in the simplest way.
YouTube currently gets more than 35 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute of every day. Which is more than I can possibly conceive of. You’d think that would be enough to sate Google’s desire to remain as the number one online video destination, but apparently not.
Keen to help out those people who haven’t got access to any kind of camera – whether it be a Webcam, video camera, or smartphone – and those who don’t feel comfortable showing their faces on the Web, YouTube has teamed with three third-party apps.
These apps – collectively known as YouTube Create – all allow you to create a video for free with nothing other than the tools provided.
YouTube really loves us all uploading video to the site. The problem is the quality of these videos can sometimes be shoddy, while the bandwidth needs are extravagant. The solution? An Irish company called Green Parrot Pictures, apparently.
User-Generated Content (UGC) is an integral part of YouTube. Hell, it makes up the vast majority of the content on the site, though the amount of more professional content from YouTube Partners has started to increase of late.
The problem for YouTube is the quality isn’t always there when it comes to UGC, especially now that many people shoot video on mobile devices which are also capable of doing a multitude of other things. Then there is the size of these videos to consider, as the bandwidth costs for hosting this kind of content must cost YouTube a (not so) small fortune.
Thankfully YouTube has found a solution.
