YouTube Launches Video Editor 65
Jamie noticed that YouTube has announced a built-in video editor that lets you actually edit video online. The editor lets you manipulate video you've uploaded to your own account.
You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.
Re:Your official guide to the Jigaboo presidency (Score:4, Informative)
It's called a troll.
Very quick Google search leads me to figure this: currently often posted in various places (YouTube is popular) by trolls who object to Obama. It actually predates the president, appearing at least as early as mid-2006 [quotesdb.info], but Google thinks even back in 2001 [google.com].
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Great, but... (Score:1, Offtopic)
...will it make those people who upload videos of them working on their MPCs actually talented? I think of all the beatmakers on Youtube, there are maybe a handful that are actually worth watching.
The same cannot be said, however, for guitar players; Youtube is overflowing with them.
Re:Great, but... (Score:4, Interesting)
I imagine it'll be a while before it lets you remix multiple Youtube videos into something like what Kutiman did [thru-you.com]. Nevertheless, at the very least it's a very nice tech demo.
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MPCs?
I like youtube for all the free episodes of Penn & Teller I can get. And the nifty Firefox addon that lets me download them to my hard disk. However I am surprised Showtime doesn't complain & yank them.
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MPCs?
This is what I was referring to [akaipro.com].
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why is it that everything on /. seems to go from zero to pro in no time what so ever?
is it that unless its done using professional grade/cost tools, its not worth doing, or something?
people have to learn/experiment somewhere...
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In most cases, I would agree with you...but a lot of these people act like they are hot shit when in fact they are cold diarrhea. All I'm saying is that you shouldn't act like you're the best there ever was when you aren't even close.
Note: "you" is the general "you", not "you, hitmark".
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thats more a issue of attitude then gear tho, right?
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Absolutely...I was merely using the MPC as an example because I figured people were most likely to know what I was talking about if I referred to that specific piece of hardware. I was obviously mistaken :-)
For the record, I don't care if someone uses hardware or software, if they use an MPC or a crappy, homemade $20 pad. I don't care if someone uses Reason or FL Studio, or any other comparison you can think of...so long as your tools allow you to create the music that you want, that's what matters.
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And the nifty Firefox addon that lets me download them to my hard disk.
DownloadHelper? Invaluable add-on. I've used it for all sorts of...um...reputable sites. Nope, they weren't porn streaming sites. Nope. Not at all. ::crickets:: I DON'T USE IT FOR PORN, OK?????
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>>>DownloadHelper?
No. It's called 1-Click Youtube Video Downloader. It lets me download MP4 or FLV for my computer, and 3GP files for slow connections (dialup; wireless). I love it. "NetVideoHunter" is my second-used program, for non-youtube videos like CNN or FOX News.
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Ah, gotcha. The one I mentioned, DownloadHelper, works with any flash object on any web page, whether it's a movie, game, audio file, or anything else. You can download the object as an .flv, and I believe the program supports on-the-fly conversion to just about anything imaginable as well.
Give it a look [downloadhelper.net], awesome stuff.
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I don't think that will work with, e.g., The Daily Show streams from Comedy Central.
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This is simply because the guitar is a superior instrument to any sampler. If I want to hear people make beats, I'll listen to a drummer. At least then it takes some skill to keep time.
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Making live beats using something like an MPC 1000 does take a ton of skill...it's just that most of the people who try to do it don't really have it -_-;;
Full Disclosure: I couldn't keep a beat if my life depended on it. That's one of the reasons why I make spacey ambient tunes...can't screw up a beat if there isn't one :-)
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Ok, I know it's bad to feed trolls, but...
Why? Because any beat that contains more than four sounds simultaneously is not worthy to be called music? Because if something is too fast to be physically played it should not be allowed to exist? Because there is no artistic use [youtube.com] for being able to trigger arbitrary sounds?
And yes, I can play guitar. But 'keeping in time' is not the only important skill in music. Neither is singing perfectly in tune. And if you think they are, you'd be shocked by the number of top
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But 'keeping in time' is not the only important skill in music. Neither is singing perfectly in tune.
But they are important skills. If you don't have them, don't cover them up. Compensate with what you're good at. e.g. Bob Dylan.
you'd be shocked by the number of top live bands that use click tracks and autotune.
You'd be shocked by the number of top live bands that suck. How can you improvise with a click track?
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That's fairly simple. You improvise within songs while staying in time with the click track. You have free time improvisations between the songs.
There is staying in time well enough that nobody notices, and then there is staying in time well enough that you can introduce complex keyboard and guitar sounds half-way through a song and be perfectly in time with them.
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Just need one extra button (Score:4, Insightful)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1723238 [slashdot.org]
Based on http://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/ [rit.edu]
offer a speed increase of 5% or greater or a speed reduction of 4% or greater.
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Yo dawg (Score:5, Funny)
Jumpcut Lives... (Score:2)
I was hoping this would happen someday. Jumpcut going away (thanks a lot for that, Yahoo) left a big hole in online video content. I'll be waiting for them to allow the same type of collaborative editing/borrowing.
Yay (Score:3, Insightful)
More data for google!
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Blood for the blood god. Data for the data gods.
Turtlenecks for the turtleneck god?
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So they can target ads at you because they find out that you like crossfades and lens flares?
This meme has to die.
The Horror (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Horror (Score:5, Funny)
With that countdown, you are clearly cuing and not queuing.
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If I could cue that way, I wouldn't need the talcum powder
Re:The Horror (Score:5, Funny)
But seriously, the great thing about an online editor that makes it so easy is this: they will keep the link to the old movie... no more 'this is a response to...' but 'this movie contains scenes from
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PINGAS as much as ChatRoulette (Score:2)
My sister watches those gawdawful "YouTubePoop" videos, half the time it sounds like her speakers are malfunctioning.
And the other half of the time, they're talking about PINGAS [youtube.com].
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I now have to cut through all the remixes and crap as well.
Yes. Now, this crap of remixes is starting now. I haven't suffered through that for years, it's a new thing from now on ;|
Close to the edit (Score:5, Insightful)
A video editor built into youtube. Excellent! Can we remove the fingerprint then they add to files for "copyright" enforcement? No? Then it's a rubbish editor.
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Hey I am still waiting for a feature so complicated, they haven't gotten to implementing it after all these years: a link to a video file. I purged all flash on my computers: I am just that afraid.
Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report states that a remote code execution in Adobe Reader and Flash Player was the second most attacked vulnerability in 2009. -WIKI
These affect GNU/Linux plugin just as well, so burn in hell, Adobe. And you, Web designers, get a clue and link to your bloody videos so that people can get it and watch it regardless of which browser they use.
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And you, Web designers,
get a clue and link to your bloody videos so that people can get it and watch it regardless of
which browser they use.
In broad theory, this is among the issues that Flash is supposed to solve, while simultaneously not making an easy avenue for the server to be DDoSed by having the video downloaded by a whole botnet simultaneously. Flash doesn't succeed nearly as well as I'd like and I'm not trying to defend its poor implementation of the idea, but "watch regardless of your browser or OS" is part of the issue that Flash (poorly) addresses.
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get it and watch it regardless of which browser they use
this is among the issues that Flash is supposed to solve
How does it solve it for text-based browsers? It cannot in principle. What about low-profile yet very capable browsers like NetSurf or Midori? I am not against embedding video, I just want a fail-safe option, and it's not like it's a hard one to implement. DDOS issue is avoided trivially by either running a torrent (popular video) or limiting the number of connections (unpopular video).
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How does it solve it for text-based browsers? It cannot in principle.
I too, am I waiting to stream YouTube videos with ELinks over SSH. If only people stopped using flash I'd be able to view the web properly.
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You might be surprised that this kind of thing is at least theoretically possible. What you need is some kind of video to text translation proxy.
http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/06/real-time-video-to-ascii-converter-written-in-javascript/
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Why such a focus on fancy crap? (Score:4, Insightful)
http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/06/10-killer-improvements-youtube-needs.html [thesilentnumber.me]
See, if they had the option to specify copyright, users could be shown a vast library of other videos and songs they could use to edit.
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What an insightful blog. So YouTube needs to do is get rid of advertising and send more money to the channel partners. I suppose they should hand out coupons for blow jobs as well.
Peter (Score:1, Interesting)
That's a seriously primitive editor if you compare to JayCut (which also has an API to integrate it).
Check it out: http://jaycut.com/video-editor-demo-landing
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Wow, that's a really fantastic video editor. It doesn't even work for me in Safari, Chrome, Opera and Firefox.