YouTube Launches Multi-Angle Video Experiment 62
jones_supa writes YouTube is experimenting with a fun feature already known from DVDs: videos that let you switch between different camera angles while the video is playing. These multi-angle videos are only an experiment right now and there's only one demo video that actually showcases this feature so far. Provided that the user can supply multiple camera streams, YouTube tells that the multiplexing will be automatic, but that the technology is not ready to scale to everyone yet. If you want to give this a try, head over to Madilyn Bailey's channel. The YouTube team took her performance at the most recent YouTube Music Night and set it up as a multi-angle video.
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I just tried it out, and the playback skips/repeats a little bit when you change angles. :/
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Animusic 2 is the only DVD I recall that had the feature. It was kind of cool to watch just one of the nutty instruments playing, but the guided camera standard versions of the songs were probably better.
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Porn, that feature is mostly used in porn.
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Sure was. My DVD remote still has the Angle button. I can't recall a single title that used it.
That's because it's a useless gimmick. And it requires lot of extra work to produce, with little or no real benefit.
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Sure was. My DVD remote still has the Angle button. I can't recall a single title that used it.
That's because it's a useless gimmick. And it requires lot of extra work to produce, with little or no real benefit.
On a DVD, sure. On live TV? Particularly sports? It's awesome. One of the stations - NBC or CBS, I think - streamed an NFL game on their website last year and let you select either the broadcast stream or any of the individual cameras, including sideline, overhead, QB close up, etc. That was really fun. I could see the same benefit for anything where different viewers may be interested in different things happening simultaneously - sports or concerts, primarily.
NBA's TNT OT (Score:2)
http://www.nba.com/tntovertime... [nba.com] started this years ago. Very fun.
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I've seen a lot of foreign (non-US) movies on DVD that use the angle in conjunction with the audio track and subtitles. One angle will have English opening and/or closing credits while the other has the native language credits.
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Sure was. My DVD remote still has the Angle button. I can't recall a single title that used it.
That's because it's a useless gimmick. And it requires lot of extra work to produce, with little or no real benefit.
It isn't a ton of extra work. If you are doing a multicamera setup anyway, you should just be sure to use a clapperboard [wikipedia.org] so that you can sync the videos up easier. If you are working with multiple cameras anyway, the extra steps in Premiere (Elements or otherwise) to put different angles in Picture in Picture boxes (PIP) is absolutely trivial. For sports and porn the resulting videos are a lot more interesting. I've used it for family videos too- with young children you never know which way they are go
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I have a porno movie in DVD that I found in a DVD drive in a computer lab machine that I was fixing. It allows you to choose multiple angles for a bunch of scenes, but the reality is, there's a reason why the director chose the angle he did...
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I found in a DVD drive in a computer lab machine that I was fixing
Why must you turn this website into a house of lies?
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Maybe he is not lying. Maybe he did steal a DVD from his customer.
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The only DVD I have that uses it is Cirque du Soleil's Dralion. On a few of the scenes you can switch between three crops. You're not even choosing different angles as such, just how "zoomed in" the view is.
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I did find a porn DVD that had multi-angle support...didn't make it better.
And I find the up-skirt angle a curious omission...
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The only titles I've ever seen^Wheard of which used multi-angle were porn. It was^Wsounded gimmicky and didn't really add much. Or, so I'm told. ;-)
The only other places I've seen it used was in some special features on DVDs so you could see the movie, and the original story-boarding side by side, or just one of them. But it was actually a nuisance to use.
It was one of those things which they added to the spec, and then everybody found themselves doing "OK, we have to use this feature ... but what the he
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who may reveal themselves tomorrow now that we've passed this incredible technological threshold.
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I don't think I have any DVDs that have that feature - but last time I saw it demonstrated, there was no feedback for the various angles in the current view. Couple that with the delay before it would start showing that angle, and it was just not very impressive.
The YouTube demo seems a lot better (minor skipping aside) because it puts the various views on the screen so you can see what's happening on other views, and decide to change the view if you so desire.
I also think the subject matter works for this
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Because the DVD's director and editor are a better director and editor than you are. Even if they are pretty bad. This feature sounded neat when it was first talked about. It's not a very good idea in practice though.
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Didn't make a splash then...
Not true. It was widely used in pr0n DVDs, I'd say it did make a few splashes.
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Didn't make a splash then...
You could see the wide shot, his face, her face, the hotel-PPV version, or the real naughty bits. I had an Apex [wikipedia.org] DVD player that would flash a little 'angle' indicator onscreen whenever a multi-angle scene was available and the remote had an 'angle change' button.
It was pretty much useless.
Editors know how to do their job. Having five cameramen increases costs by quite a bit but doesn't increase profits at all, even in niche markets. One of the benefits of editing is that y
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It was pretty much useless.
The place I can see it being genuinely useful is in car videos, and this would be useful for them on youtube right now. Some of the car video guys are now doing one takes and if you could select camera angles, that would be nifty.
Worked really well for concert DVDs (Score:3)
The U2 Elevation [amazon.com] DVD used multi-angle really well - you could switch between different views of the concert, from the control room to BonoCam (yes really, even before Google Glass there were cameras in glasses) and general wide angle views. The control room view was especially fun.
I have to admit it never caught on generally but there are some select subjects where it can be really great - personally I think it could really flourish on a place like YouTube with and endless array of specialized subjects and
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The Apple-Juice Pill (Score:1)
"Look, our toddler's in The Matrix!" [swish swish swish]
Already sex is hinted at (Score:2)
Just after she's introduced to sing I hit left twice just to test it out, and it was of her rear which works up to her head. I LOL'd
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Yep, it's not really ready for primetime. I'm surprised they released it like this!
In a couple moments, I quickly spotted two issues:
1) The majority of the time that I switch camera angles, I get a little repeat/skip backwards in the audio.
2) When changing between cameras, it seems you get a real quick shot of the last frame you were on with that camera. So as the scene progresses and you change cameras, this causes some subliminal-style image flashes.
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Why can't the morons who upload videos to youtube use multiple angles in a single video stream so we don't have to switch? It's simply annoying and unpleasant to watch the same angle for even 5 minutes (eg: see professional music videos, TV shows, movies etc.), let alone the whole video length of 10-50 minutes. How come people are allowed to upload without learning this basic skill of filming?
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How come people are allowed to upload without learning this basic skill of filming?
A lot of these people don't have someone else to handle the camera. Yeah, it's sad, but it's true. I don't have anyone who wants to operate a camera while I pontificate about something that might be interesting to a handful of people. If I make a video like that, you can be sure that it will have a static camera.
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Not only that, many don't have the equipment to run a multicam setup. Cameras and a time code generator cost money.
I've done multicam with 2 smartphones. You don't need a time code generator. Start the recording on both cameras at approximately the same time, and make a loud, sharp, noise (like a single hand clap or banging a table) to emulate the clapperboard that you are too poor to buy. Don't stop the recording until the scene is done. Use the loud sharp noise at the beginning of the clips to sync up the videos. Make your video PIP and throw away one of the audio tracks, or do proper cuts if you want to be fancy
Excuse me, Mr. Stormtrooper... (Score:1)
Yay for YouTube (Score:2)
Now we can change angles just like a DVD!
Setting the stage for sports (Score:2)
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ooh, my eyes (Score:2)
I tried to watch the sample video thing. Terrible issues with audio-continuity between the views. Seeing that dude's fanny pack was a great example of why nobody needs \ wants this. I might have had some degree of respect for the guy despite his annoying voice if I hadn't switched to the view that showed the bejeweled fanny-pack. Editing exists for a reason, just like elected political representatives. This is like those people that show you their completely unedited vacation photos- all 568 of them. I
Meh (Score:1)
Meh
Beastie Boys Video Anthology (Score:1)
Does that mean we'll finally get to see (Score:2)
Nicki Minaj from an angle other than the one with the camera pointing at her butt?