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Flickr Video
Flickr has finally opened up for the one thing that, in my opinion, was holding it back - video.
This is great news, and certainly something I am going to use. But, it is still not ready for "full use".
- It is only available for Pro-users (not a problem for me, since I am one). I actually think this is a pretty good move, since it will prevent video pirates from uploading copyrighted content
- They must be under 90 seconds in length, which is far from enough - most of my videos are 3-4 minutes in average. Many of them are close to 10 minutes.
- They must not be over 150 MB in size, which is a rather strange limitation. The size of the original file is of little importance, as, depending on the format used, it will be converted to a smaller flash video size. E.g. I have seen 800 MB QuickTime videos that was converted to 14 MB FLV.
But, great news nevertheless and it works quite well too - and it is much better in quality than YouTube.
And, don't miss this funny video:
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(via Flickr Blog, Video from Heather)
Comments
Charlie - Apr. 29, 2008
actually - I'm of the opposite view - I don't think video is what Flickr needs - the danger is that it becomes youtube and the inherits all the idiot comments and users and commercial viral marketing companies that youtube has. As it stands, Flickr is a relatively pure, simple and effective photography site, loved by and made for photographers with an intelligent and thriving user community..
just my tuppence..
Published: Apr. 9, 2008
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Ali B. - Apr. 10, 2008
Hey! I get to be the first to comment :)
To be honest, The idea of having FV only available for Pro users annoyed me first ( I am not a pro user), but after a short while, I thought exactly as you mentioned, even better, with that move, there would be very slight chance to have abusive videos that we keep seeing popping up in Youtube these days in Flickr Video.
Sure hope that Flickr sticks to this decision so we can have at least a clean space for normal people to be able to share their videos.