I was able to reproduce this with an MPG video I uploaded (I recently spotted a cat across the street, which made for a good sample video). Now, news comes in via blogger Andy Baio that the upload is completely broken. whereas Google Video was still working on it, for some reasons (do they have human moderators checking each and every video, and if so, is the same true for YouTube?). After a while, seeing the video was still not live, I switched to YouTube, and after the upload there, the video was then quickly showing live. After the video was uploaded using the web interface, I was waiting for it to go live. Google likes to promote to “eat your own dog food” in internal campaigns, but having two services in a competing area lets them now choose between different dog food brands.įor instance, just recently I tried to upload something to Google Video because while YouTube has better social features, I kind of prefer the Google Video player for technical reasons. this can be seen, for one thing, by the fact that almost all official Google blogs now post videos to YouTube instead of Google Video, and the closing down of their “best of Google Video” section as part of their Google Video blog. Ever since the acquisition of YouTube, Google refocused their own old site to be a video search engine, not as much the place to upload your own things. While Google-owned YouTube is adding features, Google-Video-as-video-host brings new troubles. Google Video upload is broken in the meantime Note that only video owners can add annotations looking at the annoying results of other video sites which allow anyone to add annotations to a given clip, we might say luckily so. neat! (Be aware if you want to offer unique options, the work behind such an adventure will grow exponentially – having multiple paths merge again can help here.)Īs a visitor, to turn off annotations in a given video like the Magic Card Trick video, click the bottom right arrow and hit the mysterious icon above it. Combining several of these videos, it would be possible to create a full-featured choose-your-own-adventure game. This feature also allows you to create interactive videos – like a video ending with a multiple choice question, leading to different other videos depending on where you click. Those URLs may only point to YouTube though (I wonder if that’s greedy or if there’s a good reason for this). You will be able to insert three types of annotations “speech bubbles,” “notes,” and “spotlights.”Īlso, you can add a link with each annotation. To add an annotation to one of your own videos, check your videos listing and hit the “Edit Annotations” button next to one. YouTube now offers video annotations, text bubbles created by the video owner which are overlaid on the video at specific times. Wednesday, JYouTube Adds Video Interaction, Annotations (While Google Video Upload Is Broken)
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