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YouTube Launches Video Editor

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the append-chipmunk-to-everything dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Great, but... by Oddscurity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I imagine it'll be a while before it lets you remix multiple Youtube videos into something like what Kutiman did. Nevertheless, at the very least it's a very nice tech demo.

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  2. Just need one extra button by AHuxley · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Recall the "Fun with YouTube's Audio Content ID System" on slashdot?
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/1723238
    Based on http://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/
    offer a speed increase of 5% or greater or a speed reduction of 4% or greater.

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  3. Yo dawg by dandart · · Score: 5, Funny

    I herd u liek video so i put a video of ur video editor in your video editor in ur video player so you can watch while you edit while you watch while you edit.

  4. Yay by simonbas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More data for google!

    1. Re:Yay by ChienAndalu · · Score: 2, Interesting

      So they can target ads at you because they find out that you like crossfades and lens flares?

      This meme has to die.

  5. The Horror by COMON$ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ok so now not only do I have to filter through voiceovers and subtitles to find the original version. I now have to cut through all the remixes and crap as well. Queue people taking popular videos and cutting in genitals in 5...4...3...

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    1. Re:The Horror by omnichad · · Score: 4, Funny

      With that countdown, you are clearly cuing and not queuing.

    2. Re:The Horror by thijsh · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh, you missed the whole article on 'penis detection' huh? Youtube will probably include labels like: 'WARNING: this movie contains 5% penis. Click here to view original without bonus scenes.'.
      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 ...'.

    3. Re:The Horror by HopefulIntern · · Score: 2, Interesting

      What percentage of penis is acceptable in a youtube video? Do we need a system similar to the drink-driving laws? Sorry, this video is over 0.008% penis, which puts you over the limit. Video removed.

  6. Close to the edit by Wowsers · · Score: 4, 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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    1. Re:Close to the edit by melikamp · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

    2. Re:Close to the edit by melikamp · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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).

    3. Re:Close to the edit by PhrstBrn · · Score: 2, Insightful

      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.

  7. Re:Your official guide to the Jigaboo presidency by Monchanger · · Score: 3, 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, but Google thinks even back in 2001.

  8. Re:Great, but... by Pojut · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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  9. Why such a focus on fancy crap? by shadowmage13 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    New features are wonderful, but i wish they'd just make the site really solid before they released fancy crap...

    http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2010/06/10-killer-improvements-youtube-needs.html

    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.

  10. Re:Great, but... by Pojut · · Score: 2, Informative

    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, awesome stuff.

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