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Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better
ErnieKey writes: A new Google+ feature for uploaded videos has been released that automatically enhances lighting, color, and stability. Soon, it'll also enhance speech in videos. "As more and more people now also take videos with their smartphones, it makes sense for Google to bring some of the technologies it has developed for photos (and YouTube) to these private videos, as well. Google has long offered a similar feature for YouTube users, so there is likely some overlap between the two systems here. While YouTube offers the option to 'auto-fix' videos, though, it doesn't automatically prompt its users to do this for them. YouTube also offers a number of manual tools for changing contrast, saturation and color temperature that Google+ doesn’t currently offer."
Automatically fix the dreaded Vertical Video Syndrome.
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Youtube said my shaky phone video looked shaky, would I like it to fix it? OK, I clicked. Why not?
The fixed video is a lot less shaky! I'm pleased. The parts where the girls are lifting up their dresses to show me their underpants are still dark, because they only did it in the shadows of the dance floor. But perhaps google will be fix that too some time?
Offer it as a feature but don't goddamn adjust it automagically FOR me. I might want to push something that's "got a problem" for artistic or statement reasons, Google.
Seriously, Google...when did "Do no evil" go by the wayside? You've had the motto. At some point you've kept to it. At some point later you threw that out the window and it's SHOWING...BADLY.
You incorrectly labelled 80 out of 120 of my videos as infringing music copyright (none of them did).
I used your "music swap" feature, and now all the previously silent videos have shitty music on them. Furthermore, none of the videos "belong" to me any more, so I can't (for example) monetize them.
No doubt using Google's special effects will transfer all ownership of your videos directly to Google. Fuckers.
If the content is good, the quality is not as important.
And also what if I do not want my content to be changed? Luckily I do not use Google+, but YouTube, so Google can't touch that. HA!
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Dear G+ User.
We wanted to let you know that your recently uploaded video "catsoncatnip.mp4" was automatically processed and several fixes were applied. We hope you like the results.
Also, in order to improve the user experience, we embedded a few targeted ads into your content. We are sure you won't mind as we have judged them to be unobtrusive.
Thank you for using G+
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I started using youtube more often, and I have to say that YT and G+ and the host of services offered are such a jumble of confusing settings and functions.
It's irritating, Google needs to clean it all up and offer something cohesive, functional.
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automatically replace critical parts of the speech entirely, and enhance with new speech that is "pro-Google."
There are only two ways to fix that; put big black bars on either side of the video and resample it to 16:9 or stab the person who took the video in the face. So I'm guessing you want Google to automatically detect VVS and stab the user that uploaded it in the face over the internet?
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They always say my videos are shaky, and that's because my videos ARE shaky and are supposed to be. The camera's sitting on my head, not a stable platform. If I preview the corrections they suggest, they're moderately less shaky and are also blurry. I think I'll stick with the uncorrected video.
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So they finally figured whats wrong with youtube's encoders that make everything look dark...
I'd be happy if they'd just provide a valid search feature. Not sure what their reasoning is, but each year it sucks harder. Worse, it provided more features and relevant returns 10 years ago.
I've said it before, and I will say it again. Make people upload source video with separate audio tracks for original content, verbal commentary (over dubs), and added music / SFX. I am so f'ing sick of having to listen to some idiots crap choice in music to watch an instructional or useful video. Even worse when I can't hear the explanation over the music track.
I am almost completely fine with the MPAA / ASCAP / etc. pulling videos with music tracks under DMCA if it would teach amateurs to stop adding soundtracks to otherwise useful or entertaining content.
But for audio synchronization, audio compression, & audio gain, fuggedaboutit. Google ain't doing shit for you until you get their stock above $8000.
Sometimes their shake compensation does horrible things to the videos that can make me feel physically ill trying to watch them. I don't get motion sickness in real life, but I the feeling I get while watching these is similar to what I imagine motion sickness would be like. I've experienced this when friends baby videos taken freehand have been automatically "fixed" by google - the original was certainly shaky, but it felt natural to watch, while the slow distorted image that you get after google does their stuff just feels weird, unnatural and sickening. I've also seen this happen to some video game let's plays - these videos shouldn't be compensated as the motion it's trying to correct is not coming from a shaky camera at all, it's from looking around and walking in the game. When it gets applied to these it is far far worse than when it is applied to a freehand video and I can't watch these for more than a few seconds without feeling ill. The image just continually distorts in different directions and moves constantly as it tries to correct for the actual movement in the game.