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."

Comments

Missing feature

[ArcadeMan]

Automatically fix the dreaded Vertical Video Syndrome.

Re: Missing feature

[bill_mcgonigle]

how hard is it to rotate your phone 90 degrees? Vertical and horizontal composition have been valid for 150 years - don't blame photographers for 90lb CRT's or lazy web design.

Youtube fixed my shaky phone video

[wombatmobile]

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?

How about you leave my damn content ALONE?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re: How about you leave my damn content ALONE?

[Fwipp]

It is optional, you dork, just like auto -awesome is for pictures.

"Don't be evil" like applying contrast boosting filters to video they host is evil.

coming soon...

[Connie_Lingus]

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+

So... What, Exactly?

[Greyfox]

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?