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whizz4u  
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 More options Sep 4 2008, 10:25 pm
From: whizz4u
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:25:16 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Thurs, Sep 4 2008 10:25 pm
Subject: Re: Feedback on New Captions Feature
My suggestions are:

Users should be able to write their captions online while logged into
youtube. The upload option should still be there but it would be
easier to have an online editor to add captions. There could be
options for people to enter captions in english,spanish etc. They
could tick the language boxes that they enter text in so on the
youtube player caption button only the captions languages that the
person typed in will be able to be chosen.

There should be a range of caption designs with different
borders,fonts,colors etc. Like a normal rectangle box with a black
background with white text, and another design of a wide star shaped
box like they have in cartoons when someone gets punched.

The captions should be able to be positioned just under the middle of
the video and also near the bottom of the screen.

There should also be a caption news ticker type thing like CNN etc
have at the bottom of their screen. But instead of the captions
scrolling, they could just be appearing.

Also, because people will have captions there will probably be alot
more people from different countries using youtube, so there needs to
be a language tab on the left hand side of the video page at
http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp like myspace has here:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.charts

The default language should always be set to ENGLISH.
When users upload videos to youtube, there should be a "language"
category, and the default language should be set to English, then
there should be a drop-down box that lists all the other languages
like turkish,swedish etc.

P.S
Can you please add a "SEXY" category so when users upload videos of
bikini contests etc they can choose this category. And add this
'SEXY'
category  to the categories on the left hand side of this
page:www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp

On Sep 5, 3:22 am, YouTube Timmy wrote:

> Hi guys,

> Since many of you have been offering some great feedback about
> YouTube, we would like to ask if you have any thoughts about our
> recently launched captions feature.

> (See our blog for more details:http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=mi8D3ntPgFQ)

> We are eager to improve this feature and we'd love to hear what you
> think about the design, process and functionality.

> Please make your voice heard by posting here!

> Cheers,
> YouTube Timmy


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