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Re: Feedback on New Video Upload Redesign Beta

caturn88

Oh, another thing, allow users to upload a picture for the cover of
their video.

On Nov 20, 7:57 pm, caturn88 wrote:

> Right well the progress indicator needs to make an appearance, upload
> speeds are always less than download and with anything up to 1GB I
> need to know how long its going to take.

> A drag and drop 'helicopter' pad would be nice, like in iTunes where
> album art can be appended just by dragging and dropping, the same for
> uploading files.

> Metadata should be automatically garnered from within the file, I
> regularly embed it.

> The title is right to be the name of the file, but it should omit the
> extension and convert to Title Case.

> When entering Tags I should only have to type the first letter and I
> get suggestions of those tags I have already used, often I conform to
> the tag structure I have, you could even add all of YouTubes, but
> colouring and raising a users own to the top of the sugestions list,
> maybe just the top 5 from the whole community.

> Yahoo Answers has some nice web2.0 when entering a question that auto
> highlights spelling mistakes, this would be nice in the description
> box - they have a nice primary school pencil with rubber tip that
> encroaches on the field box. If you bought YA! then you could use it
> yourself. You could but del.icio.us and Flickr too - I'm sure the
> Google network could do with the graphical effects these guys are good
> at.

> Add a little map on there too so users can position videos, better
> still enable the option to feed in GPX/NMEA files

> What's the category for? Isn't that what Tags are for?

> This is a computerised service so where possible you can eliminate
> errors like typos with suggesting Tags by not offering "compiter"
> because hardly anybody uses that, but a lot more use "computer".
> Equally converting Tittles to Title Case will make things look nicer.

> On Sep 27, 11:54 pm, YouTube Timmy wrote:

> > Hey all,

> > We just released the beta version of our new and improved video
> > uploader. If you want to check it out, just login to your YouTube
> > account and click this link to opt in:http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_upload?beta

> > The new video upload flow includes these cool features:

> >     • You can enter in your video's metadata (title, description,
> > tags, etc.) while the upload is processing.

> >     • Upload multiple files at once, without downloading a plugin
> > (separate progress bars will display for each file).

> >     • The file-size limit for uploads has been raised from 100MB to
> > 1GB.

> > Let us know what you think of the new uploader by replying to this
> > post.

> > Thanks!
> > YouTube Timmy