With two little girls running around the house, I have
plenty of material to fuel my zeal to experiment with online audio and video. I
uploaded a cut of Anna using her own utensils for the first time.
Aside from
the family and sentimental value, I learned a couple of things for a first
timer:
- Use
firewire and not USB for video transfer. This makes all the difference in
the world.
- Don’t
use the WMV format. I uploaded WMV instead of AVI at the recommended
screen size and after the conversion to Flash, there’s quite a bit of residual
fuzz.
- YouTube
is slow in the evening (8:00 – 11:00 EDT). Video playback drags quite a
bit. This will impact willingness to leverage YouTube video content
externally.
- There
doesn’t appear to be the ability to download YouTube video. I believe this
option is provided on Google Video. Once again, this impacts ability to
integrate into other applications.
All-in-all, YouTube makes uploading and sharing video an
easy process. I can’t say that I understand their revenue model but someone is
paying the one million dollar network costs they ring up monthly with their
content distribution network and, at least for now, it’s not me.