You can now buy cameras which feature "a YouTube capture mode that shoots movie clips in the site’s recommended format and resolution".
I find this amusing because the whole genesis of YouTube is making a web site which made it unnecessary for people to know anything about video formats, the site takes care of it.
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I was just watching Hans Lysglimt demonstrate how he uses the new Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1000 to post his commentary on YouTube.
The camera weights just 286 grams, shoots full HD, stores the footage on an SDHC card in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 formats, ready for upload to YouTube.
How could worldwide video broadcasting possible become any more easier than this? It's a revolution for your kitchens!
Eolake said: I find this amusing because the whole genesis of YouTube is making a web site which made it unnecessary for people to know anything about video formats, the site takes care of it.
The "YouTube mode" is just the marketers' way of saying "encodes in H.264'.
H.264 is what YouTube has chosen as the encoding they store their videos in.
Video encodings are lossy. If you feed your footage to YouTube in some other encoding they will have to transcode it in to H.264. And whenever you transcode from one lossy format to another you lose quality.
So the benefit of the "YouTube mode" to the end user is better looking YouTube videos.
Thank you very much.
That Xacti looks like a very cool camera, maybe I'll get one.
Love the name Lysglimt. It means a small flash of light.
"That Xacti looks like a very cool camera, maybe I'll get one."
Almost too cool to be true. Somehow it had completely escaped my radar, I only learned about it from this Lysglimt video. It's now on my "to buy" list as well. :-)
"Love the name Lysglimt. It means a small flash of light."
Oh yeah, a glimpse of "lys". Perhaps it's a pen name? Fits the guy though, he seems like a very positive fellow.
Blah Blah Blah - now, wasn't Super 8 easy to handle?
M B, model ACX 282.2, version 3.
OS: ..23.v888.app3.
With H222. vers.272. - Greetings.
M. B.
(Monsieur Beep, uncompressed, or decompressed)
m. b. said: "now, wasn't Super 8 easy to handle?"
Easy to shoot, yes, but very difficult to edit.
Also very expensive. I only ever shot a handful of rolls because of the cost.
The Sanyo Xacti is roughly the same size as my Canon 318M and just as easy to use. But there are no film costs.
I don't understand those codes in your post.
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