I’ve been having a bit of a play with YouTube lately… not just as a consumer of content, but in true spirit of Web 2.0, as a contributor of content. It’s a pretty cool site and it’s easy to while away the minutes, er, hours, browsing through their stuff.
I was really interested to find that Apple’s totally rewritten new version of iMovie has built in support for adding videos to YouTube. It is nicely integrated too… as you finish working on your movie (using the new interface, which could be the topic of a whole other blog post), you just select YouTube from the Share menu and iMovie does all the digital origami required to package up your masterpiece into the appropriate formats and compression ratios to send it up to the ‘Tube. It’s very neat. It prompts you to add the relevant metadata and tags, and does a fairly efficient job of rendering and converting the file, then uploading it.
As a test, I edited together this little production last night using some Mac vs PC ads I just happened to have laying about on my hard drive. The process is easy, they imported into iMovie very simply, the new workflow is interesting and newbie video editors will probably love it, and the whole thing was put together in a very short timeframe.
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/hRlKxVVGWks" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
I thought it was fascinating to realise how many of these Mac vs PC ads have been made, and to see just how diverse they are.
Tags: youtube, imovie, nlve, web2.0
A Series of Tubes by Chris Betcher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Get over your Mac fetish but I do enjoy your blog.