More videos for everyone!
Posted March 2nd, 2009 at 2:46 pm by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr
12 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News
Last year, we introduced video to the Flickr community, allowing Pro members to upload 90-second video clips or, “long photos” as we (and others) like to say. Since then, our Pro community has helped define what video on Flickr looks like. It’s authentic and personal –- and it’s like nothing else on the web.
Today we have some exciting enhancements related to video on Flickr to announce:
- Video for All Members: We want to see what the rest of the community has to share, so we are extending the ability to upload video to all of our members. Free members can upload two videos per month, in addition to the 100MB monthly photo upload limit that’s already in place. Video, like photos, is quickly moving beyond a means to simply preserve memories and into a social activity that allows people to communicate and connect. As more devices have the ability to capture both, we’re seeing Flickr members capture videos along with photos to share their view of the world.
- Flickr in HD: Another trend that we’ve noticed is the growing appetite for higher-quality video. With the recent introduction of Nikon’s D90, Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II, Flip Mino HD, and others, it’s even easier to shoot videos in HD. Because our focus has always been on allowing our members to showcase their vision in the best way possible, we’re also enabling HD video uploading and viewing today. Only Pro members can upload videos in HD, but our entire community will benefit by being able to view high quality videos.
- Flickr Clock: All of us at Flickr love creative ways of exploring and visualizing imagery, and Flickr Clock is a new way that we want to celebrate and showcase the amazing video across the Flickrverse. Through Flickr Clock, members will be able to share their vision of what’s happening at any given minute around the world. We’ll be able to display these videos according to the approximate time that they were taken, so you can see what’s happening at different moments in time. Please help us build it into something truly unique and upload your best videos here.
It’s been truly amazing to see how creative our members can get using this medium – check out some of my favorite groups: My Day Yesterday, Timelapse Videos and Video! Video! Video!
And as with the rest of Flickr, we are continuing to evolve the video experience to make it more compelling, accessible and easy to use. So grab your cameras, and capture and share “long photos” of your own!
Here’s an HD demo from a fellow Flickrite’s commute to work:
Kakul Srivastava
Flickr General Manager
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Steve | March 2nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
On the clock, there is a quirk. If you start a video, and then go to any other timeframe, the video continues to play.
However, it’s not highlighted in the display any more so it’s very difficult to find it again to stop it. Ends up with two videos playing with competing sound tracks…
Al | March 2nd, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Have you noticed that nobody (NOBODY) on the street looks at him like “that guy’s got a camera attached to his head…”?
Perhaps they recognize him from the faceball promo…
Scott Schiller | March 2nd, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Hi Steve, thanks for the report. The clock bug should now be fixed, so only one video should play at a time and thus you shouldn’t be hearing competing soundtracks. ;)
Craig Mische | March 2nd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Glad to hear this!
Hercules | March 2nd, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I’m glad that anyone now can upload a video, Flickr should now see a good spike in usage. And that walk to work was pretty kool funny lol…
I also like the new Flickr Clock, but I wish more information is added like tags or something some how, or at least bigger previews to easily find interesting things in the timeline.
Great work.
Phillip Molly Malone | March 2nd, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Love these updates, but when is the 90sec/150mb limit being removed? Still makes more sense to load it to youtube at the moment.
JMTC, but keep up the great work!
Molly
PS. Do you have an enhancement request system?
thevince | March 2nd, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Ok that’s cool, HD. But how about rotating a video like any other place, including facebook?
Media Clippings | March 2nd, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Thank you flickr. Will try this out. Also you removed the flickr sets limit for free users. That was another great thing. Now there is one request. Could you have an india specific printing partner for flickr ??
cocutzamisca | March 4th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Flickr thank you.I’ll try it out too.
patty | March 14th, 2009 at 11:22 am
If you’re removing limits for free users, why not boost the service for pro accounts in order to keep giving us enough reason to pay.
and btw, isn’t that video longer than 90 seconds?
that’s the feature i would most like to see. it’s silly that a video that’s 100 seconds or 120 seconds can’t be uploaded. It just makes me go post them on another site.
Vidall | November 15th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
I’ll try it out. I have Sony HD camcoder and it would be excellent to upload video in HD quality directly. Thanx for sharing this…
Jonathan | December 9th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Thanks a lot blogger for such a nice and informative about Flickr in HD Flickr Clock nice blogging . I enjoyed a lot
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