Hey folks! I hope you’re sitting down somewhere and are not operating heavy machinery, because this week’s episode of Geek Troika will rock your socks off!
CNET and practically the whole damn world has reported, that, yes, YouTube has finally decided to go HD. Check out this source clip from CNET’s Josh Lowensohn’s on personal experiment.
It’s all pretty straight forward: You go onto YouTube, choose to upload a clip in HD (Obviously, an HD clip - yes, it’s redundant, but some people think you can upscale any old clip) and when it’s done, viewers will have the option of seeing your clip in HD.
I have to say, if the clip which Lowensohn provided is any indication, web video should be getting a lot more interesting. Sure, services like Vimeo have offered HD before, but YouTube is obviously the king of web video right now. If this becomes the new paradigm, it means I can watch awesome clips on how to make bread in HD from now on.
When I heard that BitGravity was testing their new product called “Multiview” I got excited. The idea behind the technology is that there are multiple HD streams going at once and you get to choose which one you want in the forefront, essentially putting you in the director’s chair and give you the ultimate choice in how you want to view your streaming content. Revision3 got to play around with the technology and utilized the service for one of their episodes of Diggnation. I participated for awhile (until lag time stopped everything for me) and did a fairly bangup job at “remixing” the episode. In short, I like it but I don’t think Diggnation was really the best way to test out the capabilities of Multiview for Revision3. For me, I think the better show to do this for would have been Tekzilla, or even the Totally Rad Show, both of which have different shots that they use in the editing process.
Did you get a chance to be a part of the “Diggnation REMIX?” If so, what did you think about it? What do you think of the technology for that matter?
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