Tuesday April 08, 2008
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Tuesday April 08, 2008 | Flickr Video | Computers |
Flickr launched its new video service today (Tuesday 08 April). For me this is awesome because I already use flickr for my photos. Like most people, my digital camera also takes decent quality videos and it is very nice to have them in the same stream as my photos.
There are two features that really make flickr better for personal video clips over YouTube.
- Better image quality - See below.
- Can download the original - I liked Google Video for this same reason. It's very valuable to have off-site backups of your photos and videos so now I have both in one place.
Of course, with only a 90 second limit, YouTube, and other services, are still better for longer and professional vids.
Compare the quality of the same video uploaded to both YouTube and Flickr.
YouTube:
Flickr Video:
Update: Found one strike against Flickr: The embedded video doesn't appear/play in Google Reader. If you don't see the Flickr video window try here.
Update 2: According to Kellan of Flickr, this is a known problem. You can work around the Google Reader problem by subscribing using the RSS feed and not the Atom feed.
Tags: flickr photography video youtube
April 08, 2008 10:18 PM PDT Permalink | Comments [4] |
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