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- 28 November, 2006 -
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So, the next common big thing on the web will be for the average user to share their own videos. Not really the next big thing, but the now big thing. I decided to shoot a video using the video recorder on my old point and shoot digital camera (a Canon A95), edit a video using free readily available software (Windows MovieMaker) and upload it to three of the most popular video sharing sites YouTube, Google Video and Revver.
Creating an account and uploading the video was fairly easy on all three sites:
- Google video recognized my google account already (because I was already logged into my gmail account) and then presented me with the opportunity to upload the video. It uploaded fairly quickly and only showed me the uploading/processing screen for about 3 minutes.
- YouTube seemed like it should be as straight forward as google. but I ran into some hiccups. After I created an account, it made me validate my email address before I could upload video. After I validated my email address it kept prompting me to validate my email address over and over again until I logged out and then logged back in. Uploading the video was fairly simple. After I uploaded the video, I added some meta tag information and waited while YouTube processed the video. I waited and waited and waited for about 30 minutes for it to process refreshing the my video page. Finally, I decided to sign out and sign back into to see if it worked. It was there, it had processed.
- Revver was just as easy as Google Video to upload the video. My account created quickly with no validation. Revver has a simple flash application for browsing and uploading the files. The files uploaded quickly and then I had an opportunity to add some meta information as the video processed. Revver makes you wait for your video to be approved by a human and it took about two hours to be approved.
After the video uploaded and processed, it was easy to share or embed in a website. The quality of the processing was all similar, but I think the Google Video file ended up with the highest quality video. You can check out the options yourself.
