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Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better 37

Posted by Soulskill from the won't-fix-your-awkward-breathing-into-the-microphone dept.
ErnieKey writes: A new Google+ feature for uploaded videos has been released that automatically enhances lighting, color, and stability. Soon, it'll also enhance speech in videos. "As more and more people now also take videos with their smartphones, it makes sense for Google to bring some of the technologies it has developed for photos (and YouTube) to these private videos, as well. Google has long offered a similar feature for YouTube users, so there is likely some overlap between the two systems here. While YouTube offers the option to 'auto-fix' videos, though, it doesn't automatically prompt its users to do this for them. YouTube also offers a number of manual tools for changing contrast, saturation and color temperature that Google+ doesn’t currently offer."
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  • Missing feature (Score:5, Funny)

    by ArcadeMan ( 2766669 ) on Sunday December 21, 2014 @08:46AM (#48646277)

    Automatically fix the dreaded Vertical Video Syndrome [youtube.com].

    • Automatically fix the dreaded Vertical Video Syndrome [youtube.com].

      ^^^ YES YES YESSSS!

      Come on people, how hard is it to hold your phone like, you know, a regular camera when you're using it like a camera?

      • how hard is it to rotate your phone 90 degrees? Vertical and horizontal composition have been valid for 150 years - don't blame photographers for 90lb CRT's or lazy web design.

        • how hard is it to rotate your phone 90 degrees? Vertical and horizontal composition have been valid for 150 years - don't blame photographers for 90lb CRT's or lazy web design.

          When those videos are re-broadcast on TV they're seriously messed up. They have to be down-rezzed because the vertical resolution of an HD tv is 1080, while the vertical resolution of a smartphone video is significantly more. So you end up with these fugly videos that only take up 1/3 of your screen width on an HD tv.

        • How hard is it to rotate your phone 90 degrees?

          Some of us don't use a phone to watch YouTube. It's easier to rotate your phone 90 degrees to watch landscape videos.

          Vertical and horizontal composition have been valid for 150 years - don't blame photographers for 90lb CRT's or lazy web design.

          That's true for static paintings and photos. Movies and videos, however, were always in landscape mode (4:3, 16:9, etc). Vertical videos only happened when phones were able to record videos.

    • There are only two ways to fix that; put big black bars on either side of the video and resample it to 16:9 or stab the person who took the video in the face. So I'm guessing you want Google to automatically detect VVS and stab the user that uploaded it in the face over the internet?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by OzPeter ( 195038 )

      Automatically fix the dreaded Vertical Video Syndrome [youtube.com].

      You owe me for the last hour I spent watching all their videos.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gnupun ( 752725 )

      Automatically fix the dreaded Vertical Video Syndrome.

      The fix is quite simple: the video recording software on mobiles should display a warning: "Warning: Hold phone horizontally to get a better video" or something like that. Of course, the warning should be easily dismissible if you really want to shoot a VV.

  • Youtube fixed my shaky phone video (Score:4, Funny)

    by wombatmobile ( 623057 ) on Sunday December 21, 2014 @08:46AM (#48646279)

    Youtube said my shaky phone video looked shaky, would I like it to fix it? OK, I clicked. Why not?

    The fixed video [youtube.com] is a lot less shaky! I'm pleased. The parts where the girls are lifting up their dresses to show me their underpants are still dark, because they only did it in the shadows of the dance floor. But perhaps google will be fix that too some time?

  • How about you leave my damn content ALONE? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Offer it as a feature but don't goddamn adjust it automagically FOR me. I might want to push something that's "got a problem" for artistic or statement reasons, Google.

    Seriously, Google...when did "Do no evil" go by the wayside? You've had the motto. At some point you've kept to it. At some point later you threw that out the window and it's SHOWING...BADLY.

  • Fuck off, Google (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    You incorrectly labelled 80 out of 120 of my videos as infringing music copyright (none of them did).

    I used your "music swap" feature, and now all the previously silent videos have shitty music on them. Furthermore, none of the videos "belong" to me any more, so I can't (for example) monetize them.

    No doubt using Google's special effects will transfer all ownership of your videos directly to Google. Fuckers.

  • Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • coming soon... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Connie_Lingus ( 317691 ) on Sunday December 21, 2014 @10:25AM (#48646529) Homepage

    Dear G+ User.

    We wanted to let you know that your recently uploaded video "catsoncatnip.mp4" was automatically processed and several fixes were applied. We hope you like the results.

    Also, in order to improve the user experience, we embedded a few targeted ads into your content. We are sure you won't mind as we have judged them to be unobtrusive.

    Thank you for using G+

    • If you don't like it, pay for service and you won't get ads.

      It's not complicated, many of us have been doing it for years. Apps for your Domain solved the advertising issue.

  • And it always results in an ugly, degraded attempt at a try.

  • I started using youtube more often, and I have to say that YT and G+ and the host of services offered are such a jumble of confusing settings and functions.
    It's irritating, Google needs to clean it all up and offer something cohesive, functional.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gigne ( 990887 )

      True. The worst bit is they keep moving or taking away functionality. I used to enjoy using G+ pictures. Now it is a nightmare

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by koan ( 80826 )

        Thank you, I was feeling like I was the only one, it's usage and GUI are becoming cryptic

  • They always say my videos are shaky, and that's because my videos ARE shaky and are supposed [youtube.com] to be. The camera's sitting on my head, not a stable platform. If I preview the corrections they suggest, they're moderately less shaky and are also blurry. I think I'll stick with the uncorrected video.
  • So they finally figured whats wrong with youtube's encoders that make everything look dark...

  • I'd be happy if they'd just provide a valid search feature. Not sure what their reasoning is, but each year it sucks harder. Worse, it provided more features and relevant returns 10 years ago.

    • This is because when Google first rolled out search of Google Videos and then YouTube (shortly post acquisition) the search keywords and phrases where only the title and keywords / phrases that Google search experts added by hand for top viewed and educational videos.

      Since then, I understand that speech to text, author tags, and discussion comments all factor into the keyword pool. The pool is polluted as well as an active target for SEO schmucks. They also need to get rid of the thumbs up / down moderati
  • I've said it before, and I will say it again. Make people upload source video with separate audio tracks for original content, verbal commentary (over dubs), and added music / SFX. I am so f'ing sick of having to listen to some idiots crap choice in music to watch an instructional or useful video. Even worse when I can't hear the explanation over the music track.

    I am almost completely fine with the MPAA / ASCAP / etc. pulling videos with music tracks under DMCA if it would teach amateurs to stop adding so
  • Sometimes their shake compensation does horrible things to the videos that can make me feel physically ill trying to watch them. I don't get motion sickness in real life, but I the feeling I get while watching these is similar to what I imagine motion sickness would be like. I've experienced this when friends baby videos taken freehand have been automatically "fixed" by google - the original was certainly shaky, but it felt natural to watch, while the slow distorted image that you get after google does the

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