This blog has been very news-heavy recently, what with the launch, and all its attendant updates. But now it’s time for another Fringe Fridays, our (almost) weekly look at the best in experimental video and animation.
Today’s fringe-phenomenal video takes timelapse to new heights, and new depths:
Not content to just use timelapse, the director incorporates rapid zooms, contrasting visuals, and a lovely original soundtrack. It really makes me think about Los Angeles in a new way, as a place inhabited by all kinds of creatures. It’s a landscape that’s not just concrete and stucco, but also flowers and dirt. More info about the film can be found on the director’s website. Thanks to the director, Erik A, for uploading!
Meet the networks created by us, the Yahoo! Video Team. They’re a labor of love, and a testament to the creative powers of our community. Yesterday, I talked a lot about networks of Yahoo! content. Well, the networks above are collections of videos uploaded by our users. Choose a network, sit-back, and relax while we deliver a stream of great, hand-picked content.
But there’s also stuff to explore. Animal All-Stars, for instance, is subdivided into Meow and Woof playlists. The Animation network (near and dear to my heart) has playlists for kid-friendly animation, toy animation, behind-the-scenes videos, and animated indie-music videos.
All of our network pages contain a place where you can talk about what you’re seeing, and make suggestions about what you’d like to see.
OK, enough talk. Watch videos! Just click on one of the network icons above.
“Why didn’t we do this sooner?” That’s how our Director of Video Products put it when discussing the decision to put all of Yahoo!’s video content in one place on Yahoo! Video. That’s what this blog is about: all of Yahoo!’s videos are part of one big happy family.
Music, Sports, News, Tech, Health, Autos, omg!, Movies, TV, Games, and uploaded content have all been integrated into the Yahoo! Video experience. And to make it easier to find, we’ve organized them into Networks—groups of videos, and playlists. Besides our Yahoo! network content, we’ve also assembled collections of some our most popular genres of uploaded content including: Adrenaline, Animal All-Stars, Animation, Got Talent, and Viral All-Stars.
Speaking of Yahoo!’s video content, a few people have noted that you can’t embed, or save certain videos, from sites like News, into your favorite playlists. Due to rights and expiration issues, you will not be able to save or embed those particular videos. However, you can still click the Share button on the video page to send the link to a friend. Or you can grab the link from the video player’s Share button.
So, start giving our Networks a spin and see how we’ve brought the whole kitten caboodle kit-and-caboodle of video into one place.
This is Lauren; I’m a web developer on the Yahoo! Video team. Like a lot of you, I have a blog that consists of a blogger template where I mostly rant about stupid things. The thing is, you may have noticed that our embedded video player— the one you can grab and stick on your blog—is kinda big, because bigger is better when you’re watching video. But there are times when you might want to shrink it down. Luckily for you, our robots have already thought about this predicament and they wanted me to assure you that it’s SUPER easy to customize it to whatever size you want.
This is how it works: When you copy and paste the embed code from one of our videos, you’ll see some stuff like this:
You don’t need to get into the blood and guts of the gobbledygook above. The only thing that concerns you if you want to resize our player is the width and height settings; there are TWO SETS of width and height settings in our embed code (hi-lighted above). You’ll need to set them both and have them match for resizing to work properly.
Since blogger templates are usually 400 pixels wide, swap out the 512 width with 400. For the height, we suggest 335. If you want to embed a playlist, we suggest a width of 400 and a height of 500. You can tinker with the player and find the exact size you want; our new 16:9 cinema format will work great at an even wider size.
In the meantime, we’ll work on a less hacky solution for you.
We’ve received quite a few questions about subscriptions and subscribers. What happened to video subscriptions? Can people still subscribe to videos? How many subscribers do you have?
First the good news:
All your subscriptions were converted to playlists. If you subscribed to someone’s channel on our old site, you’ll find it as a Favorite Playlist, which uses our awesome embeddable playlist functionality. Just look under the My Video dropdown menu, or you can find a link on your profile page.
Now the bug news:
Our subscription numbers are not currently showing. But we are working on it, and hope to have a fix soon. Again, don’t worry, you didn’t lose any subscribers.
We appreciate your patience while we iron out the bugs and continue to add new features.
Have a burning desire to know when we publish a new blog posting? Wish to witness our spontaneous shouts of joy when we find fantastic new video from Average Betty? Need to be kept abreast of random (though unlikely) service outages? The Yahoo! Video Team has joined the twitter revolution.
