I'm on day 2 of seeing just how much of my precious time I can waste trying to upload a Quicktime video to YouTube. I've tried everything. Literally. And I don't misuse the word "literally" as so many latchkey-raised half-brians do today, for emphasis; no, I say it because I've taken out all the stops on this one.
I cut the video down (don't even get me started on the stupendously time-intensive process required to cut videos into pieces using Apple's Final Cut Express) into three bite-sized pieces that are way under 15 minutes long and 2 GB (YouTube's overly-restrictive file size; come on YouTube, what do you think we're trying to upload, a video of War and Peace as reenacted by mice? even though that's a fantastic idea?). I've also installed Mozilla Firefox onto my Mac OS X laptop, installed Google Gears, yadah yadah yadah.
I cut the video down (don't even get me started on the stupendously time-intensive process required to cut videos into pieces using Apple's Final Cut Express) into three bite-sized pieces that are way under 15 minutes long and 2 GB (YouTube's overly-restrictive file size; come on YouTube, what do you think we're trying to upload, a video of War and Peace as reenacted by mice? even though that's a fantastic idea?). I've also installed Mozilla Firefox onto my Mac OS X laptop, installed Google Gears, yadah yadah yadah.
And now, after 48 hours of sheer time wastingness, I discover that you can't upload MOV videos to YouTube. As it turns out, I've got to lay down $45 to buy a thing called SoThink Video Encoder for Adobe Flash to convert the files into FLV format.
Wonderful.
YouTube, let me give you a little advice: make your crap easier to use. Quicktime movies have been sweeping the nation ever since Christ was a corporal, so get on it. I don't care if you have some hissy feud going with Steve Jobs (I have no evidence to prove this is the case, but it feels right). Since it's the more creative types who most often make videos anyway, and I'd bet a prune to a post office box that most creative types use Mac's, it stands to reason that you'd stop being raving lunatics and let us upload MOV files without having to get some crummy conversion software. I'm sure you're in bed playing footsie with SoThink, I'm sure you've made SoThink your bitch and taken it on a walk, and that really chafes my money maker.
So now I'll probably try to upload my crap-ass video to some other milquetoast outfit like Vimeo, but I'm sure I'll circle right back to where you find me now, head in the microwave and one finger hovering over the "Add 30 Seconds" button.
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