Video - I Me You

[Gert Van Santen]

Op 6 sep 2009, om 12:25 heeft punkdISCO het volgende geschreven:

> Hi Gert
>
>> I have no clue what this is about. So it's almost impossible now
>> to upload a vid?
>
> When you upload a video, you can not choose your video's thumbnail  
> (preview)
> image.  Eg, all the pictures you see on our site:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/punkdiscoUK
>
> the only control over this image you have is YouTube presents you  
> with 3
> choices which are taken out of you actually video.  Previously these  
> were
> the exact images at 25/50/75% so you could put your required image  
> at those
> positions and have control.
>
> If you watch the I Me You video, you will see our thumbnail flash up  
> in 2 or
> three places, for no apparent reason.  This is us trying to 'cheat'  
> the
> thumbnail selection process.
>
> Its actually called thumbnail cheating.  YouTube don't like it  
> because they
> know that everyone tries to put sexy pictures at a thumb, knowing  
> they will
> get far more hits.  Clearly it is counter productive putting totally  
> out of
> context sexy thumbnails; it makes searching impossible.  However,  
> people
> like me just want to choose a in-context picture and YouTube make  
> that hard.
>
> It's a tough problem and one that there really is no solution for.
>
> Hey ho..
>


Thanks for explaing that in such a clear way. Have a nice Sunday!!!!

gert van santen
www.gertvansanten.nl