Flickr has just launched their long anticipated video feature. The announcement came in the form of a puppet show posted by Flickr community manager Heather Champ.
I have been testing out Flickr video for the last couple of weeks and it seems to work pretty well and the embeded player is really nice, but one thing to keep in mind is that the videos are limited to 90 seconds with a max upload size of 150MB.
Here’s a video that I’ve uploaded to Flickr of last weekend at the Saint Stupid’s Day Parade. I shot this video with my new Flip Video Ultra camera and edited in iMovie.
This is the message that Flickr displays while your video is being processed.
UPDATE 1: The Flickr Video launch appears to be a soft launch and is not yet available to the public. The test videos I’ve uploaded are still showing up as private.
UPDATE 2: Ok, Flickr has just announced that Flickr Video is now live. I’ve uploaded another test video “We Have Become Content”.
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The big question: Why does flickr need a video feature? Flickr is to photos as YouTube is to video.
awesome! at last!
For me the answer to why Flickr needs video is that videos shot from my digital camera make sense in context of my photos. I don’t need to upload them to a video site, they belong as part of my flickr stream. So that works for me. So I’m going to upload dozens of short videos that have been languishing on my hard drive. awesome.
Love it, “No More Chanting”!
I think it would be even more convenient if you could upload a video right next to a photo that you take, i.e., If I have a photo in my photostream that has a video that complements that particular photo, one should be able to add that video right on the same photo page, instead of uploading videos separate from the photos, if that makes sense.
Or just the opposite, upload a video separately and then add photos to the page where the video is, sort of like how Vimeo allows you to add photos from Flickr to each video page.