Flickr Launches New Video Feature

by Scott Beale on April 8, 2008 · 8 comments

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 tasty chicken is being processed

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”.

Related Posts:

- Flickr Adds New Stats Feature

- Google Launches Street View Map Feature at Where 2.0

- Flickr Launches Collections

- The New Find My iPhone Feature Rocks!

- Flickr Clock, Displays Video Based On When It Was Taken

filed under Flickr

Written by Scott Beale

Scott has written 4381 posts on Laughing Squid.

For more content like this, subscribe via RSS, Email & Twitter.

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Nick Humphries April 8, 2008 at 5:53 pm

The big question: Why does flickr need a video feature? Flickr is to photos as YouTube is to video.

Reply

2 mikl-em April 8, 2008 at 9:47 pm

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.

Reply

3 Enric April 8, 2008 at 11:26 pm

Love it, “No More Chanting”!

Reply

4 Nick Humphries April 8, 2008 at 11:49 pm

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.

Reply

Leave a Comment

You can use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Please read our Comment Guidelines before leaving a comment:

Moderation: Because of comment spam issues, all comments are manually approved, so if your comment is approved it may take a while for your comment to appear on this blog post.

Name & Website Required: Due to rampant abuse, we are no longer posting anonymous comments. Please list your real name and provide a link to your website. If you don't have a website, then use a link to your account on Twitter, Flickr or some other form of web presence. With very few exceptions, comments that do not refernce include an actual name or url will not be approved.

Also when we ask for your name we mean your actual name, not Discount Car Products or some other attempt at spam or lame SEO.

Be Civil: Irrelevant, obnoxious or abusive comments will not be approved. Let's keep things civil and on topic. Basically what we are saying, if your comment does not add to the conversation, it will not be approved.

Spam: Spam comments in any form will not be approved. We also do not approve comments that left for the sole purpose of posting a link.

Corrections: If you want to point out a typo or correction, please email us instead. Typo or correction comments will not be approved since they are pretty much useless once they are corrected and then only tend to confuse things.

Gravatars: If you would like a Gravatar to show up with your comment? Just sign-up for an account and any comment with your email address will display your Gravatar.

Previous post: Best Game Ever, Little League Turns Into Major League

Next post: We Have Become Content