YouTube wishlist
I’m a member of the YouTube Partner Program and recently I was asked to complete a survey on my experience with the program.
At one point in the survey, I was asked to make suggestions and I thought I’d post my response here to get feedback from ‘the Net’.
Google spends a lot of time getting videos out to an audience, but what about making it easier for content creatives to get together?
I imagine a facility within YouTube that allows creatives to place 'call outs' for locations, or talent, or crew, or maybe even collaborative projects?
YouTube could host actors reels, writers could post script concepts, or 'one day on earth' projects could be instigated and administered.
All this could be run through a Google+ linked Gdrive facility (YouTube could do potentially do linkups with other content tool providers such as linking into Adobe’s Creative Cloud).
Working on a project would automatically generate a list of 'credits' for participants within the system (an IMBD of YouTube collaborators).
A viewer could watch a video on Youtube. At any time a list of participant credits could be called up (such as with the the ‘share’ window that currently unfolds under YouTube videos).
If the viewer likes the actor they could click on the credit and a list of other YouTube content is revealed. Maybe the makeup is particularly interesting, or there is an intriguing location and these credits would link back to the creatives attached to the piece?
People such as actors / Post creatives / Directors contributing to a project get a percentage 'share' of the proceeds generated from the result.
As an example, I’ve commissioned some music for a video. I’ve had to say to the musician ‘trust me to pass on a share of the YouTube proceeds’.
I’d rather have the facility where I could assign to him a ‘percentage cut’ of the proceeds directly from within YouTube. He could then have access to the accounting details of that video, and he could participate more fully in the distribution and potential rewards (much like how ‘sharing’ works in Gdocs ).
It would be nice to be able to add overlays of other Google properties.
Much like currently happens when a terrestrial News program uses Google properties to display maps, or to zoom into satellite images, or whatever.
If the map or image is updated (or Google adds detail or features to the map), the changes are auto flowed into the content in the YouTube video.
e.g. I've recently created a blog post (driving-from-lake-pukaki-to-mt-cook) in Blogger that includes text, embedded Google maps, and Piccasa images. I'd like to make a travel video and have maps and assorted data of the locations featured in the blog, appear overlaid in the YouTube video. Or a pnp 'zoom in' animation from Google Earth.
In this way people who aren't comfortable with having their voice on the film could generate a narrative track. I could see this useful for software demos, tutorials, etc.
This would also make ‘updates’ easier in that an edited narration could be instantly updated with having to re-record the vocal and re-upload.
Brand the App as 'YouTube unleashed'
At one point in the survey, I was asked to make suggestions and I thought I’d post my response here to get feedback from ‘the Net’.
Cloud based production facility.
Google spends a lot of time getting videos out to an audience, but what about making it easier for content creatives to get together?I imagine a facility within YouTube that allows creatives to place 'call outs' for locations, or talent, or crew, or maybe even collaborative projects?
YouTube could host actors reels, writers could post script concepts, or 'one day on earth' projects could be instigated and administered.
All this could be run through a Google+ linked Gdrive facility (YouTube could do potentially do linkups with other content tool providers such as linking into Adobe’s Creative Cloud).
Working on a project would automatically generate a list of 'credits' for participants within the system (an IMBD of YouTube collaborators).
A viewer could watch a video on Youtube. At any time a list of participant credits could be called up (such as with the the ‘share’ window that currently unfolds under YouTube videos).
If the viewer likes the actor they could click on the credit and a list of other YouTube content is revealed. Maybe the makeup is particularly interesting, or there is an intriguing location and these credits would link back to the creatives attached to the piece?
Like a reverse Kickstarter
A project could be kicked off and administered on YouTube, and financial returns could be controlled from within the program.People such as actors / Post creatives / Directors contributing to a project get a percentage 'share' of the proceeds generated from the result.
As an example, I’ve commissioned some music for a video. I’ve had to say to the musician ‘trust me to pass on a share of the YouTube proceeds’.
I’d rather have the facility where I could assign to him a ‘percentage cut’ of the proceeds directly from within YouTube. He could then have access to the accounting details of that video, and he could participate more fully in the distribution and potential rewards (much like how ‘sharing’ works in Gdocs ).
Embedding of Google Earth or Google Maps within the video stream.
Currently we can add captions which is great.It would be nice to be able to add overlays of other Google properties.
Much like currently happens when a terrestrial News program uses Google properties to display maps, or to zoom into satellite images, or whatever.
If the map or image is updated (or Google adds detail or features to the map), the changes are auto flowed into the content in the YouTube video.
e.g. I've recently created a blog post (driving-from-lake-pukaki-to-mt-cook) in Blogger that includes text, embedded Google maps, and Piccasa images. I'd like to make a travel video and have maps and assorted data of the locations featured in the blog, appear overlaid in the YouTube video. Or a pnp 'zoom in' animation from Google Earth.
Machine generated narration
Something really 'blue sky' would be if I could take the text of the blog and have an audio narration 'machine generated' for the video :-)In this way people who aren't comfortable with having their voice on the film could generate a narrative track. I could see this useful for software demos, tutorials, etc.
This would also make ‘updates’ easier in that an edited narration could be instantly updated with having to re-record the vocal and re-upload.
Android YouTube
All YouTube's editing and audio features bundled into a decent video editor on my Android phone. The video editor in ICS isn't that great.Brand the App as 'YouTube unleashed'
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