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More…Our number-one favorite place to waste time on the Web, YouTube is the only service in our group that could possibly lay claim both to uncovering scandals and to posing quirky questions to Democratic presidential candidates.
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| Pricing: | Free |
| Design and usability | Very Good: 80 |
| Ease of file upload | Very Good |
| Embedded player design | Very Good |
| User-selectable video thumbnail | No |
| Embedded player viewing options | Embedded in page, full-screen. |
| Users can download video | No |
| Overall Web site design | Very Good |
| Documentation and support | Very Good |
| Performance | Good: 76 |
| Video quality | Fair |
| Audio quality | Very Good |
| Processing speed (post-upload availability delay ) | Very Good |
| Features | Very Good: 80 |
| File size/length limits | 100MB/10 minutes |
| Storage limit per user | Unlimited |
| Acceptable file types and formats for upload | .avi, QuickTime, .mpg, Windows Media |
| Site converts files to: | Flash 7, resized to 320 by 240 pixels.H.264 for AppleTV / iPhone users. |
| Revenue-sharing details | YouTube Partner program currently limited to big-name content creators and selected individual, prolific, and popular content creators. |
| Video sharing options (social networking) | Embedded video code; page/profile permalink; channel subscription, one-click e-mail, social networking site links; chat to users watching the same video you are (currently a TestTube beta); the Remixer (online video editing tool currently a TestTube beta); dedicated mobile-phone-formatted page and special interfaces on several cell phones (most notably the iPhone). |
| Support for upload via cell phone | Yes (via MMS; or shortcode YTUBE for Verizon customers) |
| Ability to make videos private | Yes, (viewable by you and 25 selected users) |
| Embedded player supports wide-aspect video without letterboxing | No |
| High-definition support | No |
| Online video editing capabilities | The Remixer (online video editing tool currently an open TestTube beta) |
| Supports playlist creation | Yes |
| Supports customizable user channel/profile page | Yes |
Bottom Line
Its video quality isn?t the greatest, but YouTube is hard to beat for the widest possible audience.
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YouTube Review, by Danny Allen August 21, 2007
But the biggest of all video sharing sites limits your videos to just 10 minutes, and its Flash 7 video quality wasn't quite up to par with its rivals: Color gradients were more noticeable, and colors were muted. Here's hoping that the higher quality H.264-format videos that YouTube creates for AppleTV and Apple iPhone playback will eventually be accessible by everyone.
YouTube remains incredibly easy to use. Its beefy servers swallowed our upload in no time at all (under a minute), and our video was live not long after. The recently upgraded embedded player has a clean design, though it puts a bottom-right watermark on your video, and it can be customized with different color and video thumbnail options.
You're also able to keep your video private (viewable by you and 25 selected friends), and choose whether or not people can embed your video on their Web site.
YouTube has a booming community; there are detailed user channel creation tools, and the site's popularity and ability to turn up in Google searches will likely deliver the biggest audience to your video. Unfortunately, YouTube's revenue-sharing Partner Program is currently limited to big-name content creators and selected individual, prolific, and popular content creators.
But YouTube does have some neat tricks up its sleeve. An area called TestTube lets you try out possible future features like Remixer, an online, flash-based video-editing tool. First deployed by rival Photobucket and powered by Adobe Premiere Express, it lets you remix or add transitions and titles to videos, without impacting the original uploaded file.
Bottom line: Its video quality isn't the greatest, but YouTube can't be beat for drawing the widest possible audience.
Resources: See our Top 10 Video Sharing Sites chart, find out how we tested, and visit our video-quality comparison page (requires QuickTime).
Danny Allen
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