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Upload your videos to NS!

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Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22708 - Karma: 76,633
Hey all!

I know I'm posting this in the wrong forum, but we need you to help!

To fully test the new video section, we need you to upload videos directly to the site. No posting youtube embed videos, because that helps nobody but youtube!

SO give it a try... take some of your vids hosted on Youtube and post them directly to NS!

Everyone just quickly upload one or two, and we'll really get to put this thing through the paces...

I'm begging!!!

Oct 14 2008 3:13PM
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Jmanski
Posts: 1152 - Karma: 13
ok
Oct 14 2008 3:15PM
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THEDICKBUTCHER
Posts: 3067 - Karma: 673
doing it right now.
Oct 14 2008 3:20PM
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Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22708 - Karma: 76,633
Success!

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com

Oct 14 2008 3:35PM
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THEDICKBUTCHER
Posts: 3067 - Karma: 673
soo i dont think i know how to upload it directly to ns i guess...

you should explain pleease.
Oct 14 2008 4:13PM
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skiingonskis
Posts: 2076 - Karma: 262
sooo whats the max file size?
Oct 14 2008 4:32PM
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wlm
Posts: 477 - Karma: 176
hope its ALOT
Oct 14 2008 4:54PM
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Mr.Bishop
Posts: 22708 - Karma: 76,633
Its 50mb right now, but Paul is upping it to 100mb.

Oct 14 2008 5:04PM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
Can't quote videos??????
Oct 14 2008 6:25PM
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fsscott
Posts: 4684 - Karma: 114
that looks sick!
that would totally change my vote if everyone did that
Oct 14 2008 7:35PM
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pianoman
Posts: 2503 - Karma: 779
my thoughts exactly
Oct 14 2008 9:59PM
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skodeo7
Posts: 14949 - Karma: 9,234
FUCK YES DOUG!!!! You make me so happy! Finally 100mb limits! Fuck youtube for good. God I hate that sites compression.

.h264 for the win!

This is a great day in NS history. Harvey would be proud. Video bandwidth limitations were one of NS' biggest problems in the past.
Oct 14 2008 10:39PM
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MadSteezin
Posts: 4572 - Karma: 936
SICK!!!!
Oct 14 2008 10:55PM
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Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
dude doug i tried to do it with an mov and it didnt work!
Oct 15 2008 1:48AM
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BigZero
Posts: 1120 - Karma: 103
Is this gonna attract more ads like the bowflew lady on my left?
Oct 15 2008 2:09AM
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james44
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worked for me! not a .mov tho
Oct 15 2008 2:09AM
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djikstra
Posts: 2471 - Karma: 6,014
NS should NOT abandon the old uploading system, it's sooo much more legit than flash video, that's why youtube is gayer than aids. Yeah NS has a 50mb upload limit but if you can compress a video with good quality to 50 mbs you know it's going to be that same quality where as flash videos you compress it only to 100 mbs and then they slaughter the quality that you worked hard fidiling with compression rates to get. i'm down with both but DONT Get RID OF the REGULAR VIDEO SECTION! that's the only reason i still upload to NS.
Oct 15 2008 2:11AM
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Mr.Bishop
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Which is why we DO offer both!  

Click for larger image

Look.... right below the Embed code box there's something that says "Download:"   THen it has two options... .mp4 or Original!

Unlike Youtube we offer the download of the original file if you want it.   So you can get the flash video browsing experience using .h264, and then still just watch the plain old raw file. 

The problem now is that people are just posting zillions of links to youtube videos in the gallery, when we've finally launched something that is way more functional.   

I'm half tempted to take away the ability to embed videos in the gallery....     come on people post your vids direct to NS!


Oct 15 2008 7:42AM
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Mr.Bishop
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Hmmmmm.....

What happened?   I had a problem with a .mov... but then Paul could upload the exact same file no problem. 

What type of file was it?  What computer/OS/etc? 

I saw that you uploaded one, did it now work?


Oct 15 2008 10:42AM
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jackelliott
Posts: 344 - Karma: 86
'NS newschoolers.com' watermark is MASSIVE and kills uploading videos to newschoolers.  also; hating the thumbnail view of the videos, no longer is it simply a list that i can quickly run down and see the views # and comments # to determine which videos are most popular.  also i just checked one of the videos and i got a line advertisement first, wack.  "newschoolers needs to make money blah blah", thats fine but advertising before the member videos is getting a little inrusive.
Oct 15 2008 10:57AM
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skodeo7
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I agree the watermark is too large.
Oct 15 2008 12:16PM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 886
Uploading MOV files didn't work for some people because the site relied on the MIME type supplied by the browser to identify the file. The gallery uploader has been changed to do a server-side check of the MIME type.

It should now work.
Oct 15 2008 5:25PM
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djikstra
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word yeah the option is a great idea, i just wasn't sure if it was like gay ass facebook that had a trial period then was like U MUST SWITCH NOW to gay shit. and yes that was a facebook reference, fuggit
Oct 16 2008 3:30AM
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Juho@Kilkki
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I don't like the advertisements but the idea is awesome. the new video section could be great if everybody just posted their edits to NS. And yeah the 'NS newschoolers.com' watermark is also a bit too big. But anyway I do use the new section.

Btw was my summer edit (the one bishop embedded) like the first video uploaded to the system if you dont count bishops vids? :D lol



Oct 16 2008 6:51AM
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Mr.Bishop
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Well we're hoping for more of trying out the new way, then improving on it until its a mix between the new and old that everyone likes. 

So different than facebook because we'll listen... Though really there probably isn't too much harm in just offering both modes. 


Oct 16 2008 7:04AM
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nopoles
Posts: 2216 - Karma: 886
We re-encoded all 20,000 videos that were already on NS. Some were so old, they didn't even have usernames with them. I dunno how we even count those. ;)
Oct 16 2008 5:12PM
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Capurnicus
Posts: 9947 - Karma: 1,886
Word! Yeah it definitely worked now, thanks man. New section is dooope!! Everyone should just upload their shit to NS instead of Vimeo, youtube, etc...because it's the hottest video shit on the interwebs!
Oct 17 2008 1:38PM
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Hubsta
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Nice one ns team, 100mb limits are going to be great
Oct 17 2008 5:17PM
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