Youtube now with closed caption

Posted by Gerard Protta in 29/ago/2008

The Youtube, get some time here, won some ups, among them the annotations in the video, new styles of players, new widgets, new APIs, an analyzer of views, a system of contextual advertisements, capacity for high-definition videos, and Now, the possibility of inclusion of closed caption. Yes, how to use subtitles in movies DivX

The novelty is warm, has left a few hours on Youtube Blog, and has multiple functions. Besides often facilitate the understanding of audio and translation of a speech to videos in other languages, also allows accessibility to the deaf.

You can now insert subtitles in a video already published, accessing My Videos, clicking "Edit" and "and Captions Subtitles." You may insert subtitles in up to 120 languages, but being a file for each language. To view the legends of a video, just click the "cc" (closed caption) in the lower right corner of the player, but this option will only be visible in videos with subtitles already entered. In this button you can also switch between the options available languages.

The principle will only be borne simple captions compatible with the formats known as SubViewer (*. SUB) and SubRip (*. SRT). While it is possible to send captions in any format, only supported formats appear correctly in the player.

Another limitation that probably will be overcome, is the display of legend, only when viewed on-site Youtube. For the players entered on others' sites (embed players), this option is still inactive.

The format is supported in text divided into separate segments of captions, in chronological order. Every legend must have three parts:

  1. A time code (specifies when the legend must be displayed and for how long)
  2. The text of the legend (one or more lines of text, and must be UTF-8 encoded)
  3. A blank line (a blank line is used to mark the end of each caption)

The time is measured from the beginning of the video, these units:

  • HH - hours starting at 00
  • MM - Minute (00-59)
  • SS - Seconds (00-59)
  • FS - Fractions of seconds (0-999)

The following formats are compatible time code:

  • HH: MM: SS.FS, HH: MM: SS.FS - The display of the legend begins marking the first time and stops in the second. This is compatible with the format SubViewer.
  • HH: MM: SS, FS -> HH: MM: SS, FS - The display of captions begins marking the first time and stops in the second. For there is full compatibility with the format SubRip, a "number of legend" also may precede this time code.
  • HH: MM: SS.FS - The display of captions that begins marking of time, but did not set the time to stop. We will try to find an appropriate time to stop.

Example:

0:01:23.000,0:01:25.000
Text shown at 1 minute and 23 seconds of video, for 2 seconds

0:02:20.250,0:02:23.8
Text shown at 2 minutes and 20.25 s, by 2 minutes, 23.8 s

0:03:14.159
Text appears to 3 min, 14,159 s, with indefinite duration.

Some partners of Youtube already begun to use subtitles to offer a better understanding of their videos (even with the sound off):

-- BBC Worldwide: subtitles are provided in five different languages in this clip of Top Gear.
-- CNET: opinions of the proceeds from CNET's Crave blog.
-- UC Berkeley: the Opencast Project Open House.
-- MIT: complete lectures on subjects such as physics.
-- Gonzodoga: Subtitles in English of this wonderful Japanese animation.

Now we know remains the creative solutions that will arise from the use of this tool.

To learn more about using the subtitles, visit the Help Center.

The Over-INFO Web

Posted by Rodrigo Cunha in 28/ago/2008

The ego, fear of making mistakes and afraid to seem ridiculous, are the main destructive of ideas! The sentence was said recently in an event organised by the blog Media Bit, Bit Media Expo, where a large cherry of the cake was a talk with the teacher Luli Radfahrer on innovation in Web

Featuring a captivating performance, unusual and motivating, Luli talks within 30 minutes of a speech simply imperdível for anyone who is interested in the subject and Internet opportunities that exist in that medium.

Luli is about ideas, creativity, banners and digital media, tageamento of information and mainly on the excess of information, evangelizando always the ideas simple.

Inside the lecture, he notes a fact that many remain unaware: "With Twitter you BigBrotheia." Highlights the fact that people do matter to show what they are doing, if interesting, reading. Everyone wants attention on Twitter.

I recommend that you reader of this blog does not allow, under any circumstances, to attend this class of Luli. For many, it may sound obvious. If you think you are already bald to know about the facts I have described above there, I urge you to watch anyway. It will serve as something motivating at worst.

Watch NOW and COMENTE :)

How old is your memory?

Posted by Gerard Protta in 27/ago/2008

A little game geek, to challenge the human mind. The game is in Japanese (more geek yet) but the numbers are universal. Click "start" to begin, and after the countdown, memorize the numbers and positions that will be shown by one second. When sumirem, click the circles that arise, but in the wake of growing numbers that were shown. At the end of 10 attempts, the game will tell you the age of his memory. Are you good enough?

So what? How old is your memory?

One of the greatest technological trends of the moment, are the webapps (remote applications accessed by the browser), which is popular and greatly improving in recent months. From simple to complex webmail publishers of spreadsheets. From now on I intend to raise a little more about these tools so practical and efficient. Then we go…

PSX (Adobe Photoshop Express) This is not exactly a novelty, since it was released at the end of 2007, but undoubtedly is a tool that should be disseminated, for its quality, efficiency and accessibility. Adobe Photoshop by itself, will make any presentation, and has become a synonym for image processing. I am a photographer, and as cinegrafistas always hear the phrase creative "It's pro Fantastic?", When we heard another, "After I fix in Photoshop". Well, let the concept of the profession to another time.

Adobe Photoshop Express, which was developed platform on Adobe Flash (ActionScript), has several features and facilities, plus a navigation light and intuitive interface. It allows the viewing of images in various ways, creating albums, slideshows with sound, sending email, downloading, printing and of course, treatment and effect. Basically an online version and light Adobe Lightroom.

Besides being much more than a simple album online, as Flick, Picasa or Photobucket, it also integrates with these services and to Facebook, allowing access your photos stored in them, so you can edit them and publish them again in sites. There is as yet publish the slideshows created with your photos.

The PSX also provides 2GB of space for storage of pictures, the site of tutoring classes in video-so we can rely increasingly on the application and an application called "Adobe Photoshop Express Uploader" for remote transmission of images, which runs on a platform Adobe Air (required).

PSX - friendly interface PSX - Easy navigation PSX - Integration with other services PSX - Swedish and treatment in a few clicks PSX - Organization and publication of images

Here's how it was my album and slideshow of my avatars. Try, create and comment!

The Advertising Eternizada Web

Posted by Rodrigo Cunha in 24/ago/2008

Search for old information is something that gives us the web with great ease.

It mainly to events held in the past can be brought to the surface again. The action of Rexona, which happened last week, is another that is used the facility.

The lawsuit, which was relizada in a building of Avenida Paulista, where a man held two small flights with a Jet Pack, drawing the attention of those who circulated on sidewalks of the avenue, starts to spread on the web through blogs.

An action like this, would poquíssimo impact if there was the Internet. When the flight of Jet Pack had come to an end, the entire action would have ended there. The few who viewed the action in the building of Avenida Paulista, probably the most contariam the fact some people and ready, case closed.

As the action took place the 11 hours of the morning, many people could not attend on site to see the Jet Pack Take your flight. With the ease of power record video and put it on Youtube, the agency virtually makes the action life, at least on the Web

The video with the flight of Jet Pack is already in Youtube and can be seen here. The main goal has been to communicate the new line of the Rexona deodorants - Quantum.

The new product has at least two features that call to attention: he was tested and showed a great performance to 58 ° C, higher temperature recorded on the planet earth, in 2002, besides being a product with a very futuristic communication, including the hotsite Campaign, which has a very modern design and interactive.

The action is fully in line with a time where technology stands out in all sectors, especially in advertising, which is beginning to become - so much less timid in Brazil - in a very efficient way to communicate with a public company in web.