YouTube Launches 'Capture' App to Easily Film and Share Videos

MacRumors · Dec 17, 2012, 02:07 PM

YouTube has launched a new app called Capture to make it easier for users to shoot and share video. The app is one of many competing for the unofficial title of 'Instagram-for-videos'.

The app is set up for quick and easy recording, basic editing with color correction, stabilization, trimming, and music tracks, as well as the ability to share videos on YouTube, Google+, Facebook and Twitter.

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Once opening Capture, users can shoot new video or use existing footage from their camera roll; from there they can apply some automatic color correction filters, trim the video, and even apply a soundtrack. The app automatically starts uploading video as soon as you're done shooting, and it also helpfully includes a landscape lock reminder to help cut down the blight of vertically-shot videos that are being taken these days.

YouTube Capture is a free download from the App Store. [Direct Link]

Article Link: YouTube Launches 'Capture' App to Easily Film and Share Videos

WestonHarvey1 · Dec 17, 2012, 02:09 PM

No "Do Not Attempt"?

I've seen ads with people simply driving cars around parking lots at low speed show a "Do Not Attempt" banner. Here we have people lighting dozens of sparklers using blow torches. Some of those sparklers are attached directly to a human being.

Skika · Dec 17, 2012, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by WestonHarvey1

No "Do Not Attempt"?

I've seen ads with people simply driving cars around parking lots at low speed show a "Do Not Attempt" banner. Here we have people lighting dozens of sparklers using blow torches. Some of those sparklers are attached directly to a human being.

If you seriously need an "do not attempt" for you to not try to recreate something you saw on tv that is clearly dangerous, without doing your own research before hand, then you deserve everything that goes wrong.

GenesisST · Dec 17, 2012, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Skika

If you seriously need an "do not attempt" for you to not try to recreate something you saw on tv that is clearly dangerous, without doing your own research before hand, then you deserve everything that goes wrong.

Lawyers kind of screwed up natural selection...

samcraig · Dec 17, 2012, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by mrgraff

The built-in camera app has been doing this for years!

I'm pretty sure the built-in camera ap doesn't automatically upload to more than one service nor does color correction, add musical beds or have stabilization...

tylernol · Dec 17, 2012, 02:52 PM

youtube has become the place where you have to watch 1 minute of ads for 30 seconds of content.. I'll stick to putting my videos on dropbox or vimeo.

Razeus · Dec 17, 2012, 02:09 PM

Oh, oh.

Glad to see a big company make moves to capture a market instead of all these start ups. Video is still something I don't care for however.

Bathplug · Dec 17, 2012, 02:12 PM

Google are on the ball. Apple should hire them to help fix ios 6 the windows vista of ios updates. Or help with ios 7.

MultiMediaWill · Dec 17, 2012, 02:11 PM

How about working to fix the screwed up youtube layout instead of pumping out useless apps.

Razeus · Dec 17, 2012, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by MultiMediaWill

How about working to fix the screwed up youtube layout instead of pumping out useless apps.

I always had wondered why Youtube didn't have a mobile video creation app to begin with. Seems like a no brainer.

dylanlive · Dec 17, 2012, 02:15 PM

Socialcam has been doing this for years!

mrgraff · Dec 17, 2012, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by dylanlive

Socialcam has been doing this for years!

The built-in camera app has been doing this for years!

abhishake · Dec 17, 2012, 02:35 PM

I like how the ad uses an iPhone

izyreal · Dec 17, 2012, 02:15 PM

Goodness! Get ready for the onslaught of pointless and poorly edited YouTube videos!

basketballbrian · Dec 17, 2012, 02:17 PM

works pretty well actually

Yvan256 · 03:05 PM

YouTube is becoming a wasteland.

It doesn't work with HTML5 anymore.

It's flooded with ads everywhere and last friday even clicking on the "play" button of a video opened a new browser window for a 3rd-party game.

All my future videos will be uploaded to Vimeo.

theumang · Dec 17, 2012, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Razeus

I always had wondered why Youtube didn't have a mobile video creation app to begin with. Seems like a no brainer.

Exactly, what were they doing all this while? the iPhone 3 could & later could capture vid, it has been so long!
Oh well, @least now they are here... but the time lost is still lost

Snookerman · Dec 17, 2012, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MultiMediaWill

How about working to fix the screwed up youtube layout instead of pumping out useless apps.

Every time a company does something new, there's always the "why don't they do this important thing instead?" comment. You do realize that not everyone from Google or YouTube was involved in doing this app and that not everyone can work on a single feature or fix? It's not like Apple went "ok guys, our maps aren't very good so we'll have to stop working on iPad Minis and put everyone on fixing our maps".

Regarding the layout, which one do you mean? Because they just came up with a new one (or at least they're testing a few different ones). The one I have works fine for me.

Morshu9001 · 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by MultiMediaWill

How about working to fix the screwed up youtube layout instead of pumping out useless apps.

I know, it looks like it failed to load properly!!! And they also ruined the channel design before that. Imagine if Apple owned YouTube and did that. They'd get burned at the stake for making a mistake that bad. I don't even understand why; Google also has very high expectations of quality. I always thought they were doing an excellent job with YouTube until these horrible developments.

P.S. A lot of users (including me) on all types of browsers and OSs have been reporting problems of some videos not showing up at all in YouTube after the new layout. There's just a black square instead of the player. Did they hire Microsoft to do this or something??!

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Originally Posted by APlotdevice

You do realize that if everyone used an adblocker then services like YouTube would either have to start charging its users or go out of business?

We're not everyone

Besides, if everyone was like me except that they didn't use AdBlock, nobody would buy anything anyway from the ads (or, in some cases, boycott the advertised product), so ads would not work. Also, if everyone was like me, the "fashion" industry would be dead.

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Originally Posted by Eminemdrdre00

The best feature is that they force you to shoot in landscape mode!

That's great. Portrait mode is extremely annoying. So many great videos have been ruined.

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The ability to do this has basically been there for a while, but this gives advanced features. You could already upload the video without enhancements:

ChromeAce · Dec 17, 2012, 02:26 PM

What's wrong with vertical videos? Maybe the movie and TV industry has just been doing it wrong this whole time?

NazgulRR · Dec 17, 2012, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ChromeAce

What's wrong with vertical videos? Maybe the movie and TV industry has just been doing it wrong this whole time?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

Small White Car · Dec 17, 2012, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by NazgulRR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

I used to feel this way but I've recently changed my mind on this issue.

Specifically, it's not the shooter's fault, it's Youtube's fault for forcing vertical videos into a widescreen frame. (Which, yes, is ugly.) If they just rotated the viewer and had a different layout for 'vertical video' pages, they would look just fine.

What lead me to this thinking is that online video is not always TV or movies. Sometimes they are, but sometimes they're more like moving photography. And we let still photographers shoot vertically...why can't certain videos be too?

My Challenge: Watch this video and tell me if it would have been better shot widescreen.

Rocket Launch

I don't see how that specific video would be better wide.

SeanMcg · Dec 17, 2012, 03:49 PM

I'm an amateur photographer (cited as background not as expertise), and I remember as a kid the whole world of options that opened up simply by turning the camera 90 degrees. As I got older and started watching people around me taking pictures, it intrigued me how this one simple little trick was lost on so many. When I would recommend a vertical shot (think, family in front of the castle at Walt Disney World), people would be amazed at the picture tha could be obtained.

The design of the cameras did a lot to force this. The 35mm format and cameras were designed for the landscape nature of our vision and our horizontally-oriented hands. Other formats, meant more for studio photography, which often made their way into vertically oriented magazines, weren't tied to this same constraint. Thanks to the design of camera phones, vertical has become much more normal. Unfortunately, that extends to video from these devices as well.

Vertical is fine for still photography. The image isn't changing so it gives our widescreen vision a chance to take everything in. Video and movies, though, are meant to be an extension of our eys in the real world. Even if the movie is shot vertically, the image is presented to eyes that are used to seing horizontally. It forces an uncomfortable translation.

Swift · Dec 17, 2012, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ChromeAce

What's wrong with vertical videos? Maybe the movie and TV industry has just been doing it wrong this whole time?

The movie screen doesn't fit that way!

Actually, still photographers use vertical all the time. Portrait mode. Talking to someone while showing their figure, from head to waist. Nothing's the matter with it.

All this onslaught of well-written apps, it's great, but I know what I don't like. Install the gmail app and it changes your "got mail" beep to a thunk. Can't figure out how to change it back, at least for Mail mail.

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Originally Posted by SeanMcg

Vertical is fine for still photography. The image isn't changing so it gives our widescreen vision a chance to take everything in. Video and movies, though, are meant to be an extension of our eys in the real world. Even if the movie is shot vertically, the image is presented to eyes that are used to seing horizontally. It forces an uncomfortable translation.

I don't think you need a fancy philosophical explanation. You had to put a movie screen in a room for hundreds of people. You weren't going to switch the movie screen orientation for portrait mode. Then TVs, the early ones, weighed 200 pounds. But a smartphone is a personal space camera. A series of interviews with a bunch of people filmed in "portrait mode" is quite interesting to me.

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Originally Posted by StuddedLeather

The most important question: Will the videos being uploaded be in full HD?!

If so this app could be amazing and convenient!

Nope. 720p max.

Bilbo63 · Dec 17, 2012, 05:24 PM

Capture? Well, they got the name right. LOL That's a Google-appropriate name for sure.

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