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Motion Stills – Now on Android

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Re: Motion Stills – Now on Android

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Post by wybiral »

dingo_bat wrote: post #18
wybiral wrote: post #15

I texted a GIF from my Pixel and it was really blocky, even at the highest setting. It doesn't look bad during playback or when uploaded to Photos though. Is this an MMS issue or something?

I just used it on my S7 and shared it on whatsapp: looks very high quality to me. You can try changing the gif quality from settings, although the default worked fine for me.

I tried at the medium (default) and highest. Oddly enough the highest quality setting was the most blocky so I'm guessing the MMS or Pixel->Iphone text did something weird?

Either way, the app is neat and I think this is just an artifact in the MMS stage rather than the files.

Re: Motion Stills – Now on Android

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Post by crazygringo »

andybak wrote: post #12

"We listened to your feedback and today, we're excited to announce" - doesn't anyone have a functioning cliche detector anymore? Maybe my ears are oversensitive but I find this kind of bilge insincere and off-putting. Is it a UK vs US thing? Or am I just getting cranky in old age?

As a product manager who writes sentences just like these, genuine question -- what would you prefer instead?

Let's say this has been by far the #1 app request for the past year, and the reason you've built it is literally because it's what people have been asking for. And as a team, you're actually excited to ship it after months and months of development.

Really curious how else to phrase it? Without sounding immature or unprofessional ("it's here WOOT!") -- or too self-absorbed ("Drum roll please...").

Re: Motion Stills – Now on Android

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Post by raldi »

crazygringo wrote: post #22
andybak wrote: post #12

"We listened to your feedback and today, we're excited to announce" - doesn't anyone have a functioning cliche detector anymore? Maybe my ears are oversensitive but I find this kind of bilge insincere and off-putting. Is it a UK vs US thing? Or am I just getting cranky in old age?

As a product manager who writes sentences just like these, genuine question -- what would you prefer instead? Let's say this has been by far the #1 app request for the past year, and the reason you've built it is literally because it's what people have been asking for. And as a team, you're actually excited to ship it after months and months of development. Really curious how else to phrase it? Without sounding immat…

"This has been by far our #1 request for the past year. It's been a long haul and we're very proud of what we've put together. We think you're going to like it."

Re: Motion Stills – Now on Android

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Post by fezz »

crazygringo wrote: post #22
andybak wrote: post #12

"We listened to your feedback and today, we're excited to announce" - doesn't anyone have a functioning cliche detector anymore? Maybe my ears are oversensitive but I find this kind of bilge insincere and off-putting. Is it a UK vs US thing? Or am I just getting cranky in old age?

As a product manager who writes sentences just like these, genuine question -- what would you prefer instead? Let's say this has been by far the #1 app request for the past year, and the reason you've built it is literally because it's what people have been asking for. And as a team, you're actually excited to ship it after months and months of development. Really curious how else to phrase it? Without sounding immat…

If you can apply it to some other product in the same tone/voice that many other kickstarter or tech products use and it sounds contrived, then you've employed your cookie cutter speak.

It's seems ok because everyone else is doing it but it'll lack the sincerity that people respond to.

Re: Motion Stills – Now on Android

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Post by achow »

crazygringo wrote: post #22
andybak wrote: post #12

"We listened to your feedback and today, we're excited to announce" - doesn't anyone have a functioning cliche detector anymore? Maybe my ears are oversensitive but I find this kind of bilge insincere and off-putting. Is it a UK vs US thing? Or am I just getting cranky in old age?

As a product manager who writes sentences just like these, genuine question -- what would you prefer instead? Let's say this has been by far the #1 app request for the past year, and the reason you've built it is literally because it's what people have been asking for. And as a team, you're actually excited to ship it after months and months of development. Really curious how else to phrase it? Without sounding immat…

The blog actually says this:

However, from its initial release, the community has been asking us to also make Motion Stills available for Android. We listened to your feedback and today, we're excited to announce that we’re bringing this technology, and more, to devices running Android 5.1 and later!

This sounds perfectly normal.

Re: Motion Stills – Now on Android

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Post by owenversteeg »

So I hadn't heard of this and I thought the name was for taking a still photo from a video. Sadly, that's not what this does, so does anybody know a good solution that does this?

It's 2017, I feel like "hit spacebar in VLC and screenshot" is a really poor way of extracting still images from video. So what is the highest-quality way to extract a still from a video?

Re: Motion Stills – Now on Android

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Post by themacguffinman »

raldi wrote: post #24
crazygringo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a product manager who writes sentences just like these, genuine question -- what would you prefer instead? Let's say this has been by far the #1 app request for the past year, and the reason you've built it is literally because it's what people have been asking for. And as a team, you're actually excited to ship it after months and months of development. Really curious how else to phrase it? Without sounding immat…

"This has been by far our #1 request for the past year. It's been a long haul and we're very proud of what we've put together. We think you're going to like it."

How is this meaningfully different, other than the fact that your statement takes twice as many words to express the same thing?

Re: Motion Stills – Now on Android

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Post by jvzr »

oneplane wrote: post #2

It's a good thing this is getting supported on non-Apple platforms too. In time, maybe they'll all get common formats, and then we'll all have the same stuff again. This isn't about 'stealing' or who 'came first', it's about everyone getting everything.

This is not the same thing, though. I hope you realize. This is not bringing Live Photos to Android nor allowing cross-platform playback.

It's just giving Android users a handy app to loop videos.

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