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Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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How to pause? and re upload pending part with new video?

Here's a guess: upload from a browser running on Linux, and create a FUSE filesystem that blocks read() calls until you've generated the video. I tried it with a named pipe ("mknod /tmp/foo.mp4 p") and it gave me an error, but before the error, the web page blocked during upload, but it showed me the URL that will be used (before I gave it a single byte of data).

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Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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To provide a link to next week's video/ the next of a series inside the previous?

URL shorteners do this trick, can just update the redirect. Most people just put videos in a playlist so it comes recommended next though.

And end cards were made for exactly this purpose - you can't put them in the description but at the end you can link to latest video in a playlist.

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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C.f. this tweet, which has a link to itself: https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/99142460340155187... (And as we all know Twitter has no edit button, no post-upload shenanigans are possible here, just some clever guessing and reverse-engineering Twitter's ID generation algorithm)

This tweet (or one like it) caused a massive Twitter outage.

Nothing like finding a loop in a simple graph...

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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I have not been doing any edits of video for a long time... What are most people editing vids with these days?

As someone who uses Linux, I've found Blender + ffmpeg to be a powerful combo. Almost all of the videos on my channel use those two. The video sequence editor in Blender is awesome for arranging tracks, audio, transitions, overlays, text, etc. And with ffmpeg you can move it to any format you need. To clean up audio I use Audacity.

Blender? Really? Huh, I've been looking for a program to do some simple video editing. Would you happen to know of a good tutorial for the basics of non-linear video editing with Blender?

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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A somewhat related story about why text posts on reddit are called "self posts" (copy-pasted from a thread from 5 years ago where someone asked why, linked near the top of the explanation): --- It's actually a bit of a long story, but it's kind of an interesting part of reddit's history. Some of my details are probably off, but this is how I understand it. A long, long time ago, reddit only supported submitting links…

Oh man, I remember trying (and succeeding) to do this with comments, back before you had a 30 second grace period before getting the asterisk. I wrote a comment that linked to itself.

I later became "more" famous for inadvertently DDoSing reddit, and forgot all about it until someone replied to one of my comments saying "aren't you the asshole who brought down reddit as an April fool's joke?". "Huh? No! Oh, wait".

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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post #86

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As someone who uses Linux, I've found Blender + ffmpeg to be a powerful combo. Almost all of the videos on my channel use those two. The video sequence editor in Blender is awesome for arranging tracks, audio, transitions, overlays, text, etc. And with ffmpeg you can move it to any format you need. To clean up audio I use Audacity.

Blender? Really? Huh, I've been looking for a program to do some simple video editing. Would you happen to know of a good tutorial for the basics of non-linear video editing with Blender?

I've used Blender for video editing, but I had to pull up a fairly long Youtube video on how to set up my environment and choose settings in Blender's UI.

I've just pulled down a 2.80 release candidate with the UI overhaul to see if it's any better. It's actually pretty nice. I just selected the video editor option in the startup screen, and things sort of worked like I expect in a NLE.

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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I have not been doing any edits of video for a long time... What are most people editing vids with these days?

The free version of Hit Film is really excellent: https://fxhome.com/hitfilm-express Good to put some VFX.

Aw, I was excited until I realized there's no Linux version :(

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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As someone who uses Linux, I've found Blender + ffmpeg to be a powerful combo. Almost all of the videos on my channel use those two. The video sequence editor in Blender is awesome for arranging tracks, audio, transitions, overlays, text, etc. And with ffmpeg you can move it to any format you need. To clean up audio I use Audacity.

Blender? Really? Huh, I've been looking for a program to do some simple video editing. Would you happen to know of a good tutorial for the basics of non-linear video editing with Blender?

The Mike Meyers[1] youtube tutorials are great. He will do 2.8 based tutorials soon.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/MikeycalDOTcom/playlist

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

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C.f. this tweet, which has a link to itself: https://twitter.com/mauritscorneIis/status/99142460340155187... (And as we all know Twitter has no edit button, no post-upload shenanigans are possible here, just some clever guessing and reverse-engineering Twitter's ID generation algorithm)

There's a decent write-up of how to do this here: https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20090805/

As you said, it largely relies on reverse engineering and bruteforcing Twitter's ID generation.

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