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Re: Video on Instagram

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Post by onedev »

fxthea wrote: post #76
minikites wrote: post #49

Maybe this is me projecting, but I feel like it's way more difficult to create a good video than it is to create a good photograph. I see lots of great images on Instagram and a lot of terrible videos on Vine. I hope my Instagram feed doesn't fill up with terrible videos.

Good point. Instagram's killer feature was that it made amateur photographer's photos look better, but the answer for video can't be just apply filters again, right? Could it be transitions (like how Vine has hard cuts in and out now)?

I think video's killer feature is the image stabilization. A large percentage of bad videos are because they're shaky as hell.

Re: Video on Instagram

#103

Post by jkestner »

ngoel36 wrote: post #72
fletchowns wrote: post #20

I swear every single product launch or redesign announcement these days uses the word beautiful.

It used to be pretty natural for me to use this in product announcements (along with other catchy words: 'innovative', 'game-changing', 'amazing', etc...). "Why not, I think it's beautiful, so will everybody else!!" My manager taught me that it was far, far better for my users to discover the beauty themselves. "Under promise, over deliver." Let the user get excited about the functionality - the most beautiful or eas…

"Any man who must say, 'I am the king' is no true king."

Re: Video on Instagram

#104

Post by dannyr »

dopamean wrote: post #83
josh2600 wrote: post #26

Sigh... Instagram talks a good game, but I find this to be more unimaginative dreck. Look, I get it, you need to clone Vine to stay competitive, but it's not new or a re-imagining of the video paradigm. Most of these social startups promise unique experiences based on new forms of social interaction, but really only deliver more ways to watch cats dance on the internet. Bring on the hardcore technology like better Et…

Where did they say it was new or a re-imagining of the video paradigm?

Kevin Systrom: "Cinema will change video forever"

Re: Video on Instagram

#105

Post by atestu »

onedev wrote: post #45
josh2600 wrote: post #26

Sigh... Instagram talks a good game, but I find this to be more unimaginative dreck. Look, I get it, you need to clone Vine to stay competitive, but it's not new or a re-imagining of the video paradigm. Most of these social startups promise unique experiences based on new forms of social interaction, but really only deliver more ways to watch cats dance on the internet. Bring on the hardcore technology like better Et…

You don't think their stabilization technology is imaginative?

It's only available on iPhone 4S/5… they're probably just using the iOS SDK!

Re: Video on Instagram

#106

Post by dannyr »

hospadam wrote: post #91

Aside from the actual product announcement... I'm interested to see that they created an Android and iOS version at the same time. For the past several years, Android apps were typically pushed off a month (or years, in Instagram's case). I wonder if their Android app drove much of their adoption in the past year or so, and as such, they decided to make sure they could launch feature-complete apps on both platforms o…

Recently, Foursquare & Tumblr released new features on Android first then followed by iOS weeks later.

Re: Video on Instagram

#107

Post by nayefc »

psbp wrote: post #60
joebeetee wrote: post #6

Summary: 15 seconds of video with 13 custom filters You can choose the cover frame. Available for Android/iOS. Can view on web as well. New feature - 'Cinema' - cinematic stabilisation.

Cinema is only available on the iPhone 4S and 5.

It does not work

Re: Video on Instagram

#109

Post by zalthor »

dignati wrote: post #54
UVB-76 wrote: post #48

The video introducing video on Instagram is on Vimeo. That speaks volumes about this service.

You didn't think that through, did you? It's longer than 15 seconds.

Isn't that the real problem? You're a company that says "here's 15 seconds to convey some information". Yet, you aren't able to convey the information you wanted to (i.e the ad for your service) in 15 seconds. I think they missed a trick with this ad.

Re: Video on Instagram

#110

Post by andrewhillman »

psbp wrote: post #41
josh2600 wrote: post #26

Sigh... Instagram talks a good game, but I find this to be more unimaginative dreck. Look, I get it, you need to clone Vine to stay competitive, but it's not new or a re-imagining of the video paradigm. Most of these social startups promise unique experiences based on new forms of social interaction, but really only deliver more ways to watch cats dance on the internet. Bring on the hardcore technology like better Et…

This is just a clever way to get video ads integrated into the facebook stream. Relevant: http://adage.com/abstract?article_id=242165

Not sure why people think this is about FB running ads.

I highly doubt FB would consider pre-rolling an ad on a 15 second clip. Youtube is the king of pre-rolls... they probably have a min length requirement before they will insert a pre-roll.

Ads don't make much sense on a 15 second clip.

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