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Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

#71

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.

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

#73

Interestingly, there's a frame or two at the very beginning that shows a document open that could suggest an exploit of some kind. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/3oTXTDK.png

From: Pi To: Pi Subject: Project Time Machine - Test #3 It sounds like someone's trying to create some fun meta-fiction - it looks like a letter from the creator's future self to his past-self, describing future-self's experience going through some iteration of the time-loop ("Don't talk about fate. You did it once and it was cringy.")

Indeed - using the Czech-language version of Word and email client.

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

#74

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Excellent, this explains it. The YouTube video you shared says the trick is to create a resumable upload using YouTube API. The steps involved : 1. create a resumable session (here we specify video length in bytes) 2. YouTube returns a session URI which contains the upload ID 3. create a video with the upload ID baked in (edit video to match length from step 1) 4. upload video to the session URI https://developers.go…

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

I'm using kdenlive in linux, works great for my use. I know others are using blender too but I prefer the kdenlive UI.

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

#75

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.

Citation?

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

#76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excellent, this explains it. The YouTube video you shared says the trick is to create a resumable upload using YouTube API. The steps involved : 1. create a resumable session (here we specify video length in bytes) 2. YouTube returns a session URI which contains the upload ID 3. create a video with the upload ID baked in (edit video to match length from step 1) 4. upload video to the session URI https://developers.go…

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

Most professionals use Adobe Premiere (+ Audition/After Effects), Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Vegas Pro, some use Blender and Kdenlive is great for smaller and simpler edits and works on Linux

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

#77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Excellent, this explains it. The YouTube video you shared says the trick is to create a resumable upload using YouTube API. The steps involved : 1. create a resumable session (here we specify video length in bytes) 2. YouTube returns a session URI which contains the upload ID 3. create a video with the upload ID baked in (edit video to match length from step 1) 4. upload video to the session URI https://developers.go…

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

On Windows I'm using DaVinci Resolve. It's closed source but free, and professional quality.

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

#78
post #65

It would be more useful if Google / Youtube's API allowed 'reserving a slot' which would create a video ID endpoint but not finalize the content. Accounts might have a per-account limit of some small number of floating slots which would also timeout after a day or two. This wouldn't violate the write-once model since the submission wouldn't be completed, it'd just defer finalizing and publishing it for a little.

More useful for what application? Other than a novelty, why would anyone need a reserved spot?

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

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

#79
post #65

It would be more useful if Google / Youtube's API allowed 'reserving a slot' which would create a video ID endpoint but not finalize the content. Accounts might have a per-account limit of some small number of floating slots which would also timeout after a day or two. This wouldn't violate the write-once model since the submission wouldn't be completed, it'd just defer finalizing and publishing it for a little.

More useful for what application? Other than a novelty, why would anyone need a reserved spot?

Some workflows around video production might find it useful to have the actual YouTube URL early in the process.

Re: YouTube video has its own URL in it

#80
post #26

I think it's most likely done with the API. From what I remember from looking at it a while ago you can create the entry before, then it'll give you the right endpoint where you post your actual file to later on in the process. You just have to do that quickly enough so the endpoint doesn't expire.

It's apparently even been done before, see here at around the three minute mark: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UMYTSJTU0Vk

so: https://youtu.be/UMYTSJTU0Vk?t=175
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