Saturday, 28 January 2012

YouTube Storyboards

The Geny version of YouTube  will be having  one very ausumm  feature by which you can hover your mouse to any point in the video, without actually moving the playhead, and the YouTube player would show  an image thumbnail of the video frames at that very  position. Thus with this you could easily grab a visual gist of the whole video during buffering.

YouTube Storyboards


YouTube, as  known, generates three thumbnail images to represent a video and these images are captured using the frames at around 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 points in the video. For eg, if a YouTube video clip is of 60 seconds , the image thumbnails would be generated around frames at the 15s, 30s and 45s mark successively.
For the new upgraded youtube player, YouTube generates jawdropping  Storyboard of upto100 thumbnails per video and the thumbnails images are arranged in the Storyboard of 10x10 mesh . On hovering your mouse to different points in the video player, it quickly grabs the corresponding thumbnail  of that position from the dashboard.
This saves a lot of time coz it makes  you to  switch over  the most happenning  portions of a video based on the scenes . This provides you to skip the video completely if the description doesn't tallys the inner thumbnails.

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