YouTube and Videos Longer Than 10 Minutes
I was offered by YouTube an opportunity (as “newsundies”) to participate in a test program which would allow me to upload videos longer than 10 minutes.
For nearly a year, I’ve been doing NewsUndies shows oriented toward YouTube’s 10-minute limit, often throwing out perfectly good bits to get my shows to fit. I looked forward to the opportunity to participate, but it would take me a little while to get a show put together that fit. There’s something of a pipeline to NewsUndies production, and a substantial amount of planning and research goes into each show, so if a show is planned for 10 minutes, making it substantially longer is non-trivial.
I did, though, put a 13-minute show together (NU1005), and uploaded it. Uploading it took forever, and once it was uploaded, YouTube delayed its release to verify via email that I either owned the copyrights or had written permission from the copyright holders of everything in the video. As a result the show came out late.
This week’s show was made late, because I was planning on uploading a 13-minute show, but when I went to upload it, I was informed that the >10-minute program had ended, and I was thanked for my participation.
That’s poo.
So, now I have a longer-than-ten-minute show, all edited and rendered and everything… and I either need to cut three minutes out of it (no small feat) or cut it into two parts (which requires, essentially, re-editing the show). Either way there was re-editing and re-rendering involved, and by then it was midnight.
I opted for the 2-part route… It’s an inelegant solution, but I wanted to get all that material in there, and YouTube kinda left me twisting in the wind on this one.
So, bottom line is: This week’s show is late , and late shows don’t get watched, thanks, again, to YouTube.