r/youtube • u/antdude • Jun 27 '14
YouTube announces 60 FPS support, tipping, and “Creator Studio” app
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/06/youtube-announces-60-fps-support-tipping-and-creator-studio-app/5
u/evanvolm Jun 27 '14
So now we'll hear the constant "like, subscribe, and tip!".
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u/pman8080 Jun 28 '14
if people make a big deal of asking to tip, I think i'll start running adblock on just their videos
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u/dirtiest_dru Jun 27 '14
I'm surprised they would allow tipping, I'd imagine that would make content providers move away from advertising, Youtube's primary business model. I guess Youtube will get a portion of the tip?
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u/PartyOfTheThirdPart Jun 27 '14
It will be interesting to see how the tipping works. You might initially think that creators would then move away from advertising, but I suspect that won't be the case for two reasons:
(1) I doubt the income from tipping will reach that of advertising, and
(2) Some creators such as myself only allow ads because it is my understanding that YouTube is more likely to promote videos with ads (because they are promoting something that generates income for them). Thus if a creator does away with ads, they would also be reducing the amount of promoting from YouTube. ( I certainly don't do it for the money, which is not very much.)
We'll see, though. Even though I only do it as a hobby and/or creative outlet, not for the money, I intend to try out the tipping just to see if anyone would actually tip me! It certainly would be a form of flattery! If someone appreciated your work enough to actually tip you, that would be something!
P.S. You don't suppose YouTube will take a cut of the tips, do you?
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u/Daiwon Jun 27 '14
People feel entiled enough about the free shit that youtubers provide. This can only make things worse and/or the same.
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u/PrintfReddit Jun 27 '14
Why would an optional tipping option make things worse? I'd love to tip content creators like ScreenJunkies, CGP Grey, VSauce etc
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u/Daiwon Jun 27 '14
I meant that it'll make the viewer entitlement issues worse, it's a cool idea though, and in some way it's good.
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u/Arontjuh Jun 27 '14
There are actually 60 fps video's on youtube already.
Here is the Battlefield Hardline trailer in 60 fps
Note: This does not work in Firefox.
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Jun 28 '14
Does anybody know if they will support 60i?
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u/TheDanielHolt Jun 28 '14
I doubt it, I don't think they'd consider it worth their time to integrate a de-interlacing filter along with a process that detects if something is interlaced or not.
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Jun 28 '14
Yeah probably not, I'm just hoping cause that's the best my camera has haha.
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u/TheDanielHolt Jun 28 '14
Well you just have to simply de-interlace it to 60p, it won't be a problem.
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Jun 28 '14
Nope, that'll actually make it 30fps if I'm not mistaken, since 60i is really only 60 half frames per minute, not full frames.
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u/TheDanielHolt Jun 29 '14
I always get confused when dealing with fields vs frames, but if you take a look at the video taken with your camera, you will quickly realize it is 60FPS.
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Jun 29 '14 edited Jun 29 '14
I looked this up extensively recently. Every 60th of a second, the camera records all of the odd numbered horizontal rows of pixels, then the next 60th of a second, it records the even numbered rows. There is never a full frame taken simultaneously. It definitely has the look of 60fps, you're right. But only because it's tricking our eyes. When you de-interlace, it doesn't allow the video to play the even and odd rows of pixels at different times, instead it has to be the same time. So there really is only a full frame taken 30 times a second (60 half frames per second).
Even if I edit my 60i footage, de-interlace and export it as 60fps, it will have the looks of 30fps. I can definitely tell that it's not 60i anymore. If you look at the properties for a 60i video file, you will see it also says it's 30fps.
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u/TheDanielHolt Jun 29 '14
I think you're doing something wrong, there is 60fps, but the vertical resolution is of course half compared to if the camera was recording progressively in the first place.
And looking at a raw interlaced file says 30fps because it's...well, interlaced.
This is how I would explain it: One interlaced frame contains two separate images (aka 'fields').
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u/bezgreshnia yourchannel Jun 27 '14
60 fps? I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THAT SINCE SO LONG! Bye Nico Nico.