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Just because you can, doesn’t always mean you should.

Flickr’s incorporation of video within their site was quite a shock and surprise. Will be interesting to see if their experiment will be a success. Glad to see it being pushed not as a simple YouTube rival, but as a creative outlet for what they term a “long photo”, up to 90 seconds, an attempt to get people thinking about their videos. Skepticism is creeping in though.

Personally I think they should have avoided the word “video” altogether, keeping their site just about photos and “moving photos”, because now all through the site they’ve had to append “and videos” throughout.

I naturally wanted to try it out for myself so during lunch I went out to the pond and took a minute thirty of the fishies swimming around. Ashley and Mick came out and wondered what the hell I was doing. That’s the reason I took out the sound. I uploaded it at full quality, just over 100 MB, but it took almost all day due to it cutting out in the middle the first three tries, no resume feature. I’ll compress more next time and resize to 500 x 375 I think.

Sit back and enjoy anyway… for 90 seconds worth of motion photo gold.

Tags: video flickr photos

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