Well, they've finally done it. YouTube has mostly eliminated time limits on user submissions. The qualification is that a user must have a history of complying with the Community Guidelines and copyright rules. I got a notice about this today.
This is great news; now I won't have to worry about staying within 15 minutes in my future episodes. Yes, I know I could always have recorded long sessions and broken them apart like some people do. But the large amount of data I deal with in creating my own videos (in order to maintain very high quality) would make that impractical, which is partly why you're not going to see 5-hour videos from me any time soon. That and the fact planning gets more involved for longer videos. But at least now I can relax and end the video when I'm ready to end it.
That's good, thanks for letting us know more about it.
ReplyDeleteI happened to be reading the Community Help Forums recently. According to what a Google employee said there ( http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=5c8beb9795b2982f&hl=en ), you can enable longer uploads by confirming your account. Odd, though. I don't remember ever confirming mine. I have had it since Feb. 2009, though. Maybe that has something to do with it? Or maybe I was just one of the lucky ones to get it automatically.
ReplyDeleteI should probably add that this is a fairly recent announcement (mid-September), while getting my limit lifted happened about December of *last* year. Just so no one's confused.
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