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when I saw "unlimited free storage" I had to try :) my interest was more on the video than the photo, when you click the option "High quality (free unlimited s
by zwetan 11y ago
when I saw "unlimited free storage" I had to try :)
my interest was more on the video than the photo,
when you click the option "High quality (free unlimited storage)" the help mention it goes as far as 1080P for videos which is fair game for something free.
So I uploaded a couple of 720P videos, and redownloaded them to compare if they were the same, what formats was supported, etc.
The good: it works kind of like a private Youtube, it does process the video so when you watch it online you end up having it to auto 360P, which sucks a little. But if when you redownload the video you get the original one (not recompressed).
The bad: the UI and file naming is a joke.
I understand they wanted to make it simple to use and organise a lot of photos and videos, but not being able to see the filename to quickly select a bunch of files and put them in a group (or collection) is beyond me.
But let focus on something even simpler: select an item and no file name ? I mean com'on google, am I not suppose to find/search easily trough my stuff ?
No regex in file name search either ...
My guess is the photo part was the main goal and the video part been added quickly without much of a thinking about it, I do hope it would get better.
So far disappointing, if I was to upload all my videos there, I could not organise them easily and worst I could not find them, it would be useless.
- mynameisvlad 11y ago> No regex in file name search either ... I mean, come on, did you really expect this? Most consumer-oriented search systems I know of don't have this feature.
- frik 11y agoHe probably meant something like "*.jpg" which is common and works fine on Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX. And probably not the full Regex syntax as known from grep or Perl/PHP.
- mynameisvlad 11y agoA wildcard search, then. Sure, that's more common (although sometimes hilariously broken), I can give you that. I'd expect wildcard searches too, but only because Google is a search company. When I see a search box, I'm usually happy if it does a contains search instead of an exact match, that's how low my expectations have become.
- zwetan 11y agofor an image, not seeing the file name is OK as you can differentiate images by just looking at them but for videos, sorry I need a way to differentiate them, and a thumbnail is not enough, I need a either the file name or a way to search more than plain keywords UX for photos and videos can not be the same
- rictic 11y agoSometimes when uploading a video to youtube it's initially made available only at low quality while it's being transcoded into all of the different formats for different clients and bandwidth rates. I'd recommend checking back in a day or so to see if the quality has improved.