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If you work with video at all, you probably know all about Adobe Premiere Pro. Along with Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro is one of the biggest and best video editing tools available—Today, Adobe is launching a new version of Premiere Pro called Adobe Premiere Rush, which is focused on YouTubers and other web content creators. Premiere Rush is Adobe’s first all-in-one, cross-device online video editing app. Designed with social media users in mind, Rush syncs to the cloud and works seamlessly between devices. Rush uses the power of Adobe’s tools from programs like Premiere Pro and Audition so you can capture video, colour-correct, edit, record and clean up audio, customise animated titles, and publish to social media. Uploading video to a multitude of platforms in different sizes and orientations can be time consuming for creators. Adobe added in their press release: “We’ve heard how time-consuming it is to create versions of your videos that meet the requirem...

Google-owned YouTube is expanding the concept of non-skippable advertisements on its platform for the creators to monetise their content and earn more revenue—This basically means you will not be seeing the "skip ad" button more often. YouTube explained that creators who already monetise their content on YouTube will be soon able to turn on non-skippable ads for all of their videos. And eligible creators will get a notification in their dashboard, company officials said in a video uploaded on YouTube"s Creator Insider channel. Even as Google is expanding the advertisements on its video sharing platform, the company is also offering a YouTube Premium (popularly known as YouTube Red) which is a subscription-based service without ads, and offers more flexible options with downloads and Original content—YouTube Premium which also bundles YouTube Music is available in select markets including the US, Australia, Africa and Europe. The content-sharing platform is also adding a...

An interesting update is rolling out to all YouTube player on the desktop. Like mobile devices, the YouTube desktop player now supports the exact ratios of the videos you are watching. Previously, YouTube used to show black bars around videos that aren’t in the standard 16:9 aspect ratio. This included vertical videos, 4:3 videos, and videos with other respect ratios. That wasn’t really much of a problem for many, but Google is changing the way the YouTube player treats these videos in the different aspect ratios. According to a report by Android Police . The announcement wasn’t made by a blog post, as usual but was posted in the YouTube help forum over the weekend. “We launched an update to the YouTube video player on desktop – the player now automatically adapts to provide the best viewing experience based on the video’s size (aspect ratio) and your computer’s screen/browser size,” one of YouTube’s community managers, Marissa said...

In an effort to help mobile users find new content to watch: YouTube is about to launch the test of a new “Explore” tab for its iOS app, which YouTube says will show videos, topics and channels users probably wouldn’t ordinarily see. Google-owned popular video streaming platform YouTube on Monday announced that it will start testing a new Explore tab on iPhone that will allow users on the platform to discover related content from channels that they have not yet subscribed to. Explore is different from the Recommendations tab in a way that it is expected to broaden topics instead of showing just videos similar to the ones in browsing history and in the subscription list. According to a Twitter post by the company. The feature is currently being tested on just about 1 percent of the iPhone users with the YouTube app installed, the company announced in a video on its Creators Insider channel. In making the “Explore” tab announcement, YouTube notes it’s...

When you’re watching a crucial sports live online or on TV, the last thing you want is for the screen to go blank for no reason—But that’s precisely what happened, as the screen went blank for users using YouTube TV to watch the live stream of the semi-final match between England and Croatia. Keen to make up for the outage, YouTube has decided to offer subscribers at least a week’s worth of free service. It also said that at least some of those who complained directly to customer service were told they would receive a month’s worth of credit. The One week of free YouTube TV amounts to $10, under the current $40-per-month pricing for new customers. Customers who signed up before March 13, 2018, on the original $35 monthly plan are grandfathered in on that price. YouTube TV earned a "good" rating in April 2017 review; It offers "several compelling features" like an unlimited cloud DVR but noted it was missing several major cable channels at launch, including ...

YouTube could about to take a big step toward solving a long time setbacks for creators: It’s about to roll out a tool that will identify videos that are stolen and re-posted by someone else — and let the original creator pull the ripoffs down. After almost a year in beta-testing, YouTube’s new Copyright Match tool is scheduled to launch next week for creators with more than 100,000 subscribers. With the new system, after a user uploads a video — and YouTube verifies it as the first iteration of the video — YouTube will scan other videos uploaded to the service to see if any of them are the same (or very similar). “We know how frustrating it is when your content is uploaded to other channels without your permission and how time consuming it can be to manually search for these re-uploads,” Fabio Magagna, who oversees the Copyright Match tool as product manager at YouTube. “We currently provide a number of ways for copyright owners to prote...

For those times when you want to watch a video on YouTube, but would really rather not have it appear in your history. YouTube"s future recommendations to you. Incognito mode is bound to be extremely popular with Android users. The popular video streaming app has officially launched "Incognito Mode" on the Android version of the app. YouTube started testing the feature back in May, but it wasn"t until this week that the feature started rolling out for all Android users. Now, instead of signing out of your account, it"s possible to enable the new mode in your settings. The Sign Out button then changes to read "Turn on Incognito." Tapping it will bring up the message "You"ve gone incognito," as noted by 9to5Google . YouTube’s Incognito Mode enables users to browse in private. The feature disables both your watch history and search history. That means if someone were to borrow your phone and open the app, they would not be able to see anyt...

The principal aim of every business is to lead its competitors and establish a stronghold in the market. With make this possible, it needs to maximize its productivity and also get the most out of all the resources it employs. Every business knows that it may be moved forward better to better performance and great success only by increasing its efficiency in all aspects and departments. In the business world or technology that has always contributed to making work more accessible. Not only easier even faster and efficient. It has helped companies to cut their costs with optimized work processes and assisted in the smooth running of all operations. Technology plays an important role in the unified communication process as well. Usually, the technology advancement that has provided great options for the business. These options to connect with their clients and for the employees to communicate with their co-worker all over the world. As a business are realizing and efficient in communica...

At the F8 developers conference, Facebook announces a bunch of new Instagram Features. Due to these new features, no doubt, Instagram has become the most frequently used app and is estimated to be worth more than $100 Billion with over 1 billion user worldwide . Photo sharing platform has announced new features for the service that include the following: Video Chat, new camera effects, and Topic channels on Explore. Today, those features are live. Video Chat in Instagram Direct Instagram users can now start a one-on-one video chat or a group video chat with up to four people in Instagram Direct. In order to start a video chat, just open a contact in the Direct inbox and tap on the camera icon at the top right corner to start a video chat. Instagram’s video chat feature has an interesting feature i.e. you can minimise the video chat window and perform other tasks simultaneously such as browse your feed, share media, post a story and a lot more. However, you have to establish a dir...

After dealing with demonetisation problems for close to two years. YouTube creators will finally get paid for their content. At its annual VidCon gathering in Anaheim, California, the site announced an alternative payment method for channel memberships and a merchandising feature. Channel Memberships is a rebrand of Subscriptions, a feature that had been tested by select creators for a while. Channels with over 100,000 subscribers will get access to Memberships for $4.99 per month. Creators will have a unique badges for their profiles, custom emoji, members-only posts, exclusive livestreams and videos, and other perks. While channels with fewer than 100,000 subscribers will be disappointed to miss this opportunity, YouTube says it hopes to make more Memberships available to more people in the coming months. Merchandise is exactly what it sounds like—merchandise that creators can customise and feature on a digital "shelf" on their YouTube channel. The company partnered with T...

Tired of posting short length videos on your Instagram? How about longer ones? The Facebook-owned photo sharing app company during a media event unveiled IGTV, a standalone mobile app focused on programming from creators on the platform. Video on the app will be vertical and full-screen, and content will start playing right when a user opens the app. Co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom wrote in a blog post that: “It’s built for how you actually use your phone, so videos are full screen and vertical,” Systrom wrote. “We strived to make it simple, too. Just like turning on the TV, IGTV starts playing as soon as you open the app. You don’t have to search to start watching content from people you already follow on Instagram and others you might like based on your interests.” Product manager Ashley Yuki, who took the stage at the event also said: “IGTV "is an open platform from day one, so everyone can become a creator." also added that “The app ...

Social media platform, Instagram, is considering removing its video duration restrictions by allowing the users to post hour-long videos. As it stands now, Facebook-owned Instagram could soon be modifying the existing time constraints on videos uploaded on its platform, allowing users to upload longer videos other than the usual time.  According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal , a future update could enable users to upload content as long as one hour. According to people familiar with the matter, the feature, which could allow videos of up to an hour in length, will focus on vertical video, or video that is taller than it is wide, one of the people said. Until now, Instagram hasn’t allowed users to post any videos longer than one minute. In recent weeks, Instagram has had conversations with content creators and publishers about producing long-form video for the platform, the feature, if it launches, will do so within the Instagram app. At present, Instagram has a...

Facebook is launching a slew of updates to its Stories feature. The social media giant will now let users save photos and videos to the Facebook cloud, archive Facebook Stories and share voice messages with friends. The first feature is called Voice Posts. The feature will let Facebook users quickly share voice messages between one another. This is just as similar to that of WhatsApp, which means it will allow users make calls within their Facebook messenger instead of using normal calls to keep in touch and it sounds like these will be designed to be quick and easy to share. The other feature is the ability to archive Facebook Stories before they expire in the standard 24 hours. This is a similar feature to what Facebook introduced with Instagram last year, so it isn’t too surprising to see it pop up in the Facebook app proper. And the experience might be same or even better.  Finally, the marquee and mind blowing feature is cloud storage for photos and videos that are tak...

More than half a billion videos on YouTube will, from today, carry credits covering songwriter, label and publisher data – and it just keeps getting better.  The Google platform has just announced that it is adding ‘credits and music discovery information’ to both premium music videos and – for the first time ever – to fan-uploaded content that features recorded music. Users will be able to access the credits when they click the ‘Show More’ button under each video. The credits will affect the presentation of millions of songs, and that details of other tracks will be continually added to YouTube as part of an evolving process. This drop-down area of the show more will include artist, songwriter, publisher and label information, in addition to a link to the Official Artist Channel and official music video if available. YouTube said in a blog that the move would “provide greater recognition and exposure to the people who contribute ...

YouTube"s high-dynamic range (HDR) video has already been available on select Android phones for a while now, including the Galaxy S8, Pixel, LG V30 and Xperia XZ Premium. So now Apple smartphone users can check out HDR videos on their iPhone X too which has been confirmed to support the feature. As noted by users  forums like Reddit . HDR videos provide a broader range of colours and luminance compared to sub-HDR content, and the format also supports quality video playback on a wide variety of screen sizes. For iOS users, YouTube videos in HDR can be viewed on the iPhone X, but the feature does not yet appear to be working on the latest iPad Pro models. YouTube has many HDR-supported videos on its site, with dedicated channels like The HDR Channel providing videos for you to watch in HDR on iOS. To make sure of the quality of playback find a video to play, then tap anywhere on the video itself, tap the three dots in the top right-hand corner of the screen, tap "Quality,...

Following the recent event that occurred last week during the F8 keynote annual conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed all the new features coming to WhatsApp. Explaining that the social chatting app has now released an update for iOS users. WhatsApp iOS update 2.18.51 apparently will bring the ability to watch Instagram and Facebook videos in-app. This means that now, along with YouTube videos , iPhone users can view Instagram and Facebook videos right within their WhatsApp chat as well. Earlier, when users clicked on an Instagram or Facebook video link, it would open in their respective apps installed on smartphones. In its latest update, WhatsApp has mentioned in its changelog that in-app video playback will work for Instagram and Facebook. However, it isn"t working at the moment. But the update suggests the feature should not be too far away, and may be enabled in the next few weeks. Here’s the full change log for WhatsApp update : When you receive a link to an Inst...

As Google is focusing more on news, it"s ramping up its efforts to deliver quality services that would encourage its users not only to try them out but also to keep using them. Now, users can also subscribe to various online publications using their Google account credentials, and Google News will show content from those subscriptions more prominently in search results. Google is giving Google News a re-design that would bring in elements from its Newsstand app and YouTube, according to sources who spoke with Adage . The redesign is expected to debut at Google I/O next week, and the sources say that Google has been in talks with publishers as of late about the impending changes, which will consolidate many Google features into one product. ”There are a lot of Google services where you find news,” a publishing executive said, “and what they’re trying to do is bring it all under one brand.” To offer more features under one umbrella, Google News would reporte...

On stage today at Radio City Music Hall, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki made a revelation: the service gets 1.8 billion logged-in viewers every month. And people who aren"t logged in are not even included-- which means the actual number of people watching YouTube is way higher than we think. Last June, the service had 1.5 billion logged-in watchers. On TVs alone, people are now watching 150 million hours of YouTube every day. The latest figures are yet another sign that YouTube"s reach is staggering, something that Wojcicki wanted to make crystal clear for the audience of advertisers and potential partners at its annual BrandCast event. The CEO announced the milestone at YouTube’s Brandcast presentation to advertisers, alongside some of the year’s most noteworthy successes — like Beyoncé’s record-setting 41 million livestream views at Coachella and the “Despacito” music video passing 5 billion views last month. The company previously announced that i...

Spectacles version 2.0 is here Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat, unveiled a new version of its  smart sunglasses , which records bursts of videos. It is a slightly smaller, water-resistant pair of sunglasses. The company released the first version in 2016 in stand-alone vending machines called Snapbots. Over 220,000 were sold, though many of them didn"t make it off the shelf. The new Spectacles look incredibly similar to Snap’s original glasses- Snap chat version 1.0- and are sold through vending machines at launch. You can’t buy the new pair at a vending machine stand— only at Snapchat’s own website, Spectacles.com — but they offer a few new features that the original pair never had. Here"s a quick overview of the features: You can take pictures with the new Spectacles. The original version only recorded video. That"s a plus. The new Spectacles are water-resistant up to 1 meter deep and for about 30 minutes at a time, according to a spokespe...

Over the years, Snapchat has been more of a messaging app that Instagram nearly made irrelevant but for its loyal teens base. But today, the photo-sharing platform has introduced a new "Group Video Chat" feature that will make connecting with friends and family more fun. Its evolution is well noticed from an ephemeral messaging app to a place where you can hang out with friends. The photo sharing app is adding a new group video chat which will enable you to hang out with up to 16 of your friends at the same time or 32 of your friends when you switch to a group voice only mode. Snapchat initially introduced one-on-one voice and video calling back in 2016 and said users are making millions of calls on Snapchat each day. How it works To use the video group chat feature, enter an existing group chat you already have, or start a new group. Tap the video icon to start a live group video chat, or tap on the phone icon for a voice call. The members of the group will be notified that...