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YouTube’s Bulk Uploader Tries To Win Over Video Sharing Junkies

By Scott Gilbertson November 9, 2007 Categories: Multimedia, Operating Systems, Platforms & APIs, Software & Tools

youtube.jpgYouTube has rolled out a new desktop application for Windows users looking to bulk upload their movies. The video sharing site has also raised the file size limit from 100MB to 1GB. The length of clips remains at ten minutes max, but the larger file size should allow for higher resolution video and paves the way for HD content, should YouTube choose to support it in the future.

The new YouTube Multifile Uploader lets you upload multiple videos to YouTube at the same time and while it’s only available for Windows PCs as the moment, the YouTube blog says that a Mac version is in the works.

Although the new uploader requires a download of some desktop software, the uploading interface is still web-based. Once you’ve installed the multi-upload software you’ll be able to access the Multifile Upload page.

Once the videos are uploaded and YouTube has finished encoding them, they’ll show up in your My Videos section, though it may take 30 minutes for more for very large files to be available.

While the bulk uploader is a step in the right direction, we can’t help wondering — where’s the HD support? Larger file sizes will help, but your YouTube uploads will still look like cheap junk next to HD files from sites like Vimeo, which announced HD support last month. Until YouTube gets around to HD, if you’d like to make your videos look better read through our guide to making Awesome-Looking YouTube Videos

And while the 10 minute limit is supposedly in place to prevent people from uploading longer copyrighted content like TV shows and movies, it also limits YouTube’s usefulness as a video backup solution. Given that the determined minority of infringing uploaders get around the limits anyway, the whole effort seems more likely to hamper legitimate longer videos than prevent piracy.

Still, if you’ve got a big library of video (that’s all under ten minutes) and you’ve been putting off uploading it to YouTube because of the tedious one-at-a-time uploader, your day has arrived (assuming you’re on Windows).

[via Google Operating System]

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