Google owned YouTube recently launched their iPhone only mobile app YouTube Capture and like many, Mashable believes that the app will be almost as essential to users as Google Maps for iOS 6. The newly launched YouTube Capture uses only a tap or two to let a user record live video and upload it to YouTube almost instantly. A quick link on Twitter or Facebook is also possible while there is also easy synching between the Apple video library.
YouTube’s Andy Berkheimer, an engineering manager says, “We think it serves a number of use cases a lot better [than the iPhone video camera]. You can configure the app in a mode where it’ll turn the camera on the minute you open it. It’s not set up that way, but if you want it to behave that way you can.”
This fluid capture method from YouTube is a great way to capture spontaneous moment which would be a problem with the native iPhone camera option. A user had to open the Camera app and then move the slider to the video function. A lot of times, people ended up taking a picture instead of a video and by the time they came back to video, the action they were trying to record had already stopped.
Another great feature about the app is that the quick recording is accompanied by easy YouTube uploading. Shiva Rajaraman, a product management director, says that, “You’ve been able to upload with third-party apps but it’s always been an experience where you have to open this thing up up first, and it’s about viewing and finding their videos. Ours is focused on speed.”
YouTube Capture also has a number of image optimization options. There are also options to edit the beginning and end of a video along with adding rights free music.
The app will not only put video up onto YouTube and the social web quickly, it will also be a great tool for reporting news or events like the Syrian conflict. Rajaraman explains that, “Frankly, one of the things that inspired this was looking at a lot of the protest videos that come up on the site. Now think about what that means. People are just grabbing what they have, opening up the default app.” He continues, “And those videos get shared very quickly. Speed is of the essence. And there’s all this enhancement technology you can apply fast, because a lot of these videos are very grainy.”
The app is not available for Android right now and Rajaraman explains that, “iOS is a very interesting test bed. We can really get some good feedback.”
Source: Mashable
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