With online video hosting still in a rather embryonic phase, it’s only natural for Adobe Systems to lead innovation in the space by making it possible for users to upload and share motion pictures with friends and family online. Well, that would have been a good story lead five years ago, and then some. But please forgive my sarcasm for Adobe is lauding the new support for video on its Photoshop.com property today as if it were remarkably cutting-edge.
With the newly added video upload capabilities, Photoshop.com users can now upload videos up to 200MB in size through their browsers, or up to 2GB through the Adobe AIR Uploader in most file formats. The videos can subsequently be viewed directly on Photoshop.com (like this one). All Photoshop.com users receive 2GB of free storage.
Since Photoshop.com is (obviously) mostly known for its smooth photo-editing features, there doesn’t appear to be an option to edit videos yet, although I suspect these capabilities will be added soon enough.
Adobe is also debuting a Group Albums feature in Photoshop.com today, enabling users to group specific photos and videos together into one album and easily share that with your friends or relatives. Update: Adobe got in touch to point out that multiple people who are part of a certain group can add photos to the same album set up by one user, which should lead to a more collaborative experience. Definitely a cool feature if you look at it that way.
First. Also, whilst it might not be cutting edge its still an improvement to the service.
I never quite got the fascination with declaring yourself ‘first’ to comment on a post…
Anyway, nice addition Adobe. I agree Robin, video editing will almost certainly be coming. And I’m sure it will be quite impressive. Adobe always makes powerful functionality easy to use…well, almost always
When you click on a video fullscreen button video pauses.. that’s lame.
Great news, some great retouch artists don`t have time to maintain their own video tutorial website.
pretty slick website though, nice.
It’s never too late for companies to add a new service. Not all companies have the goal of being a monster like youtube and not all consumers want to use one provider. There is room for innovation and some variety. Cut adobe some slack.
Nice. Butt I finde Vimeo better.
after 3 seconds of browsing around… i already like it more than 90% of the photo “sharing” sites out there. they might be late to the game, but the game was pretty clunky, ad ridden and feature lacking to begin with. i’m fine with them being last as long as when they finally arrive they improve on it. (plus it does wonders for the brand name building).