Mikey Campbell
Google-owned YouTube rolled out "Capture" on Monday, an iPhone- and iPod touch-centric iOS app that lets users film and share short video clips through various social media websites like Facebook and Twitter, offering yet another alternative to Apple's first-party Camera app.
Currently available through the App Store, Capture offers an Instagram-like service for short video content, allowing users to shoot, edit and post links to clips hosted on YouTube's website.
YouTube says the software is specifically designed with fast recording in mind. After an initial setup, which includes signing in to a mandatory YouTube account, users are taken straight to the camera. This action occurs whenever the app is opened, much like Apple's own solution. After a scene is shot in Capture, minor post-production options like color correction, stabilization and trimming are available before a user titles the clip and uploads it to YouTube's servers. Background music can be added via YouTube Soundtracks, which offers tunes from generic categories like "Ambient" and "Classical."
It should be noted that Capture only records in landscape mode, doing away with smaller portrait videos that usually translate poorly when viewing content on a PC.
Unlike Apple's built-in Camera app, Capture has the ability to simultaneously post YouTube links to Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Users also have the option to share their clips with a select group of people by keeping the clip unlisted, or limit access to themselves by uploading to their own private feed. Sharing options for any video can be changed through the app or YouTube's web client.
The new app follows the launch of Google's much-awaited Maps app last week, which recorded over ten million downloads in its first two days of availability.
YouTube Capture is a free 26 MB download from the App Store.
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what is it with the constant "challenge" etc. memes of this and many other articles? Apple doesn't care whose camera app you use one little bit. it's great for iOS to have a terrific new YouTube app - assuming it is really good. it just means Apple will sell more iPhones. AI needs to get out of this silly knee-jerk frame where everything between Apple and Google is a win/lose rivlary. sometimes it is, but many times, like this time, it is a win-win instead. try to think before posting sensationalized headlines.
You've got to wonder why Google bother, after all Schmidt and Page have both come out with statements recently on how Android is "winning", oh well it's their money they are spending on developing these things.
Mandatory YouTube account. That's really what this is all about.
@hill60 : maybe because ignoring 400M customers is a luxury they don't want to afford? I definitely would not, in their shoes, and as an investor I'd go berserk if they did. Not that I'm an investor ;)
Mandatory YouTube account. That's really what this is all about.
Well, how else would a Youtube Capture application work? It's a service to YT users, as far as I understand it...