Yes I've noticed that and a little while ago I was watching a video and I decided to watch HQ of it and as soon I clicked on it, the video screen said 'We're sorry this video is no longer available'.

I don't use the HD function at all. It's just something I've never really been interested in. It actually kind of bugs me when people only post a link for the HD version of their video, because then I have to edit the address so it points to the original video. I'm sure there's an easier way, but I don't recall having found it yet.

So, your co-production with Séan is out of date already?

EDIT: By the way, congrats. You deserve it.

Congrats, sir.

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If you are so inclined, FindSounds provides the source page from where the sound effect comes from. If you can track down the sound effect that you used, you can look up the sound's source web page and check their terms of use for the sound or even a site admin to ask for their permission.

Although it's always a good idea to know where all your media comes from, I think that YT cares more about music than sound effects/foley. That's not to say that you should never have to worry about using other people's sounds, but I think far less people are going to get up in arms over a sound effect than a music or video clip.

Though, personally, I tend to get paranoid over things like this, so I like to take the safe route. One good place to find good royalty-free sound effects is SoundSnap.com. They recently limited free users to downloading 5 sound effects per month (unless you pay for a premium account), but every sound effect there is free for commercial use.

Oh, and YouTube did another minor design change with the video info boxes and InVideo Ad timing. I'm not quite in favor of the latter, I sort of prefer the ads showing up 10 seconds into the video instead of immediately when it starts.

Last edited by MindGame (March 25, 2009 (08:25pm))

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I said that I could be more popular he I made brickfilms about Star Wars, Batman or Indiana Jones, but I don't because I think that originality is key to movie-making. Dunno if it made a difference, though.

On a slightly different subject, it appears that featured videos have been renamed 'spotlight videos'.

Last edited by Hazzat (March 26, 2009 (09:33am))

I don't know who Christy Moore is. 

However, I think the partner program is for Youtube's benefit, not ours. They want to have people who have a chance of getting hits.  So the main criteria for the partner program is "Be Famous".

If you don't happen to be famous, then you have to meet the qualifications. 

I just went and applied for the partner program, just for fun.  Have no expectation of being accepted, nor am I too worried about it, but it seems to be all the rage now.

I hate you because everyone except me is a YT partner

*coughitty-cough-cough*

Seriously though, I don't care that I'm not a youtube partner, I haven't really earned it.

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