Some new features just went live. Most requested - Thumbnail selection, as previewed here earlier. Just click the 'edit metadata' link for your video, and you can use the slider to pick a new thumbnail. You'll get a near-instant response, and changes take place instantly.
Also, there's a new filtering option on the 'My Videos' page, as well as some new embedding and instant play options. Neato.
Yeah, me too. I'm going to try and get back to that. Here's a sneak peak at an upcoming feature.
Rad...
So I just moved us to Compressor 3.0.1. Things seem pretty good, except some Flash and Windows Media files seem to be reaching up to 350% complete... odd.
It took us 6 months to reach 15,000 videos served. It took one more to reach 20,000. Cool.
I'm out of town for a bit, but I wanted to post that Media Mill created its 3000th derivative this weekend. We've actually compressed about 9000 derivatives total, counting the DCL, but this is 3000 Media Mill User videos.
We also passed 15,000 videos served a few weeks ago. That doesn't count owners watching their own videos, and we only started counting in November of 2006. So, that's pretty cool I think.
Hey look, it's not beta anymore.
Rad.
To get an idea of what all has been rolled into this new build, check out my post from last week. Everything except GTV is now live. Cool.
As always, let me know if things are busted up.
I was just out walking and was contemplating all the new features in the next release of Media Mill. I figured I'd give a roundup of what's coming (hopefully in the next two weeks).
Hopefully this will be rolled out towards the end of this week, depending on how implementation of the anamorphic detection goes...
Rock.
Roll.
(press the CC button)
It's coming ...
I've done another short overview of Media Mill, including some of the new features. Take a look.
In case anyone is wondering, the downtime today was just due to the CLA-wide outage for some power work at the data center. Everything is cool with Media Mill.
Just so it's out there - I intend to add a group of presets for encoding "Screencast" videos - optimized for progressive sources with very long distances between I-frames. Unfortunately, because screencasts can have funny resolutions, I want to do the resolutions as percentages of the original, and that feature is broken in the current build of compressor. Look for that feature in the future though!
The media mill web server is currently down. I'll update this post when it's back online.
Edit: We're finally back up. Doing some updates on the backend machines caused the web frontend to panic this morning. I'm still investigating why that happened.