YouTube finally made public the new features we had been testing a few weeks ago: Annotations. I believe this feature adds a tremendous amount of value to dancers viewing salsa videos.
Now, after we upload a video, we can provide additional points of information such as song name being heard, extra salsa dance tips, and my personal comments. I have tried it out on a few videos, such as the Complex Salsa Dance Move.
If you can, watch the video again on the YouTube page and let me know what you think of the annotations feature - and any ideas on how we could use this feature to improve our videos.
Since we added our first salsa dance videos on YouTube, there have been various questions and mistakes (specifically the earlier ones) and I plan to correct those while providing some additional valuable tips. So who knows - you might find something new in those old videos! Enjoy!
Just a quick note: don’t use it to add too much advertisement for yourself.
The note at the start ‘you can download this video…’ is good, but I found the long ‘visit website to support us’ very annoying: I’m already a regular visitor, so don’t annoy me by telling me I should become what I already am.
And even someone who is not a regular visitor of your website will probably regard this as annoying.
Just my 2cent - because it is a pity to deface a nice video with too much ads.
Fantastico. Lleva su tiempo pero enriquecerá todos los videos de how to o diy. Ahora sera mucho mas facil aprender. Gracias.
@Sam
Thanks Sam! We appreciate feedback from users.
I believe we all should find a way to support the people who make all these videos possible, it does take work and we should appreciate the fact that they do it for us, and if they can get some profit out of it, I see nothing wrong with it.
Thanks! We do not make much from ads, therefore every donation is HIGHLY appreciated. Thanks again.
I’d echo Sam - There is a big payoff for having access to the moves quickly at the start, with a watermark to show it’s you guys
I for one am really happy it’s come to YouTube. It’s a trade-off in a way - I do kitesurfing, and have really benefitted from slowing down a dvd to 1/32th speed, or going frame by frame, on the videos that add footnotes on a frame by frame basis. (A bit like the cookery recipes on Hot Shots 2 ;))
I sure hope Youtube aka Google is working on an offline version of this - that would be truly awesome - then you could update the notes attached to the videos you already have, which would be useful. Also, then the potential could be for it to move to have the option of a collaborative wiki style subnoting system on videos too - maybe more relevant to subtitling a foreign film or some such, but if you’ve read Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky, you’ll appreciate that once you have a stub article, in this case some notes on a video, if the tools are taken up by the community, it’d rapidly progress.
I know the energy within the salsa community is strong, and I for one am excited by the additional benefits of this - it’s a hell of a lot easier to do the subtitling on youtube than through Final Cut Pro or similar I’d imagine! (and also the flexibility of being able to remove it or update it). Great work on incorporating it
Gracias Anthony
Me ha ayudado mucho varios de tus videos, no voy a decir cual exatamente porque todos son muy buenos, con la diferencia que para ciertas personas nos enfocamos en ciertos videos en especial.
Me encanta bailar con ritmo y pasion, por eso he decidido dar clases de salsa donde yo vivo,porque soy el unico hispano en el area, y a mis amigas les encanta bailar conmigo, y ahora ya tengo un grupo para salir a bailar los fines de semana. gracias a ti.
chao cuidate
atte
DJ FERCHI.
rumbero sabroso.