The Media Drop

So, I’m testing out the Hulu private beta at the moment, and thought I would share a bit of the fun.

While I still think that the naming is a little bit out there, after the few minutes of playing with it, I definitely can see that they’ve spent a lot of the time on the backend and the features. In fact, it’s got one thing that I can see setting it far apart from any of the other video services that offer embedding - custom clips based on timestamp.Dragging and editing (and yes, you can preview) the “timebar” allows you to create a “custom clip,” that is to say, a clip that is just the section of content that you want to share with your readers.Also, there’s a “lower lights” option that allows you to “dim” the bars above and below the video viewing screen while you’re surfing the site. That one reverses after you click it, justsoyouknow.The only hole I’m seeing right now is that I can’t find a way to add it to my “playlist” from within each individual video. There’s a plus sign on the main page and elsewhere on the site when I’m looking at listings, but the place I’m probably most likely to make that decision is from the video’s own page, no? Unless they’re thinking that by “playlist” I’m meaning that it’s a list of videos that I want to queue up and watch in a row or something. Which I’m not.

[update] Okay, aside from the fact that it embeds at 520px, and I need it to be smaller by a few % points, that worked just fine. I manually dropped 10% from the code, but not everyone is going to want to - or know how to - do that.

[update 2] I’ve pulled down the post as it kept crashing my template. Looks like I can’t edit what I’d like to edit from the embed code.

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