Sorta like SMPTE time code, anyone can now direct others to points on a video you produce yourself or one you want to share with others. This is great news.

And the innovative technique that provides a way to link directly to a point in a video is done using a Google Video feature. Google has titled this a "Link within a Video." Personally this is going to be a big advantage to smaller retail and individual video blogger's advertising campaigns. This feature has changed how we plan to produce future videos. In discussions prior to this option we were resigned to upload as many as 40 separate videos clips to make navigating to a specific item, question or point (in the case of educational seminar footage), specific to the visitors needs, easier.



Google explains how to create the URL here: http://googlevideo.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-feature-link-within-video_19.html

"Now you can email links to specific points inside a video! All you have to do is add the time you'd like to share to the end of a video's URL. We support hours (h), minutes (m), and seconds (s).

For example, Invisible Board is a 1 min 46 sec long video but I believe the coolest part is at 1 min 26 sec, so all I have to do is add #1m26s to the link I'm going to send to my friends! Just like this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6396990712930217422#1m26s

Here's another example. Music and the Mind is a really interesting lecture from UCTV, but I don't want my friends to have to sit through the first half hour to get to the best part. So all I have to do is add #35m24s to the end of the URL and send them this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1267626298712917200#35m24s

Happy sharing!

Posted by Google Video team at 6:00 PM

Check back early August to see how we utilize this most excellent time saver.

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