May 19, 2012. Paul Hixon
Many people have a short attention span and a three minute online video reflects this theory of speeding up videos.
If this length is still too long, there are useful tools that can help to reduce the three minute video time to only one minute.
MySpeed, by Enounce, is a special program that helps to detect when an online video is played in the popular flash video format. YouTube and other online video sites use flash.
A slider is launched during playback that can allow a user to slow down the speed if needed. The tool is useful for speeding up videos at over three times the normal speed of playback.
Many people depend on this software to help decrease the speed of videos during translation or transcription and allow an analyst a way for speeding up videos to allow for faster completion times.
The pricing structure is based on the different ways that this software is used. The Pro version of the software is $50. The upgraded Premier version sells for $100. The expense of this software is out of the reach of many consumers that just need a simple software tool.
There is a free version available that has restrictions to a certain level, but this level was found to make little difference in the actual increase of decrease of speeds.
I found a problem when speeding up the video on the Premier version. The cache was increased in the video.
Online videos will reveal a status bar when watching videos that show how well the cache is working to enable the best playback.
When setting the MySpeed to 3 times the normal playback, it was found that the playback stalled due to the overrunning of the cache process. The video would stall and I would have to wait for it to start again.
It was great to find out that I could get rid of the annoying pre-roll ads that arrive before the video begins by speeding up videos during initial playback.
The software was first developed at MIT. The MySpeed software works the best in a standalone player that has already downloaded the flash files. This will decrease the glitches that can occur with a web browser during the playback.
Updated May 19, 2012. Published February 7, 2011. Paul Hixon
