YouTube Creates It’s Own Invalid File Format …

Last night after a raucos night out on the town here in Omaha, NE (if you still think I am serious  .. not really) I sat in my hotel room to do some blog post planning and such.  One post, which will be forthcoming, involved a bit of video.  I didnt have the need for the entire video clip and wanted to just cut out a piece of it.  I uploaded the entire video to YouTube and form there I was excited to try out the YouTube Remixer.  It is powerd by Adobe Premiere Express and on the surface looks really cool.

You basically have your current videos in a pane to the right and are able to drag what you want to use into the workspace and it imports it.  From there you are able to do some minor editing, add captions, borders, and even transitions.  Like I said, I only wanted a small clip of the video.  I dragged it in and set the markers to the length I wanted and hit the little scissors button and presto, I had a second clip created.  I highlighted the clip and hit publish.

A message popped up stating I had suceesfully published the clip, but it was processing and would take a minute before I would see it in My Video’s.

Cool.  I was doing some other stuff and went to check back to see if it was finished.  It was finished, yet Failed … Thats odd I wondered, I wonder what the problem was.  As I looked a little futher, I saw the the reason for failure was an invalid file format. 

Is it just me or does this seem a bit odd to everyone else as well.  I used a current YouTube clip and then used a YouTube offered tool, and then YouTube gave me the option to publish the clip.  How on earth could they create a file format that they then consider to be invalid ?
Just a bit of an anamoly form my otherwise normal life, thats all.  See you soon.

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