Earlier we had mentioned about rumors on Flickr opening up video upload some time in April. Flickr has launched video upload to one of the top online photo sharing sites. Starting yesterday all PRO members can upload videos on Flickr. But the video size is very much limited, videos are limited to 90 sec and 150 MB. Flickr does give a answer to why the limit is so less.

While this might seem like an arbitrary limit, we thought long and hard about how video would complement the flickrverse. If you’ve memorized the Community Guidelines, you know that Flickr is all about sharing photos that you yourself have taken. Video will be no different and so what quickly bubbled up was the idea of “long photos,” of capturing slices of life to share.

There is no mention about whether this feature will be made available to free users as well. Videos will have all the features of photo stream like tagging, privacy setting etc. Currently video will be available in 8 languages.

Flickr also announced that they would be doubling the size of photos that can be uploaded — 20MB per photo for pro members and 10MB per photo for members with free accounts.

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