More Than a New Look

Introducing Oddshot 2.5

This update marks the beginning of an exciting new phase for Oddshot. A phase in which we take some important steps towards our goal of creating a global video directory for online video based on highlights.

Our 2.0 update four months ago was our first stab at creating a discovery experience. We focused more on video delivery and rebuilding our software architecture to make sure we can ensure consistent quality playback globally. While there’s always room to improve, most of the video playback issues of the early days were fixed in this previous update.

TL:DR Oddshot 2.5 is all about taking what we’ve learned from the previous version and making discovery much more powerful. Additionally we are further expanding our suite of capture tools to include Oddshot For Everything.

Human curated landing page

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We want to make it really easy to find all the amazing videos our community is capturing (over 4 million to date). We realized along the way that while the reddit-style upvoting system has it’s merits for power users, it puts too much emphasis on the largest games and streamers. It is also a little confusing for a first-time visitor. Our answer to this problem is simple: We know all the great content you guys are capturing and now we are promising you that we will personally make sure you have easy access to it.

The landing page will therefore be an ever changing collection of the best stuff we find on Oddshot. We’ll make sure it’s always stocked with the best moments and channels around new game releases, major events, the best streamers and a whole host of other collections we think you’ll find interesting.

You also may have noticed that we’ve released a whole bunch of new integrations recently. The Oddshot browser plugins now allow capturing from Facebook Live and YouTube Live (Twitter Live is on the way). As we move into these new areas we’ll start to have completely new categories of content and the landing page will let us show you all the exciting stuff in a logical, easy way.

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New & improved filters

We’ve made the filter system considerably more user friendly by essentially reworking it entirely. You can now filter shots by the following:

Screenshot from demo version of the site.

Popular is a hybrid filter that looks at views and upvotes in addition to some other stats to try to determine the best content. In our testing, it has proven to deliver much better quality, than any other filter mechanism we’ve implemented so far. The Popular filter is also something we will be adding to your Feed very soon.

“Oddshot For Everything” Closed Beta

We are super excited to kick off the Closed Beta of our brand new tool. Oddshot For Everything is a Windows application, that allows you to capture anything on your screen, after it happens. Here’s how it works.

Oddshot For Everything is a super lightweight screen capture tool that sits in your system tray and whenever you see something magical, you press a hotkey or click the icon to capture the previous 30 seconds. The 30 second clip is then stored locally on your machine and you can choose to upload it to Oddshot with one click, which instantly returns you a URL you can share.

You can also take your time and edit. We’ve beefed up editing to include not just trimming and titling, but cropping too. Cropping let’s you drag a square and quite literally crop the video to get rid of undesired content. This means you don’t necessarily have to be watching in full screen to get a good quality capture. You can also just crop to the video size. Upload the video to Oddshot when it’s convenient for you and feel comfortable in the knowledge that nothing will ever be uploaded automatically. You decide when and what.

Sign up for the Beta here.

Big button there at the bottom.

Want to start capturing?

Download for Chrome: bit.ly/OddshotForChrome

Download for FireFox: bit.ly/OddshotForFirefox

Check out our mobile apps:

Oddshot is available on both iOS and Android.

Our social media profiles:

https://twitter.com/oddshot_tv

https://www.facebook.com/oddshotofficial

Feedback & Suggestions?

Email info@oddshot.tv!

We hope you enjoy this huge overhaul!

Team Oddshot