The biggest video source on internet is YouTube. The reason behind this is that videos of around 500 hours are uploaded to YouTube in one minute.
But it is very difficult to find authentic and relevant videos from YouTube. Most of the videos available at YouTube are like kittens making mischief, playing videos, unboxing videos etc. if you are a careful person or a news organization then you need several tools to verify facts before uploading your own story. It’s really time consuming to find useable things. But there are few such tools that can separate right things from the less appropriate ones.
Feedly
Feedly
It is primarily a browser plugin and RSS feed but you can also use it as a good video source. Authentic YouTube channels with verified news sites and blogs can be collected and organized. Just like organizing the websites, you can categorize YouTube channels according to their specifications. In order to follow recent happenings, you can get notifications of your desired videos.
YouTube Geosearch
YouTube Geosearch
On social media websites, we type a related keyword when looking for news or location of event. But it is not possible through YouTube official website. Few developers of Google have made an unofficial tool through which you can search about the location and time of the uploaded video.
But it should be kept in mind that the time and place of video recording and video uploading will be same on all occasions. Geotagging of every video is not possible.
YouTube Dataviewer
YouTube Dataviewer
The reverse image search option from Google helps to verify images easily. You can also use it to know if the image is real or fake by showing if the image has been used anywhere else before. It is not possible for videos but you can have something similar to that.
YouTube videos can be reverse checked by copy pasting the link in to the search tab and its matadata will be provided to you. You can identify the subjects by reserving search parts of videos.
Frame by Frame for YouTube
Frame by Frame for YouTube
In a video, few hints are provided sometimes for just few moments. Though not impossible, but it’s very difficult to pause at that moment.
Frame by Frame helps you for that purpose. It is a Google Chrome plugin through which you can watch videos frame by frame and thus can easily pause the video at the right moment. You can also easily debunked several videos by using this plugin. This tool can easily help you to verify few famous fake videos like “Snowboarder Girl Chased by Bear” and “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid”.
Montage
Montage
Montage is created with the collaboration of Google and Storyful. Through this, users can analyze or verify YouTube videos from other users as few of us know that whether a video is original or fake.
After logging in to Montage, you can search the central project or a news story through keywords, locations, date and time and then organize them. You can also discuss with your co workers by tagging specific points in a video.
You can verify or analyze a YouTube video by using these tools. But remember, these tools may not provide you the opportunity to verify all the videos on YouTube.
