I think it would be a very nice addition to include the ability to upload videos when making observations! Video with sound can be very diagnostic when identifying birds especially! Uploading on the mobile app would be very convenient.

My birdbath cam takes great short images of visitors. I can also use it remotely to record sound/image, so would be great for uploads without having to do any extra processing. https://twitter.com/kerritbareetcam

Those were great snippets of bird behavior - and such gorgeous birds!

the point is to add a video option just like how you add a photo or audio. it shouldn’t be this difficult especially for how big Inat is getting.

sound calls are not videos. We need videos

its time to add video observations. its taking too long.

[image] galloots13: it shouldn’t be this difficult especially for how big Inat is getting. Continual growth might actually make it more difficult because it raises our infrastructure costs and we need to update our database and other functionality to deal with the growth. This is not to say w…

(we/us pronouns) If there was a storage (MB) limit per observation with the ability to use any and all media (including video), we would have lots of dynamic options. We think a short video (3 seconds) would be ideal for our footage of Flying Squirrels. Still photos from the video seem very, very po…

i think inat staff knows you eventually have to make the move to invest in the video options eventually. I am just sick of getting great video (like today when i got an osprey doing a dive bomb on a fish) and not being able to upload it so i just put it on youtube instead. thanks for the conversatio…

Hello - first time posting, and adding a +1 to this feature request for video. Is there the possibility to someday allow uploads of videos with a filesize limit? My local Biological Records Centre ( https://dbrc-ors.lerc.online/ ) allows uploads up to 25MB in size. All videos from my camera are much …

Hi, another +1 here. Maybe this is worth revisiting in 2025? If files were limited to 10 seconds and 10 MB that would be fine. Here’s an observation of mine that I think would benefit from a video: observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/280639430 4MB webm: https://vimeo.com/108370…

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https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/support-heic-heif-images/17549/14 , it does not save space…

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/heic-files-not-being-permitted/68333

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