This is a lot like Google's auto-awesome videos they came out with last year. On New Year's Eve I got a push notification from Google+ on my Android phone that said something like "Happy New Year!" and when I touched it I got a video that showed an auto-curated video of stuff that happened in 2013 based on my videos and pictures that auto-upload to G+. Pretty well done -- I showed it to my family and they were impressed.<p>After I saw the version they made for me, it let me pick the background music and re-rendered it to match the music I picked.
Wow. I found this rather poignant. I've been on Facebook for 6 years, and it struck me that most of the events it picked out were closer to the start of those 6 years than the present.
Nicely done - kind of made me realise how unimportant a lot of the stuff I post on Facebook is though! The photos were nice to see but all but one of the status updates were dumb things that only had relevance the day they were posted and had no lasting nostalgic value.<p>I'm guessing this was quite a technical challenge to produce a 1 minute HD video for every user on Facebook and have them all available today.
Am I missing something? It's just 6 photos that I've uploaded, 4 of which are from the past month. It looks like people here are talking about music, but the page is not playing music in Chrome.
As someone who doesn't participate in memes, uploads a fair number of photos, and has been consistently on Facebook since 2006, my Lookback video was actually pretty awesome. The music matched the flow of the content, and even the mood of the content.<p>I like this. Good job, Facebook team.
I've been on Facebook for 9 years (apparently) and this actually did a pretty amazing job picking out the most important moments from my life over that period of time. It actually managed to jerk a tear from my eye as well but it cheated by showing a picture of my mom who passed away last year. YMMV, obviously, but for people who have been diligent about providing Facebook with curated content from their lives this will most likely hit home for them.
Does anyone have any information regarding the logistics of rendering 800+ million videos like this for each user on Facebook? I'm pretty sure it's not rendered on the fly.
As much as it was oddly enjoyable to see my life as a 1990's British chick-flick movie trailer, I did not relish all of the details. Like my most liked post in 7 years having 18 likes. Or digging up photographic memories of things long repressed.<p>How are they rendering these so quickly? There was no noticeable delay in the page load. The HD version is a 4.15MB mp4, with 1.19billion active monthly users that's 4.939PB of video to prerender. I thought perhaps they were rendering it either in the browser and passing a bytestream to the SWF (they're not), or starting the render on the server and streaming it down before it completed (unlikely as the video is coming from akamai). Anyone know?
Here's the solution to get your Facebook "Lookback" Video back.<p>To those who have deleted a picture or post from their Timeline, in hopes of "Editing" their "Look Back Video" you have to go into your cache and get the original link. Here are two possible Chrome Fixes:<p>Type "about:cache" without " signs on your chrome search bar (provided that you don't clear history/cache after you close your browser) You will see a list of links on your window, just click Ctrl F or ⌘ F to and search "lookback" in the Find searchbar Look for the link that will have something like <a href="https://lookbackvideo7-a.akamaihd.net/hv.." rel="nofollow">https://lookbackvideo7-a.akamaihd.net/hv..</a>. and so on. Click that link. After you clicked the link, you will see on your window a bunch of text with white background. Ignore that. LOOK AT YOUR URL BAR. You should be able to see something like chrome://view-http-cache/<a href="https://lookbackvideo7-a.akamaihd.net/hv.." rel="nofollow">https://lookbackvideo7-a.akamaihd.net/hv..</a>. etc etc. In the long string of url, DELETE THIS PART: chrome://view-http-cache/ then press enter. You should be able to see your video again...<p>You know what? I found it! I played it and I downloaded it to my computer. To share on facebook I simply copied the url and posted it as my status. Although it doesn't play through on facebook, it opens as a new window and plays. :)
This is a very beautiful idea and it's brilliantly executed.<p>Kudos to people who helped making this page, it put me in a somewhat emotional state.<p>Also, this reminded me another page called "Museum of Me"[1], that was nice too.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.intel.com/museumofme/r/index.htm</a>
"Depending on how much content you have shared and how long you have been on Facebook, you will either see the personalized video, a collection of photos or a simple thank-you card, the spokesperson said.<p>Facebook said users will be able to share the video on their pages after 12 noon ET on Tuesday. The videos will only be available for about a month unless you share them on your Timeline. Only you will be able to view your video if you don’t share it."<p>So I guess if you don't share it the first time you watch it, you won't ever be able to. I really enjoy the videos and it sounds like they built each one so I appreciate that but it also sounds like a lot of people got skipped over and they kind of dropped the ball on not being able to share past the first view. Hopefully after they have a rest they will change that.
Awesome..I was smiling when i am seeing my lookback video, remembering the moments.<p>Still i need to agree that some of my best pictures are missing in the video.
I'd like to know how to make my own. Facebook should make thus a new feature. I like it, but would have picked other Most Liked photos for example. All the wonderful photos of my son and my family, and the Most Liked photo they fb team picked, to stay up the longest I might add, was a picture of my cousins, that didnt even include me
*<p>1 point by ratna 0 minutes ago | link | edit | delete<p>Plzzzzz accidently :'( I delet my vedio,it was accident.my lil baby was playing with computer.
I viewed the fb lookback video it wasss asesome.that was made for me but pictures... I was wondering how I could retrieve the video as I would like to share it? Thank you in advancc.plzzzzz help Me out :'(
I found the handwritten Mark Zuckerberg signature a little pretentious. Maybe that's because of The Social Network, but I don't feel like other CEO's are using their own brand like that. It's like a fashion designer or even an artist signing their work... My video was not THAT good.
I haven't been over-posty on facebook for a while, but my most liked posts are the birth of my two daughters, and a picture of my older one that climbed up on the window sill. anyone find a way to save the flash video? usually you can view source and find it pretty easily...
THIS IS AWESOME!!!! I HAVE WATCHED 7 SO FAR TODAY AND I HAVE CRIED DURING 4 OF THEM!!!! THIS IS THE EXACTLY THE REASON MY MAJOR IS IN PHOTOGRAPHY TO BRING HAPPINESS TO PEOPLE BY SHARING THEIR HAPPIEST TIMES!!! GREAT JOB MARK AND FB TEAM!!!!
They say in the news articles that you can tap some "edit my movie" button, but I am unable to find any such button. Also, I don't see an option to share the video on facebook. Can anyone give me some directions? Thanks!
I didn't have a share button either. I typed in this link and it worked. Hope that helps some of you. <a href="https://m.facebook.com/lookback/share" rel="nofollow">https://m.facebook.com/lookback/share</a>
Interestingly enough, I was in a relationship with my ex for pretty much all of the last 9 years... and yet they didn't highlight a single post or picture of her in the lookback. Can't be coincidence.
Anybody knows how to restore my lookback video once it was deleted from the wall where I shere it? Now when I click on the Facebook/lookback link it show me only a few photos!
Wow. I found this rather poignant. I've been on Facebook for 6 years, and it struck me that most of the events it picked out were closer to the start of those 6
Is this generated real time? I had some very recent posts appear and it's impressive if they pre-generate 1.25billion .mp4 files in such a short time!