YouTube To Launch New Player Complete With Thumbnail Previews & Storyboards

YouTube has just undergone a pretty major overhaul of their design, but it looks like they aren’t done yet. Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration reports that the online video giant has got a new player in the works and it’s going to be a pretty major change, complete with thumbnail previews and auto-generated storyboards.

YouTube has just undergone a pretty major overhaul of their design, but it looks like they aren’t done yet.  Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration reports that the online video giant has got a new player in the works and it’s going to be a pretty major change, complete with thumbnail previews and auto-generated storyboards.  Read on to learn more and see a video preview of the new player.

Agarwal writes that, “The next version of YouTube video player will have one very useful feature – you can hover your mouse to any point in the video, without actually moving the playhead, and the YouTube player will show you an image thumbnail of the video frame at the position. 

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