YouTube plans to open next production studio next year in NY

Video-sharing site's fourth production site will offer talented videographers production and post-production digital-video equipment at no charge.

YouTube Space studios offer access to professional video production facilities free of charge.
YouTube plans to open a new creative studio space in New York next year, giving serious video creators another location where they can produce high-quality content.
The Google-owned video-sharing site announced the expansion Thursday during VidCon, a conference for online video content creators being held this week in Anaheim, Calif. The studio, which is expected to open in October 2014, will provide production and post-production digital-video equipment spread across a space of 20,000 to 25,000 square feet.
When completed, it will be YouTube's fourth space for producing professional videos, joining facilities in London, Los Angeles, and Tokyo. Like YouTube Space LA, which opened last year in a 41,000-square-foot space that formerly served as Howard Hughes' airport, YouTube Space NYC will provide talented videographers with production resources such as cameras, lights, and microphones, as well as post-production editing suites and voce-over booths -- all at no charge.

"We want to invest in partners who built channels on the platform," Kathleen Grace, manager of production and programming for the YouTube Space LA, told Online Media Daily. "It's part-hippy commune, incubator and studio."
The studio, which will be located in the Chealsea Marketplace district, will also host weekly workshops and events for budding and experienced videographers.

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If you've ever spent time on YouTube, you know that it's a mixed bag. There are the slick professional videos, the shaky (but often side-splitting) clips shot on smartphones and everything in between.
In an effort to raise the quality of YouTube videos, the company has built YouTube Space LA, a 41,000-square-foot facility that offers practically every type of video production tool, free of charge. Of course, only serious creators need apply. Applicants must be YouTube Partners who have a track record of regularly contributing videos. But that doesn't mean they have to be churning out hits a la "Gangnam Style." The YouTube Space LA FAQ states that the goal is to help both established and emerging creators.