Vidnik: upload Mac webcam videos to YouTube

by Todd Ritter May 10th 2008

Vidnik is a new Mac application that lets you quickly record video from your Mac's iSight camera and then upload it to YouTube. Simply run Vidnik, set your YouTube account username and password, record some video, crop it, add some tags and a description, choose the video category, and then click "Upload."

The movies you record are saved as .mov files in ~/Movies/Vidnik so that you can use them for other things as well. You can also drag other movies onto Vidnik for easy upload to YouTube.

Vidnik is a good tool for video bloggers (who want to use YouTube's bandwidth instead of their own), video responses to other YouTube videos, and solo musicians who want to be able to quickly upload performance video.

[Via Google Mac Blog]

Tags: video journal, VideoJournal, youtube, youtube.com

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Tom said 4:16PM on 5-10-2008

Not to forget the excellent and still free (but make a donation if you like it, he is considering going pay because nobody's doing that) FlickrBooth, which allows uploads to youtube from PhotoBooth.

http://www.otierney.net/flickrbooth/

Cifra said 9:05AM on 5-11-2008

This is pretty useless, actually, since iMovie, an app that already comes with the Mac, has the exact same feature...

Todd Ritter said 10:01AM on 5-11-2008

I don't believe iMovie '06 has an "upload to YouTube" feature like iMovie '08.

Cifra said 11:12AM on 5-11-2008

It's probably the updated one, but anyways, it's got it and I can prove it :)

It just depends on whether you want to have iMovie for everything or this app just for Youtube.

nvidia20082008 said 2:48PM on 5-17-2008

Thank you thank you thank you. Advantage over iMovie08 (which is great anyways) ... High Quality audio and video if you are custom encoding FLVs. Thank you for this nice piece of coding and all the best.

David said 6:59AM on 7-11-2008

Another advantage: It works with older Macs using USB webcams. iMovie only works with the built-in camera on iMacs or with Firewire cams.

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