Vidnik: Record video directly from your iSight to YouTube

Vidnik (0.13.0 beta) is an Apache-licensed app that allows you to record video from your iSight and upload it directly to YouTube. You can title, tag, categorize and add a description to the videos right from within the app itself. Above you can see why I don't vidblog. Nobody wants to look at that.
Developer David Phillip Oster says that there's a small bug currently that makes the sound lag a fraction of a second behind the video when uploaded to YouTube, but he knows what the problem is and he's solving it quickly.
[via the Official Google Mac Blog]
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I just end up using iMovie with the built-in iSight to do any vlogs. I don't even edit them, if I edited them, they would probably be a little better.
It's simple, it uploads to Youtube, .Mac Gallery, or you can just drag and drop the file into iWeb to put it on your webpage.
Please, can we encourage people to at least use iMovie to proces their vlogs a bit? Unedited and poorly edited vlogs are the reason I don't watch vlogs.
Imagine if every blog post went live as you typed. Why would you want this?
If you've got a blog, you make an effort to write as if you've at least graduated high school. If you've got a podcast, you learn how to position the mic and how to mix the sound so it's at least audible over your roommate flushing the toilet. Please apply the same standards to Vlogs!
Leave live-to-air for the news anchors, they have teleprompters and a bit of practice.
Looks interesting. Will it save the videos locally as well, or does it only upload them to YouTube? I know I can use Quicktime to make videos, but it's nice to have options.
May 14 2008 at 10:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOne day every single site on the planet earth will have reported on Vidnik. I see at least 5 posts a day in my RSS feeds on every site possible. I'm thinking the windows news sites are going to let me know soon.
May 14 2008 at 9:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWTF! Whew⦠I thought that was the zune tattoo guy for a sec. there. Don't scare me like that!
May 14 2008 at 8:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYouTube can do that itself. How useless.
May 14 2008 at 7:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyD:
You do realize it's one of the TUAW guys, don't you?
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