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May 13, 2008

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Vidnik makes record, uploading YouTube video easy. Too easy.

Posted May. 13, ’08, 8:49 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software

vidnik.jpgMillennia of human evolution, thousands of years of civilized culture, and it’s all come to this: you can now upload stupid videos about yourself onto the Internet. Great leaders in thought and progress are rolling in their graves all across the world, enough so that it may actually change the world’s rotation.

And to make this important procedure even simpler, Google Mac software engineer David Phillip Oster has put together Vidnik, a simple application that lets you record video from your Mac’s iSight and upload it to YouTube. While you could do this with Photo Booth or iMovie, Vidnik automatically records in the format that YouTube likes, meaning that you don’t have to worry about lengthy processor-intensive transcoding.

The app itself is still a little rough around the edges (to be expected; it’s only at 0.13), but it works pretty well. I recorded a short video and uploaded it to YouTube for the entire world to enjoy, and the whole process took probably about a minute or so.

Thank goodness that we’ve finally simplified the process of making YouTube videos. Now we can at last move on to the final stages of human evolution.


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