Vidnik is new Mac OS X tool from Google
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
May 12, 2008 at 6:08am
Vidnik is our newest application in the Google Mac playground. Google’s collection of open source tools for the Mac. It’s a program for using the built-in camera on your Mac to create movies and upload them to YouTube.
You can use Vidnik to create a video diary, or just to record a video comment to attach to an existing YouTube video. Vidnik works with the built-in iSights on recent Macs, with FireWire video cameras, and with many USB video cameras.
To use Vidnik, run the app, then click the record button to start recording. Click it again to stop. You can trim to just the moments you want to keep, fill in the required title, description, etc., then click the upload button.
Or you can drag movies made in other programs onto Vidnik’s column of movies, then click the upload button. To use another program to do a little post-production, use the Gear menu to show Vidnik’s movie file in the Finder. Edit the movie in the other program, then upload it.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
