Recently, a YouTube channel for omnimaga was made so that all the calculator videos could be uploaded onto one channel, so that we could get more people on our sight and allow people to see all the videos without having to search around YouTube too much.
However, there are a few problems to having a YouTube account for a group.
How are we going to get videos onto it? We can give the password away, but it only takes one member to destroy it all. I have more posts than tangrs, but I would trust tangrs with the password long before I gave it to myself. We could email them to the admins, but they might not want to spend an afternoon uploading a dozen videos to YouTube. Another thing is that since this isn’t posted anywhere on the sight other than in a few posts, it might die out and be forgotten, or it might not be noticed by new users.
I spent some time yesterday and today setting up some accounts on YouTube and the Google app engine, and was able to come up with a somewhat failure/good solution; It has some very good solutions, but sadly it has some very limiting flaws.
Using YouTube Direct, people can upload videos onto a Google app engine account. (The problem is, the video has to be on a YouTube page. You either submit a new video to your YouTube channel, or you submit a video that is already on you YouTube channel. However, it works very well if it is already on you YouTube channel. You can easily select however many you want to)
After you submit it, an administrator can decide to preview it, and then approve it or reject it, or even label it as spam. They can change which playlist it will be uploaded too, and leave notes. Once it is approved, it is automatically uploaded to a playlist in the channel. Administrators can leave notes, so if one doesn’t know if a video is good enough to be uploaded, then they can leave a note to discuss it. Administrators can create new playlists, such showcases, tutorials, lets play’s, ect.
So in the end:
Advantages:
It allows for administrators
Anyone with as YouTube account can upload
It allows for easy approval of videos
It is easy to allow for more moderators or to delete other moderators
Nobody actually needs to know the YouTube login or password
The post or link can be embedded on an omnimaga page
If the video is already on YouTube, it is incredibly easy to submit.
Disadvantages:
The videos are not uploaded: instead they are merely in a playlist.
The videos must remain uploaded on the account that created them, so no deleting accounts or videos
There are only two disadvantages, but they are pretty big ones.
I didn’t know that they wouldn’t be uploaded until I got towards the end of setting it up.
It would probably be better to just have a group of dedicated users and admins with the password who upload them, but all the advantages are solutions to every problem discussed in the posts.
There is another thing called YouTube Direct Lite, which is supposed t be easier to embed, but I couldn’t get it to work, and there is very little documentation.
I spent a day and a half doing this, because all the solutions were being fixed, until at the end I found out that it only sends it to a playlist.
Although it would be nice if one of you knew something I didn’t know that would let this work, because this could solve all the problems with the YouTube account.
While this is mostly a failure, I’d like to show you guys it.
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