video – John McLear

Use the scripts to create a super simple way of uploading videos you have downloaded from Youtube (see below) to write straight into Vimeo automatically..

Get started now!

Enjoy! 🙂

UPDATE: BELOW IS THE OLD INFORMATION LEFT FOR HISTORICAL PURPOSES.

Lately Iv’e felt a bit paranoid giving Google even control of my digital domain so I wanted to move all my videos to Vimeo and to keep a local copy for me. Google makes it easy for you to individually download your video files but I wanted to bulk copy them from my youtube account to my local box and at the same time upload them to vimeo…

This very rough and buggy PHP that allows you to move all of YOUR videos from Youtube to Vimeo. You should not use this script to steal anyones content. You should not use it for malicious purposes. The script is completely legal if used appropriately, it does not violate any of Google’s or Vimeo TOS. If you do use this to upload your files to Vimeo you should delete your videos from youtube as to avoid duplicate content.

Prereq’s & installation

1. php5 & curl..
2. php.ini for Apache w/ a large memory setting. edit memory setting in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini or whatever
3. ssh/shell access (im too lazy to write a web front end <– scrap that I wrote a web front end cause I’m super cool.)..
4. Your videos must have a 720p download available else this is just a waste of everyones times. Let’s make video on the web better ey?
5. You get a Vimeo API key. http://vimeo.com/api/applications/new — When registering you will need to set it as a Write application and set a Callback URL as FullURL/vimeo/authenticate.php —
You also want to request perms to upload via — This can take up to a few days. After registration is click click Upload Access – request, then copy your consumer key and secret to the below options
6. Visit a URL where you extracted the files.

How it works

1. Query your YouTube account, gets a list of all videos
2. For each video get the ID, metadata (name, description etc.) and store that in an array
3. Get the video file for this Video
4. Upload the video file and metadata to Vimeo via the API
5. Return to Step 2, it’s a funking loopsi.

Limitations, because there be many

1. Unicorn rainbows are limited to 127 per session.
2. You can’t exclude certain videos
3. You can only do 50 videos at a time. // run it again w/ a higher value in the start-index if you want to do more than 50.
4. First upload fails right now, just a bug..
5. Breaks upload on many characters, just requires some encoding

Grab the source code here

Run by visiting /youtube/index.php

Note: Vimeo has a daily limit on the upload API, I think it’s ~10 videos a day..

Primary School TV show RSS feed

Posted on October 30, 2010January 30, 2011 by primaryt

I was going to tweet about this but it’s a bit too complicated to explain in a tweet.

Some of you may know I’m working on a project that brings TV shows and other video content into the classroom. (The project is called Primary School TV and is now live.)

I have been tasked with finding relevant video content, obvious choices such as CBBC make up for a % of the content available and thankfully BBC publish RSS feeds. Youtube also makes up for another big chunk. The rest comes from external vendors that publish feeds of their learning content. All in all about 20 shows per day each about 30 minutes long will be available.

The whole project is no where near ready for public consumption but I thought it would be good to just update everyone to how things are going and hopefully build up some excitement for the 2011 launch.

To summarize: We will shortly be publishing an RSS feed of TV content relevant for children of a primary school age that includes various sources worldwide and is all free content. UPDATE: This is now live, see below.

Here is a link to the rss feed from Primary School TV

Science gets wet!

Posted on February 4, 2010 by primaryt

Great use of engineering 🙂

Quest for the perfect camera for the Primary School classroom of 2010

Posted on January 10, 2010 by primaryt

I want to find the perfect camera for your classroom, I don’t expect to find a one size suits all type solution.

Challenge CLC have been extremely kind in funding this project and Bradford schools have been more then happy to write a review based on their experiences with the different cameras. My plan is to rotate the cameras between schools and classrooms to get multiple reviews on each camera.

We are buying 10 cameras and reviewing them over the next few weeks. Also thanks to @Raff31, @LordLangley73 and @DeerWood for their input. We will be using this document for suggestions on ways to use these cameras.

Our shortlist (of which we probably need to remove 1/2):

Kodak Zi6 (£90)
*Kodak Zi8 (£120)
Toshiba Camelio P30 (£115)
Panasonic SDR S15 (£160)
+/ Apple iPod Nano 8GB 5Th generation (£105)
/ Zoom Q3 (£200)
Veho VCC 002 (£100)
Panasonic SDR S26 (£163)
Kodak Zx1 (£70)
*Sanyo VPC CG10EBK / Xacti (£145)
/ Mustek DV316L (£38)
/ Samsung U10 (£83)
Veho VCC-001 (£90) (Not sure on this one because its designed for youtube)
m/ Sony MHS-PM1 (£130)
/ Creative Vado (£54)
/ Creative Vado HD (£90)
Vivitar DVR 545 (£70)
+/ *Flip Video Ultra High Definition Camcorder 8GB (£120)
+/ Flip Video Ultra Camcorder 2nd Generation 4GB (£90)

And a bit controversial:

Actioncam Action Video Camera (£28)
+Veho VCC-003 Muvi (£50)

* = Comes highly recommended
/ = Stunning design
+ = Built in memory (Enough to record video)
m = Special memory required

Which would you remove? Has anyone seen any info on an action video camera being used in a classroom before? Does this seem completely silly? I like Silly, do you?

Removing the first bunch..

Getting my list down was painfully difficult, I wanted to try as many cameras as possible but some where too expensive or not suitable and my budget is limited!

Here is are the camcorders I removed and reasons for removing them:

Panasonic SDR S15 (£160) — too expensive
Panasonic SDR S26 (£163) — too expensive
Zoom Q3 (£200) too expensive
Vivitar DVR 545 (£70) — out of stock

Total amount to spend is now only £1440 for cameras and £195 for memory cards! Bargain for 17 cameras! Now to see if we can get that level of funding! 🙂