What’s the best way to share video captured with the iPhone? The camera on the iPhone 4S seems to be much higher quality than the one on my old Droid 2. That’s the good news. The bad news is that I can’t figure out how to share video semi-privately. On Android, it is easy to share video via YouTube without re-entering one’s Gmail account and password (the iPhone can do this, I think, but at the cost of keying in one’s Google ID once again (I’ve done it about 15 times so far)). The Android phone also has useful options for sharing via Facebook and Google+ that the iPhone seems to lack. One thing that I came to like on Android was a default option to push everything up to a private folder on Google+. I can’t find an equivalent on the iPhone. I tried iCloud, but it doesn’t show any content from the phone except for contacts and calendar items.
If you don’t want to email someone a monster file, what is the most convenient process for getting a video to just one other person, or possibly a handful as in a Google+ circle?
I’d do an ‘unlisted’ YouTube video. That way, only the person you send the YouTube link to would be able to see it. You can also do ‘private’, but that would require the recipient to have a google account as well.
Agreed that the google account login could be cleaner…
-James.
Phil,
I share videos created on the iPhone 4S with others via YouTube. I have only entered my login credentials once (so I’m unsure why you’ve had to enter them so many times.)
When I publish to YouTube, from the iPhone (via the “Share” icon when viewing the video on the device), I’m provided with three privacy settings:
* Public
* Unlisted
* Private
I particularly like “Unlisted”, in the sense that it’s only private via obscurity; anyone who knows the URL (or is provided with it) can access the videos.
— Matt
If the other person has an iPhone with iOS5 you can just iMessage the video.
We use YouTube or e-mail…I also use Flickr because of the access control, and you can publish to Flickr via e-mail.
Drop the iPhone into a mailer, it will cost you between $1.68 and $4.95 depending on delivery options.
I also use YouTube unlisted videos. You should only need to log in to YouTube with your google id once.
I just came across socialcam touted here: http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/with-growth-accelerating-socialcams-mobile-video-app-passes-3-million-downloads/
I have no idea what their app does or if it imposes any limits.
But the techcrunch articles says:
We’ve been tracking Socialcam‘s foray into mobile video sharing since the app launched in March, so we have some context for the announcement today that it’s passed 3 million downloads. Basically, the app is starting to take off.
It took until July to reach 1 million downloads, so around five months. Then it hit 2 million downloads near the beginning of October, or around three months. It’s taken just two months to reach the 3 million mark that it’s announcing today. Based on what chief executive Michael Seibel tells me about its latest usage patterns, I’ll go ahead and guess that it’ll take less than two months to hit 4 million downloads.
The app is coming off its biggest download weekend to date, “primed” by a big download weekend over Thanksgiving, he says. It had introduced a feature to let users share videos privately a couple weeks ago, which hit the holiday right — the two biggest use cases it’s seeing are special events and families. 25% of all videos are now private, with both long-time and new users taking advantage of the feature on top of the social focus.
Phil,
I use Posterous.com to share video and pictures of my 4 month old daughter with family. I don’t keep the posts private but I believe there is a way to make your “space” private and invite only those you want to see it.
Posterous has an app for the iPhone that works pretty well.
Sorry about recommending socialcam, after playing with it, it seems whole inadequate for the job, and is yet another walled garden (and a poor one at that.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3326591
I installed sc on my Android phone.
I used it to take a 3 second video of my keyboard.
It uploaded to sc, where I can see the video just fine.
On my Android phone, I cannot find the video anywhere — It does not show up in gallery.
None of the other videos I see in my Android Gallery show up in the socialcam app to share them, and socialcam does not show up in the typical Android share menus.
At socialcam.com, I can see the video I took, and can share it, but there seems to be no way to delete it, modify it, or download it.