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YouTube Video Workflow Using the API

on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 16:31

This week has been completely consumed with getting video from the Iowa State Fair processed and up on our website.  On an average week, we process 2 or 3 videos.  This week, it's been 12-15 videos a day. We normally host our online video on an external CDN, serving it up on our site via a custom implementation of JW Player.  For Fair, we publish the videos to YouTube, to maximize the exposure they can get that way (we also process the stills and upload them to Flickr with links back to the video).  Unfortunately, publishing videos to YouTube adds a couple of steps to our process, which is