This morning I wrote about a script I threw together over the weekend that would allow the user to quickly and easily send their latest Qik video over to 12seconds.tv. I originally wrote this script to fill my need for a way to post 12seconds videos from my iPhone, and quickly found that there were several other people who wanted the same thing. This morning’s release allowed any developer to setup a version of the script on their own web server and transfer their own videos, but I wanted to do something more.
Today I took it upon myself to create a simple hosted version of this script that would allow any the user of any jailbroken iPhone to easily transfer their Qik videos to 12seconds without having to setup the script. I’ve named my hosted version of this script Syndiqik and the following is a short tutorial on how to transfer your latest Qik video to 12seconds.
Step 1: Open Qik and record a new video, making sure your video does not exceed 20 seconds. (Keep in mind that although Syndiqik will send videos running up to 20 seconds over to 12seconds.tv, only the first 12 seconds will be displayed.)
Step 2: Visit your 12seconds.tv home page and make note of your 12seconds.tv mobile email address. This address should be on the right hand side of the page if you are logged in. (You will only need to enter this email address once so have the page open or jot it down. You’ll also need to know your Qik username.)
Step 3: On your iPhone, visit http://syndiqik.com. You should see a page that has two inputs. One for your Qik username, and another for your 12Seconds.tv mobile email address. Fill out these two fields and tap the “Get My Bookmark” button at the bottom. You will be redirected to your personal Syndiqik URL which you’ll be able to use to send your latest video from Qik to 12seconds.tv.
Step 4: While on your personal Syndiqik URL (you should see a notice with a green background at the bottom), click the bookmark button on your iPhone’s browser (the + symbol at the bottom), and either bookmark, or add a link to your home screen for quick access.
Step 5: The video status on screen should state the time in seconds of your latest Qik video and if it is under 20 seconds, will inform you that the video is ready to transfer. All that’s left to do now is name your video and tap the “Send Video” button at the bottom. If all goes well you should receive a notice that your video was sent successfully.
That’s all there is too it! Just visit your Syndiqik bookmark each time you’re ready to transfer a Qik video and you’ll just have to name the video and hit send. Hopefully this will help you post many more videos to 12seconds.tv much more frequently. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact me on Twitter or email me at thompson [dot] kevind [at] gmail.com.
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September 17th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
actually it looks like your syndiqik just sends an email with the qik video in .flv format to email address listed, so theoretically you could use your script and page to cross post from qik to any other place that accepts videos via email, like utterz, wordpress, etc. i might try and get this to work to be able to quickly post a qik on my personal wordpress blog. i’d just have to remove the 20 second rule thing.
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:39 am
@marc - You’re right. It’s essentially just emailing the video. I tried to integrate Utterz as well, but the videos would continually come across with errors and the people from Utterz just kept pointing me to the documentation. If you need any help modifying the script, please let me know. I’d be happy to lend a hand.