In early November brightcove launched a mobile video upload app in the iPhone App Store. Currently you must have an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4 to use the app.
This is a quick tutorial on how to use the Brightcove app to upload video from your iPhone to your stations websites:
- Visit the App Store and search for ‘Brightcove Mobile Upload’ or visit – http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/393580992/id393580992
(note you will see 3 apps if you search for ‘Brightcove’ in the app store. You want the app titled ‘Brightcove Mobile Upload’ highlighted above)
- After you have installed the app you will need to get your Brightcove write API token from your Brightcove account in order to log in from the app. Here is how you grab that:
- Log into your brightcove account (https://studio3.brightcove.com/#)
- Go to Account Settings
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- On the left hand side, find API management
- Now find the write token and click the envelope button to email the write token to an email address that you can check on your iphone (this will make it much easier as you can copy it and paste it into the app)
- Launch the Brightcove app on your iPhone and paste the write API token into the field and click log in:
- You can now create new videos or browse your existing videos on your iphone
- Select a video and hit upload
- Once the video is done uploading it will appear with the other titles in your brightcove account. You can then log in to your brightcove account and assign it to whatever playlists you or embed it on a page.
Right now there isn’t a way to browse players and playlists on the iPhone app… but we can post the video directly to a playlist by setting up a smart playlist and using video tags
- Go to your brightcove account
- Go to the ‘Media’ section
- Create a new playlist
- Make your new playlist a ’smart’ playlist and add a tag to use when uploading from your mobile phone… something like ‘mobilevideo’
- Assign that playlist to the player on your videos page, or create a new player to put on a page called Mobile Video or however you want to display these videos on your site
- Now when you upload videos from the app, and tag them with ‘mobilevideo’ they will automatically be added to this playlist and be live as soon as the video is finished processing in brightcove
