Maybe you heard that a new Facebook iPhone application is almost complete. Maybe you’ve also heard that probably the best feature is that it will allow you to upload video right from your iPhone 3GS to the social network. Well you don’t actually have to wait for the new app to do that — there’s one that does it already. And it’s really, really fast.
VideoUp is a application created by Raizlabs. While they are in no way affiliated with Facebook, the social network was nice enough to help them fix a couple bugs to get it ready for the App Store, founder Greg Raiz tells us. That’s good news because it means Facebook apparently isn’t being tyrannical and demanding that its official app is the only one that will be able to do video uploads to the network.
VideoUp is very simple. You login to your Facebook account via Facebook Connect, choose which video you wish to upload (you can pick one in your library or shoot a new one), enter a description, and you’re done. What’s really pretty amazing about the app is just how fast it uploads the videos. The 16-second test video I shot below was uploaded and playable on Facebook in under a minute. That easily beats the YouTube upload times from the iPhone 3GS, and the quality seems much better.
VideoUp recommends that you hold your iPhone horizontally, so it appears correctly on Facebook. However, if you do it vertically, it’s easy to rotate the video there as well. Obviously, this will only work with the new iPhone 3GS, which has video capabilities.
You can find VideoUp for Facebook in the App Store here. It is $0.99.
Very cool seeing non-facebook developers creating apps faster than the facebook developers themselves can. It tells you how powerful/flexible all the different API’s out there are when you can beat them to the punch.
I’ve been using Posterous for uploading video to Facebook and Twitter. It seems to be an easy alternative.
what’s the difference between that and this?
I’ve been using PixelPipe to upload to Facebook, YouTube, Posterour and Twitter (via yFrog). It’s an excellent alternative as well.
Another tip of the hat for Pixelpipe. I have a jailbroken 3G with Cycorder, I downloaded PPVideoEnabler from Cydia, toggled the Pixelpipe upload option to ON and viola, instant uploads to Flickr, Picasa and Vimeo.
I just uploaded Tweetreel and I can post video and pics to both Facebook and Twitter thru URL and seeing them all at http://www.tweetreel.com
I’m gonna DL it and give it a go!
This app did not work for me at all. After I selected the video, it kept dropping my FB Connect login. So I ended up in a loop.
Email us at support@raizlabs.com with details if this continues to be a problem. We haven’t seen the issue before but will hop on it if it’s a reproducible problem.
I keep having the same problem, I connect to FB using the log in screen, and then it goes back to the exact same screen. It’s like it won’t log me in, and then when I do select a video, it says there was an Error in steps 1 & 2.
“VideoUp recommends that you hold your iPhone horizontally, so it appears correctly on Facebook.”
They’re outdated, I fixed this yesterday. Facebook should support all orientations now
We had to submit to Apple before the fix was in. The next update won’t have that text. Thanks
The iPhone is the weak link in this people! Use the Zune!
“VideoUp is a application”
a application? really Siegler? a application? What is this, the boygeniusreport?
Nice, I was wondering when someone would build this
You have a sexy ass keyboard =P and clean desk.
Seems cool but how many people that upload videos actually upload to FB opposed to Youtube which is now linked into the FB stream?
It works — I uploaded a video of me in my underpants.
http://facebook.com/pkaplan
it works very well ……It’s good for me to upload directly from my Iphone..
got the app and when I try to select a saved video or create a new one, and click “use” it won’t keep the selection.
Thoughts? (have emailed support for it)
ack – I figured it out. the select video prompt doesn’t let you it has selected the video. If you just hit send it works for me.
Very cool app. I guess it’s time to pony up for the 3GS.
Good for facebook for allowing third-party video-upload apps.
How can I upload to facebook pages, not only facebook personal account ??
Thanks