Podcast Producer for lecture capture with Kaltura

I am a relatively new employee at a university and I am helping the school set up a lecture capture system. I've researched several options already and this idea of useing Podcast Producer with an Apple Server we already have and Kaltura to host and manage our media which we already have I'm having trouble finding solid info about.
Background about me: I have a video background, very limited with servers and scripts. I know enough to understand what's what. I'm trying to work with the guy who setup the server too.
Alright, now what I'd like to see happen:
We already have an Apple server and a room with recording hardware (camera, screen capture ability, document camera, etc) already. We use Blackboard for our course management system and Kaltura for our media management. We're pursuing Kaltura's Blackboard building block, but haven't gotten there yet. I know Podcast Producer is capable of sending the recorded podcasts elsewhere, but my knowledge of what is possible with that is very limited. I'd like to see a lecture recorded with the Podcast Producer, then sent to a category on Kaltura or the appropriate course within Blackboard from the Apple server.
I have already asked this on Kaltura's forums and awaiting a response but figured since this also involved an Apple product, it wouldn't hurt to inquire about any knowledge here. And I know a lot of this depends on what Kaltura is capable of as well. Thanks in advance.

Bad form, but I am going to respond to my own question here with a possible solution. I'm doing this for others who may be stuck on the same thing.
It looks like a solution would be to create a Folder Action on the directory that the raw video files will be uploaded to. This would be an AppleScript that will run the podcast (see 'man podcast') command line tool to manually submit the files to the Podcast Server workflow.

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