As you can guess from the title, I'm the new webmaster for a student TV channel and I need to update the site. 

The site needs to pull in YouTube videos from a channel, embed the video player and display a brief description of the video, along with information about the cast & crew involved in the production.

I'm using Drupal 7, and have tried various YouTube modules (Media_YouTube, YouTube feeds importer, YouTube Pull, YouTube field) and haven't had success with any - some just put the URL as text in the node, others haven't pulled in the videos at all. It hasn't been a pleasant experience :(

Can anyone recommend a module which will allow me to create a node for every video on the YouTube channel? It would have to be able to mass-import the videos as theres ~500 on the channel at the moment and I *really* don't want to have to import them manually... Ideally it would periodically check for updates, but that isn't crucial if I can manually add them after the import.

Also, does anyone know what the most effective way to taxonomise these would be? I'm thinking of fields `genre` and `series` at the moment, but I don't know how I could list cast & crew members? (Videos need to be organised so you can quickly find all of the videos with a cast/crew member involved with)

Thanks!