From: Flick Harrison (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 14:02:39 PST
On 15-Jan-09, at 1:29 PM, bryan mckay wrote:
> That would require some kind of media center setup, which I suppose
> could be managed somehow, but only -- correct me if I'm wrong -- if
> the submissions were actual files. If we're dealing with streaming
> video through Vimeo or a similar service, then I'm not sure how that
> would work.
That seems like a no-brainer to me - every laptop and desktop system
is a media center these days. I don't know if there's costs involved
outside Canada - we get pretty large download bandwidth with standard
internet hookup around here.
The big roadblock would be the fiddly nature of web connecting etc. I
wouldn't want a committee to sit down to review videos and find that
vimeo is down for maintenance, they have a bad connection, or they
have to wait for things to buffer etc. It would be a terrible way to
have your film seen. Also, there's the crap onscreen around your
film, ads and links to other vids, etc.
And most youtube videos stutter, I dunno about vimeo.
If every filmmaker submitted on a different web service, there'd be
the hassles of installing plugins, logging in and learning-curve for
whoever was running the screening. Flash video is pretty universal
but six months from now, a year from now - who knows?
Plus, a video launched on the web, methinks, is ineligible for most
festival screenings, n'est-ce pas?.
Best would be your own dedicated page on your server, preferably with
a password. Upload a couple versions of varying quality.
I've done this for juries, the officer checked the link and maybe even
pre-loaded the page so the jury didn't have to sit through the
fiddling. With a full slate of films to watch in one sitting,
however, I wouldn't expect that to go smoothly.
I posted earlier about Reelport as a dedicated film-fest submission
service - anyone had experience with that since then, or other options?
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> On Jan 15, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Fred Camper wrote:
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>> bryan mckay wrote:
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>>> ... there's
>>> something to be said for seeing how a film plays in a dark room on
>>> a big screen with good speakers in front of a real audience.
>>
>> Why you can't play a digital video that way from a computer file?
>>
>> Fred Camper
>> Chicago
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