Is brightcove the next big thing for distribution?
 

Not quite sure that this is the place for this, but I am guessing that a lot of people looking at this thread might be interested . . . since it would be taking video to the masses

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Jeremy Allaire has a long history of shaking up the established order as an Internet pioneer.

Mr. Allaire was an architect of the evolution of Macromedia's Flash system into a video format that is now second only to Microsoft's Windows Media platform in popularity for delivering video on the Internet. Now, he has started a new company called Brightcove.

As with his earlier ventures, Mr. Allaire intends to shake up an industry - this time, the world of television - by allowing all types of video producers, from media giants to anyone who has a camcorder, put their work on the Internet and make money if anyone watches it.

full story

http://www.brightcove.com

9 memberships away from 50,000! How crazy.

Come see my documentary "Clear Cut" in LA and Austin
 

Just wanted to invite all those DVinfo'ers in the Austin and LA areas to festival screenings of my feature documentary "Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon." You can view the trailer for Clear Cut here:

http://www.clearcutmovie.com/trailer.html

"Clear Cut" will be playing the following festivals and dates:

FAIF Festival - Hollywood - Mann's Chinese 6 Theatres (next to Graumann's). Wednesday, October 12th, 3:30PM

Austin Film Festival - Austin - Hideout Theatre - Saturday, October 22nd 5:00 PM and Monday, October 24th at 7:00 PM

You can also view the page for the film here:

http://www.austinfilmfestival.net/af...ails&filmId=71

Running time for the doc is 72min., with a 15 min. Q&A afterwards. Let me know if you have any questions about the doc and would love to see some you there! Best,

Peter

Peter, it looks great technically and seems interesting. I'll be at AFF...I'll see if I can make it.

What camera did you shoot with?

Kevin

THanks Kevin--I shot the film mostly with the DVX100, and a little with the DVX100A. Hope to see you in Austin!

Peter

The compression was sweet.
How did you do it, or did you use a plugin or something.

Music Video - Deeds of Flesh
 

The Deeds of Flesh - "Crown of Souls" music video can be found here.

The conceptual footage was shot on a fully loaded XL2. We were scheduled to shoot the live footage two weeks later, but two members of the band fell off a balcony at a party and sustained serious injuries. Three months later, the XL2 was no longer available, so we shot the live footage with an XL1s and GL2.

The video was edited with FCP and also employed Nattress' G-Film filters. It is currently available on the Deeds of Flesh: Live in Montreal DVD, which is available at most online retailers

Enjoy!


Benjamin Kantor
benjaminkantor.com

Were you the DP on that one indie movie shot with the XL2? I forgot the name, sorry, but it was posted here a while back.
Anyway, good job on the video. Blast beats and blood always make for a good death metal video. Any plans to get it on Fuse or any other video networks that welcome metal videos?

Yeah, I was DP on the indie movie Leave it to Chance. I also shot and cut the Deeds video. I'm pretty sure that the video is headed to Fuse and some stations in Europe, but it's out of my hands now, so we'll just have to wait and see. Glad you enjoyed it.

Walter, this isn't too bad. I'd be a bit careful about the over use of the iMovie-ish video transitions and the color switching back and forth.
It looks like you implemented these effects just for the sake of doing them.
They lend practically nothing to the video.
I'd rely more on physical camera moves or the energy of the performance to carry the video, not gimmicks.
The black and white seemed to be working, I'm sorry you didn't pursue that further. But that is purely a stylistic choice.
The editing timed to the beat was done very well. Keep it up.

OK Don't take this the wrong way, but more of the racer less of the parents. The trailer is nice and well done, but the intro is a little technical for the non-rider (I ride and race) check out "Dust to Glory" even my freinds that think it's stupid like that movie. You need some more emotion from the rider. It's hard, but get it. Watching a movie about the parents of a rider does not excite me. GOOD WORK ON the video though.

BTW- Ride RED

San Diego/LA/Vancouver in HD
 

I recently went to San Diego and took my camera with me. I decided to make a compilation of the stuff I shot along with some footage I had in Vancouver.

It's a big file so only download if you have a fast connection!
Please Right Click and SAVE AS (111MB, WMV, 6mins long)

http://www.theheadlesspuppy.com/san%20diego/hdvsd.avi

Here are some 'preview' shots from the video:

http://www.theheadlesspuppy.com/san%20diego/hdvsd.jpg
http://www.theheadlesspuppy.com/san%20diego/hdvsd2.jpg
http://www.theheadlesspuppy.com/san%20diego/hdvsd3.jpg

Let me know what you think!

Just in time for Halloween
 

Hello all.
As a long time lurker and part time poster here a dvinfo, I've learned a great deal from everyone in regards to my movie making endeavors.
My first large project is finally done and I just wanted to share a little of it with you.
Check out the movies website.

www.abovegroundmovie.com

Please take the time to watch the high quality Quicktime trailer.
It has to load completely before it begins.
We shot the principle photography last summer and early fall with pick ups, green screen and adr work into the spring of this year.
A big special thanks to Charles Papert for inspiration and tips on the usage of the Magiqcam stabilizer. It was a baptism of fire having only owned it for 3 weeks prior to shooting.
This was to be our little "film school" movie that no one was supposed to see but it quickly grew into a full scale production. As luck would have it, everyone around us wanted to buy a copy so we decided to go ahead and put up the site and get mass duplication.
My partner Terry and I did EVERYTHING on this movie with little or no experience save what I gained here at DVinfo.

Thanks again to everyone here for helping us finish our first little project.
Now it's on to the "real" one.
Preproduction begins next month.
Wish us luck!

Really cool stuff. It kinda has an Evil Dead feel to it. One thing I noticed was you did some good sound work. Can you tell us a little about how you recorded the sound? Thanks for sharing your work.

Excellent Cinemaphotography at the end!

Evil Dead, YES!
Since it was a self financed project, we followed the old stand by formula of take 6 kids to a cabin in the woods and chop them up!
Well, not exactly but close enough.
Shot with my VX2000 with a CenturyOptics 16:9 lens .
Audio was Sennheiser me66/64 direct to the VX via Sign Video XLR box.
When shooting with the Magiqcam, I used a Sennheiser 500 series wireless to get audio to the cam.
All the score was composed in Garage Band. Sound effects, ADR, and foley were recorded at my house using the same gear.
Of course a lot of time was spent tweaking and twisting the audio many different ways.
I have a long background in audio/music production and it definitley made a difference.
It still has a high "cringe" factor for me though. Too many lines of dialogue were recorded off axis and had to be redone or heavily massaged.
An experienced boom operator is a must for the next project.
Thanks!

Thanks Wes!

Mill Valley Film Festival "CinemaSports" Entry
 

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I've previously posted a video I made for a film-in-a-day event called CinemaSports, and now I have another to share. These events are put on in a variety of locations and aren't really about "winning" anything, but more about having fun and being super-creative in a very condensed period of time. The event is often called the "Iron Chef" of filmmaking where you are given three "ingrediants" at 9am in the morning, and then you have 10 hours to storyboard, shoot, edit, render, and print-to-MiniDV-tape a completed movie for submital (no longer than 3:30 minutes) by 7pm that day for an 8pm screening that very same night.

Our entry earlier in the year qualifyed us to participate in this higher-profile event that was being put on as part of the Mill Valley Film Festival, and this time we came really prepared and gung ho. My wife and I were the DP and crew, we had three actors (that's a stretch, more like three good friends, LOL!), and we also managed to recruit a music composition graduate student from the SF Conservatory of Music to create the soundtrack on the same day just like the rest of the movie (he used a keyboard, Macintosh, and a MIDI keyboard, and then I imported his renders as wav's into the Vegas timetime).

As always, it was both a blast and a complete stress fest, but getting to screen it in front of 300+ people the same night made it all worth it! We got a pretty good reaction from our movie, which was both funny and scary at the same time -- classic B-Movie action if I do say so myself. You can watch our film as well as read more about the day's events and the ingrediants we were given on my blog at the link below. Please leave me some comments in my blog and here in this thread, I'd love to know what you think.

You can download the movie here:
SFBlogger.org

BTW, I used a Panny GS400, Rode Videomic, Manfrotto monopod with a weight on the bottom (as a steadycam of sorts), a Manfrotto tripod and fluid head, and Vegas 6 to pull this off. Shot in widescreen, filtered to B&W, and deinterlaced to 30p with a small amount of film grain added.

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Liked the trailers. I thought the first one had too long of an opener though. I'm curious to see the final one. Any progress?

Pretty cool trailers. I really liked the Curse of the Seven Oaks one.

Club promotion footage
 

Hey fellas, I've been doing some club promotion video's lately (no time for real films :( but Give me some feedback (And not just those girls are hot!) :)
Make it constructive...heh...I sound like my art teacher.

Peace

www.redskiesparty.com

p.s there are links on the left, with dates on them.

You are truly a blessed man. (re: the Sept 10 video)

What did you use to shoot with?

Cross-Talk: A 'Good' Hacker Movie
 

The only thing I can think of would be Hollywood's low-budget flick with boobs that never really had anything to do with technology or cyber crime at all other than a virus that sank oil-rigs. Poop.

Enter Cross-Talk. It's a first for me and movie making so please feel free to tear me a new one if anyone thinks this sucks. All I ask for is reasons other than "This stinks..." so I can make improvements because this is for you guys and not some demented idea of what I think a movie is.

Part2 is right around the corner so check back in a week and check it out! All I ask is that you guys download via my website rather than a direct link.

ZzzZzz.tv - Probably the end of the Internet...

Double-click the Cross-Talk folder and the link is right there. Thank you for your time and don't forget to tell me what you think!

Comments.

- Good music *note, if it isn't yours to use, you can't go too far with using it. Good music choices anyway.
- title fonts are unreadable until the actual title.
- I like that you want to show the reality of hacking
- HOWEVER, no one is going to sit still watching NO HUMAN and just stuff on the screen for the first five minutes. I only did so I could see how it plays out. Title sequence way too long. Even for the beginning of a feature.
- I like the flash cut between the bathroom scene and him doing coke
- I like that you are trying to show the obsessive / compulsiveness of doing something like hacking. Haha Ted Bundy folder.
- But again, seven minutes in and still NO STORY. The first story note is him chatting with his contact. TOO LATE. You need that very early in. If that is your first act, on story alone it has nothing there for the viewer to chew on. I/ the audience need more to entice me to download the next one.
- I'd like to see your next version.

Blessed indeed
 

Heh...yeah indeed blessed. I used a GL2 and Premier Pro 1.5 to edit. That's about it :) Thanks for the comment

James,

Wow, what a production! Now I know where all the school budget money is going. The costumes were fantastic!

I wish you would have used more of your steadicam shots as they add real dynamic energy. The jib shots were good.

Which stabilizer were you using and with which camera?

I wish the sound crew had mixed in some audience sound as it would have helped with the overall video production.

The streaming worked well! Thanks for letting us look at it.

Tery

Thank you for your input!

The music in there is all from newgrounds.com from their audio portal so there is no worries about any copyright problems. I will pay my respects in the beginning and end once I am sure what's being used.

Not sure what you ment about not being able to read the title font until the title? Could you explain this to me some more?

That spectrograph intro is indeed very long (and no longer funny after 1000 times), if I did something similar but a diffrent and much smaller skit that still had a punchline do you think that would work?

Your very right about the viewer needing something to chew on...I have ideas and will update part1 and put the second clip online soon if not today. Thanks again for your time!

There are two times that the font appears. The second time for the "Crosstalk" title. but before that there is another word I cannot read.

I think if you just cut it down by half that will still give you enough time to have the beginnings of a story.

The first title is "2600 Present", it says that because when I was making that I did not have my ZzzZzz.tv domain/website yet. So I used 2600 hoping that would no offend anything already out there. That is the frequency of old cross-bars and switchboards (more like the entire phone system) in the LA area around the end of the 70's and early 80's, before everything became digital. It could have been like that in other states but I only know for sure LA did.

Believe it or not I already cut the size of that intro in half already (sic). So I'm just going to go with something with much less dialog but still gives that offset/errie? feeling in the beginning.

Thank you again for your thoughts!

Spiritual/Political Film in Nashville
 

Hi -

We're approaching the one year anniversary of beginning production on a no-budget DV feature related to recent history, faith, and community. It's a slow process, but we're sticking with it. There's a synopsis, stills, clips, and a trailer at:

www.hometown.aol.com/outofthefog2004/LED.htm

Comments, criticism, and encouragement are all welcome.

thanks,
Allan

Interview with a Canine
 

My poor dog.

http://fritzrips.com/FritzK2.wmv

Live band footage - Sony Z1
 

Hey everyone,

I put up some footage of a local band I shot a few weeks ago. It was shot with a Sony Z1 with slightly higher contrast and brightness applied in Premier. My friend took a split of all the audio channels and recorded his own audio mix to his laptop. It's encoded in WMV format (Mac users may have troubles with this - sorry!), which doesn't do the camera justice. I'll probably put a higher-quality version up soon.

http://www.mumps.ca/videos.php?v=sparky-carrot

Feedback is more than welcome. There will be lots of these videos to come.

-mark

(if you don't have Windows Media Player, copy this url and load it in Winamp. I think this works.)

Gibarang
 

I put a new short video up. I was bored at 3 in the morning so I made it.

www.mumps.ca

Music video I did
 

Hey all, we just did a music video for Devilstik for the website http://frightmarestheseries.com/. There is a higher quality version here
http://www.archive.org/details/Devil...OneThatHurtYou.
We have almost no video experience, and this is my first music video. I think it came out okay, but some scenes are a little dark. You should also check out the frightmares site. It is hilarious!

good projects done by other people on video:
 

These are the ones who have done them on video and have online presence, and there are others but this is not a celluloid film forum:

http://www.betafuse.com
http://www.zliceproductions.com
http://www.microcosmicfilms.com

These are brave indie movie makers..If I happened to help, it was to help in art's sake. Hope you enjoy...

A site for your casting and production convenience:
http://www.cinefuse.com

Hurricane Wilma
 

A little taste of what we went thru down here. Just the draft but you will get the idea.

http://www.sightseeingfishinggrouppr.../Hurricane.mov

Real dumb short =)
 

I just had to try out my new Canon XL2 on the day it arrived. Me and a friend (with quite bad eyesight I might add) shot various dumb stuff and suddenly we had material for a stupid shortfilm =)

I am impressed with the camera, even if this particular short doesnt represent any "sober work" (especially not since its mostly out of focus due to the secondary photographer), nor did I do any color correction or anything in post. No tripods were used. Its just two dumb guys shooting stupid stuff handheld, with only custom settings dictating how color and shadows are represented =)

Also, the file is huge =)

HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY =)


http://brafilm.no-ip.com/vovin/films...uple2-high.avi

Check out our Wedding Invitations!
 

Hi all,

http://www.ebenezerfilms.com/Ebeneze...ing_Invite.wmv

I put this in the wedding section but figured other folks here may be interested as well.

Enjoy - and let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Matthew.