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YouTube Launches First Paid Channel Subscriptions Starting at $1 Per Month

Dave Kendricken — Sat, 11 May 2013 01:03:16 +0000

Inevitable as it was, YouTube has finally rolled out the initial phase of its first ever attempt at paid subscription content. The 30 channels offered in this ‘pilot program’ span a wide range of demographics and subject matter — which is to be expected from the place where a vast majority of web video lives. Especially judging by these first 30 channels, this news likely won’t have no-budget filmmakers screaming anything about a ‘self-distribution revolution,’ but it certainly offers a more direct line of monetization for content owners than ad-based revenue. Viewers can try out any of the channels with a two-week free trial, and they start at $1 a month. Read on for more details. (more…)

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H.265 is Now Officially Approved, is 4K Streaming and Broadcast Just Around the Corner?

Dave Kendricken — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:25:25 +0000

Technology’s progression sometimes moves with consistent momentum, and sometime comes in spurts. For instance, processors of mobile devices regularly decrease in size and price with relation to power — while, at the same time, the speed of your internet connection may not change much at all for several years, and make a great leap whenever it does. Both of these tendencies of advancement seem to inform High Efficiency Video Coding, A.K.A. H.265 — the successor to that other codec with which we’re all quite familiar (H.264). Improving efficiency by around double, H.265 aims to set the standard for the next decade in video streaming and encoding — and it’s going to ease mobile data congestion and likely make 4K a reality much sooner than many would have anticipated. (more…)

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What Are Your Favorite Filmmaking Sites? (Besides NoFilmSchool, Of Course)

Joe Marine — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:25:53 +0000

We know we’re not the only game in town when it comes to filmmaking websites — far from it, actually — as there are lots of sites out there that share tons of great content. The often informative Revision3 web show Film Riot (hosted by Ryan Connolly) has been featured on this site before, most notably with a tutorial for a DIY slider. Now Ryan takes a look at some of his favorite filmmaking websites in the video below. (more…)

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'Film Festivals vs. The Web' - a Student Academy Award Winner's Perspective

E.M. Taboada — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:32:28 +0000

When deciding how to release your short film, one of the more common questions in recent years has been whether to forego the festival circuit and go directly to the web. With that in mind, animator Avner Geller, co-creator of the 2011 Student Academy Award winning animation short Defective Detective (which you can watch after the jump), shares his experience along with some tips now that he’s gone through the process: (more…)

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How to Add an Announcement Bar to Your Website (to Call Attention to Something Important)

Ryan Koo — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:15:32 +0000

Since launching my effort to make my first feature film, I started running a thin horizontal banner at the top of the site to let visitors know that my campaign is ongoing. A lot of filmmakers have blogs these days (present company included, obviously), and so I thought I might post about how to add an announcement bar to your own website. Typically you’ll want to run an announcement bar when something special is happening for a limited time: you might be doing a fundraising campaign of your own, you might have a newly released DVD, or you might be running a discount on a product you’re selling. If you’re curious about how to add a similar bar to your own blog, website, or portfolio, here are a couple of good ways of doing so. (more…)

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Web 3.0: now we're just talking semantics

Ryan Koo — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:07:51 +0000

In Kate Ray’s 14-minute film Web 3.0 (embedded below), Clay Shirky asks, “does the world make sense, or do we make sense of the world?” In other words, does the infographic of web links at left resemble the universe because a natural relationship exists between all things, or does the infographic resemble the universe because whoever graphed the visualization made it look like the universe? Watching the short, I kept thinking: these charts are cool and all, but what does Web 3.0 actually mean for you and me? One guess: much better automatic filters; that is, Netflix’s movie recommendation engine times a thousand (for a lot more than just movies). Here’s the video: (more…)

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