Digital Video Clips. . .
In 2006 I produced over one hundred video clips for the following artists:
The Kings of Reggae - Walking as Video Kings
Dot Comma Dash - Dot Comma Dance
Dot Comma Dash - Dot Comma Techno
Deep Chill - Deep Chilled
Silicon Strings - Stringwall
- http://myspace.com/siliconstrings
Cyborg Trance - Ether Dreams
- http://myspace.com/cyborgtrance
Pilgrim Soul - Techno Steel Guitars
Compilation - Made in Kilburn
FLuX - Three Day Wonder
A handful of video clips were made for other artists. The quality of these clips are low resolution, produced at a small size and on an extremely lowbudget. (That would be a budget of zero) I will try to describe the progress in our accumulation of the relevent skills we have acquired as we have learnt from our mistakes. Most of these videos need to be remade, or at least re-rendered at larger sizes and higher resolutions. Of course, this all requires faster computers and lots of disc storage.
We tried uploading a few clips to YouTube - but there are millions of video clips on YouTube; ours was just lost. We found a video sharing service at livevideo.com - we registered and created a channel at http://livevideo.com/chrisloft
We had moderate success, managed to get a few friends and subscribers, but the numbers of views we were getting was nothing to write home about. We heard about a service at tubemogul.com (by reading the news at mashable.com) that allows you to upload once to tubemogul who then distribute it to a dozen video-sharing sites, including YouTube, Google, Yahoo, Myspace, MetaCafe, Revver, AOL, Crackle, Daily Motion and Veoh. This means joining up for all of these services and then setting tubemogul up to do all the work for you.
From October 2007 to March of this year we have had over 60,000 recorded views of our videos. This was enormous success compared to our previous experience at livevideo.com
We found that MetaCafe initially gave us the most viewers, then they were overtaken by Yahoo. YouTube and MySpace only provide a small percentage of views; even though we are trying to build a presence on MySpace for our bands.