Publishing Documentaries on the Internet? 20
gehel asks: "While working in Rwanda as a computer engineer, I've had a discussion with a small NGO that produces video documentaries. Internews produces videos about Rwanda to raise the population awareness on different issues, mainly the Gacaca popular court for reconciliation. Those videos are the shown in public projections all over Rwanda. They would be interested in distributing this content to a larger audience: the internet. They have the rights to their documentaries, and are willing to distribute them under a Creative Common license, so we could use the Internet Archives to host the files, however we'd still have to find a good front end. I have been looking into a couple of solutions. Ourmedia is a bit too complicated to use, the Broadcast Machine doesn't seem ready for prime time, so I'm back to the standard Joomla!. I'm pretty sure there is the perfect solution somewhere, but I cant find it. Could you help me?
"The perfect solution would be a Content Management System oriented toward video publishing, that can interact well with the Internet Archives. The ability to create RSS feeds for different media (French/English/Kinyarwanda with high/low quality versions) would be a plus.
Also, if anybody can help us with a good design, then suggestions are welcomed!"
Also, if anybody can help us with a good design, then suggestions are welcomed!"
YouTube (Score:1, Informative)
Just upload them to the Internet Archive (Score:3, Informative)
Upload them to the Internet Archive and let them do the conversion. They'll generate streamable MPEG4 for you. Upload the best version you can and don't worry about the size; they'll keep the high-res archival version available for people who need it, and generate low-rez versions for viewing.
A good program I recently found (Score:4, Informative)
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Anyway, I'll keep looking, and thanks for the help !
Google Video? (Score:2, Insightful)
Another option may be to host it on the Internet Archive, but then upload a highlight video to Google Videos to raise awareness of the full documentary.
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Do you know something about Google that I don't? Of all current internet companies, no, of all companies, I would most expect them to be around for the useful lifespan of a documentary. Sure, the wayback machine has a stated goal to archive digital information, but doesn't have the clout of IB....I mean Google.
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My point was that Google's video offering is a Beta product, like most of Google's products. There's a chance that they might one day decide to start charging for it (at least for longer clips and movies such as documentaries), or just drop it altogether and roll youtube onto the Google homepage. If the documentary writer plans to embed their video and
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GVideo is also known to have removed content throug
Documentaries Currently Preach to the Choir (Score:4, Insightful)
Documentary filmmakers need to find a way to reach a wider audience. I'd suggest putting them up for DL in limited resolution, but with high quality sound, so that the Documentary stops being an artsy wank-fest and actually becomes a useful tool.
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Loose change managed to hit the sweet spot where the documentary is of good enough quality to be watchable (but because of the grainy pictures it felt more like a slideshow, and don't get me started on the content). I think the software used to create the documentary, and the
Netflix (Score:3, Informative)
But I think the real way to do it is come up with some sort of agreement with Rental by Post companies such as Netflix...
When you say documentary I think Netflix because they have the largest selection on the planet.
Boring.... (Score:1)
my two cents.... (Score:2)
I'd like to second google video/uTube as another option to the internet archive, either way, the space for the documentaries shouldn't be a problem.
As for the design, I'd like to recommend looking at Open Source Web Design [oswd.org]. There are a number of great designs on there.
Brightcove (Score:1)
cms gvideo youtube and torrents (Score:2)
As for video hosting, I think the Internet Archive is a good start. However, they have been known to censor videos in the past, so you might want to have on site backups that you could quickly switch to. I would also recommend google video because of it's searchability, support for many video formats, and lack of a fi
Make it Ogg (Score:2)
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Make sure the content is available in the form your viewers can view.
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Self serving, yet helpful comment. (Score:1)
I work there, so I could just be a shill. But it's free, so you've nothing to lose by trying.
We have a guy using Lulu TV for webisodes of a documentary he's filming to raise funds and drive awareness. It's also a good place