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social change. We want to promote work that challenges corporate
dominance and government arrogance, that exposes the people and
mechanisms behind environmental destruction or human rights abuses. We
want to build media that questions how the world works.
We are looking to
create a more thoughtful space for works that have significant impact
on viewers but we also want the space to be diverse and open to people
with many different approaches.
We accept work that is:
We don't accept:
EngageMedia operates on the principles of open content. We want visitors to this site to be able to freely copy and redistribute the works here as long as it is for non-profit purposes. Work should preferably be share-alike which means "I share if you share". Apart from the ethics of such a policy, we believe it is practically impossible to stop people reproducing your work once it is in digital form. This is also a positive, however, as people will help you distribute your work around the globe if they enjoy it.
This
site cannot directly generate revenue for producers, although we would
like to implement a donations based micro-payment system a bit further
down the line, so other Members may contribute financially, on a
voluntary basis, to future work by the Producers whose videos they
enjoy or want to see more of. Indirectly EngageMedia and Internet
distribution in general may expose filmmakers to other revenue streams
such as festivals, compilations and broadcast.
EngageMedia uses the Creative Commons licenses as they are currently the most developed. When you publish your work you will be asked to specify a creative commons licence.
http://lists.engagemedia.org/mailman/listinfo/betatesters
We anticipate there will be more bugs to report and areas to work on at the start. As time goes on there will be fewer problems as we take your ideas on board and the site becomes more polished. We'll try to be as responsive to the issues you raise as we can, whilst adhering to our roadmap for software development.
Here's a list of things you can do on the EngageMedia website:
- Upload videos via a publishing web form. Video uploading functionality will develop as we go forward including support for large video files and automatic transcoding.
- Assign a Creative Commons license to your video.
- Download Videos – Browse for videos on the site by Member, Topic, Genre, Country or through Search
- Download via BitTorrent – try using a BitTorrent client to download videos via peer 2 peer networks
- Vodcasting – copy a video feed into a client such as ITunes or Democracy Player which will automatically download new videos to your computer when a new video is updated. You could subscribe to the Latest Videos feed or to a specific Member's video feed, or pick your feed by Topic or Country. This feed is available in your videos folders by right clicking on the orange RSS link towards the top right hand corner of the page.
- Profile Page - create a page about you and your video work which includes a listing of your video contributions to EngageMedia.
- Post an Event about a video screening, workshop or festival.
- Post a News item about developments in the world of video activism, tactical media or the new participatory culture breeding on the Internet.
- Contact other Members of EngageMedia to discuss collaborations or just to say hello.
Please do start uploading video to the site, but keep in mind that you can only upload via a web form so anything more than 100 megabytes might drop out before it's fully uploaded - depending on your internet connection - so keep your video files under 100 megabytes. Your video can be anything – a Quicktime, Windows Media, AVI or MPEG4, though we encourage the use of open source formats such as xVid and Ogg Theora.
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
http://www.xiph.org/theora
Also do not use EngageMedia as a distribution point until we are out of beta testing and have produced a fully functional public release. We can't guarantee that the video you upload will necessarily survive the beta-testing period. Though we aim to preserve your data we make no promises, as there could be errors that mean videos are lost or corrupted, so at this stage please use this for test content only.
If you want to see some of the tech issues we are currently dealing with you can check out our tracker. This tracker is our tool for tracking web development issues, which are lodged as tickets – either bugs or features to be added in future.
http://engagemedia.org/projects/report/3
For the moment we're keeping the beta testing under wraps so please this will be a closed group of testers for the time being. If you know somebody who might want to help then please send us an email with their contact details.
http://www.engagemedia.org/contact-info
Thanks for getting involved!
:)
The EngageMedia Team
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CONTENTS
- Player Software
- Compression
- Codecs
- Container Formats
- Standards
- Mobile Devices
- Screening quality video
- Video for viewing on computer or within the browser
- Peer-to-Peer file sharing
- Vodcasting
- DVD
- Steps involved in authoring a DVD
- VCD
- Steps involved in making a VCD
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