Unicycle.com Video Comp - Entry Thread

[Eddbmxdude]

Leo and I were going to try and make a video for this. We started filming and got some footage, then I uPD'd onto the camera equipment and buggered the camera. I had finnished the last section of the movie but none of the rest.

I have decided to enter the competition with the last section from our video. We were trying to make something a bit different.

I hope you enjoy it

That is a download link, by the way.

We are entering the best compilation catergory. (From what I can tell, that is the only catergory we can enter because there are two riders)

Rock on!
Edd

[olarf]

@ Eroick:
To be honest, I can't understand what you like on that unicyclist vodpod.
There is a page for videos and its free from commercial stuff. Those Vodpod guys want to make money with their page (as youtube do). They ask many people for videos and they are not interested in unicycling or what ever, they only need content to show cause they have nothing.
I try to fugure out their upload policies but its needed to make an account to do that and I don't want to do that. Normaly they should be able to do what they like after you upload your video.
I hope I'm wrong but I think I'm right but feel free to do as you like.

[Fredrik_Justnes]

I think my vid will be som longer than 5 minutes 30 seconds. Is it ok?
I don't see the point having a limit for how long a video can be..

[Fredrik_Justnes]

Here's my vid!
It's 5 minutes and 26 seconds long.
Hope you all enjoy.



Link (70Mb)

Link (20Mb)

[vodpod]

hello olarf, i'm one of the vodpod guys and just wanted to respond briefly to your questions/points.

Originally Posted by olarf

@ Eroick:

-- This is true, some day we do want to make some money someday. But we won't ever put an ad on someone's pod (like the unicyclist pod) without their permission. If filmmaker, or a group of filmmakers, want to run ads to help make some money, we'll try to help them. If they want to start a subscription service, we'll try to help them. In many ways, our service is like a blogging platform, except for videos and groups of friends or communities.

I should also note that we've funded this ourselves; we're three guys in San Francisco trying to build a cool new service, not some big corporation.

-- We're testing the site now, we're not public yet. We got in touch with unicyclists on this board because (a) we really liked the videos we saw, (b) we wanted to work with a strong community like this one to figure out how to make our service better. We saw a lot of folks here using YouTube, and thought we could offer a better solution.

It is true we're not unicyclists here. We ride bikes (we're all bike commuters & avid cyclists). We don't have the skills to ride a unicycle.

-- The reason we require an account is in case we have problems with someone uploading illegal content. It's pretty standard for almost all video sharing sites.

-- Nope, that's not right. We're really clear that you own the rights to any video you upload to us. We don't own the rights. We just ask for permission from you to distribute the video on the site, that's it.

Hope this clears things up, Olarf. We'd love to work with you, Unicycle.TV, and anyone on this board who'd like to give VodPod a try. My e-mail is mark@remixation.com, don't hesitate to write me an e-mail if you have a question. Sorry to but in on your board, but wanted to correct some of the things above.

[Spencer Hochberg]

I think you should make the site so anyone can view a video without making an account. Having an account to upload stuff is understandable but a lot of people don't want to have to sign up for anything to watch a video posted here.

[Job]

Originally Posted by Spencer Hochberg

I think you should make the site so anyone can view a video without making an account. Having an account to upload stuff is understandable but a lot of people don't want to have to sign up for anything to watch a video posted here.

Ya i totally agree with you! I think it's very strange to let people make an account to only watch videos...

[KlownLife]

I've been told that the reason that they want you to make an account to watch vids is incase you put the video on a site without the owners permission e.g. if "British Invasion" ends up on on Spencer's Myspace page and he hasn't asked my permission, I might be p*ssed, this way they can follow it up, apparently.

Hope that answers your question...

Jas

[Eroick]

Mark from VodPod cleared it up for me in an email.

1. when someone uploads a hi-res video, it doesn't cost people who
watch it a thing
2. we require registration (which is, and will always be, free) in
case we have a problem with someone downloading your video, then
putting it up on a site like myspace w/ out the filmmaker's permission
3. you can always upload "basic" video that anyone can watch, without
any registration. it'll still be as good (if not better) quality than
youtube, myspace. just no downloads, and not as nice as our high
registration video.
4. if you wanted, you could upload a video twice -- once to designate
it as "hi-res" and another time to make it available in "basic"
format. that way people could choose.

[KlownLife]

Since Eroick was sent this email, I have been told by the makers of the site that as of tomorrow, there is no need to sign up to view videos, only to download them, seems fair to me.

Hope everyone is happy.

Jas

[kris.lee]

this is my vid for the comp http://enhjulos.com/filmer/lee.wmv

[Eroick]

Well, this thing is closed now. Get your videos in if you haven't yet! Ill give you until Dec. 6! Please, PLEASE post them here! Thanks!

[kris.lee]

hey, why is there almost no vids out yet?


its just like 4 vids out or something!

[Fredrik_Justnes]

Originally Posted by kris.lee

its just like 4 vids out or something!

No, there's more. 8-9 I think.

When do we get the results?

[The.Mars.Volta]

oi whats with this anyway is it a competition? is there a prize or anything?