dylanwinter
Well-Known Member
The digital universe is changing rapidly now that the pipes are so much larger. Now that lots of video can be streamed to a smart TV in HD downloading is going the same way as the cassette tape, the CD and the DVD.
I am blundering around the digital world trying to find alternative platforms to the googletron who now own /brand/distribute and exploit 99.9 per cent of all the digits I have ever produced in my whole life.
I have even renamed the boat in their honour.
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/googletron2.jpg
As a consumer I love youtube - it delivers such great stuff to my desktop - as a producer of films I have a slightly different perspective.
There are times when I feel like one of those small companies who supply tescos - there is no real alternative.
The difference is that tescos pays its suppliers and google pays me not a penny - actually I pay them £250 a year for the use of Google earth in the films they make a lot of money from - far more than I make. 30 million hits and still counting.
But it is a case of dance with the devil or die.
A few years ago I had my films on vimeo (and an outfit called blip) but my MOBs (mostly old blokes) told me that they seldom worked and I moved them to youtube because of the way youtube can deliver bandwidth and a smooth image
What youtube does is amazing. Their compressions and command of bandwidth is astonishing.
Sometimes when my web at home is going slow I will open a popular youtube video and start it playing and suddenly my bandwidth for other websites goes up as well so Google obviously gets some sort of priority when it comes to bandwidth rationing.
They bestride the digital world like a behomoth
I am told that vimeo has come on a long way and now looks good on laptops and tablets.
More of us have wider pipes and better screens than we did when I started KTL six years ago.
The web is much faster and that google bandwidth superiority is becoming less important.
If anyone fancies a few minutes comparing and contrasting I would be very grateful to you
here is the Best inland sail in Britain (big unsustainable claim I know but heck this is the web)
on youtube
if you open it in youtube, click the little wheel in the conre and get it to deliver the film in 720p - open it up to full screen.
and on vimeo
[vimeo]114060701[/vimeo]
(clearly embedding vimeo here requires some bit of code I cannot find)
https://vimeo.com/114060701
on my desktop at home I cannot get the vimeo to stream smoothly in whatever size window and it sounds as though they have crushed the heck out of the audio track. The reed warblers at the beginning of the film have all but dissapeared on my speakers.
from the vimeo page you can bully it into HD and also download the film in three different sizes. The orignal 720p I uploaded (450mb) (complete with reed warbler sounds) - their crushed 720p (200mb) and a tiny one for smartphones (71mb)
which is nice.
If that 450mb was coming from my amazon account it would cost me about 4 cents to serve to the web.
I recently did a free download trial on a couple of films from KTL6 and within a week my Amazon bill was $150.
From vimeo it will cost me £150 for infinite bandwidth for a year for all the films.
if anyone fancies downloading it from vimeo and telling me how long that took that would be most useful as well.
I fully understand if, on a beautiful day like the one we are enjoying in the midlands, you have better things to do.
D
I am blundering around the digital world trying to find alternative platforms to the googletron who now own /brand/distribute and exploit 99.9 per cent of all the digits I have ever produced in my whole life.
I have even renamed the boat in their honour.
http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/googletron2.jpg
As a consumer I love youtube - it delivers such great stuff to my desktop - as a producer of films I have a slightly different perspective.
There are times when I feel like one of those small companies who supply tescos - there is no real alternative.
The difference is that tescos pays its suppliers and google pays me not a penny - actually I pay them £250 a year for the use of Google earth in the films they make a lot of money from - far more than I make. 30 million hits and still counting.
But it is a case of dance with the devil or die.
A few years ago I had my films on vimeo (and an outfit called blip) but my MOBs (mostly old blokes) told me that they seldom worked and I moved them to youtube because of the way youtube can deliver bandwidth and a smooth image
What youtube does is amazing. Their compressions and command of bandwidth is astonishing.
Sometimes when my web at home is going slow I will open a popular youtube video and start it playing and suddenly my bandwidth for other websites goes up as well so Google obviously gets some sort of priority when it comes to bandwidth rationing.
They bestride the digital world like a behomoth
I am told that vimeo has come on a long way and now looks good on laptops and tablets.
More of us have wider pipes and better screens than we did when I started KTL six years ago.
The web is much faster and that google bandwidth superiority is becoming less important.
If anyone fancies a few minutes comparing and contrasting I would be very grateful to you
here is the Best inland sail in Britain (big unsustainable claim I know but heck this is the web)
on youtube
if you open it in youtube, click the little wheel in the conre and get it to deliver the film in 720p - open it up to full screen.
and on vimeo
[vimeo]114060701[/vimeo]
(clearly embedding vimeo here requires some bit of code I cannot find)
https://vimeo.com/114060701
on my desktop at home I cannot get the vimeo to stream smoothly in whatever size window and it sounds as though they have crushed the heck out of the audio track. The reed warblers at the beginning of the film have all but dissapeared on my speakers.
from the vimeo page you can bully it into HD and also download the film in three different sizes. The orignal 720p I uploaded (450mb) (complete with reed warbler sounds) - their crushed 720p (200mb) and a tiny one for smartphones (71mb)
which is nice.
If that 450mb was coming from my amazon account it would cost me about 4 cents to serve to the web.
I recently did a free download trial on a couple of films from KTL6 and within a week my Amazon bill was $150.
From vimeo it will cost me £150 for infinite bandwidth for a year for all the films.
if anyone fancies downloading it from vimeo and telling me how long that took that would be most useful as well.
I fully understand if, on a beautiful day like the one we are enjoying in the midlands, you have better things to do.
D
