I've been a little quiet recently but I'm still reading all the conversations.
Anyway, I wanted to ask the backstage community a challenging question. Say, we had a ton of media assets from a BBC programme which we owned all the rights to and wanted to distribute widely. Not just video, but images, sound, subtitles, metadata about the programme scripts, etc. How would you 1. Package it? 2. Distribute it? 3. Licence it? (this isn't such a worry) As far as I know this is still new territory some exploring. Nine Inch Nails (not exactly my taste in music) uploaded 405 Gig of Live HD footage online the other day - http://newteevee.com/2009/01/09/nins-newest-game-changer-hd-concert-footage-via-bittorrent/ They packaged everything it would seem in a zip/tar and included a README files, some further notes about the footage, which was conveniently formatted for easy editing and even a Final Cut Pro sequences with the footage pre-organized for editing. Distribution was of course done on Bit Torrent using there own Tracker. Some thoughts I wonder how long it took to actually build the zip files and upload them? We were considering MXF - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXF but it looks difficult and time consuming to build, however the BBC did help build it so we could get help. Matroska, Nut and QuickTime are also look worthy. Distribution wise, Bit Torrent, P2Pnext, Edonkey2k, Usenet, Archive.org, Blip.tv, rapidshare (joking!) who knows, but YouTube isn't going to cut it. What do you guys think? Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: ian.forres...@bbc.co.uk work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
