hihi so i run a crowd sourced film festival in australia [15Mb of FAME] and it's all onsite so we deal with physical submissions over the lead-up duration of a couple of days of footage which is then collated and edited over 48 hours or so... it's a rather mammothian task as the festival while not enormous involves well over 5000 bodies. thankfully not that many submit footage...
we deal with raw files [mpeg4/mov files] from mostly phones and it's just a direct upload of data via USB etc with a team of uber punk monk peeps managing it onsite. it's all rather hectic. looking forward to seeing/hearing about your project further. here's what we did in the first year... http://www.15mb-of-fame.tv/ On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 2:35 AM, flick harrison <fl...@flickharrison.com>wrote: > Interesting question. > > 1. GETTING THE FILES > > Yousendit or Dropbox might be good ways to get the files, the size limits > are better on dropbox. But any files you get from other people add to your > own quota so you'd have to be really organized to get everything happening > without maybe confounding your senders. > > I would think a self-hosted blind-drop FTP server, i.e. a one-way web > interface so they could send you raw files. Never set one up but I've seen > them. In any case - if web interface is too hard to do then you have to > expect the shooters to understand FTP. > > You could ask people to post full-quality versions on youtube and then rip > the files with some sort of youtube downloading plugin. This would be > clunky and usually results in (BIG!) quality loss. > > Vimeo would work, since there's an option to leave the full-quality file > as a download link for anyone who sees the video. You can password-protect > videos there so they aren't available to the general public. But then > folks would have to sign up for a vimeo account and understand how to get a > reasonable-quality file on there (max 1 HD upload per week, 500Mb total > files per week, thus more headaches). > > But, for instance, can shooters on an ipad really send you the > full-quality master footage? Or are they limited to BS options like "Share > -> Youtube, Facebook, etc" which bypass the file system altogether? It's > the result of the War on General Purpose Computing. > > 2. USING THE FILES > > This is trickier - I've done BYO gigs with kids, where everyone and sundry > had a different file wrapper and codec and frame rate and file size so on. > Premier or FCP should probably eat them all and crap out a movie but I did > encounter the odd Chinese kid with an .mtv format or something no one had > ever heard of except them. > > AND if they are sending the files, better hope they understand the file > structure for stuff like AVCHD, and get them to send the whole "PRIVATE" > folder and that kinda thing. Etc etc. > > The deal is that even with good pre-production discussions between two > people, surprises crop up - so sending out a call to the general public is > asking for trouble. But I'm interested in the same kinds of projects so > please let me know how it develops! > > Good Luck! > > -Flick > > > > -- > ** WHERE'S MY ARTICLE, WORLD? > *http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Flick_Harrison > > ** FLICK's WEBSITE: http://www.flickharrison.com * > > [image: Zero for Conduct - Flick's > News]<http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ZeroForConduct/~6/1> > > > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- victoria waghorn -------------------- founder // filmmaker punk monk propaganda a. the corner shop 144 henderson rd alexandria. NSW e. v...@punk-monk.com m. +61[0]412 534 384
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