Thanks guys. 
Yes, I’ll post links to the broadcast video with audio. That’s still a week or two away… final render first.
I’m thinking of uploading it in native 720x576 resolution. I’ll have to see what file size that will be, but most of you are big broadband surfers, right?
I’ll also post about all the other deliverables like generic backgrounds and title straps as well as a credit roll, so some of you can look out for your name in lights! 
Full res helps to show the detail in the work and I don’t see why someone would pirate it while having an explicit South African theme. Perhaps then a 3/4 res video as a compromise?
ROFL
Have ever seen this. Someone not releasing the full material although he wanted to?
I am in for the full res Paul. That is if it is not too much pressure on you to please all of us. :twisted:
Cool! Something new to put on my reel! 
Haha, I just remember an thread a few years back where some kid grabbed other peoples work and put it on a reel to get a job. He got found out of course, but it did open my eyes to how your stuff can be misrepresented.
Hell, I’d love to see your work in all it’s glory. Bring it on!
Give it a watermark, like your name or logo used as a displacement layer in AFX, full res but unusable for gsuttors showhijacking :D.
I thought of a watermark myself. However, anyone pirating my work has their own consciences to live with and the consequences of being found out - very likely - especially in the information age of the Internet. Plus, they could add my stuff to their reels even at 1/2 or 3/4-res, no?
Thanks for the feedback and the concerns…
heh, i highly doubt anyone would steal it. cmon now. People using your stuff in their reel? thats unheard of, why would anyone want to claim they did something in a package they probably dont even own?
i would be more worried about people exploiting your work in the commercial world, but then how big is the market for the content you made? i highly doubt you need to worry about people stealing it. just make sure everyone knows whos is responsible for the work, thats all.
Hey, I agree with you completely stooch. That’s why I wanted to just post the whole thing in full res in the first place. And that’s what I’ll do. Because I haven’t done this before I just wanted some feedback with regards to resolution which influences file size and download times. But it seems those sort of worries belong to the previous 28K and 56K dial-up modem era…
my suggestion is - sorenson squeeze. in fact if you want, i can take a crack and recompress it for you if you dont have squeeze. its miraculous as far as compression goes, you can even add watermarks in there. my website videos all use sorenson squeeze and the file sizes for the content is actually quite nice!
Windows Media is very good if you use the windows media encoder (free from microsoft) and feed it with uncompressed footage. You need to do some trial and error to find the perfect match between quality and size, but it is very good and the software is unusually pro-friendly for MS.
Also very good is the H264 Codec in Quicktime 7, but only if you encode a .mov file (I use the Quicktime Animation Codec as source) directly from inside the Pro Version of the Quicktime Player. Then it supports two pass encoding and delivers quite nice results that are cross platform (although there is a Windows Media Component for Mac also). For audio I would recommend AAC in that case.
If you encode from AfterEffects or other software, the results are much worse, since they mostly only support the basic features.
As far as stealing goes:
Let the stupid big media companies fear to death over piracy. For creative people, I think you have way more to win than to loose if you show your work in good quality. I was often quite annoyed if I had to watch a miniature with heavy artifacting - what good should that do? And the more people know your work, the more stupid people look who try to use it for their own…
I have read a very refreshing view on a similar issue at Baen.com lately:
http://www.baen.com/library/
And those books are really fantastic if you like SF - Especially the Honor Harrington series starting with “On Basilisk Station”… (The microsoft reader is really good for reading on a Laptop 
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Cheers! :bowdown:
Thanks for the tips guys
Thomas, that link to baen.com is excellent. This is also how I feel about the matter and this has just cemented it for me… thanks In fact, I’m about to be involved in an online content marketing project and this is part of the strategy.
Ah - cool it helped
For me, the text on Baen also cemented my general feeling on the matter, since they actually make good money with that approach, besides “uncriminalizing” their customers.
In fact, I heard all the music I like “for free” first, be it on the radio, in a club or on a tape from a friend. Most authors I know from books I borrowed, be it from friends or from a public library…
I just hope the current raging idiocy about Digital Right Management etc. will soon enough die out. The day I whistle something in the bathtub and are billed for the tune is the day where music will die.
Making your customers into criminals will not make them give any money to you happily in the long run. Things like the root kit from Sony/BMG are just unbelievable.
In germany they really outdid themselves with a mobile prison cell where you could “testdrive” what will happen to you if you download stuff from the web… :rolleyes:
http://www.hartabergerecht.de/index.php?id=63&L=0
Well, there is definitely no restriction on the amount of stupidity those people posses
Cheers,
Hi, thanks for asking. Rendering done and delivered last Friday evening. Now just waiting for client feedback and final sign off.
Most certainly! Once the client signs off, I’ll also get the final sound track to spice things up. The delivery was a whole package of graphic goodies all rendered in m:studio and comped in Digital Fusion. The rendering went rather smooth on 2 dual Xeon machines without a render manager, just manual frame allocation and hit render. Harvested the frames via external USB hard disk - easy and seamless - no render glitches between machines. I should hear this week. It’s been a long haul, but it seems to have worked out perfectly for the client’s schedule.
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