Chris Anderson notes a new study that estimates the “Long Tail” for films, the results of which are pretty astounding:
“latent demand” for films that don’t get adequate distribution is 60%-70% as big as the existing industry.
From the monthly archives:
June 2007
The Long Tail of Film Distribution
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Increasing Performance in Compressor 3
Mike Curtis of HD For Indies has posted a tutorial on achieving vastly-improved encode times in Compressor 3.
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Sony Kills It’s Connect Music/Video Store
Sony’s proprietary-format music store fails miserably.
The Sony Connect experiment is about to get, well, disconnected: it will be winding down its music and video services in the next couple of months, and focus on servicing the Playstation group on the technical needs…
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Scott Kirsner’s “Web Distribution for Makers of Film and Video”
Scott Kirsner of CinemaTech has posted his slides from his presentation at the San Francisco Apple store. The “meat” of the presentation begins around slide10.
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Downloadables
- Badly Drawn Boy : KEXP Session
- Nirvana : Rough Tapes, a bootleg of outtakes and demos.
- The Fall : Peel Session, 1978
- Tortoise : 2007 Bonnaroo Set
- The Bats : The Law of Things
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links for 2007-06-16
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White Stripes new album on a flash drive, in Apple Lossless format
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Another iPhone prototype app
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YouTube to Test Video Fingerprinting with Time Warner, Disney
via Reuters:
The technology, developed by engineers at YouTube-owner Google Inc., will help content owners such as movie and TV studios identify videos uploaded to the site without the copyright owner’s permission, legal, marketing and strategy executives at YouTube told Reuters in an interview on Monday.
The so-called video fingerprinting tools, which identify unique attributes in the video clips, will be available for testing in about a month, a YouTube executive said.
Many lessons have yet to be learned.
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links for 2007-06-12
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A cop out?
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Apple stock loses 3+% after “Disappointing” (?) WWDC Keynote.
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Available for Windows+OSX
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The only WWDC wrap-up you’ll need
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Safari 3 Beta Tip: Inspect That Element
New feature I noticed while tooling around the Safari 3 Beta. Make a selection, right-click and select “inspect element”—up pops the “Web Inspector”, similar, though not as feature-rich, to the Firebug Firefox extension.
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links for 2007-06-10
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“Feature for feature, if you match up Apple’s constrained model selections with mainstream/premium vendors like Dell or Sony, the MacBook Pro and iMac come out ahead on pricing.”
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Greasemonkey script to kill the insanely annoying/stupid NYT popup dictionary.
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DJ Spooky: Rebirth of a Nation
The Workbook Project interviews DJ Spooky about his “Rebirth of a Nation” project, where he “remixes” D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation“.
This Conference Is Being Recorded:DJ Spooky
Also at The Workbook Project: Filmmakers That Think Outside The Film.
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Video Player GUI Updates and Improvements.
A few notable improvements in the GUIs/features of video player embeds. Youtube, in addition to advertising, has included a new “related videos” feature, as well as some interface tweaks. Break.com launches a slew of new features, including some AJAX-y looking player scaling. BlipTV has also launched some new web features and improvements.
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A Couple Musical Goodies
Some Polvo singles.
1990/91 demos, outtakes and rehearsals from Spirtualized.
Amiina, better-known as Sigur Rós’ string section, has a few tracks from their debut record streaming from an e-card.
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