If you have been looking for a place to host your reel or a short film, music video, or other work that you have done, CreativeCOW.net has added free video hosting for your reels and videos. We host up to 900 pixels wide, including 720p HD, with up to 100MB per file, in either H.264 or Flash encoding. We support AAC for audio.
If you can't afford your own unlimited bandwidth pipe, you will likely need to use someone else's service to host your reel. YouTube and Vimeo are nice, but often the sizes are too restrictive for professional use, and the small clips do not really show well when displaying your work to clients. Brightcove is an excellent choice but the costs can be very prohibitive to most anyone other than the biggest businesses with deeper pockets than most small and mid-sized companies.
We launched it a few weeks back and today, we are already passing the 40,000 unique monthly user marker and some of our videos have already passed the 6,000 views marker. And it's growing fast! How fast? Like most things at the COW, we will likely double in July, even with all of the holidays and Summer vacations that many northern hemisphere COW members will be taking this month.
Check out the links for "Most Viewed" and "Most Votes." Or try the link to "Sort by Nation." That's one of our favorites because we are getting some great work from around the world.
reels.creativecow.net
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 Creative COW Podcast
Episode #082 - June 29, 2009 by Franklin McMahon
(29:44) -- 6/29/2009
Indie Shooting in 3D with 21st Century 3D's Jason Goodman, BlackMagic Design Ultrascope, Worldweaver DX Studio 3.1, Microsoft sells Razorfish, Gridiron Flow ships, Sony Walkman turns 30 and more creative news and interviews - creativecow.net - Jason Goodman of 21st Century 3D in NYC talks to Creative Cow Magazine's Editor In Chief Tim Wilson about building a 3D camera system from two prosumer DVX-100's, switching from SD to HD, hard drive to solid state and other technical aspects he has learned with doing 3D himself. He also discusses his movie "Call of the Wild" an independent movie shot in 3D.
3D Animation Tutorials Podcast
3ds Max - Introduction to 3ds Max 2010 Particle Paint Helper by Michael Hurwicz
(09:39) -- 6/30/2009
In this 3ds Max 2010 tutorial, Michael Hurwicz looks at the new Particle Paint feature, which allows you to spray particle seeds on any object. You then use new operators in the Particle Flow system to convert these seeds to particles. -
Boris FX Tutorials Podcast
Boris Continuum Complete 6 - Animated Presets with Adobe and Avid by Dirk de Jong
(08:30) -- 6/30/2009
BCC6's new Custom Animated Presets feature lets you save and re-use every parameter animation in every BCC filter - even across host applications and platforms. Animate BCC filters in Adobe After Effects and transfer the animation to the Avid timeline.
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 Graphics and Effects for Final Cut Studio 2
Thirteen Full Length Video Tutorials with Project Files and Source Footage
For the first time, the best titling tool for Final Cut Pro is...Final Cut Pro... With a little help from Motion, Stephen Smith takes you step-by-step through hidden tips and tricks, and combinations of features that you may never have used before. The 13 lessons on this disk aren't general or vague. They offer real-world techniques designed to make you money.
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Creative COW's New Search Engine
The search engine for the forums at Creative COW has been improved. Some of the key features that have been upgraded are:
1) Speed - you will find the search results coming much faster than before.
2) Highlighted results - after clicking on a link in the results the terms will be highlighted in the resulting thread.
3) Archive search - the search engine defaults to crawling back to the creation of Creative COW in 2001 rather than just until 2005.
4) Library articles - library articles are now mixed into the search results and set in bold.
5) Related Matches - when you navigate to a result from a search you will receive additional related posts and articles based on the search you are coming from.
More is on the way... Let us know what you think of these improvements in the COWmunications forum.
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Jul 2, '09
New York NY United States
Matrox MAXimum Roadshow (New York City with Tekserve) |
Jul 2, '09
New York NY United States
Matrox MAXimum Roadshow (New York City with B&H Photo) |
Jul 3, '09
London United Kingdom
Final Cut Induction |
May 17, '09 - Jul 4, '09
Rockport ME
Filmmakers Seven-Week Workstudy |
Jul 6, '09
Boulder CO
Getting Started with WordPress - For Content Creators - Workshop |
Jul 6, '09
London United Kingdom
After Effects Induction |
Jul 7, '09
Boulder CO
Getting Started with Final Cut Pro - Workshop |
Jul 8, '09
Los Angeles CA USA
Los Angeles Post Production Group - July 8th Meeting |
Jul 11, '09
Boulder CO
Dreamweaver Hands-On Intensive - Class |
Jul 11, '09
New York NY United States
A Filmmaker's Guide To Tapeless Workflow |
Jul 11, '09 - Jul 12, '09
Atlanta GA United States
Atlanta Motion Graphics Festival 2009 |
Jul 13, '09
London United Kingdom
After Effects Intermediate |
Jul 14, '09
Boulder CO
Introduction to Search Engine Optimization - Workshop |
Jul 14, '09
Boulder CO
Getting Started with WordPress - Web Developers - Workshop |
Jul 15, '09
Cow Appreciation Day |
View more events at events.creativecow.net |
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Mike Cohen
In college, Mike Cohen thought he would
work in broadcast news. He ran the University of Hartford student
news broadcast, did news internships and took journalism classes.
Then Mike discovered corporate video
and a job duping tapes at Ciné-Med. After a few months Mike
was promoted to sho more... |
 Previously, Chris Zwar penned an article we refer to as ''Everything you wanted to know about Fractal Noise but were afraid to ask,'' but in this article, Chris takes it a step further and demonstrate more...Get help with, or discuss this tutorial in the COW's Adobe After Effects Forum. |
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