An experiment. Watch right through and play 'guess the budget'. Shot on 16mm, cut on avid by a top editor, TK and mastergrade at MPC. It's a couple of years old, so I'm not plugging anything here.

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Wow, one of my conundrums solved. The vid I posted yesterday had a freakish hit rate. There were a number of variables, so I didn't know where they were coming from. I now know that they were mostly from Antville.

         

specific numbers, nick? (always stat-hungry...)

         

The hit rate is about 15 to 20 per hour at first, dropping off as the vid moves down the page. For the one I posted yesterday I've had 169 hits in the 24 hrs, 99% I think came from here.

         

okay, I give up. What was the budget?

         

It's a game...you guess: I laugh and say "how ridiculous". Actually, there was an interesting point to this. I've been away from music videos for ten years, and I perceive a dramatic shift in what is expected for a given budget (given cheap HD cams, desktop editing etc). Not unreasonably, no-one else is playing my stupid game, so thanks for even thinking about it, and for being funny. You won't be surprised, when I reveal the budget. Nick

         

12$. I'm assuming this is the game where you tell us the filmstock was free short-ends, the telecining was done by a friend, the film-to-tape transfer came with it, etc. I'm assuming you only bought happy meals for the DP and his 1 grip. the band went hungry.

good looking video no matter how much it cost.

         

Haha, thanks, but nope, it's not that game. And I don't feed my DP, he's like a lion, all indolent and sleepy once fed. It's a stupid game I'll concede...the budget was about $12k, which at the time would have seemed a bargain. However, it would appear that it could have been done much more cheaply now. Thanks again, superprofessional.

         

For progosk., to satisfy that statto inclination of yours, the total hits on this one in 24 hrs was almost identical to yesterday's, around 162. Experiment over. I wonder if a lot of these views are from RSS feeds.

         

if you'd had the bon ton of putting up a mov instead of myswamp, you'd be getting about 250 pulls a day from the antcast ( videos.antville.org ), plus the antville clickthroughs (figure from a daily audience of about 3 to 4000...)

thx, nonetheless. always interesting.

         

Ah, thanks for that. I'm not tech savvy enough to make use of your advice though. Read the thread you pointed me to, and most of it went over my head. Not angling for more views anyway, I was just puzzled initially as to where they were coming through. Is youtube preferable to myswamp by the way? Am new here, and will learn eventually. Thanks again for your tips.

         

he calls it myswamp cuz, while it's a huge phenom, its web formatting is extremely messy. Youtube, at least, is a stable site. Having your reel online is great, but having it in a clean, downloadable format (mp4, mov..) is fab!

         

Thanks K. This would, I take it, involve me having my own site and having the vids in MOV format there. It's probably about time I did something like that anyway. Cheers.

         

utoob, myswamp, much of a muchness. other/better upload sites? revver, maybe... (i suggest you ask dek who posts here fairly often)

         

Cool, will do.