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INTRODUCTION:
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 deep pockets.
Creative COW has added a FREE hosting service for your videos, including demo reels, short films, trailers, commercials, promotional videos, music videos, and many other types of video.
Here are some of the basics:
* Free hosting
* Unlimited bandwidth, we won't turn you off because you are popular
* Up to 900 pixels wide, including 720p HD (1080p coming soon)
* Up to 100MB per file
* Embed code
* Guaranteed no reuse, the rights are yours
* Guaranteed no pulling (except for written copyright/trademark protest)
* Extremely well-established presence (not going out of business)
* Extremely reliable network
* Secure
* Free support
That's right: free, unlimited-bandwidth, HD, embeddable, no reuse or unexplained disappearance, fully secure, on a reliable network owned by a reliable business that offers free support?
Allow me to introduce reels.creativecow.net.
Reels.creativecow.net is your home for gorgeous HD streaming, fully embeddable, from one of the industry's most established companies and most reliable networks. Best of all, you maintain complete control of your clips! No recompression in many cases (if you follow our simple instructions given in the upload mechanism), and guaranteed no reuse at any time.
Want to post more than your reel? No problem! Reels.creativecow.net has sections for short films, trailers, commercials, music videos and more. You can even tie these directly to a profile that includes your full contact information, resume, and publicly-posted industry expertise -- all of this is provided with free support, and active solicitation for improvements to serve you even better!
Here is one of our favorite reels in the library, a beautifully crafted reel from British cinematographer, Kate Reid, whose reel may not be the full 900 pixel width we support but whose work is top-notch and if you click the full-screen button at the right of the player, you can see for yourself that the COW's engine is working well, given great material like Kate's...
How can you find reels.creativecow.net when you are in the COW? You will find it in the orange navigation bar at the top of the COW interface. It's the REELS link.
Don't forget! That's reels.creativecow.net. Keep your work beautiful. Keep it free. Keep it safe. Keep it YOURS.
Reels.creativecow.net.
-- Ron Lindeboom
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