Almost everything until now was about gear. Reviews, tutorials, tests, comparisons...

I think now is the time the real thing will begin. With the possibility of making money, instead of hold the job to sell in DVD, Bluray, TV stations, the real work from directors and producers will start to show up online (docs, narratives, feature films, series and so on) and the real internet revolution in indie filmmaker will begin.

Vimeo On Demand (pay to view) is a smart decision from Vimeo to avoid the website to be mainly a gear test platform and complete the indie filmmaking revolution filling the last gap: online paid screening.

Show your talent! Next Spielbergs, Camerons, Lucas, Hitchcocks are to be born!

P.S.: Interesting thing will happen: there will be better films done with cel phones or cheap cameras instead of pro cameras. this will be the time for human talent (script, direction, acting), not gear quality!

@Vitaliy_Kiselev

Why not? Can you elaborate it in more words?

Curious numbers:

to use vimeo on demand you need to go vimeo pro. it is 199 usd/year. Today in Brazilian currency it will be something like 400 Reais (payment and tax, Real is our currency)

400 Reais / 12 months = 33.333333 per month. Is it an interesting anamorphic coincidence?

What are the crucial things in this?

I was just thinking about low budget people can get some attention and audience and have some fun. Maybe make some money also just to keep doing.

Among million maybe someone will be talented enough to grow up lots of audience and be invited by the Bigs. Its like when in Matrix they find Neo. Who will be?

I have monitored my Vimeo direct stats, shared embeds and geographic locations over the past 3 years and there has been quite a large increase in traffic coming from Internet enabled TVs and boxes like Hulu/Roku/Boxie etc. via the couch mode direct from Vimeo access, about 50% now.

I'm not sure my viewers are ready to pay to watch, sure there are a few ( I did a survey awhile back) but most said they expect net content to be free and most likely would not pay. Not a problem for me as I'm payed at the front end by my client/sponsors to shoot, produce and host the show but a few bucks at the back end would certainly help fund the gig.

One very valuable stat is the watch to completion flag, where a stat is recorded if the video is watched right to the end. Once videos exceed 10 mins this stat drops very quickly.

I would be more than happy to receive a $1 per view, of the 200+ videos I have online, stats for the past 12 mths were 3.4mil hits and 545k plays, approx 300k were played till the video finished.

Some nice $ there if it could happen, even .10c per view would be nice. What I do find strange is that lots a people ask me for DVDs and are willing to pay $25 for them plus shipping ... Weird huh.

R

Get good advice - make flash USB drive with all your clips in FullHD and portable video player. It is easy and cheap to ship, fast to make and you'll get money.

Yep, do this also, but more people still want DVDs even if they are SD not BR. I did also try selling a HD downloadable file via password, but was to much to administer.

@Rambo - I'd be interested in hearing more about your experiences there. Can you tell me more via PM?

@BurnetRhoades Yeah, very cool stuff. If you produce the goods...the barriers to distribute seem to become lesser every year. I get Vimeo on my HDTV via Apple TV, and I believe it's possible with Roku players and some other devices. I wonder what the number of households are that have some form of Vimeo access on their TVs, because that's what's new and beneficial here to those who want to distribute their films independently...ability to get on TV screens in households.

DouglasHorn 10:52AM @Rambo - I'd be interested in hearing more about your experiences there. Can you tell me more via PM?

Sure, i have no secrets.

@BurnetRhoades

You can get cheap small stick Android computer, stick it into HDMi and it could play Vimeo on any TV.

As we had discussed in a recent similar thread, I would be interested to learn what Vimeo actually require with regard to documentation in order to have paid content accepted as 'Vimeo on demand'. Anyone know more about this? Thank you.

@WhiteRabbit If you're talking about rights, clearances, etc., I think Vimeo (and others like Distrify) are pretty loose. They probably have you sign (or just digitally check a box) something in the terms and conditions that basically says you confirm that you have all rights, clearances, etc. I quickly scanned the FAQs and remember a single line saying that you should make sure you have all the rights to music, etc. Within a week or two, they'll be a bunch of people jumping on this to distribute their content, so you'll be able to find a few people online who will discuss what's needed. But basically, it's probably just a thing where anything goes and if Vimeo gets a complaint from a rights holder stating somehow has used their material without permission, then they would deal with it. This internet is fast and loose.

Anyone familiar with the iTunes process? I understand you generally need to pony up $1500 to pay an aggregator to get your material to iTunes, but was told it then is a 3 month wait. My question is: what happens in that period...i.e. what are the quality control checks, clearance/rights verifications etc?

@BurnetRhoades I'm running an Apple TV 2nd gen and it's pretty good. As you can imagine, Friday and Saturday night, everybody is on the thing...so you often can't get movies...but if you want to watch a movie on a Tuesday night at 11PM, you're gold. It's pretty cool. Your examples are pretty good, in that a lot of people don't quite yet have the devices that would get them Vimeo to their TV, but @Rambo seems to see significant "couch" traffic, so I guess it would really be cool if someone on p-v.com had an idea on the Vimeo to TV stats...i.e. how many households can get Vimeo to their TVs.