We have put together a very quick rough demo of how video production professionals get value out of Spidvid.

Learn how to get an account, bid on production projects, join teams, where uploaded videos go, share credit and compensations with each member, and other various spid-bits.

Important things for professionals to know:

- During our private beta, all video content produced by collaborative teams is uploaded to UnleashVideo. When we roll out our public beta early next year 2010, we fully intend to have a broader distribution network including the likes of YouTube, and other large audience video sharing sites.

- First phase beta invites will be sent out later on this month (November 2009).

- Allocation of compensations for revenue sharing with team members is done by creators, and so is the uploading of all video content. In the future we want to make these processes more collaborative between all key members.

- Video advertising may not occur until we reach public beta, so don’t expect to earn and share cash right away with your team members.

- Suggestions for new features is very much welcomed. Just contact us with your ideas and feedback, and we will include them in our public beta.

We are very excited about working closely with the first few hundred members of our beta community. There’s a long journey to travel before we fully produce the new media ecosystem we envision, but look forward to all of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

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Spidvid will not be built with TV, radio, or print ads. What we strive to do is build a social movement around collaborative video production teams who produce content that’s enjoyed by millions of people.

We are now looking for a remarkable person who can help us build a community of passionate individuals who believe that quality video content can now be created outside of corporate studio entities.

If you (or someone you know) are plugged into social media, enjoy connecting with people daily, creating blog content, educating people through webinars, organizing events, and want to contribute to changing the media world forever, then this is your calling.

Contact us via Twitter, or through our site if you are up to the challenge.

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Online social networking sites are excellent for communicating with friends (like on Facebook), having conversations and sharing media with people who are interested in the same things you are (like on Twitter), and connecting with professionals in your industry (like on LinkedIn).

Traditional social networks have many great benefits to offer, but for the most part don’t focus on offering exciting opportunities such as team building to achieve common collaborative goals. I believe that the next evolution in social networking is to empower individuals to accomplish tasks and projects, and to reward the deserving individuals for the content that gets created as a result.

So another way to think of Spidvid is as a social network with the purpose of allowing individuals to form teams, collaborate to create and produce quality video content, and credit those who invest their time and talent into the content.

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I saw an interesting interview a couple of weeks ago that featured an online video company CEO. What he said in the video was that video production studios are pretty much just banks which happen to invest in creating video content.

Here’s what I believe video production studios are:

1. Investors in creating, distributing, and marketing video content.

2. Connectors of individuals to form teams capable of undertaking their projects.

3. Buildings that have sets so videos can be shot.

4. Buyers of equipment (i.e. cameras), tools, props, and software.

Here’s how I believe collaborative video production teams can successfully operate:

1. Socially connect on Spidvid which empowers individuals to self-organize and form their own custom teams. Leadership is important to accomplishing this, so each project starts with the video creator.

2. A lot of individuals in the production industry have access to inexpensive but powerful tools. HD cameras for example can now be purchased for a few hundred dollars, and software technology such as Final Cut Pro also falls into this category. What once used to be considered barriers to entry for these people, are now commodity products available to pretty much anyone with an interest in using them.

3. Thanks to green screens, a simple set can now consist of a small sized living room located inside a house.

4. Funding is the largest obstacle in this model, but some very good quality content has been produced using shoe-string budgets, or in some cases for a cost of zero dollars. Financial options are available including corporate sponsorships, small investments coming from the creator and/or rest of the team, and community crowd-sourced funding where a few hundred or thousand people each donate say $1 each.

The big point that I’m trying to outline is that the traditional video production studio model is not as defensible as it once was. For further reading please check out our ebook manifesto entitled “Hollywood Is Doomed – The Rise of Collaborative Creation Teams”.

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I have recently written and released an ebook manifesto and released it to DocStoc, Scribd, and Issuu. It’s entitled “Hollywood Is Doomed – The Rise of Collaborative Creation Teams” and it discusses how the traditional video entertainment studio model is losing its appeal as talent connects together on a large scale avoiding the corporate structure. This empowers individuals to form their own production entities, and create a social movement towards a more open and collaborative video creation ecosystem.

I tried to embed the document directly into this post but was unsuccessful, so if you’re interested in reading the 30 page manifesto I encourage you to visit one of the above links to view and download it. If you enjoy it and have a colleague or friend who could get value from its contents, then please share it with them.

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