Metacafe is pleased to announce MetaFest 2008!
MetaFest is a juried online and offline film festival presenting the best in creative and contemporary short-form video entertainment.We’re looking for video, film and digital media submissions of 10 minutes or less that are narrative, humorous, artistic, dramatic, animated, documentary, mockumentary, music, experimental, alternative or avant-garde in any genre, format or style.Selected films will have a theatrical premiere in San Francisco in November 2008, be showcased on Metacafe.com for six months, and be screened at dozens of “microcinemaâ€? events across the U.S. and around the world through the first half of 2009. Did we mention there will be $10,000 in prizes, too?
The submission period closes September 10th, 2008. You can find out more at www.metacafe.com/metafest.
Updated: Here’s the promotional video for MetaFest!
Metafest - Short Film Festival
Finally, after a long anticipation, Metacafe is proud to present the new PLYfx feature. With PLYfx you can now add bubbles, text, images, animations, subtitles, links and more on any Metacafe video… so don’t wait – start “FX-ingâ€? now!
(The PLYfx creation feature is available to registered Metacafe users).
Click here for cool videos with PLYfx
How to use PLYfx?
PLYfx allows you to view and create a whole new world of additional and interactive content on top of web videos.The PLYfx menu is located on the top left hand corner of the screen(rollover the screen to display it) and is your invitation to create and manage your own additions (PLYs) to a video as well as to view PLYs that others have created for the same video.To create a new PLY on a video, click “Create New”. The video player will switch to creation mode. If you’re not signed in, you will be asked to sign in/register before you can create your own PLYs. Once in creation mode, you can add bubbles (like a pop-up video), edit them, format them and time them along the video as you please. You can also add text, links, clip-art, your own images, subtitles and more.
So choose any Metacafe video you wish and begin adding PLYfx to it now!
