Music video distribution to YouTube, Hulu and more
Ever thought it would be nice to get paid from YouTube views? Now you can. We distribute your music videos to YouTube, iTunes, Hulu, AOL and more.
Simple pricing
One fee per video, a 60% payout and quarterly pay.
Music video distribution
$70
$50 when added to the Single or Premier packages. 60% payout, quarterly pay.
Video delivery requirements
As a vendor to the world’s top video outlets, we are required to ensure the highest possible video quality using professional post-production practices. Following these specifications ensures your videos pass quality control and your release is not delayed. They are designed around our retail partners’ very strict standards.
Format options
- Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) video file in a .MOV container (preferred), or
- 8/10-bit uncompressed video file in a .MOV container, or
- Avid DNxHD video file in a .MOV container, or
- Digital Betacam tape
Asset requirements
- Original/master resolution, frame rate and interlacing cadence.
- Cannot be up-converted from compressed media (e.g. H.264, MP4, DV, MPG, WMV).
- Cannot derive from DVDs, miniDVs or other consumer-grade masters.
- Must have “frame independence”: no frame blending or duplicate frames, often caused by NTSC-PAL or PAL-NTSC conversions, editing 24 fps video in a 30 fps edit timeline, deinterlacing 24P footage containing a telecine cadence, or mixing frame rates.
- No credits, titles or chyrons (supply these separately in metadata).
- At least one frame of black at the beginning and end, and no more than 1 second.
- No watermarks, bugs, DVD logos, promotional intros, release dates, websites, color bars, title cards, slates or countdowns.
For video files only
- Exported from the edit timeline, or captured directly to this format from the uncompressed master (not through FireWire).
- Audio in PCM format, 48 kHz, 16-bit, properly tagged in stereo.
- If shot in 24P, video should arrive at 23.98 or 24 fps progressive (no interlaced frames).
- For reference, typical music video files range from about 1.2 GB to 10 GB.
For tapes only
- If edited in HD, must be delivered as a video file.
- Beta SP (analog) is acceptable only if it is a master and not a duplicate, and if no Digital Betacam version is available.
- More than one video per tape is acceptable only if the tape’s case is clearly labeled with each video’s details and start time.
Common reasons for quality control rejection
- The video is de-interlaced, so pixels are visible on diagonals.
- The video has duplicate or merged frames.
- The video is cropped, less than 720 pixels wide, or contains black pillars (curtains).
- The video has artifacts, glitches, dropped frames, or audio clicks, pops or outages.
- The video shows signs of compression, arrives on video DVD, or uses a compressed codec like DV, MP4 or H.264.
- The audio is mono.