Studiodaily has a fluff piece for Customflix which caught the attention of HD4NDs.

Step by step instructions. Pretty easy looking, actually.

If you have an indie produced film with no distribution deal, this is one way to get it out on the market (albeit with no marketing, and closing off other distro deals).

But it is there.

For an indie filmmaker who’s spent a chunk of their life and all their savings on a project this may be a last resort. For a visualist producing loop or installation DVDs this looks like a great option, giving you a professionally printed disc and case, and listing on Amazon (and Amazon Unbox for downloads).

Their prices seem quite reasonable. Of course revenue share varies (95% for customflix’ own store, 35% for Amazon, 50% Unbox), but for a passive distro in which no large initial outlay for pressing and no continued time for payment processing and shipping is required I’m not going to argue.

In related news: CinemaTech’s Scott Kirsner has published an excerpt from his book The Future of Web Video: New Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers, listing 20+ sites which will pay for video content. Specifying whether they’re paid per view or click, revenue share etc. This compares Customflix with the other major offerings.

Some interesting options there if selling stock on iStockVideo hasn’t quite turned out how you’d hoped.

via BoingBoing

Welcome starving visualists! I know there’s plenty of you reading this. Well, perhaps not starving, but you’d definitely like more pocket money so you can buy some of the cool stuff you’re seeing on CDMo or CDMu. You’ve got plenty of original material right? Now all you need is a way for that material to make you some money, a way that doesn’t involve carting all of your precious gear to some grimy club and producing beautiful live imagery alongside music of questionable artistic merit. Make money while sitting at home in your socks watching My Name Is Earl. Sound like a plan?

Community-driven royalty free imagery hub iStockPhoto have just announced iStockVideo. Moving picture creators can sign up and submit content as of yesterday, and videos will be on sale from September 5th, 2006.

iStockVideo is looking for animation, stop-motion, digitized film and of course boring old video. Acceptable clip sizes are 640×480 to 1920×1080, 24-30 FPS, 5-30 seconds long. This may feel a little constrained length-wise, but keep in mind that they’re looking for stock, not stories. Single shots are more useful than pre-edited material, and using shorter length clips means you can sell more of them! $50 for a HD 1080 clip sounds like a plan to me.

You know what to do.

Sellout Disclosure: Links to iStockPhoto contain an affiliate code. If you join the program and upload videos, CDMotion gets a cut for each clip you upload.
Peter: Iceland VJ Adventure anyone?