Storm like to keep you posted on the progress of your video on a regular basis, and we have developed an online platform called ‘Viewing Room’ where you can view your video. The Viewing Room only allows private viewing, and we will only distribute the page hyperlink to you, and it will be password protected. This means nobody else can view the video, or use a search engine to locate it, unless the link is passed on.
Please note that the videos provided on this site are in a web-friendly format with a smaller frame size and compressed, so the video may look a little ‘fuzzy’ on the online preview. The quality will be as expected on the full quality version.
Accessing the viewing room is simple, you will receive a link from Storm, for example:
www.storm-mediaserver.co.uk/?p=1024
password: storm1234
Click on the link, or copy it into any Internet browser. Enter the password in the required field.
Your video(s) will be displayed on the page. There are a few navigation controls and other options available.
Play/Stop – These two buttons control the forward advance of the video. The videos position is indicated in the progress bar. Elapsed time is displayed behind the indicator in red. The grey part displays remaining video. When the progress bar is a darker shade of grey this signifies that the video is “buffered” and ready to play, and you can advance to that part.
Note: you may have difficulties in playback by skipping ahead to an unbuffered part of the video. The amount of buffering available is dependent on your internet connection.
Counter Time – The left-hand counter displays elapsed time and the right-hand indicates time remaining.
Full Screen – Use this button to play the video back in full screen mode. To exit full screen, press ESC.
Burnt In Timecodes & Counter Timecodes – We generally supply all videos with a burnt in timecode (BITC). This is a frame accurate rolling counter that is encoded into the video picture. A conventional video timecode is displayed as: 00:00:00:00 (HH:MM:SS:FF Hours, Minutes, Seconds, Frames)
If there isn’t a burnt in timecode, then we can also reference the counter timecode. This is a reading from the counter elapsed time.
Supply and Edit Decision List
If you have chosen to do a “client edit” when we send back a timecoded video you will be asked to view the video, whether it be the rushes or an edit, and note down the IN and OUT points of each clip to keep. If you can supply a few words of spoken audio for reference, e.g. for an interview edit, this is also helpful when we make the edit. This is an Edit Decision List, EDL.
We would suggest that the EDL is compiled in a spreadsheet document in MS Excel or Apple Numbers.