Web Reel Automated Publishing: it’s a wrap!

Share your video projects effortlessly.
Our platform transforms your raw footage into a polished online presentation in minutes.
No ads, no hassle, just your content.

History

At the beginning, there is something to show: the director’s demo reel, reference films, scouting, casting… What if you could create a site for each project with a simple “drag and drop”? Or even with a simple phone call?

I have been creating “web reels” for over twenty years. Initially, I used standard web design tools, with costly video hosting solutions and complex processes. This led me to some simple conclusions.

  • It must be simple
  • It must be fast
  • It must be flexible

That’s why I set up my own publishing platform, with a primary goal: an ultra-simplified process to enable ultra-fast responsiveness. Give me a series of video sequences and the page is online. Changes are made within minutes.

The Service

Your packaging: Automated process should not mean bland presentation. Of course, there is a default generic theme, clean and neutral. But you will likely come back, so I can create a beautiful package for you, following your company’s look & feel. Future publications will be packaged the same way.

No Unnecessary Unpacking: No ads, no confusing features. No incomprehensible interface. No programs to install. Just the media you want to show.

Use Case

Your long day of shooting is over, and you need to share the rushes with your team. On the set, you shouted “It’s a wrap,” the rest is on us.

  1. You send the raw videos to our server.
  2. As soon as the first file arrives, we start processing the videos.
  3. Within minutes, the first edits are visible online (and individually downloadable). We send an email to you and your team with the page URL.
  4. When all videos are processed and checked, the full session is downloadable as a zip file. We send a second email to you and your team to let you know it’s ready.
  5. A final email to notify that everything is ready.

The next shooting day, you start a new session, and a new section is added to the website for the new session.

The video quality is optimized for the best user experience while viewing online, even in full-screen.

The custom-made CMS and tools, dedicated for this purpose, allow processing way faster than with traditional editing software.

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Changelog

3.1.0

  • front-end:
    • updated playable formats
    • new flex/grid-based default theme
    • smooth scroll to clicked thumb
    • stay on clicked thumb position after playing video
    • don’t hide playlist in background
    • use versioning to launch css and js, to avoid cache issues
  • fix file not found when filename contains spaces or special characters
  • new mediadeduplicate script
  • batchff: quote file names
  • medialoop: show countdown between instances
  • casting-server: include folder in when launching atom
  • batchloop: show still unprocessed videos
  • makemp4 added allblur preference, whatever it is
  • castingchecktime: ignore <5 sec as default, read .casting conf in client/job or casting for custom thresold and other custom vars
  • casting-client launch mediawatch in 4th window
  • casting-client/server prefer atom editor if present
  • batchloop show missing videos (still in queue)
  • added icons
  • fix #1 don’t try to play audio files (download only)
  • removed -threads auto from ffmpeg args
  • added vsync to moviemerge

3.0.3

  • removed useless files from release package
  • cleaner changelog and minor cosmetic changes
  • fix hardcoded path
  • new back-end scripts

3.0

This is a major upgrade. However, there is no specific upgrade path for the web content, it is backward compatible with 2.x as the actual major change is the inclusion of new back-end scripts.

  • PHP7-ready
  • Optimize bandwidth, load video only on request
  • Optimize video display
  • New back-end tools (old ones actually, merged from another repo, will be maintained here now)

2.4.8

  • new: bootstrap layout, becomes default
  • fix: protect wrap own directory
  • added: support for Canon .MXF files
  • added: list printing
  • updated: php7-ready (well that’s the most important)
  • updated: optimize bandwidth, load video only on request
  • udpated: clean html5 video code
  • enhanced: Cleaner display
  • added reference code to write name on large thumbnail (not active)
  • deprecated: old libraries (motools, jQuery-File-Upload, jd.gallery)
  • deprecated: former browser.* naming (still compatible though)
  • fix: only try to detect mobile if Mobile_Detect class is present

1.11

  • new: SSL support
  • new: theming (work in progress)
  • new: handle remote pages
  • new: html5 video subtitles support
  • added theora ogg & ogv support
  • added modules videosub, video-js and modernizr
  • added [video:] tag
  • fixes: html cleaning, remove empty tags
  • fixed: efficient nofollow and noindex for non indexable pages
  • enhanced: ignore list (tilde, hashes, DS_Store…)
  • enhanced: automatic pageid
  • enhanced: multiple body classes
  • handle .tar, .gz and .tar extensions as downloadable
  • wrap.php: allow one simple text line in links.txt, not converted as link
  • added info from comment additions in playlist

1.8

  • First stable release as W.R.A.P.
  • Renamed browser* files to wrap
  • split main code, functions and facebook auth
  • fixes and cosmetic changes
  • Initial fork of “browser” project, renamed W.R.A.P.
  • A php app with huge bunch of files, tools, libraries, codes, developed between 2000 and 2013 under the too generic name “browser”