I’ve finally dedicated a page of this site to video. There’s only two things up right now: Trapped! and Charlie Munden. I plan to add much more very soon — I’ll be getting a tape of my MTV2 commercial in the next few days, and some DVDs of student projects in the coming weeks.
It’s surprisingly hard to build a reel. You audition, you perform, you harass to get a copy (that is, if it ever gets edited), and when you finally see it, you realize that (for whatever reason) it’s just not appropriate.
How I did it: I copied the (unencrypted) DVDs to my computers, renamed the largest VOB file so that it ended with “MPG”, and used the impressive Riva VX Encoder to convert the file to a tiny FLV. Then I put it along with Martijn de Visser’s tasty FLV Player on my server and used it to serve the files. All of these tools were gratis!