ReelPeek
ReelPeek a team created in Lausanne has developed the eponymous infrastructure which runs the digital video market at the Visions du Réel festival, with the name of Doc Outlook-International Market ( DOCM ). It consists in a computer system of a multipost film display unit..It offers to about twenty users the possibility of watching films as well as getting information inherent in any of the works stored in a central server. For the time being ReelPeek operates on a local network but it could quite as well be linked with internet in the future.
With a wealth of experience of networks, data bases, sound, digital video and the use of Open Source video software, the ReelPeek team members are able to adapt precisely their services to the specific needs of their clients.
ReelPeek is a system including a server equipped with multimedia data base and a video streamer. Terminals allow users to surf on the data base, to look at its content and naturally screen a film in a simple and flexible way. This is obtained thanks to a users ergonomic and friendly interface which offers moreover several services dedicated to audio-visual professionals.
ReelPeek has been conceived as a tool rapidly adaptable to different uses of streaming video.
Application examples
- Films archiving and storage
- Digital market on a local network
- Media Library
- Films visualization on internet in streaming mode, VOD (Video On Demand)
In the Doc Outlook-international Market (DOCM) setting, the digital market of Visions du Réel, the infrastructure affords a simultaneous access to 20 sets for 300 films at disposal. This feature could be extended in a close future to a larger size system.
Some specific functions of ReelPeek ver. 2.0 ( current version).
- Multi criterions research engine
- Films descriptive notes consulting
- Personal films editing to be sent by mail
- Get in touch with production and distribution firms.
- Possibility to give an evaluation tag to screened films.
- Films visualization with usual screening tools.
- VOD
- Availability of statistics by users and by films.
- Users and users groups management
The team
Dominique Feyer and Nicolas Bonstein, ReelPeek founders, two specialists familiar with new electronic media are also active in the art domain. This alloy of knowledges permits them to grasp and implement the expectations of the art people by providing them with the most relevant technical solutions.
