Answered Questions

We are different in several ways.

We're not YouTube , but we're not trying to be. We have no ambition to become the leader in online video, but we do share an interest in helping people share their stories, interests and messages through their digital video & audio projects.

Most of the producers who have added their programs to the collection invite PEG cable TV channels to download and cablecast them for free. These programs are clearly identified with the "PEG Use: Yes" label. Although all of the programs can be accessed through the site on demand, the original digital files (for downloading) reside at other third party video sharing web sites. We encourage Community Producers to use free third party video sharing web sites like Archive.org, but there are other options.

The main objective of the web site is to promote & preserve community access TV by making it possible for:

• Community Producers to expand their viewing audience via the Internet & additional PEG stations.
• Community PEG Channels to identify, download and cablecast quality local programming to meet new franchise requirements.
• Community Residents who are not current producers to become inspired to create their own community programs.

While the foundation of our collection is comprised of programs that may have been created for PEG television stations around the country, we welcome programs created by other community producers who are not necessarily associated with a community access television station.

We are confident that in the years to come Community Producers and Community Access Centers will contribute an enormous amount of content that is interesting, informative and entertaining. We are confident that our collection will also inspire others to become more involved in their own communities and produce their own digital content to share through the site.

CommunityProducers.com is FREE!

• CommunityProducers.com charges NOTHING to view programs in the collection.
• CommunityProducers.com charges NOTHING to rate programs in the collection.
• CommunityProducers.com charges NOTHING to comment on programs in the collection.
• CommunityProducers.com charges NOTHING to become a registered user at the site.
• CommunityProducers.com charges NOTHING to add programs to the collection.
• CommunityProducers.com charges NOTHING to download programs featured in the collection.
• CommunityProducers.com charges NOTHING to cablecast programs on PEG Access TV.

1. First, upload your video to a third party video sharing website. We suggest you use a free site like our good friends at Internet Archive. Click here for a list of other options.
2. After you have uploaded your video to a third party video sharing website and it appears to be loading properly, open a free User Account here at CommunityProducers.com and create your own Username and Password. To do so, click the “Create new account” link in the "Producer Login" box on the front page.
3. Once you have created your account, you will have access to add programs to the collection. To do so, log in and click the “Create content” Link. NOTE: Do not attempt to add a program until you are sure it is fully uploaded and performing properly on your third party video sharing website.
4. To add a video program, select “Video URL”.
5. Enter the correct information in each of the fields: “Author Verification”, “Title”, “Video URL”, "Original File“, Abstract”, “Full Description”, “Personal Use”, "Cablecast Use", “Channels”, “Content Tags”, “Comments” & "Location (optional).
6. Click the “Save” Button and your video will INSTANTLY appear on our site.
7. Visit the site often to view new additions to the collection and add more of your own!

How to Add Content to CommunityProducers.com:

Upload at CommunityProducers.com from kaitlin kolarik on Vimeo.

Since digital files are not technically uploaded to CommunityProducers.com, there are really no specific File Size or Type requirements. The real question to be asked is "What file types & sizes are accepted by my third party video sharing website?"

Internet Archive for example, will allow you to upload a file up to 1 Gigabyte (GB) in size. At the risk of getting too technical, here are a few helpful references:

• one hour of standard definition TV video at 2.2 Mbit/sec is approximately 1 GB
• seven minutes of high definition TV video at 19.39 Mbit/sec is approximately 1 GB

The server at Internet Archive will accept most video file types. Some of these include: MPEG 1,2, and 4, Real Media/Windows Media, DV, Flv, Quicktime, DivX

Other video sharing websites have their own requirements. Click here for a list of other video sharing websites you can use.

In a complex world with finite resources, often the best results are those that are achieved as a result of effective collaboration and cooperation.

• Our efforts to encourage Community Producers to upload their projects to FREE third party video sharing websites (like Internet Archive) help these sites to boost their efforts to expand their collections, provide universal online access, and preserve content.
• The vast amounts of server storage capacity afforded Community Producers at these websites allows us to offer our distilled collection without having to charge a fee for the use and maintenance of huge amounts of our own file server space.
• The willingness of third party video sharing websites to allow users to download videos and the expressed permission of the original authors to allow community access stations to air them on cable TV, increases their impact and helps to preserve (and inspire) community access television everywhere.

We realize that having to first upload to a third party video sharing website creates an additional step, we hope you will understand that it is a relatively small inconvenience in order to help make your programs available to communities all over the country.

When selecting a third party video sharing website, we suggest you use a free website like our good friends at Internet Archive. Click here for a list of other Video Sharing Websites you can use.

Admittedly, the majority of our collection is comprised of programs created by community residents for public, educational, government PEG access cable TV stations, but we extend a warm welcome to other community producers who are not necessarily associated with community access television stations.

We realize that not every community has a community access television station. We also know that there are other reasons why some people are just not motivated to create programs for cable television. That's fine. If you have been producing noncommercial programs on your own, please consider adding them to our collection. This site is for community producers everywhere, whether they are motivated to be on cable TV, or not!

For most things in life there are limits. That's probably a good thing. But thanks to our collaboration and cooperation with third party online video sharing websites, there are no limits at CommunityProducers.com. In fact, the greater the number of episodes and the more frequently they are added, the greater the likelihood that a PEG access cable TV station will decide to air them as a series. So, go ahead and keep adding programs!

Sharing digital projects at CommunityProducers.com involves a certain level of trust and common sense. We trust that all Community Producers who contribute to the site will remember that this is a public site and will refrain from posting content that contains or depicts the following:

1. Abusive Behavior - content showing abusive behavior like animal abuse, drug abuse, under-age drinking and smoking, or bomb making.
2. Child Exploitation - content that appears to exploit children, depicting sexually suggestive or violent behavior. Be advised that we work closely with law enforcement and we will report any appearance of child exploitation.
3. Copyrighted Material - content you didn't create or elements that someone else owns the copyright to, such as music tracks, clips of copyrighted programs, or videos made by other users, without necessary authorizations.
4. Graphic Violence – content that shows someone being physically hurt, attacked, or humiliated.
5. Hate Speech - speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity.
6. Illegal Acts - content soliciting or promoting unlawful conduct, including instructional videos pertaining to illegal acts.
7. Predatory Behavior - stalking, threats, harassment, intimidation, invasion of privacy, or inciting others to commit violent acts.
8. Sex or Nudity - nudity in a sexual context or other content intended to be sexually provocative.
9. Shock Videos - videos of accidents, dead bodies or gory content intended to shock or disgust.
10. Spam - misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails in order to increase views, or large amounts of untargeted, unwanted or repetitive content, including comments.

CommunityProducers.com reserves the right to remove content that violates this trust. Repeated violations can result in being permanently banned from the site.

Additional guidelines related to trust, behavior and the responsibilities of Users at this site are detailed in the Terms of Use which every User must acknowledge and accept.

Yes! In fact, networking with your friends is strongly encouraged!

The collection is organized so that several methods can be used to sort it's contents. Each of these sorting methods rely on the completeness and the accuracy of the information provided by the users who actually add the programs.

The most recently added content is always featured on the front page until it is pushed to a deeper page to allow newer content to be added.

As each program is added, Users can elect to simultaneously add it in up to 4 sub-collections we call Channels. Currently, we have approximately 25 Channels. Content on each Channel page is sorted the same way as it is on the front page - with the most recently added content on the front page.

In addition, Users are also required to insert Titles, provide Abstracts (short descriptions), Full Descriptions and Content Tags (key words) to enhance the capability of the Site Search function at the site. Viewers can sort through the collection by searching on words that may have been inserted in those fields when the content was added.

Yes you can. When you create your account, just click the check box to indicate that you would like to receive e-mail notifications and you will! If you have already created your account and you did not check the box, just let us know that you have decided that you want to receive notifications and we will hook you up.

CommunityProducers.com will not send unsolicited new content notifications via e-mail to our Users. So, if you don't sign up to receive them, you'll just have to keep checking back to see what's new.

As long as your content remains at the third party video sharing web site where it was uploaded and you do not remove it from our collection yourself, it will remain a part of our collection.

One of the main objectives of this web site is to make it possible for public, educational & government (PEG) access cable TV channels to identify, download and cablecast quality local programming to meet their franchise requirements. Here are the steps involved:

1. Make certain the Original Author of the content has granted permission to download it for PEG cablecast.
2. As a courtesy, notify the Original Author of your intent to download and cablecast their program(s).
3. Click the "Original File" link to navigate to the original video file posted at the third party video sharing website.
4. Download the video file from the third party nvideo sharing website.

How to Download Content for PEG Cablecast:

Download from CommunityProducers.com from kaitlin kolarik on Vimeo.