Roc Video Promo Blog Site: May 2016

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Monday, May 30, 2016

Submit Your Music to BET Jams, MTV, VH1 & Other Networks (Call Us Today)

www.rocvideopromo.com


Roc Video Promo (RVP) provides full music video servicing to National, Regional, Retail, and Internet outlets. We have been in the music business for over 15 years and have worked with Major and Independent music labels to assist the artist in taking their music to the next level.  EvNational, Regional, Retail, and Internet outlets across the globe. It will get aired on Major networks (MTV, MTV Jams, BET, VH1, FUSE, and Canada’s Much Music) giving your artist maximum exposure.



Retail Pool—      Foot Locker, Foot Action, Champs, Nike Town, Nordstrom, Macy’s, Guess Jeans, American Eagle, House of Blues, Dallas BBQ, Metro PCS Stores, AMF Bowling Center and many more retail outlets.

On-Demand—   Music Choice, Music Choice (SWERV), Music Inner City, Fuse, Havoc TV, Blastro



Having a background at Roc-a-fella Records promoting artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye West, The Diplomats, as well as other Roc-a-fella artists, we have the expertise and contacts to gain your artists more viewers, which will result in more fans who will be enthusiastic about your artist’s music. 


We take care of all the time consuming video submission needs so your artist can focus on other artist building platforms.  RVP is also a full production company, able to do all of your needed Video Duplication, Closed Captioning, Editing and Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) Delivery necessary to service the station programmers.  We customize the music video in a unique way branded specifically for professional programmers.
RVP focuses on branding an individual artist during the campaign to our programmers as oppose to bundling projects together as reels. Once on the air, RVP will provide you with weekly tracking reports updating you with the airplay your artist’s video is receiving, including demographics and air dates. We provide promotional tour support, such as, arrange on-air interviews for your artist with regional video programs when touring & doing promo activities in respective markets.

We certainly would appreciate the opportunity to work with you and would like for you to check out our website at www.rocvideopromo.com or email us at info@rocvideopromo.com or  call 323 825 1723

Friday, May 27, 2016

Gucci Mane Finally Home 'Free From US Prison'

https://streamable.com/l57f?t=25.0

Welcome home Gucci Mane after being freed from a US federal prison after being label a Felon by UCC statures. He served 24 Months of his 39 Month sentence. The news was shared by his wife Keyshia Ka’oir, who posted cutesy snapchats of her and her rapper husband the caption “Reunited.”

Thursday, May 26, 2016

What are video files specifications for uploading to VEVO?

http://rocvideopromo.com/


HD Video Specifications:
Video
  • Compression Type: H.264
  • File Format: .mov or .mp4
  • Dimensions: 1920x1080 (preferred) or 1280x720. Note: 16:9 and 4:3 are preferred aspect ratios. Providing alternate aspect ratios risks letterboxing, scaling and stretching of content to fit target aspect rations. 
  • Frame Rate: Minimum 29.97 fps (preferred) or higher.
  • Bit Rate: We recommend that you restrict your video bitrate to a minimum of 24mb/s. This will help you cut down on file size, lengthy encoding, exporting and file transfer times. Bit Rate should not exceed 50mb/s.
  • File must be de-Interlaced (Please, No Interlacing)
What is interlacing? -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video
  • Multi-pass encoding is recommended, but not required.
  • Please export all encodes using Compressor or Quicktime. We cannot support editing program artifacts such as “edit lists” or “zero offsets” embedded in the files.
  • Do not send anamorphic content. All content display and pixel aspect ratios should be the same. 
  • Do not include front or end slates (displaying metadata), title or end cards, bars and tones, etc.
Audio
  • Format: AAC
  • Channels: Stereo (L R)
  • Sample Rate: 44.100 kHz
  • Bit Rate: 320 kbps CBR

SD Video Specifications: (Only if HD is not available)
Video
  • Compression Type: H.264
  • File Format: .mov or .mp4
  • Dimensions: 640x480 (4:3) or 854x480 (16:9) are preferred. Providing alternate aspect ratios risks letterboxing, scaling and stretching of content to fit target aspect rations. 
  • 480p is our MINIMUM spec. Please do not deliver videos in 360p or lower.
  • Please don’t encode widescreen videos so that they are letterboxed on a 4:3 frame. If that’s all you have, we’ll take it, but if you can re-encode the footage in HD (preferred) or SD 16:9, we’d really appreciate it.
  • Frame Rate: Minimum 29.97 fps (preferred) or higher.
  • Bit Rate: We recommend that you restrict your video bitrate to a minimum of 24mb/s. This will help you cut down on file size, lengthy encoding, exporting and file transfer times. Bit Rate should not exceed 50mb/s.
  • File must be de-Interlaced (Please, No Interlacing) 
What is interlacing? -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaced_video
  • Multi-pass encoding is recommended, but not required.
  • Please export all encodes using Compressor or Quicktime. We cannot support editing program artifacts such as “edit lists” or “zero offsets” embedded in the files.
  • Do not send anamorphic content. All content display and pixel aspect ratios should be the same. 
  • Do not include front or end slates (displaying metadata), title or end cards, bars and tones, etc.
Audio
  • Format: AAC
  • Channels: Stereo (L R)
  • Sample Rate: 44.100 kHz
  • Bit Rate: 320 kbps CBR

Friday, May 20, 2016

Unity Lewis- 7th Dynasty LP Ft. George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Sly Stone, Rappin' 4-Tay Out Today

 www.unitylewis.com


Unity Lewis- 7th Dynasty LP
Produced By Egon Brainparts,
with guest artists George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Sly Stone, Rappin' 4-Tay, and Chela Noldon. Be sure to order today at www.unitylewis.com.

Unity Lewis- 7th Dynasty LP Out Today


www.unitylewis.com

Unity Lewis- 7th Dynasty LP
Produced By Egon Brainparts,
with guest artists George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Sly Stone, Rappin' 4-Tay, and Chela Noldon. Be sure to order today at www.unitylewis.com.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Unity Lewis Drops 7th Dynasty Album

http://www.unitylewis.com/ 

Unity Lewis drops 7th Dynasty Album. The 7th Dynasty is joint collaboration album with Unity Lewis, George Clinton, Sly Stone and The Funkadelics. Be sure to log on to unitylewis.com to purchase your copy today.

Friday, May 13, 2016

Tone Tone Ft. Gucci Mane & Blac Chyna "Gold Rolex" Official Video


Check out Tone Tone Ft. Gucci  Mane & Blac Chyna "Gold Rolex" Directed by Video God & Produced by Metro Boomin & Southside of (808 Mafia)

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Submit to MTV & Other Networks (Call Us Today)

http://www.rocvideopromo.com/

Roc Video Promo (RVP) provides full music video servicing to National, Regional, Retail, and Internet outlets. We have been in the music business for over 15 years and have worked with Major and Independent music labels to assist the artist in taking their music to the next level.  EvNational, Regional, Retail, and Internet outlets across the globe. It will get aired on Major networks (MTVMTV JamsBETVH1, FUSE, and Canada’s Much Music) giving your artist maximum exposure.



Retail Pool—      Foot Locker, Foot Action, Champs, Nike Town, Nordstrom, Macy’s, Guess Jeans, American Eagle, House of Blues, Dallas BBQ, Metro PCS Stores, AMF Bowling Center and many more retail outlets.

On-Demand—   Music Choice, Music Choice (SWERV), Music Inner City, Fuse, Havoc TV, Blastro



Having a background at Roc-a-fella Records promoting artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye West, The Diplomats, as well as other Roc-a-fella artists, we have the expertise and contacts to gain your artists more viewers, which will result in more fans who will be enthusiastic about your artist’s music.  


We take care of all the time consuming video submission needs so your artist can focus on other artist building platforms.  RVP is also a full production company, able to do all of your needed Video Duplication, Closed Captioning, Editing and Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) Delivery necessary to service the station programmers.  We customize the music video in a unique way branded specifically for professional programmers.
RVP focuses on branding an individual artist during the campaign to our programmers as oppose to bundling projects together as reels. Once on the air, RVP will provide you with weekly tracking reports updating you with the airplay your artist’s video is receiving, including demographics and air dates. We provide promotional tour support, such as, arrange on-air interviews for your artist with regional video programs when touring & doing promo activities in respective markets.

We certainly would appreciate the opportunity to work with you and would like for you to check out our website at www.rocvideopromo.com or email us at info@rocvideopromo.com or  call 323 825 1723

Tone Tone Ft. Gucci Mane "Gold Rolex" (Teaser) Starring Blac Chyna

http://www.vevo.com/watch/tone-tone/Gold-Rolex-%28Teaser%29/QZ3NR1690003

Tone Tone recently hooked up with Blac Chyna for his "Gold Rolex" video featuring Gucci Mane. Gold Rolex is shot by the Video God Gabriel Hart and produced by Billion Thomas for DTLA. Be Sure to be on the look out for the video schedule to drop next week.