Enjoy HD Machinima on Koinup

We just released a new "Koinup brand feature" aimed at improving the machinima experience on the website, both for creators and viewers. Starting from today, if you import a machinima from YouTube (the most favorited and recommended tool to shares video on Koinup) you can embed your videos with "HD" quality. Basically if you have HD videos on Youtube, you can now embed them on Koinup with the same "High Definition". With more than 5K videos published, Koinup is one of the favorited destinations to share and enjoy machinima on the web and now with the improved "video" experience, it will become even more popular among machimists.

Along with the HD broadcasting, this release came with a second interesting feature: "the support for iOS". It does mean that you can now watch all the videos published on Koinup, both on iPad, iPhone and iPod.

if you're a machinimist, and you're looking for a good website to share and let others known about your videos, join now Koinup and start to embed your machinima!

How to enjoy the HD?
If the video supports HD, when you mouse over the video display, you will see a link to switch to HD. Just click and the video will load in higher resolution.



Watch now this interesting Second life Machinima by Nak_Exonar!

A cool SL machinima, to say goodbye to this cold winter

Machitopia is a new Koinup member, but he is already posting some amazing Second Life videos.

I invite you to watch his Second Life Vlog or enjoy "The Winter Playground", a lovely and well done stream of the best Second Life snow covered sims.....

Play Videos in Second Life

If you are wondering if it is possible to play Koinup Videos in SL, the answer it totally yes! You can! In order to Play your machinima inworld, you have to follow our tutorial

But, basically there are two main steps, you have to follow here:

1) Import your videos from Youtube, more info here

2) Use the Stream Link, we provided with you! More info, here


Remember the Koinup Guidelines, in order to using Koinup for streaming your machinima in Second Life

a) Import and then stream only videos created by You!

b) Import and then stream only videos related to your virtual life (machinima)

c) Import and then stream only videos that meet the other Koinup community guidelines

Stream Your Koinup Videos In Second Life!

You can now Watch Your Koinup Machinima in Second Life! This is a pearl for Machinimists! Its very easy to get the streamable file! I'll explain now!

In order to get your Videos Streamable in Second Life you have only to take two steps:

1) Import them from Youtube to Koinup
If your videos are already on Youtube, You can import them on Koinup with a single clic
and get the streamable file on Koinup
If your videos are hosted only on Koinup. You have to upload them also on Youtube and re-import them on Koinup.

This is because, our streamable service works only with Imported from YT videos

2) Get the Stream File on Koinup and Paste in your parcel media.

Here is our tutorial, on how to get the stream file and start streaming on Second Life


Some Notes about the feature
1) Import on Koinup only Videos created by yourself.
2) Don't import copyright contents on Koinup
3) Streamable Koinup Features take advantage on the Youtube high quality files technology
4) with some expedients, you can get a streamable mp4 file directly from Youtube, but the link expire after some minutes, so it isn't affordable
5) Koinup provide you with a permanent files for streaming
6) Import/upload on Koinup only videos related to your virtual life. That is machinima and Second Life Videos. We don't accept real life videos
7) In order to get the best info on the mp4 videos on Youtube, watch the Torley tutorial

Import Your Videos From Youtube, with a single click!

Hello, we are very proud to announce the launch of a new Koinup Brand Feature:
"Import Your Videos from Youtube!" Sharing your machinima is now an easy game, on Koinup!

How to Import Your YT-Videos? Its easy:
1) Go in The Upload Page
2) Select Your World
3) Select the Media-Videos
4) Type title and tag & Click on Next
5) Paste Your Youtube Video Url in the Youtube-Clipboard & Click Upload

Imported Videos have the same quality they have on Youtube and they are perfectly integrated on Koinup.

The feature has been builded by interacting the Youtube API

If you have some probs, using the Import, have a look at our Tutorial

Here are some of the first videos, imported from Youtube

Submissions For Machinima Contest are Closed!

Hello Video-Makers, this post is just to tell you that submissions for the music videos contest are closed now! there are 55 entries!
The major part of them are really excting, with good music and good visuals! I know there will be only three winners!
Judges are already reviewing the videos; May 6 we will have the announcements

Thank you very much for taking part in the contest! We hope that you will keep to post your videos on Koinup. We are honored of the success of the contest! There has been a lot of press-coverage and some videos got a huge number of views and comments!

Second Life Machinima Contest! (just launched!)

Take part in the Second Life Music Videos Contest and Win 20,000L$ plus the amazing movie-making tool MachinimaCam created By Redgrave CodeBastard! Ideas matter as much as technical skills!


This is the 1st Koinup Machinima Contest! It is restricted to Second Life users and it will concern the creation of a Music Video, using footages shooted in SL!

The theme is totally free. You can create a video, which features a journey in Second Life, or create a storyline machinima! Otherwise, you can show us footage from your favorite sims. Or just create a sequences of wonderful images and stream them, as a slideshow.....

Videos can be submitted from April, 2th to April, 29th
Winners will be announced May, 6

The jury is made up the two authoritative bloggers CodeBastard Redgrave and Tao Takashi

There will be three winners! Two will be picked by the jury and the third one will be the Community Winner! community winning videos is most faved and commented and appreciated submission between all the entries!

Winners will get 20,000 L$ plus the MachinimaCam

Read carefully all the rules

Some well known SL musicians has been so kind to give us permission to use their tracks as soundtracks, here you can find link to download their tracks

Please, remember to give credits to musicians if you have used their tracks


Good Luck to Everyone!