There are things more important in life than ad revenue, and MosFilm can't directly get it from YouTube at the moment anyway.
RuTracker should always be one of the first options to consider, but I wouldn't be that zealous. Official subtitles might be the biggest problem, as they don't seem to have a definite source. Some are expressive (up to metrical translation of the songs) but too liberal, some were certainly made by cheapest freelancers they could find. The user has to know beforehand that better translations can sometimes be found, and that it is possible to use extensions to load subtitles from local files. Re-uploading the videos as distinct native and translated versions, and changing softsubs to hardsubs and vice versa is another problem resulting in link rot. Video itself usually seems to be fine, though one of the SD masters of “Stalker” was known for relying on digital film stabilization which resulted in artifacts on faster panning shots, but in that case it was the same on DVDs.
For comparison, LenFilm also uploaded movies to YouTube, and they had masterpieces of Alexei German in 1080p, but either recorded with botched brightness correction through some kind of screen capture software at superfast settings, or watermarked with landline phone number (in a second decade of a 21st century) of some subcontracting studio. The whole thing probably relied on some clueless intern uploading files from their office PC. However, LenFilm has been banned as vile and daaangerous “state-controlled media”, and neither German, nor popular Soviet adventure movies for kids, nor dull and boring soc-realistic factory life dramas are officially there.
Personally, I am a bit skeptical about the image of a regular multi-tasking user seeing the scene of a interrogation, a remark about the suicide of Mayakovsky, and a dinner, and getting it all.
RuTracker should always be one of the first options to consider, but I wouldn't be that zealous. Official subtitles might be the biggest problem, as they don't seem to have a definite source. Some are expressive (up to metrical translation of the songs) but too liberal, some were certainly made by cheapest freelancers they could find. The user has to know beforehand that better translations can sometimes be found, and that it is possible to use extensions to load subtitles from local files. Re-uploading the videos as distinct native and translated versions, and changing softsubs to hardsubs and vice versa is another problem resulting in link rot. Video itself usually seems to be fine, though one of the SD masters of “Stalker” was known for relying on digital film stabilization which resulted in artifacts on faster panning shots, but in that case it was the same on DVDs.
For comparison, LenFilm also uploaded movies to YouTube, and they had masterpieces of Alexei German in 1080p, but either recorded with botched brightness correction through some kind of screen capture software at superfast settings, or watermarked with landline phone number (in a second decade of a 21st century) of some subcontracting studio. The whole thing probably relied on some clueless intern uploading files from their office PC. However, LenFilm has been banned as vile and daaangerous “state-controlled media”, and neither German, nor popular Soviet adventure movies for kids, nor dull and boring soc-realistic factory life dramas are officially there.
Personally, I am a bit skeptical about the image of a regular multi-tasking user seeing the scene of a interrogation, a remark about the suicide of Mayakovsky, and a dinner, and getting it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFZa9CVBeJY&t=2669
Three decades of talking about multimedia, and we still don't have a convenient commentary system to hold all the explanations and notes.