Getting Started
1Sign up for free
Once you sign up for a free account, you will have have access to creating .EGG files starting with 8 gigs of storage. (No credit card is required to signup).
2Setup a PayPal Business Account
Setup a PayPal Business Account to receive revenue from the sale of the EGG’s through your PayPal merchant account. Paypal is secure, reliable.
Note: In order to get a Paypal Business account you need to have a company bank account and wait for your Paypal account to be approved.
How to set up a business Paypal Account.
1. Click the button that says: Create New Account

2. Select your country, language and Business Type. Click on the Create New Account Button

3. Follow the steps to complete your registration process.

4. Congratulations, you’ve completed the main part of the set up procedure. You will now have to wait a couple of days to have your account verified, and then you will be good to go!
After your account is verified you can pay someone by Paypal, or request payment (send an invoice) just by going to www.paypal.com and logging in to your account. You login to your account using the email address and password that you signed up with. It’s very obvious how to do it.
Note: In order to get a Paypal Business account you need to have a company bank account and wait for your Paypal account to be approved.
How to set up a business Paypal Account.
1. Click the button that says: Create New Account

2. Select your country, language and Business Type. Click on the Create New Account Button

3. Follow the steps to complete your registration process.

4. Congratulations, you’ve completed the main part of the set up procedure. You will now have to wait a couple of days to have your account verified, and then you will be good to go!
After your account is verified you can pay someone by Paypal, or request payment (send an invoice) just by going to www.paypal.com and logging in to your account. You login to your account using the email address and password that you signed up with. It’s very obvious how to do it.
3Mail in your Trailer & Film
Key Asylum, Corp.
Attn: EggUp Transcoding
2909 Waialae Avenue #9
Honolulu, HI 96828
Mail us your Uncompressed Master, DVD or Blu-Ray disc of your film & trailer.
Once you submit your trailer & film, we’ll encode and upload them for you.
Allow 2 weeks for availabity. You will be notified by e-mail when complete.
4Install Fried Rice & Egg Player Application
MAC
PC
System Requirements
• Mac computer with G5 or Intel processor.
• Mac OS X v10.5 or newer.
• (Core 2 Duo)
• 1GB Memory or more
• 10MB of free disk space
Compatible Browers
• Safari
• Firefox 4.0 or higher
• Google Chrome
PC
System Requirements
• PC running Windows® XP, or Windows® 7
• 1Ghz processor or higher
• (Core 2 Duo)
• 1GB Memory or more
• 10MB of free disk space
Compatible Browers
• IE 8 or higher
• Firefox 4.0 or higher
• Google Chrome
5Collect your film content
You need your cover art, high resolution transcoded trailer and film, cast & crew images and descriptions, posters, plot summary, a profile pic, etc.
Image Sizes
(When you upload an image, Fried Rice automatically maintains your images aspect ratio).
• Background Image Size: 621 pixels x 623 pixels
• Thumbnail Image Size: 270 pixels x 390 pixels
• Cast & Crew Image Size: 144 pixels x 144 pixels
• Profile Pic Image Size: 144 pixels x 144 pixels
Image Specs
• Image Formats Accepted: .jpg, .png
• Mode: RGB
• Resolution: 72dpi
• Max File Size: 2mb (To prevent your Pay-Per-View site and Eggs from loading slowly for your customers, each image needs to be under 2 MB to be uploaded. This should be plenty big for web images, but if your image is bigger than that you can open it in a graphics program like Photoshop and reduce the size. Otherwise, try using Picnik, a free online image editor).
Image Sizes
(When you upload an image, Fried Rice automatically maintains your images aspect ratio).
• Background Image Size: 621 pixels x 623 pixels
• Thumbnail Image Size: 270 pixels x 390 pixels
• Cast & Crew Image Size: 144 pixels x 144 pixels
• Profile Pic Image Size: 144 pixels x 144 pixels
Image Specs
• Image Formats Accepted: .jpg, .png
• Mode: RGB
• Resolution: 72dpi
• Max File Size: 2mb (To prevent your Pay-Per-View site and Eggs from loading slowly for your customers, each image needs to be under 2 MB to be uploaded. This should be plenty big for web images, but if your image is bigger than that you can open it in a graphics program like Photoshop and reduce the size. Otherwise, try using Picnik, a free online image editor).
6Upload Film Content
Once we receive your uncompressed master, DVD or Blu-Ray disc of your film & trailer:
1. We will encode and upload your film & trailer. (Allow 5-7 business days for this process)
2. You will be notified by email when your film and trailer is uploaded.
Important!: Please Create an Egg in Fried Rice for each Film after mailing your material.7Promote and Market your Film
EggUp gives you tools to promote your art, share your media, grow your audience, and connect with fans.
Please see Promote and Market.
Please see Promote and Market.
