I just got the daily email from my server with some metrics. It has experienced over 500 gigabytes of traffic in the last few hours and the video is only 3 megabytes in size. I definitely did not expect such a HN-effect.
Only very few people in comparison watched the full video. Here are the logs for the content server from yesterday 5 PM PST, covering the previous 24 hours (search for /kenburns/promo.mp4): https://pastebin.com/4zTxL2aw
I see your point now. This post originally pointed to the teaser video and not the project website (I do not know who changed that, must have been an admin): http://content.sniklaus.com/kenburns/promo.mp4
That means that there were 175574 HTTP GET requests, but my guess is that if someone fast-forwards that that might trigger another request. So the actual number of views may be a little lower.
Half of that must be me :-) This is so cool I watched it over and over again.
Hope you'll be able to release the source - or otherwise a binary to play with. Would love to try this out on 3D rendered human anatomy from CT scans. Cinematic rendering there already looks amazing, with this it would really come to life (eg: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.17.17850)
So 500 GB are about 2800 full video downloads.