is this the only contest of this year?:/

STAR is our main summer contest, but there may be smaller contests later, also THAC and that sort of thing, though I don't know if there'll be another THAC this year.

I'd like to see another BRAWL this year myself, but that would be up to Munzapoppa, not you, correct Smeagol?

pshh I only have 15 seconds of footage for a 6:00 movie.

NO SLEEPUMS YAY

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So, as I am going along I would like to address something,
Compression. I've not had time to read all 39 pages of this post but I am deeply concerned by the 30mb limit. Usually that doesn't bother me at all, BUT in this case, I cannot submit a .FLV or .F4V (Flash compression scheme) so as I type this, what I have done now is being compressed to see if I can get it down to an acceptable size. I am sure that the 30mb cap is so the judges don't have to spend all day downloading an 800mb 2:00 of uncompressed animation. I really don't like the quality of my videos when they go from 720p to 360X240.

I guess I am asking, what compression scheme/codec/resolution would you recommend to get a good quality video and meet the required size limit?

Also, you say that .AVI .MOV and .WMV are acceptable, does that include any and all codecs that package themselves as one of those three formats? persay, XVID and DIVX are packaged as .avi, are those acceptable?

thanks
~Casey

Just a quick little update to the above message, I was able to compress it to 360X240 using XVID compression I got the first half of my entry down to 14.9mb acceptable. it doesn't look nearly as good. will judges look at both the high and low quality that are submitted?

Last edited by cwr89 (July 16, 2009 (08:04am))

I've not dabbled to much on the .mov side. Also do you want a downloadable or is a stream good enough? I can provide both, and the stream would be from my own privatized web address.

now I just got to finish filmin'! heh.

~Casey

Lil''JJ Ive never heard of 'Real' But This Is absolutely great!
Download all the stuff in tutorial.

Real offers decent compression, but Real format simply is not allowed for submitting your entry to the contest, as stated in the rules.

No, a streaming video wouldn't be good enough, it must be downloadable.

If I can get around to it, probably. I haven't really been motivated to do anything productive for a few months, so it depends on wether I can win my battle against lazyness and procrastination.

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