The Escapist Presents: The Escapist Film Festival
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Hey Guys,
If you are submitting/uploading your videos for the contest, please make sure you get all the way to through the second step. First you input your title/descsription/tags, then you get sent to another page where you are asked to upload the video. Don't close your browser or do anything until you have the confirmation that it has uploaded. It very well could take awhile! Don't be alarmed if it sits there for quite a bit of time.
I just cleared out a bunch of entries that didn't get videos uploaded to them. If yours didn't get submitted, I can double check for you, but if you aren't sure about it in the first place, go ahead and submit it again and make sure you get all the way through the process.
Thanks!
If you are submitting/uploading your videos for the contest, please make sure you get all the way to through the second step. First you input your title/descsription/tags, then you get sent to another page where you are asked to upload the video. Don't close your browser or do anything until you have the confirmation that it has uploaded. It very well could take awhile! Don't be alarmed if it sits there for quite a bit of time.
I just cleared out a bunch of entries that didn't get videos uploaded to them. If yours didn't get submitted, I can double check for you, but if you aren't sure about it in the first place, go ahead and submit it again and make sure you get all the way through the process.
Thanks!
To follow on that, you're looking for this message after you upload the video:
If your video file is large, it will take a long time to upload. For the purposes of the contest, you may want to consider uploading a 400x300 MP4 or WMV regardless of what source video resolution you're actually working in - if you win, we can always make other transfer arrangements for a larger version.
Hello Everyone! I accidentally posted this question in the wrong section, but I'll repost here in the proper thread. (Sorry for that admins! I'm new!) I've started the process of making a pilot for you, but there are a few things not clarified on the Film Festival's in-site page I'd like to know about before beginning the filming process.
1) What is the file upload limit? Is it roughly 100MB like Youtube?
2) Is standard definition (640 by 480 NTSC) the preferred format?
3) What file formats are accepted/desired? (AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV)
Thank you for reading and responding!
(Shameless plug: If anyone has a second, I'm rather proud of my latest video I made recently for the Pretzel Time Pretzel Dog Kick Bun contest. You can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d87wEgifobQ )
1) What is the file upload limit? Is it roughly 100MB like Youtube?
2) Is standard definition (640 by 480 NTSC) the preferred format?
3) What file formats are accepted/desired? (AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV)
Thank you for reading and responding!
(Shameless plug: If anyone has a second, I'm rather proud of my latest video I made recently for the Pretzel Time Pretzel Dog Kick Bun contest. You can see it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d87wEgifobQ )
These are a couple of questions I had myself, I got the MP4 format preference, and the 400x300 but I work in NTSC standard definition myself (I am just blue screening my vid this week so I can change formatting still if it is important) and I want to keep an appropriate memory size in mind.InventiveHero post=6.72855.796737 said:
On another note, my little brother is working on a video project independent of all this and I'm encouraging him to complete it and enter it into this competition. It is his own work but he's using an editorial I wrote, if he does enter will this be a problem / conflict? I am fully willing to sign over rights of the script to my brother. If he comes in at the time limit, I'd like to see him participate.
On a completely different note I also want to extend my thanks to the Escapist for bringing this virtual film festival to the fray. I have been wanting to start a video editorial series that will let me hit the streets and interview some of my heavy hitter contacts in the game's industry. Whether I win or not, just having this contest sets the fire to get all the start up work done. It pushes us people who want to be more involved in gaming culture forward and that means a lot.
While it's entirely possible we would consider awarding First Place to someone who either doesn't desire to be paid, or can't legally enter into a contract, our many years experience in the media business tells us we should avoid doing business with either type. Obviously exceptions are possible, but the circumstances would have to be truly exceptional for us to consider it.sirdanrhodes post=6.72855.795095 said:
Let's call it 100MB.InventiveHero post=6.72855.796737 said:
Yes.
WMV and MP4 are preferred, in that order.
That wouldn't be a problem for us, but it might be for you. If your brother wins the contest (and you don't) I imagine that'd make for some serious negative energy around the foosball table.mark_n_b post=6.72855.811797 said:
We had to sell the foosball table after I broke our TV that time he won...Russ Pitts post=6.72855.817596 said:
I would honestly be really proud if my bro became a victor in this arena, if he won an escapist contract he would have an excuse to quit his job at menswear at the Bay.
Planning on entering myself, I'm the kind that is pretty sure I will be showed up by many a bad-assed awesome film maker. Being part of the process is part of the coolness of it all.
Just a very quick question, is there any way to check and make sure your video submission was uploaded correctly? I got the final screen that said it was uploaded successfully, but that was preceded by a lot random code that I didn't understand.
Just wanted to double check and see if everyone else got the same screen. Thanks!
Just wanted to double check and see if everyone else got the same screen. Thanks!
Fantastic video Russ and De-ReZ. I chuckled quite intensely. Oh and was that a cliff b impersonation?
Hi there, I'm not sure if anyone is still watching this thread however I have an uploading error. When I upload I get a page full of errors such as;
Warning: imagesx(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /sixpack/web/global/classes/class.image.inc on line 68
Yet at the bottom it says the upload was succesfull, It's a very confusing page. I've uploaded twice on two different PC's on different networks and was wondering If there was a way I could confirm whether or not my video has uploaded?
Thanks.
Warning: imagesx(): supplied argument is not a valid Image resource in /sixpack/web/global/classes/class.image.inc on line 68
Yet at the bottom it says the upload was succesfull, It's a very confusing page. I've uploaded twice on two different PC's on different networks and was wondering If there was a way I could confirm whether or not my video has uploaded?
Thanks.
@Timtimfed: Your video did upload successfully. Sometimes the system just likes spitting back errors. Not sure why.
And now the bad news: the 5 minute time limit is absolute. Sorry. Videos over 5 minutes in length will be instantly disqualified.
And now the bad news: the 5 minute time limit is absolute. Sorry. Videos over 5 minutes in length will be instantly disqualified.
Not sure. Try it and see. If I can't see it, I'll consider that a problem.smallharmlesskitten said:
Er, I know I asked the question but to clarify was that directed at my submission? I ended up cutting it to exactly five minutes and was just hoping that in the uploading process it hadn't displayed the running time as 5:01 or something.Russ Pitts said:
Sorry, i'm just paranoid to make sure it's uploaded correctly.
Cheers.
I assume there won't be an extension to the submission deadline?
If all goes according to plan we will film and then have a couple of days to have the video ready to upload. It's gonna be tight.
If all goes according to plan we will film and then have a couple of days to have the video ready to upload. It's gonna be tight.