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Lets make this into a contest. It will need to be rather long one so people have time to polish their videos and edit them and such. I would hope that the entries are at least as good as these two videos:http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ov7oNrXTDkc&feature=relatedhttp://youtube.com/watch?v=9cctyg-4zNkThe prize would be 2 shirts from the newly-opened store (International shipping would be OK, I'd just have to figure it out), or 2 Soldat licenses, or possibly other prizes. I don't know yet if there would be a 2nd and 3rd place prize, that probably depends on how many entries and how broke I am/how many people want to donate to the prizes (e-mail me at ryan@u13.net if you want to contribute to better/more prizes).I don't have a date for the end yet, but I will decide one later and post it in a new thread. Here are the rules that I'm thinking of:- The winner(s) will be decided by popular vote- The entry must be between 30 seconds and three minutes long. If you can blow our pants off with 30 seconds, go for it. If you need to make a longer trailer to make it kick ass, up to 3 minutes is there for you.- The entry must be submitted in full-quality to me, I will then post it for judgement in an appropriate format. Do not post your entries directly on the forums when you are actually submitting your entry to the contest.- You may submit modifications to me at any time before the beginning of the final vote- e-mail or PM me to arrange giving me your submission, most likely via FTP.- When it comes time for the vote, the clips will be posted on Youtube (but I want to have a higher-quality version for future use if yours is selected)- When you submit your final submission, you acknowledge that it may be used/re-used elsewhere (with proper crediting). - Do not add any "by soandso" things at the beginning or end of your clips. If your video wins, it will be discussed afterwards what form(s) of attribution you feel would be appropriate. This and the above rule can be discussed otherwise, I'm just interested in preventing videos from being marked up with stuff, because using that as a trailer with "I MADE THIS" tags all over it would look... odd. These two rules are flexible and should be taken as guidelines for discussion. I'm not looking to have Soldat steal anyone's work or anything, I promise.- Do not use any formatting/editing programs that add watermarks or tags to any part of your video. If you are having problems compressing or transcoding your video, talk to me and I can look into doing this for you given the original (but edited) video.I'm incredibly anxious to see how this turns out. I will make a new thread about this shortly but wanted to hash out the idea here first. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Is there some standard text that should be in the clip for sure? Like "soldat by MM"
TV?? I don't think so.... That I think would bring in wayyy too many unwanted people. Apart from the fact that we could all be on tv I don't exactly like the idea. I think it's MM's call
Here is v1.0 of my entry. Pretty raw and basic, expect better versions later.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTcdSuQedTo
The entry must be submitted in full-quality to me, I will then post it for judgement in an appropriate format. Do not post your entries directly on the forums when you are actually submitting your entry to the contest.
May it be longer than 3 minutes?
