Dezbo21 wrote:man, that sucks. Seems to be that the first video in any contest I hear about is "cursed" whenever you give it a deadline.
I'm so sorry about that. If it helps, I didn't submit anything after the changeover, so what ever info you have for my stuff is still the same as what you have.
Best of luck with the getting everyone's info. Keep us posted about when it comes out.
Well, I never did get the information as far as audio sources and video sources even from those from before the changeover. And Darkness, you are one of the very few who did give information. You are covered. I have Vlad, I have Judgeholden, I have mine obviously (I better know what I edited with).
And yes basically, the videos for both events were on two harddrives. The render was on one and was intended to immediately get transfered to vid staff computer and also burned to a DL disk (I hate DL burns personally). Well the schedule basically had me in events from opening ceremonies until about midnight with one 2 hour break between. That ended up being spent on getting food.
This also meant my computer was moved multiple times in this duration as no event happened to be back to back in the same room. This caused a static shock somehow to fry the controller of my 400Gig SATA drive. It was pretty much brand new and assumed to be the least likely to blow. Go figure.
Basically the contest itself was the priority. Someone offered to help and we ended up chugging over his core2duo machine from home so we could get 2 computers working on this. Typically for me to compile the contest and fully render it taked approximately a week. I had about 15 hours until the next showing. His computer compiled rendered while I redid the category sprite animations.
Contest gets compiled for afternoon sat showings and basically it is on to Hell. Now.... this is WHY I give specific codecs to submit to and why certain ones are highly not recommended. I had every codec under the sun. I had wmv galore, divx so old I needed to get divx since xvid didn't recognize it, xvid, only a handful of mpeg2, an old indeo codec and virtually every screen resolution under the sun....
So imagine from about 4pm to 11pm trying to render all that. Everything for the contest was already converted to mpeg2, and most of them were submitted in mpeg2 or divx, which are simple to convert. But with the hell clips some of them I had to kinda do backwards methods to begin with to get them to play. This meant a 20 second video was taking longer to deal with than a 5 min long drama video. We had a lot of choking of programs on some of these.
So basically if this happens again, there are going to be some much more stringent requirements in how these things are submitted. The first time rendering took a couple weeks to process these things. It is going to be held to the same standards as the amv contest in terms of accepted codecs and quality. Quite simply if I need to download new codecs just to play it, then chances are it is going to be problematic. It is not meant to be mean but this event should have not been harder and longer to put together than the 2 hour long contest that had larger files, bumpers to proofread etc etc.

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