Pwolf wrote:Nya-chan Production wrote:Not even mentioning stuff like "I don't keep renders because my HDD is small" or "I kept my renders on a HDD that died on me and now I can't send an older video in, because I'd have to recreate it or render from copy I uploaded to Org"
Again, not something a coordinator should even have to think about. Those are personal problems an editor should deal with, not a contest coordinator. Not to mention those are terrible excuses for not putting padding at the beginning and end of a video. The whole argument against a contest credibility because of it is pretty mind blowing for me anyway. I'm having a hard time understanding why something so small and insignificant is even considered an issue. Even without avisynth, all you would have to do is open your master copy (or what ever copy you have available if you lost your master) in your favorite editing program, add 2 seconds to the beginning and end, export. We're talking about a processes that shouldn't take more than 20minutes on a 5 year old computer. If you're waiting until the very last moment to enter a contest and that 20minutes is too long, then you have more problems to worry about then adding some padding
I agree with most of the stuff, but still, it's a MAJOR HASSLE for NOTHING OF ADDED VALUE |: I mean, sorry, but if it's technical need on coordinator's side, shouldn't there be some... trying to solve this need, instead of enforcing all editors to re-encode their videos repeatedly and every year?
If it's something in the AMV, like... my nick is there, or there is some mistake I overlooked, I have nothing against going through the stuff again, because it adds to the AMV or because you want the judging to be anonymous... but 2s of black in front and after the end?
I could edit that 1 hour (6 yo PC upgraded last year a bit) that it takes me to render (I don't backup my masters, sorry) and encode my 3 minute video. Want to send 3 entries in? 3 hours. And that' ONE contest.
Sorry, I'll usually pass and send to some con that takes my mp4 (some cons even accept Org links these days).


















