Actually, in the area of time limits, the contest is going to be 2.5 hours, last year's experiment in increasing the time to 3 hours showed me why other contests don't go for that long. (save AWA)
As for video time, the max runtime a video can be is 5 minutes.
The rules will be comming out about 3 or 4 days after the poll for theme ends (which can be found here:
http://www.acen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=6102 ) for those who have already voted in the Poll that was on Yahoogroups, you don't need to vote again as I already have those votes
I also want to make one thing clear:
We will always get more videos than we can show, and after we've pruned out the ones that violate the rules, we have to start cutting ones that have nothing wrong with them. This also means that we'll start in categories that have more videos than the others, for instance, if we get 40 drama entries, and 20 action, We'll be looking at drama first to cut, and keep in mind, since I've been with acen, Drama has always been the most submitted to category, and Theme has been the least (last year I beileive we got close to 70 videos, HALF of which were drama, and we had a total of 5 theme videos. ) You can submit to any category you wish, but it's a pretty good indication of where we're going to start cutting.
Gimme a minute, I'll make a cool one....