First big thanks to all who submitted. I enjoy seeing your hard work every year. Probably one of the things that keeps me interested =p
Ok I have a lot of videos to download and then review. Hopefully that will be complete Wed night.
There are a large number of new submitters this year. All but a few videos that were flagged for a DQ would have had their answer to what would happen by checking the requirements for MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 file formatting that were written. It's generally a concern to me when we get sent a wmv file or something with a frame size that doesn't match what is explicity listed. This means either you did not perform Quality Control or there was some confusion with the rules. For future reference if you have confusion with rules you should always contact us before submitting this helps me improve them.
Copy & Paste From the contest FAQ
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Perform Quality Control
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The majority of the tech problems we see with submissions are the result of poor Quality Control. Do not create extra work for yourself. Just because your file plays in your media player do not assume you have formatted it properly. Always double check your file and compare the output you encoded. If you burned a disc don't assume a verify pass means its good. You must play back the file and watch it all the way through.
A program like
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en is useful for checking your file's formatting from its header but you should still always watch the entire video through to see if there are problems. Programs like this can often report things slightly different from playback so it still does not hurt to triple check and use another program to check and see how the file is actually being decoded.