The Otakon 2010 Thread (OK now panic)

[XStylus]

@Xstylus: You sir, are a brave person.

The way I see it, the pressure's all on him. The worst that could happen for me is I'd lose to a worthy opponent. No shame in that. As for him, he'd lose to someone who'd been retired since 2002.

You have your choice of weapons as long as it's Premiere CS3 or 6.5.

Heh. I remember the bad ol' days of Premiere 6.5. Haven't used it in a loooooong time (the professional world uses Avid or Final Cut), but I know it better than CS3. If I'm confirmed as the challenger I'll have to go hunt for my copy and get reacquainted... ^^;;;

[Castor Troy]

@Xstylus: You sir, are a brave person.

The way I see it, the pressure's all on him. The worst that could happen for me is I'd lose to a worthy opponent. No shame in that. As for him, he'd lose to someone who'd been retired since 2002.

You have your choice of weapons as long as it's Premiere CS3 or 6.5.

Heh. I remember the bad ol' days of Premiere 6.5. Haven't used it in a loooooong time (the professional world uses Avid or Final Cut), but I know it better than CS3. If I'm confirmed as the challenger I'll have to go hunt for my copy and get reacquainted... ^^;;;

Go for CS3. After all the work I've done in Final Cut and Avid, I almost can't go back to 6.5.

[chui101]

My entry is complete! Finally got all my frame inaccuracies fixed. I wish h.264 was frame-accurate

I am LOVING CS5, too bad it's not an option in the contest. The Mercury Playback Engine is so stable and buttery smooth on an nVidia card with CUDA, and it's so freaking fast too. I don't care what you Apple junkies have to say about your Avid and FCP :p


EDIT:
P.S. Are submitters still getting preferred seating and badges this year? That was totally awesome last year, thanks again for doing it

[VicBond007]

Hey kids,

Scintilla also expressed interest in doing IE. I'm going to see him at pre-screenings and make sure. If he chickens out, Stylus, you're on.

Everyone who submits and is not disqualified will get 3 seating badges. These are JUST for skipping the line and getting the good seats. These are NOT replacements for Otakon admission badges! They will work for the two big contest screenings, and for Iron Editor.

The hardware acceleration in CS5 is not tested for cloned display viewing yet. If it acts as an overlay surface, it may not display on both the screen and the projector at the same time. This is why we can't use DV now. Premiere renders DV footage on a separate overlay surface and shows up as black video on the projector. Makes watching the process even more boring. Also new software costs money, and most of the "pros" doing AMVs still use 6.5. I think maybe 3 people in the last 25 Iron Editor events used CS3. We've used FCP before, but standardizing footage for use between Mac and PC without giving one or the other an "edge" was a giant pain in the ass. Fortunately Nate quit before things got out of hand

[XStylus]

Hey kids,

Scintilla also expressed interest in doing IE. I'm going to see him at pre-screenings and make sure. If he chickens out, Stylus, you're on.

Awwwww...

What's this year's theme, by the way? And just out of curiosity, what's the specs of the equipment?

[dragontamer5788]

dragontamer: Just send us your .avi or quicktime if you have the bandwidth. It's 100x easier to fix the original, than to fix a bad re-encode. We output everything using a true, broadcast NTSC signal, no software players. If I can see the original, then I will know how to make the mpeg to conform to that standard

Hmm... well... Cinelerra is kind of a crappy program >_< The originals aren't in the correct aspect ratio, so I'm re-encoding anyway. (DVD Raws at 16:9, but Cinelerra wants to output 4:3, so I screw with the flags while letterboxing and so forth with mencoder). I'm worried about now is the PC color-coding vs MPEG color-coding. (something about 16 being black in NTSC but 0 is black for PCs?)... and whether or not some things are too dark in the AMV.

But I turned in what I got... now that the deadline is looming. So here is to a good competition this year! Also, a friend of mine wanted to know... Is there any information on the pre-screening process this year? Is there some 8-hour pre-screening marathon planned? If so, is it public this year, and if so... where/when is it going to be?

EDIT: GAHH!!! The last 10 seconds were cut off. Rerendering and Reuploading now...

[Scintilla]

Hmm... well... Cinelerra is kind of a crappy program >_<

Where's Trythil when you need him?

[Brakus]

Do you need judges for Iron Editor? As someone who's competed (and lost, argh), I'd like to jump in and help judge.

Also I will send the form in ASAP for my entry, as I will be one of many that will edit up until the last few hours getting this year's entry finished.

[CodeZTM]

Well, I just re-read the rules and realized my entry violated the trolling rule [it won AFTER I sent it in]. I e-mailed the main e-mail address that I was removing that entry and sending in something new instead that didn't violate the rule. [vboruta was the e-mail address]. Hopefully this should be ok and not be overly problematic?

[SailorDeath]

Quick question for ya, I noticed you said people should have gotten confirmation, check my spam folders as well as everywhere else and noticed I didn't have one. Just wann know if my entry is good.