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by ngsilver » Fri Sep 13, 2013 10:04 am
Alright everyone, we're down to the final week! As normal, you will have until Midnight on Sept 21st (or better known as 11:59pm or 23:59 on Sept 20th, all times Eastern Daylight Savings or -4 UTC) in order to submit your entry form and request an FTP account via the entry system. You will then have until Midnight on Sept 23rd (or better known as 11:59pm or 23:59 on Sept 22nd, all times Eastern Daylight Savings or -4 UTC) to have your FTP entry submitted. I will close the FTP server at this time and all accounts will be automatically closed. For those of you who wish to submit via snail-mail, you must have your entry in my hands on Sept 23rd (that is Saturday.) Any physical entry received after this time will not be accepted.
Once your entry is submitted I recommend you close your FTP account immediately as your video will not go through first pass QC (where I verify no credits and if the file meets technical requirements, basically all items that equal an instant DQ) until your FTP account is closed as the system will not release the entry to me until this point. We allow for unlimited re-submissions for videos DQ'ed before the deadline.
If you wait until after the deadline, once FTP accounts are auto-closed, then you will only be allowed 1 chance to re-submit your entry to pass final QC. The re-submission period will be aprox 1 week after the deadline, final dates will be posted once 1st round QC has been completed on all entries submitted.
Email verifications will not be sent out for accepted entries (I hope to have this feature ready for next year.) We will only send out email notices to entrants who have issues/DQs after the deadline. Please check back to the entry system in order to get the status of your entries and find out if they are DQ'ed, accepted, or have other comments/suggestions. We do not auto-DQ based off of video/audio quality, but we do make note of such videos via the coordinator comments as such videos may be DQ'ed during judging. You will see such info listed in your entry status page.
At this time if your entry shows 'Video Received' then the video has passed 1st round QC and will go on to judging for final QC.
As always, please let me know if you have any questions.
