In your first post you just sounded a bit unsure of yourself and how the project would turn out, so that had both Sierra and I worried. Now you say you're going to finish the project, but it seems like you're not letting the rest of us in on the plan you have for it, or that you just haven't thought about some things yet.
- How long are you planning on making this?
- What's it even going to be called?
- What kind of transitions do you have planned?
- Are you going to set any other kind of standards? Would you let a track that is barely edited into the project? Would you disqualify tracks that came with extremely poor audio/video quality?
The April 1st deadline also had me a little worried. All of the MEPs I've seen took at least three or four months to complete. I don't think one month is going to cut it for a lot of people who would want to make a really good track. That deadline would be too soon for me to make the couple of tracks I want to do (I have my own video projects to work on during that time as well).
I've noticed a lot of people show interest, but only a few have actually committed to making tracks. You can't finish the project if enough people don't commit. Either that or the project will end up having hardly any tracks. My suspicion is that the lack of commitment is due to the lack of technical and other, more specific, rules like how Infinity Squared mentioned earlier.
Please don't think we want to take away your idea... we just want the project to be more organized and we want to see more people signing up.
Osakaisthebomb wrote:Like I said before I have chosen to work with sora764. Why? Well for one thing I know the dude. Another is that he lives in the same town as I do now so working on it together would be simple and I have learned aobut encoding and will be working on that with another friend of mine.
Actually, you don't have to be working with someone who's in the same town. Sierra and I are living in different cities and we give each other input on our current video projects ALL the time. We just send our betas and talk over instant messangers. We even made whole videos together across the internet just by giving each other our project files. But, if that's what you want to do.
Osakaisthebomb wrote:if I did that I would have no right to call it my own.
Well technically, it wouldn't be just yours anyway... the video would belong to all of the editors as well.
Osakaisthebomb wrote:there is the chance that the ideas and direction I want to take this might be different than yours.
We would be happy to run all of our rules by you and hear your input on every aspect of the project. We would just want to make sure all of your ideas can actually happen the way you plan them to.
I understand that in the end this is your idea, though. All I can do is make suggestions, then.
- You should definitely take a look at the sticky thread in this forum about running MEPs. Also, read through some of the other MEP threads in this forum to see how other coordinaters handle situations and convince other people to join their projects.
- You should either make a new, official, thread complete with a project title (I had no idea this was a thread for a Christian MEP project until halfway through the first post) and a first page that lists all the specific rules and lists participating members and tracks, or you could update this thread by editing your first post to keep the project up-to-date with lists and such
I'm not sure myself whether I'll make any tracks for this project. I do have several ideas, but since I spend several hours on my videos I don't want to commit to anything until I see there's enough people working on this project to get it off the ground.
Good luck, I really hope this project turns out.
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