BruceM posted:Hey. Does the same rule apply last year where we could enter more than one entry if we want?
nate_the_great posted:Just curious: were most of the entries last time wide or full screen? And is there a preference in that arena? Just mildly curious.
Evil-Henchman posted:Sith-Man posted:... one question about the hilts. By Custom, do you mean, of the winners design? Or do you just mean, that they'll be your designs, that aren't like any other sabers? Because sabers of the winners design would be awsome. They will be of my design. I want to make them before the contest submission deadline. I'm also not fond of making other people's designs (too time consuming and too easy to mess up). Sorry about that. Sith-Man posted:And I vote them to be stunt blade friendly, but with a cap for when the blades are out. (as in, a cap that will fill in the hole, and make it look like a solid show prop for wearing at conventions and whatnot.) Actually the only hilts to not have holes in the emitters were the prequel hilts (except for Anakin's in Episode III). The OT had holes in the emitters and in my opinion it looks better that way (I love the look of the Graphlex saber). Even though lightsabers are fictional and bogus in every way, I still like to think that the energy from the blade/crystal needs to emit from something with a hole on top rather than a smooth, solid surface. Also it's more work for something that I'm not seeing a return on.
Sith-Man posted:... one question about the hilts. By Custom, do you mean, of the winners design? Or do you just mean, that they'll be your designs, that aren't like any other sabers? Because sabers of the winners design would be awsome.
Sith-Man posted:And I vote them to be stunt blade friendly, but with a cap for when the blades are out. (as in, a cap that will fill in the hole, and make it look like a solid show prop for wearing at conventions and whatnot.)
VaporTrail posted:I am trying to find a job and move out of this area, too. Who knows when that'll happen.
G-Unit posted:good luck boys and girls.
Whiteley79 posted:I'm defintely in. Good to hear about the extended production time, run time, and file size. I also agree that Making a youtube channel would be good to get viewers and perhaps people who are intrested in future contest. It could be fun to have 2 seperate polls. TFN members can choose the overall winner, and youtube viewers can pick a 'youtube favorite'. Just some ideas. But either way, Im so in for this.
Jace Taran posted:Personally, I prefer keeping video files on my computer; I'm not fan of streaming video (I don't know why, but I don't feel relaxed in watching a video clip unless I'm playing it straight from my computer, independent of the internet, and in full screen). Anyway, if the file size limit is 45MB, keeping them on your computer shouldn't be an issue. Even if there are 20 entries, that's only like 900 MBs. Sure, that might take a little bit to download, but as far as hard drive space it's not that much these days. Besides, the video quality would be far better; personally, I think streaming video compression is generally crap. Well, most streaming video anyway, since they usually use FLVs(which suck). Streaming DIVX, on the other hand, is not bad. However, YouTube (which most people seem to be suggesting) uses the crappy FLV compression. So, I say just keep them as straight-up download files (YouTube doesn't give a save-to-disk option anyway, and I would imagine that some people will want that, maybe even need it).