Official Fanfilm Editing Competition (aka complete the circle)

Hey guys.

Ok, I have some great news for everyone. The biggest announcement is all the way at the bottom, and trust me, you guys don't want to miss that.

First off, everything is going very smoothly. I will be hosting a webpage for this all to go down, but still hosting would be appreciated for the actual clips.

OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES/INFORMATION

The Fanfilm that has been selected for this competition is KNIGHTQUEST. It currently can be downloaded here. Hurry up and download it, though, as these links are rotating (to my understanding).

How to compete.

Anyone can compete in this competition-- there is no limit on the number of competetors.

The steps to competeing

1) You must download the movie Knightquest. Not all parts are required to make your trailor-- choose the parts you wish.
2) Seperate it into clips/load it into your editing program and edit a trailor.
3) Export it, the settings are below:

SORENSON 3 QUICKTIME CODEC
320x140
15 frames per second
MP3 Audio- this will be the standard, it is your choice if you choose to experiment/compensate.

4) Send it to me.

Instructions on how to get the tailors to me:

wixmmm@planetps2.com

Some internet email providers only allow file attachments to be limited, if you are one of these people who cannot send it over email to me I ask you to do this (in this order):

1) try using your ISP's POP3 account with Microsoft Outlook (Express) or whatever POP3 program you have.
2) Sign up for an account with tripod, and upload it there. Send me the link at wixmmm@planetps2.com
3) IF you cannot (for some reason) figure out how to sign up with tripod, tell me and I will create you an account you can upload to.

5) Await the announcement of the finalists (top 10) and then the poll, where everyone will vote on the top 10.

RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE CONTEST

1) The trailor can be NO MORE THAN 2 minutes long.

2) The trailor can be NO MORE THAN 15 megabytes big. The finalists WILL HAVE TO BE between 5-10 megabytes. If your trailor IS 15 megabytes when it is submitted, be prepared for it to be compressed down to closer to 5 megabytes. IT IS STRONGLY RECOMMENDED YOU DO THE COMPRESSION YOURSELF. The compression will be done with Media Cleaner Pro, but WILL NOT be done with nearly as much care as you would probably like for your "masterpeice".

3) The music can be ANY PEICE YOU CHOOSE, but it must have no swearing. Mind you, most of us are star wars fans here, so a larger percentage of people will prefer John Williams over Marylin Manson

4) ABSOLUTELY ZERO tampering with the Knightquest footage for sick jokes or other inappropriate content. Not only will your trailor be trashed before it even is over, but respect will be lost on so many levels. I know this does not apply to 99.999 percent of the people here, but you never know when another "Bill from flaming BA" will come around. (for those of you here long enough to remember THAT episode )

5) BE CREATIVE! Almost everything is allowed here. Joe has been GREAT in letting us play with his movie (kind of a microcosm of this whole community Lucas->lets us play with star wars Monroe->Let's us play with Knightquest ). You BY ALL MEANS can, and are encouraged to, create text to go along with the trailors. Original shots may be created, but be careful here, no major FX shots may be created, as not all editors a) no how and b) have the resources to. Remember, this is a contest of editing, not Special FX... it would be a waste of valuble editing time for you to create a shot... which brings us to TIME:

DEADLINE!!!!!

The deadline is approx 2 WEEKS FROM TOMMORROW

August 1st will be the final day for you to get the trailors in.

The competition will be as soon as hosting is figured out. The finalists

 

Trailer*



*runs*

Carl

 

Yep, I'm sorry, and you know what? I've come to accept that that is just how my brain has chosen to spell it, and if ANYONE has a problem with it... then, hey, I can't, say, stop your trailor from "magically not appearing in my inbox"




Cya
Mike

PS: Carl, you in?

 

I think id be willing to give this a shot wix.

 

As will I

 

Hah ok no I wont be willing to give this a try since Knight Quest is only in WMV.

 

Whats the crack with Knightquest? Ive tried downloading it, but im only getting audio. Ive got every codec under the sun!

Any chance of a qt or divx?

 

You won't believe how many times I read you say "trailor". I've gone mad from it. TRAILER!!!
AHHHHHHHH

Now, I'm getting confused with which way it's spelled. Please, PLEASE. I know you can do it.

 

Heh perhaps picking a film that wasnt compressed in a format that non PC users have a HELL of a time watching, much less using and editing with would have been a good idea...

 

Oh, I can't do this either. Premiere doesn't recognize WMV.

I'd say try getting the MOV version of Knightquest hosted, or I doubt you'll have many entrees.

 

Doh!

I should've thought of that.

I'll get back to you guys.

And it has begun... the crap

Cya
Mike

 

I'm in, if you can get some sort of .mov format down (MAC user)

 

Hmmm...very interesting.....perhaps I too will jump on this bandwagon!

 

I'm on a PC, so I can watch KQ, no problem.

But I haven't a clue how to edit WMV files.

I'm in if we can figure this out.

(Not even our COMPETITIONS can meet their deadlines anymore...Mountain Dew anyone?)

M. Scott

 

*grabs a mountain dew* thanks! glug glug glug... ahhhhhhhhh...

anyways, i'm in once it's a .mov file (mac user ) and i get the compressers or whatever i need (or get them to work, heh)

 

i'm in i'm in i'm INNNN!!!!

 

I really want to do this, but neither Premeire nor After Effects can open the .wmv. I hope someone can convert it to a .mov or figure out a way to open it. I don't have any other editor to use. Any help would be hot.

 

I, for one, want an update on this...And I couldn't let this fall into the abyss that is page 2.

Anyway, whats the word? Do we use another movie that we can all load? Do we try to change the format, and host it somewhere? Do we let the 2 people who can actually use .WMV files make the trailers?

EDIT: Smiley

 

Well, Windows Movie Maker can recognize WMV files, but that program is, well......crappy.


EDIT: I don't plan on competing

 

I'm in if the Premiere thing can be sorted

 

Just noticed a 'MOV' version on the TFN KnightQuest page. Is this new or something? (Though this is run of the TFN server, so it would most likely be slow to download...)

 

I am in. Except MSP won;t read the wmv file either I don't think. I have Knightquest at home. Hopefully I have the MOV version heh.

Shadoes
MSP Prophet

 

yeah, i noticed last night that the KQ main page has the 3 parts in MOV format, but since TFN's survers are a little... ahem, i was only able to d/l like 5 megs of it, and it said it was done, so i only got like, 1 minute... DARG! it's gonna take me 3 nights to d/l the whole thing, even if its on an emergency server!!!!!

 

I changed my mind, count me in!

 

Well the .mov version isn't going to be possible... I was at work all day so I couldn't give you guys an update... but here it is:

It looks like the next best option is Seeds of Darkness... I'm going to pm icicle right now... but for those of you wanting to have the most time possible, i recommend downloading it right now and get to editing, there is a very small chance he will actually say no, he's a regular on the boards.

BTW, the due date IS pushed back to the 5th, to allow for download time and announcement time.

Cya
Mike