Obviously the film on USB (in a marked envelope) is the major one but do we need to hand in any paper work (like the Release Forms)?

And of course we have to complete the Online Wrap Up form.

Anything missing?

Thanks!

Students have always burned edits to dvd and if they want to, compress into quiktime then copy/drag onto a USB so they can show all their friends or email to them, really easy. i have read all the file submission facts info etc of which most of it has totally blown me away into confusion land (sort of). So do i need to follow the: Mac OS X: MD5 Checksum on line? or the (Unofficial) 48HOURS File Tester? which i looked at but i assume that is for encoding in Cs4 etc. PLEASE SOMEONE HELP us on how to / what to do to get the right format for imovie and so we dont get disquailfied. much appreciate it. thank you
PS: this is our first time representing Tauranga Girls' College

UPDATE from Tarlen

The file-based hand-in specs have now been specified, and are available on the rules page.

Quick Summary:

Video Codec: h.264
Audio Codec: AAC-LC
File Extension: mp4 or mov
Framerate: 25
Resolution: 1024 x 576 (SD), 1280 x 720, 1920 x 1080
Field Order: Progressive playback only (deinterlaced video if shot interlaced)
Video Bitrate: Variable bit rate encoding no higher than 10 megabits per second. We recommend the following bitrates for highest quality at the following frame sizes
1024 x 576: 3 megabits per second (i.e 3mb/s or 3000 kb/s)
1280 x 720: 6 megabits per second (i.e 6mb/s or 6000 kb/s)
1920 x 1080: 8 megabits per second (i.e 8mb/s or 8000 kb/s)
Audio Bitrate: 192 kilobits per second (i.e 192 kb/s)

Filename: The file should be named with your team name followed by 2011
e.g Team Artificial Nipple should have a file called Artificial Nipple2011.mp4 or Artificial Nipple2011.mov

Your SINGLE FILE must include the following video content in the following order:

* Team intro 30...

My brother is a great musician but he is in the South Island and I'm in the North... So he can't help out with making new music, so he has given me his drafts folder with permission to pull out any mp3s that he has made and use them in my film.

How do I go about the release forms here?
Does he have to sign for every song I use, they are currently named things like "113 draft 01.mp3"

Or can he just do one for all the draft songs? As I won't know till the last day what songs I'll be using.

And I understand we don't hand in the release forms, we just hold them for future reference?
Can he just hold on to his in Dunedin or does he have to scan it up to me?

And Im assuming there's no release required from the bigbangfuzz songs? just mention in the credits?

Cheers.

Also if we use

anyone have any suggestions on a good free editing suite for Windows?

I don't fancy spending hundreds of dollars as I only do 48 hours once a year.
I've used Movie Maker, iMovie and FinalCutPro before.
My PC is
Windows7
i5 CPU
8GB RAM
GTX260 graphics card

I'm reasonably techy and don't mind installing something open source.
Can install Linux too if it's the best route to go.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

Where the hell on that site do we get access to stuff?

Last year me and a mate edited our film on two different computers, I did the first half of the film on my pc with Sony Vegas 9, and him the second on his Mac with FCP (not sure what version but he bought it back 2006-7) I saved my half then we chucked it on his computer put them together and saved it. It worked fine but we ran out of time with the mp4 render so we handed it in minidv instead.

We did all of this to share the load a bit more, and will do the same again this year, but we don't have the luxury of handing it in on tape if it goes wrong.

Now my friend sez that he has trouble with mp4s on his computer (Mac) where by some of the shots just turn into a green screen, when he renders it, he has no idea why.

My query with Sony Vegas is some of the export settings, I'm not very technical and cant find the video codec .h264 setting in the render options, and also The variable bit rate setting. In the technical section it...

Does the 10-second "info card" have to be silent?

For instance, if it doesn't, I have a fun idea for my team intro
that would bleed the audio into the info card.

Everyone would win.

This is going to be my second year of competition in Wellington having entered last year for the first time and failed to get through to anything. Im just wondering how judging is done in wellington, who does it and what do they know about film?

thanks

becca

Does anyone know whether NZ has the same definition of Public Domain music as USA, i.e., a work is considered PD if you have proof of sheet music publication before 1922 (or was it 1921?).

And whether, if you have such proof, the date of death of the composer is still an issue?

And yes, I understand that what is in the Public Domain is the composition/song, not anyone else's performance or recording, but it does free up some excellent songs, including some that are well-known or have been hits at some time or another.

Thanks for any info. I asked APRA a week or two ago, but haven't yet had a reply.
Jenny

I ask, because if we can make one I can get some financial support for the team.

I can't see any issues, other than the following:
a) no one will really get many kicks out of watching us edit.
b) if the screen was in the background/ visible, would that be kosher? Or would it break some rule of 48 Hours. I'm not envisaging streaming the actual screen in all its glory, but what is the collective wisdom?

What I'm hoping is that one of the city organizers is drawn at random
to take a bath in the pile of the whole country's drives.

Well... what's the TRUTH??