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randy-stewart wrote on 2/13/2005, 12:28 PM
Sounds like a great project for our users group. Thanks for the heads up.
Randy
Hawaii Vegas Users Group
TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/13/2005, 4:05 PM
sounds intersting. I guess we'll find out out the type of clip later. :)
MUTTLEY wrote on 2/13/2005, 5:32 PM
I'm in.

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

Trichome wrote on 2/13/2005, 6:15 PM
this would be fun, a break from script writing....
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/13/2005, 7:57 PM
Count me in!!! Not that I'll necessarily win (definately out classed in terms of work by a bunch of you guys) quickies aren't my forte, unlike some of those here ;-)

But, I'll sure try.

Dave
Stardust99 wrote on 2/14/2005, 3:46 PM
Spot,
Sounds like fun, count me in!

Terry
TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/14/2005, 7:16 PM
How to milk a goat: a 10second short by THF. :D

How to birth a goat: a 10 second short by THF. :D

How to get goats to mate: thirty five 10 seoncd short's. :D hehehe

Did someone delete earlier posts in this thread? I thought I had more responces.
PossibilityX wrote on 2/15/2005, 9:51 AM
I'm in.

Already got it worked out in my head, and storyboarded.

Thanks for the heads-up!
TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/15/2005, 8:51 PM
Hey spot, it's been a whole two days since the contest was announced... More info yet? I'm impatient. :)
MUTTLEY wrote on 2/15/2005, 9:27 PM
And how bout getting one of these donated for a prize :

Firestore

Coudja make me happier ? =)


www.undergroundplanet.com
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/15/2005, 9:37 PM
I think so, I had a post and it seems to have been deleted!?!?

This is getting a little absurd, but if we aren't all able to be adults, then I guess I'll just let them delete everything they think is not acceptable. (not that I have much of a choice beyond leaving or never posting again. :-)

I would like to know why my post was removed - Sony(BP, Chaboud, whoever removed it)
Maybe I just didn't see something offensive in it, but it would be appreciated. Thank you if you take the time to respond to this from your busy day.

Dave
Peeks wrote on 2/15/2005, 9:50 PM
Sounds exciting...

I'll try to send something in.Ü

Do we send it to Spot? Is there any other guidelines we should know about?

Cheers,Ü

-Ana-

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/16/2005, 10:08 AM
hey, any word yet there spot????
Jimmy_W wrote on 2/16/2005, 10:11 AM
Cmon Spot spit it out, we need to get started now.
rs170a wrote on 2/16/2005, 10:45 AM
Sorry to break the news to you guys but I wouldn't count on a response from Spot in the immediate future :-(
According to John Cline's post towards the bottom of the "OT: LCD vs. CRT" thread, Spot has already left the forum for an indefinite period. Read the rest of it and you'll understand.

Mike
Jimmy_W wrote on 2/16/2005, 11:04 AM
What a week!
Peeks wrote on 2/16/2005, 5:15 PM
I second that, what a week indeed!

How can something so good, like this forum, turn into something real ugly like the war in the middle east?!?!

Keep the faith, as i will always have with everybody in this forum!
Spot|DSE wrote on 2/16/2005, 5:32 PM
Here's the deal:
-10 second video,
-wmv format/256kpbs
-NO copyrighted music may be used unless you own the copyright.
-NO copyrighted video may be used unless you own the copyright.
-No pornographic or socially unacceptable images (let's keep this a family show)
-Must be edited in Sony Vegas editing software.
-Must contain some sort of relevance to Sony Vegas software.

Email them to TJ at info@sundancemediagroup.com and we'll vet them for content. (jst to make sure they're not offensive)
Winner will receive software from Serious Magic, hardware from ADS, and software/DVD materials, Nero Digital Software, and ACID Libraries from VASST.
Contest to end March 15. Visitors to the VASST site will begin voting around that same time, date TBA. Winner's video will also be shown at NAB at the Vegas party. Please plan on submitting a DVD of your entry, just in case you win, so we can use a high resolution copy at the party event.
VASST trainers and Sony employees may not enter.
In the voting, we'll be recommending that votes be determined by:
Content/story
Audio quality
Creative use of Vegas tools
But since it's the community that will vote for the winner... It's a crap shoot.
We WILL be monitoring IP addys for the votes.

The contest is part of the launch of the new VASST site, designed by Jason Abbott, and we're hopeful you'll spend some time there. We now have a search engine for all things on the site, and it even will search the file properties of a veg file if there is a description in there. Much faster, much more efficient, check it out when you can. Still in testing mode, so our official release is still a few days away.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/16/2005, 6:46 PM
3 quick questions:

1) what res (or does it matter?)

2) what do you mean "Must contain some sort of relevance to Sony Vegas software."? Is this like a 10s vegas spot?

3) only one entry per person?
Spot|DSE wrote on 2/16/2005, 8:44 PM
Good questions all...And we didn't consider #3.

It's not a Vegas commercial. You could put a small Vegas bug in the last 1 second if you want. Or it could be a 10 second spot on Vegas. Or Las Vegas. :-)
We'll take up to 5 entries per person. While it ups the odds for the multiple submittor, it also means that the submittor has been working his butt off. Or, it might be that the submittor has just created a bunch of schlock to bombard us with entries.

Res doesn't matter, but at 256k, you'll likely want 320 x 240.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 2/16/2005, 9:12 PM
I just thought of another (voting related) question while working on something else...

When we vote, will we be able to see a name next to the video, or will we be voting based just on the video (so we can't tell all out budies to go vote for the video with our name on it!)

Now.. idea time... :)
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/16/2005, 9:23 PM
Question then becomes, how does it work to check the IP addy when it's a dynamic IP.

Doesn't the IP change everytime someone connects? (I'm sure there's a way, I just don't know what it is - not exactly an IT guy here :)

Dave

I'm gonna be all over this one. Good luck guys.
MUTTLEY wrote on 2/16/2005, 10:27 PM

Good stuff, though no Firestore ;(

I'm with TheHappyFriar , If possible no names till its over.

- Ray
Chienworks wrote on 2/17/2005, 2:46 AM
Most IP checking is done by class C blocks and time periods. Generally you will connect to one of a small bank of modems at your ISP and all these modems are in the same class C block (256 IP addresses). The log will probably trace that whole block as a single entry, and only allow a limited number of votes from that block over a certain time period.

For those who are cable & DSL users, your address really isn't that dynamic. I've had the same IP address on my RoadRunner connection at home for over 18 months now, even trough about a hundred reconnects. My church's RoadRunnder IP address changes about once every two months, but always within the same class C block.

Then there is AOL, which completely screws up the whole system. (*agonized moan of consternation*) Many is the time i've considered blocking all of AOL from accessing my networks. The same user can and will connect through dozens of radically different IP addresses second by second. I've watched AOL users browsing my sites and it's ridiculous ... the HTML page is accessed from an IP in Reston VA, then the title graphic is accessed from an IP in Seattle WA, then the banner from an IP in Austin TX, then the next graphic from an IP in Cleveland OH ... they're proxy system is a nightmare. The problem comes when dealing with abusinve users. AOL will not (probably cannot) trace users by IP since it's actually their proxy servers that we webmasters see, not the user's IP address. So, if you get enough bad eggs on AOL, about the only resort is to shut off all of AOL from accessing your stuff. Grrrrrrrrr.

<end rant> ;)