Only a few more days...

Spot|DSE wrote on 12/24/2005, 1:36 AM
in the "Countdown to the New Year" contest.
There are only a few entries in the HDV category, so you might want to enter in that one....odds for winning are quite high.
If you haven't looked at the page....prizes in the SD category are DV Rack, Sound Forge 8, and $150.00 gift certificate from VASST.
In the HDV category, prizes are the same, except DV Rack comes with the HDV PowerPak too.

Comments

MH_Stevens wrote on 1/6/2006, 4:28 PM
And now I am suggesting that everyone here should vote and do it pronto. Voting ends tomorrow!

There are so few independent votes from this forum that it is likely the leading entries are not justly so. Help make this competition democratic and such that winning entries show how good Vegas is. And who can judge good entries better than you guys?

DON'T LEAVE 80% OF THE VOTES TO FRIENDS OF THE THREE COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO HAVE THE LEADING ENTRY IN SD AND FIRST AND SECOND PLACE IN HDV, ALL OF WHICH WERE SUBMITTED FROM THE SAME COMPUTOR (and with some shared ripped music too!)

Do your duty to Sony, VASST, God and the American way and vote!

http://www.vasst.com/?v=countdown_contest.htm

There is no democracy without voter turn out. I'm fighting for fairness here so come do your bit now.








TheHappyFriar wrote on 1/6/2006, 6:49 PM
Uuuuuggggh..... I WANT to do an entry but I'm also doing another contest that ends on the same day! I've been working on that one for a month before this one started! I need more hours in a day!
fldave wrote on 1/6/2006, 6:55 PM
I rendered all of them and viewed them. Several are longer than the limit, coming in at 17+ sec and 20+sec.
Spot|DSE wrote on 1/6/2006, 6:57 PM
Additionally, the system has a parameter that flushes votes from same IP, which it has done after someone mentioned that there had been a multple vote from one IP. Rankings have been recalculated.
fldave wrote on 1/6/2006, 7:02 PM
Thank you very much, Spot.
Former user wrote on 1/7/2006, 5:16 AM
I've downloaded a few of the SD countdown VEG's and was disappointed to discover that none of them worked on my system running Vegas 5, so I assume that the contest is for Vegas 6 users only?
MH_Stevens wrote on 1/7/2006, 5:31 PM
AND the two leading HDV contenders I referenced no doubt will be disqualified when Spot looks at them as they are not HDV! They are SD!!!!!!!!!!

emmabaker wrote on 1/7/2006, 6:06 PM
I use 5.0 also and can't seem to view many of the .vegs.....
and i'd be happy to vote!

What can we do?
Maybe these files can be converted to another format?
...Just a thought
Jess
FuTz wrote on 1/8/2006, 5:15 AM
Jess
Same thing here.
:(
MH_Stevens wrote on 1/8/2006, 10:59 AM
A friendly suggestion: With the problems voters have reported looking at the entries and with the possibility of fraud, I would like to see Spot and his VASST cohorts judge future competitions. Great fun and thanks to VASSY anyway.

Michale



winrockpost wrote on 1/8/2006, 11:12 AM
Its just for fun, fraud ? come on
thanks VASST dudes
Spot|DSE wrote on 1/8/2006, 11:13 AM
Not on your life.
What saddens me is that even after sending notice mails out to those that might innocently be unaware that registering their mother, sister, and dog to vote for the contest is a violation of the rules, they still have the fake, and new registries voting for them. Thankfully it's now a one-button push to flush those sorts of votes.
We'll do away with contests before we'll ever vote for them ourselves. In that same line, we don't vote for entries in the contest, period.
In this particular case, we had no idea there are so many Vegas 5 users out there still.
mjroddy wrote on 1/8/2006, 12:16 PM
Posting a WMV along with the VEG would have solved all Vegas 4 & 5 issues. And made the viewing experience a lot more enjoyable (for me).
Still, a big shout out to the VASST team for doing this out of their own good will.
You guys are aces in my book!
MH_Stevens wrote on 1/8/2006, 12:39 PM
I second what mrroddy just said. The vasst amount of work required to download, unzip and then load into Vegas all the entries is a big turn-off for voters.

I'm not so sure the one entry per address is fool proof as colleges etc. often have multiple portals especially when using their various hotspots, and it stopped me from voting because a girl I had been teaching Vegas to and who did an entry voted from from my computer and no matter how I tried I could not vote! It's no biggie because I probably would have cheated and voted for myself.

AND if the good people at VASST want to remain independent then let Spot choose a panel of say 3-5 regulars here. In addition to the reasons I gave before a good judge of these entries is how well they demonstrate the functionality of Vegas and not the heavy metal sound tracks that attract a lot of inexperienced voters. I know with the last competition the wining entries were screened at NAB and in such an environment to show Vegas in the best light I would have thought important. Just an of-hand opinion, nothing I feel too strongly about.

Michael
fldave wrote on 1/13/2006, 4:21 PM
Not to dredge up an old topic, but my contest entries should have addressed the back-level versions of Vegas. My veg files were 6.0c, and could not be recreated without extreme complexity in V5 or V4 due to my use of Nested Vegs. Sorry, but I like them, makes some things so much easier.

So belatedly, here are links to my entries for a short time. I won 2nd place in HDV category, so thanks to all for the votes and their effort in trying to view/render. I will include direct links to rendered versions in future contests if the need arises.

2nd Place HDV, 2.5 MB
HDV 24p

Other versions of the same thing:
HDV 60i
NTSC DV 29.97 Widescreen


Edited: by the way, these are .wmv files