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robbalvey Site Admin
Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Total posts: 18525 Location: So Cal Age: 39 Gender: Male |
 Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:30 am Post subject: TPR announces our 2nd Annual Coaster Video Contest! |
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Hey everyone!
The information a lot of you have been waiting for! Our 2nd annual coaster video contest is here!
Videos need to be submitted by April 1st, so get your videos in soon!
There have been a few changes to the rules and the details of the
contest, for example, this year, we will wait to announce the "TPR"
winners until all the ballots for the readers choice winners have
been submitted and we will announce all winners at the same time.
Please check out the contest rules for all the updates.
The link to all the rules and everything you need to know is here:
http://www.themeparkreview.com/contest2005/contest2005.htm
Good luck to everyone and I hope we get a lot of entries this year!
If you have any questions or comments about the contest, please post them here.
--Robb
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| josephwanek Check out my very original member name
Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Total posts: 69 Location: Des Moines, IA Age: 23 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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My video was an MPEG but I converted it to Pinnicle's Studio 8. I rendered the video as an AVI but now when I play the video it says:
Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.
Although, the video plays all the way through just fine. It's only after the movie is over that the message pops up. Will it still work if I send it in on a Data CD? |
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| robbalvey Site Admin
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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We need to be able to watch it on TV, so if you are sending it in a data format, it HAS to be a high quality "DV" .avi file at 720x480 for NTSC that I can watch through a DV camera hooked up to the TV.
If your data file satisfies this requirement, then please send it in! 
--Robb
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| Token Yankee Guy Sexing up the North Pole
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1743 Location: East Granby, CT Age: 24 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Well, there goes my attempt at submitting a video. The deadline is April 1st and the parks here don't open until Mid-April. Is there going to be another contest later this year Robb?
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| BarryH He's kind of sad and pathetic
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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I appreciate R&E doing the contest again this year. It was a lot of fun seeing a lot of talented people doing videos. I have a few in my arsenal to enter. Mine are devoid of nudity or swearing, so they'll be boring!  |
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| SharkTums Site Admin
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Token Yankee Guy wrote: | | Well, there goes my attempt at submitting a video. The deadline is April 1st and the parks here don't open until Mid-April. Is there going to be another contest later this year Robb? |
Didn't you shoot anything ALL of last year?!!? This is the same time we did the contest last year and we got plenty of entries. I don't know if there will be another contest or not, it's a lot of work to do videos, and put on two contests, and work full time! 
Elissa "go rummage through old stuff!" Alvey |
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| Twister II Shirtless Dude!
Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Total posts: 2297 Location: Las Vegas, NV Age: 19 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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I never had a camera last year, and my park also doesn't open til late April.
ADMIT EDIT: Fixed spelling, grammar and punctuation. |
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| Token Yankee Guy Sexing up the North Pole
Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Total posts: 1743 Location: East Granby, CT Age: 24 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| SharkTums wrote: |
Didn't you shoot anything ALL of last year?!!? This is the same time we did the contest last year and we got plenty of entries. I don't know if there will be another contest or not, it's a lot of work to do videos, and put on two contests, and work full time!
Elissa "go rummage through old stuff!" Alvey |
Like once and the footage was crap. And as for Hersheypark and Knoebels, I only brought my digi cam and that was it.
Craiggers "Really wants to put effort into the next video" K.
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| Corkscrewed Full Fledged Donkey Enthusiast!
Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Total posts: 378 Location: Southern California Age: 25 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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Woohoo!! Another contest!!
I have on question, and I generally have a feeling that the answer is "no," but I thought I'd run it by just in case.
On a trip to the DLR last December, I was able to borrow a friend's camcorder and shoot some footage, and I made a sort of "two-in-one" video of DCA and Disneyland that used two different songs that led into each other. Thus, the video, which is basically two segments, has each segment lead into each other.
However, the total length puts it at like 8:30, which is about three and a half minutes too long according to the specification. However, since I kind of consider it to be one vid, I was wondering if you could make an exception for me. It's just a request, and I don't expect an assent, but I figured asking was better than nothing.
If the above request is denied, does that mean I have to do a quick re-edit and send only the half that I want submitted myself, or can I send you the full 8min 30sec file, specify that you use the DCA portion, and you guys can edit it out for me? Basically, do I need to trim my video or can you?
In either case, I'll be mailing the file on a DVD, with the file in DV avi format. Unless you can suggest a program that can encode my video onto a DVD that's viewable on a television.
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| robbalvey Site Admin
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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^ As much as we would like to, we can't. We extended the length of time that a video could be from 4 minutes to 5 minutes, but we need to stick to that, mainly because if your video gets picked, an 8 minute download would equal a file size so large that your video would probably not get downloaded that much, thus not get many votes.
We need to keep ALL the entries consistent so we know how to budget for bandwidth, disk space, etc.
--Robb
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