Comments on: Trailer competition FAQ

By: Jaleel

Jaleel — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:23:46 +0000

ItÂ´s a bit sad that the deadline is so early. Would have loved to take part, but one week competition just doesnÂ´t grant me the time to do so. I feel like weÂ´ll miss many great contributions by making it one week instead of two or three - maybe you should think about extending the contest?

Greetings!

By: Michael Bell

Michael Bell — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:29:06 +0000

Here ya go, John.

http://www.myspace.com/mikebellfilm1

It’s a little compressed due to myspace’s requirements, but I hope you like it.

Michael Bell

By: Danny F. Santos

Danny F. Santos — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:41:52 +0000

I was just thinking, if you really wanted to put a trailer on the DVD but couldn’t because of the music, couldn’t you just provide links as a “web content” feature instead?

By: Marcelo Iglesias

Marcelo Iglesias — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:12:07 +0000

This is another entry for the competition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaB88JTJbgc

By: Marcelo Iglesias

Marcelo Iglesias — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:51:53 +0000

Here’s my first entry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a7JHVT3nGQ

By: Klaudio

Klaudio — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:27:19 +0000

Ack. try this

try this

By: Klaudio

Klaudio — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:25:36 +0000

Nick,

The files are located at http://www.alexwurman.com/Music%20Clips/media/19thenines/

By: Knut Arne Vedaa

Knut Arne Vedaa — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:32:37 +0000

Sorry for the rant, I seem to have figured it out. The solution was to set the resired output size in the Export settings and not in the Project settings. I think.

By: Knut Arne Vedaa

Knut Arne Vedaa — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:53:00 +0000

A couple of days ago, when this competition was announced, I was a bit bored and tired and thought I'd give it a try. I don't have much experience with video editing, but I imported the clips into a program called Kdenlive under Linux and started to play around with them. It was great fun. Terrific fun actually.

But then today I found that I should figure out how to render the video properly. That's when I started using a lot of words that begin with F.

According to YouTube, the best format is 320x240. Okay, fine. Easy. Not so. Kdenlive gave me an output that was strechted in the vertical direction, and I don't really think those elongated faces are that attractive. Appearantly you had to use some obscure hack to get a correct aspect ratio.

So I tried a trial version of Vegas Movie Studio for Windows. It required me to install Quicktime to import the clips, but then it went fine - not. Importing all the clips at once crashed the program. Impressive.

Over to a trial version of Adobe Premiere. This is the premiere video tool, right, this can't go wrong? Haha. The output from this is not stretched, fine, but rather cropped. Cropped! That's not what I asked for!

Could some kind Premiere user give me a hint of how I can produce a nice 320x240 resized original-aspect-ratio output? Thanks a lot!

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:27:23 +0000

Here’s mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sirh2oUdR4M

By: Shell

Shell — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:13:00 +0000

ok i had a go, tihs is my first time attempting something like this (not a writer, director, editor or anything else!)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z_kdQioU56M

really enjoyed the chance to have a go :)