Anyone lagging behind?

[Brandon Rice]

As you all know.... A Date with Destiny will not be completed in time for the fest but... we will be finishing up the remaining shooting this month or early August.

[ramsaur]

shot the most hardest short to shoot and get together.. the musical. Got a rough edit and it's 6 mins and 25 seconds.. and now lacking on time length.. anyone know if 25 secs over will DQ me? I got a 6 min and 18 miliseconds i cut down to as well, but no title or credits so that will add about 4-5 seconds. But the 25 secs version looks better. If anyone or any admins can tell me, I need to know ASAP so I can move on with editing.

[Noel Evans]

The maximum runtime of the films is not to exceed SIX MINUTES (6:00:00) + a leader that will be provided by DVXuser.

Just going on the comp rules - I assume that means no. And in turn others have had to cut to meet this.

[Robert Eldon]

As you all know.... A Date with Destiny will not be completed in time for the fest but... we will be finishing up the remaining shooting this month or early August.

Brandon, that is really bad news.

What happened... if you could explain?

[ZazaCast]

6 Minutes or under... I had to cut a scene to make it happen.....

[Noel Evans]

shot the most hardest short to shoot and get together.. the musical. Got a rough edit and it's 6 mins and 25 seconds.. and now lacking on time length.. anyone know if 25 secs over will DQ me? I got a 6 min and 18 miliseconds i cut down to as well, but no title or credits so that will add about 4-5 seconds. But the 25 secs version looks better. If anyone or any admins can tell me, I need to know ASAP so I can move on with editing.

AFAIK though, theres no rules to adjusting sound on the leader... Im wondering, and I dont know it would work for you at all, but could you just run the sound over the leader at the beginning? And then pick up the images from where the leader ends? Just a thought.

[ramsaur]

I would but te first song starts like 5 secs into the film and the first shot you have to see what's going on. Thanks for the suggestion though. Didn't think of that. Too bad I can't do it. I know some other ways I can take away a couple more seconds.

EDIT: I was able to pull about 5 seconds off, added the title, and frame of credits. Got the film down to 5:59:23 -- wow! perfect! No more "Lagging Behind" for me.

[Martin Landsburg]

seems like many people are having problems with making the deadline. Petition for extension, anyone? Let's get some more entries in! I've battled many sleepless nights for this one so far and would hate to see it go to waste because i couldn't output on time. Editing is killing me right now esp sound mixing.

[Jeff Anderson]

wrapping it up and uploading today. Actually is probably done, just want to see it with some fresh eyes this morning and tweak a few things if need be. Have a whole extra second to play with!