Confirmed Uploads

I have taken so many "hints" concerning this process and have made just about ever effort that I can think of including placing the file in three different locations to be downloaded.

So, if you would, please enlighten me as to the underlying message that the "hint" provides, I am obviously missing something here...
 
khmuse said:
I have taken so many "hints" concerning this process and have made just about ever effort that I can think of including placing the file in three different locations to be downloaded.

So, if you would, please enlighten me as to the underlying message that the "hint" provides, I am obviously missing something here...
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It was a joke, as in: "We don't want you in the contest..." Thus the smiley. :):)
 
No offense taken, I am really just trying to understand if I am missing a detail or communication that would resolve this.
 
khmuse said:
No offense taken, I am really just trying to understand if I am missing a detail or communication that would resolve this.
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I don't think you've missed anything. As fate would have it your project is probably the last one Jarred will confirm, so I wouldn't stress about it.
 
rich_s said:
... so I wouldn't stress about it.
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Stress? My wife will kill me if I don't make this fest because of upload issues given the amount of time I spent neglecting her er... working on this :)

Rich S - your poster rocks by the way - nice design
 
I wonder if it would make it easier on Jarred if people had to mail a CD/DVD of the files (as in snail mail). There could just be a "postmarked by" deadline. The uploading chaos takes 3 - 4 days anyway. Just a thought.

Either way, I am a happy camper that fests exists. :thumbup:
 
Rock Punk! said:
Stress? My wife will kill me if I don't make this fest because of upload issues given the amount of time I spent neglecting her er... working on this :)
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Understood. I was in the same boat there for a second. But I don't think Jarred would exclude anyone because of an uploading issue.
 
snodart said:
I wonder if it would make it easier on Jarred if people had to mail a CD/DVD of the files (as in snail mail). There could just be a "postmarked by" deadline. The uploading chaos takes 3 - 4 days anyway. Just a thought.
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That's how ZombieFest worked. I think there ended up being problems with that method, too (people having to mail stuff a couple of times because they sent the wrong file types, etc.).
 
snodart said:
I wonder if it would make it easier on Jarred if people had to mail a CD/DVD of the files (as in snail mail). There could just be a "postmarked by" deadline. The uploading chaos takes 3 - 4 days anyway. Just a thought.

Either way, I am a happy camper that fests exists. :thumbup:
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great idea, but I might have an even better one -- torrent

Jared could simply download all the files himself and use each of our Webservers and shared resources to do so. That's what torrents are for! Big files and movie sharing (legal that is).


What is a torrent you ask? From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent#Creating_and_publishing_torrents)
 
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HorseFilms said:
That's how ZombieFest worked. I think there ended up being problems with that method, too (people having to mail stuff a couple of times because they sent the wrong file types, etc.).
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Ahhh. Didn't know that. I guess there is trouble no matter how it is done.
 
Getting your movie in the correct format for whatever contest you enter it into is also part of the contest no? Its all part of the movie making process. Torrent'ing it would leave it really open to delays, people cant understand compression and FTP'ing , Torrenting would be really a nightmare.
 
there is no FTP with torrent.

torrent is its own file transfer protocol. and torrent does everything for you. encoding, upload, download, everything. you can use any torrent app you want, too there a million of them and they all work on the same standard.
 
i know it does. i know how it works...but people having problems with ports and all that jazz, i could imagine them getting a torrent to work properly
 
FlintMI said:
there is no FTP with torrent.

torrent is its own file transfer protocol. and torrent does everything for you. encoding, upload, download, everything. you can use any torrent app you want, too there a million of them and they all work on the same standard.
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Yeah, but it's so slow to download things, it's a joke.

I think this FTP is fine, but:

1) First and foremost, the contest would need a real FTP server with resources enough to handle the uploads. I suspect, by the fact that it was using Serv-U, that it was just some Windows box somewhere.

2) Give each user an account, Write a little script or program to listen on the FTP directories, know which user is sending it - based on the login - unzip/validate/put in a database, etc. That way you would not need a person to do it all by hand, and Jarred could get some peace of mind, and you could have a list that updated automatically as files were uploaded, and send PMs to users to confirm.

2) At the start of the contest, we should put together exact specs for the files. At first it was H.264, but the wrapper wasn't specified, but .mov was preferred, etc.

3) We should put up a sticky with exact instructions for encoding from each NLE. B-man started that thread in this contest, and I think we could cull things from all of the other threads on the subject to create a simple step-by-step guide to everything from encoding to zipping to FTP.
 
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