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Er, the 1080 is a little small to work with. You have anything in 4K? It's so hard to work with something that tiny...
 
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Doubtful that your film could live up to the sweat and tears put in to that 4k leader for you :) ....

Later,
Jason
 
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Jason Ramsey said:
Jack has posted an update here:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=163532
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Yep. Here's our thinking

There is some ground for interpretation / lack of clarity in the rules. Mostly in that it doesn't explicitly forbid using dialogue under the leader. A non issue if your film is 5:50 without the leader, but perhaps a creative interpretation of the rules if your film is already 6:00 without the leader.

Jason and I were coming from a place of context - DVXfest films are 6 minutes long. Have been for all fests except for two 5 minute fests. People stay up for days without sleep trying to get their films under that 6 minute mark. So that's the communal assumption. The 10 seconds grace for the leader was never intended to be used to get more story in.

BUT - since the rules don't say you can't use it as such, allowing dialogue under it won't lengthen viewing time or take up more bandwidth, and there are still ten days to final upload (3/9) so that others can make use of this technique if they need it .... we are going to go ahead and officially allow it.

AS Jason mentioned the clarification sticky is up with links to all leaders placed there.
DVXUser Leader and Rule Clarification / Update
That way anyone who comes looking for the leader will see the new clarification.

To streamline information flow, locking this thread since it just discussed the leader, where is it / how to use it, and all of that will be covered in the sticky. Will delete the thread at the end of the day or so to further streamline information flow, i.e., have it in one place.

Thanks,

The MGMT
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and, just want to add to filthrich... don't feel bad or like "that guy" or whatever for bringing it up... apologize if our initial responses seemed like we were slamming you down, and we definitely don't want to discourage folks from bringing potential concerns out into the open... But, from our side, we get a lot of "can I do this" or "can I do that?" requests, and often times they come from a place of not reading the parts of the rules that actually are clear :)

So, sorry, if our initial response sometimes may come across as a bit snippy. We are constantly trying to fine tune and evolve things to make the fests as best as we can, and the rules as clear and fair as possible. But, we are also a full on volunteer force, so our customer service rating may not be 100% :)

Anyways... thanks.

later,
Jason
 
Yep. My main concern is insulating people from whiners which can diminish everyone's fest experience. And one way to do that is to encourage filmmakers to take the most conservative interpretation of the rules possible, i.e. don't put a target on yourself. Never meant to imply someone was being intentionally sneaky. Only heading off backlash. And again locking the thread is only to move the discussion to a new better organized place. No one is in trouble here. Except maybe Harris. Just haven't figured out for what yet. But it will come to me.
 
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