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Im not going to be able to finish uploading my movie tonight. is taht going to be a rpoblem? what time does the uploading deadline officially close?
 
Please read the other thread with Upload Instructions. It states multiple times that there is no "solid deadline". You will have time to upload over the next 12 hours or so.

Please reserve this thread for technical issues relating to the upload process.

- Mikko
 
givemefood said:
Ok Larry... the ftp connection is failing. Here's what im getting

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Looking up host "ftp.nrestudios.com"
Connecting to 72.29.72.117 port 22
Can't establish connection --> ftp.nrestudios.com:22 @ Wed Jan 31 22:10:50 2007 (122-1)
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I even tried port 21 with and without SSH/SFTP and i'm using CoreFTP.

I also tried uploading just the .mov file and even that is losing connection in between.

I'm kinda frustrated right now.

Anything else we can try?

Thanks for all ur help. I appreciate that.
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Boy, at that point I would just upload your file to your own server (or anything else you've had success uploading to, and see if Larry would be kind enough to pull it from there & upload it himself ... unless it's already taken care of.
 
it wont let me submit says somethingi is wrong and i renamed it five times. is it the zip file?
 
It took me several hours to be able to upload a single file. ALl fields say Macgrgor, since i had filled the fields so many times that i was tired of doing it.
So please someone change it to the real name, which is eighteen seconds.
I´ve been awake for too lonh, i will try the mpeg2 tomorrow. Thanks
 
Sorry for the trouble...I saw your file and will take care of re-naming as necessary

Thanks for persevering, we're still working the kinks out of this new system.
 
I think next subject will be a reservation uploading queue. Films uploading only on specific times and not all together.
 
Well, the plan, when the full system is built, is to set up a predetermined upload window (this will be controlled by the system).

The part people may not like is it will be a HARD cutoff. However, instead of finding out today that you have until midnight two days from now, you will be told early on that the upload window is from one specific date to another (preferably a week).

If you go to the upload page there will be a countdown showing how long until the uploads can begin. Once the upload window is active, it will countdown how long until it closes. When the end mark is reached, the upload gate will close.

Hopefully, people will use the first date as their "soft date", which will help stagger the uploads better. In addition, it still might be necessary to implement a "reservation queue" as you suggest...at a minimum, limit the uploads to "x" number of transfers at a time.

That's the plan anyway :)
 
can anyone recomend a good way to compress the movie file?
Wen I made mine .zip, it only went down to 528 MB and I need it to be no greater than 400 MB.
 
my brother [TheMacB] and i are having some conversion problems -- i noticed he started a thread that was promptly closed and i was wondering if maybe this would be the correct spot. he's at work, so i will just copy what he said:

stupid sexy h.264
"help! anyone know what this weird grey stuff is coming from? its supposed to be all black. title fades in and out. i'm using Super. converting from AVI. the entire six minutes is fine except this second and a half at the beginning. any ideas?"

and from our own thread:
"i'm having a really tough time getting this h.264 to work. something really weird is going on at the beginning. there's one opening title over black that for some reason keeps changing to gray for about 1 second. then the movie starts and everything is fine. i'm about ready to give up. hopefully people can just disregard the second second of our movie. can't wait to watch all the others!"

***EDIT, all taken care of. Thanks Barry, Larry and Geoff
 
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I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before but wouldn't it be easier on
everyone if we uploaded just the 40meg web version first? This way everyone
could take their time encoding/uploading the dvd versions without the bottleneck.
 
I've increased the upload size limit to 600MB, see if that works.
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What do you mean?
Can I re-upload my entry? I compressed it pretty hard to fit the 200MB limit with the MPEG2 for the DVD
 
The 200MB limit was immediately increased to 400, when it was first pointed out. Because there have been issues with the upload, we are allowing people to re-upload the DVD version later (probably next week when things slow down a little bit). If at that time you want to re-compress, re-upload you will be able to.

John - what do you mean? What happens, doesn't happen? Any errors?
 
Inexistence said:
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before but wouldn't it be easier on
everyone if we uploaded just the 40meg web version first? This way everyone
could take their time encoding/uploading the dvd versions without the bottleneck.
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:thumbup:
 
I am uploading to WIKIUPLOAD where Larry can then Download as his server (nor Jason's due to me being on ie7) is accepting my film.

As soon as it is up; Ill PM the link !

In the meantime, Ill be doing some directors commentary for the DVD !!
 
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