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We have the opportunity to run a competition for the production of a video, or vlog-post, created using a smartphone. There would be a prize for the best production - a Powervision S1 gimbal, donated by the supplier.
We would like to identify the amount of interest in participating in this to see if it would be viable as a contest.
 
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The maker of the Powervision S1 gimbal for smartphones has sent us ta sample for review, and once we've written and published the review, it will be made available as the prize for a smartphone video contest. Details will be provided later, but we want to ascertain the level of interest in participating before creating the contest.
 
Do you have parameters?

Such as, hosting on a channel such as YouTube, making it available as a file for you to host, lending the video to a time limit of say 3 minutes, a requirement for supporting audio and so on?

I’d be interested. In taking part, give the mac a spin up on some video editing again.
 
Details haven't been worked out yet, I'm just trying to gauge the level of interest, but I would (I think) expect the video to be hosted elsewhere and linked from TP, and for it to be a shortie - say 5 minutes runtime max?
 
It is, but it depends I guess on the sort of video it is. I plucked a time out of the air but I figured that equates to 20-25 frames in a storyboard, more or less?
 
maybe, 15 seconds can be a long clip. For highlights and suchlike I usually keep clips to 2 max 3 seconds and the overall videos can tell the story in 30 to 45 seconds. There are competitions with max time limits like 72 seconds for example.
 
That's really interesting Tim. My only experience with this was doing short films and ads using standard/super-8 cine many years ago. I'll keep that very much in mind when setting the parameters of the competition. So if I set a range of 1 minute to 3 minutes, would that seem fair and workable?
 
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That's really interesting Tim. My only experience with this was doing short films and ads using standard/super-8 cine many years ago. I'll keep that very much in mind when setting the parameters of the competition. So if I set a range of 1 minute to 3 minutes, would that seem fair and workable?
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Sounds good to me.
 
So the evolving details of this competition:
- a film, taken on a smartphone, of between 1 and 3 minutes duration, which can be a story-film or vlogpost or anything else for that matter;
- I propose giving 2 months for the shooting and editing and other post-production effort - is that long enough?
- Topics are wide open.
- Needs to be hosted externally to TP, but if this is a problem let me know and I'll sweet-talk Sirch into allowing us the storage space
- I need there to be at least 3 entries for it to be a genuine contest, given the value of the prize, otherwise we may decide not to go ahead (but it looks like we have more than this interested)

Have I missed anything?
Can we see those registrations of possible participants please?
Is the prep duration long enough?
 
Thanks Matt
 
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once we've written and published the review, it will be made available as the prize for a smartphone video contest
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It will have to be a stunning review for me to enter. :p
 
I'd be happy to watch that. It may or may not win but the jive would be cool
 
Great idea, although it's too advanced for me to enter, I'm only just starting out in video editing. One of my sons is planning a YouTube channel with specialised "how to" videos, we're right at the beginning stage. I'm very impressed with the quality of his iphone footage.

He bought a cheap gimbal, which was a waste of money, and then bought a Feiyutech one, expensive but excellent. He has also bought a couple more phones and an action cam. My job is to put it all together. I started off using Premier Pro but gave up on it because it's just too buggy, now having success with Photoshop.
 
Garry Edwards said:
Great idea, although it's too advanced for me to enter, I'm only just starting out in video editing. One of my sons is planning a YouTube channel with specialised "how to" videos, we're right at the beginning stage. I'm very impressed with the quality of his iphone footage.

He bought a cheap gimbal, which was a waste of money, and then bought a Feiyutech one, expensive but excellent. He has also bought a couple more phones and an action cam. My job is to put it all together. I started off using Premier Pro but gave up on it because it's just too buggy, now having success with Photoshop.
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What problems were you having with Premiere Pro? I did use to find it buggy, but found it stable since a couple of years now.
 
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What problems were you having with Premiere Pro? I did use to find it buggy, but found it stable since a couple of years now.
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It wouldn't render, constantly crashing. Sometimes it would come up with an error message, sometimes it just crashed. Apparently it's a common problem, and life is just too short.
 
Garry Edwards said:
It wouldn't render, constantly crashing. Sometimes it would come up with an error message, sometimes it just crashed. Apparently it's a common problem, and life is just too short.
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might be worth checking graphics driver is up to date if you didn't already?
 
TimHughes said:
might be worth checking graphics driver is up to date if you didn't already?
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I did. I think, in order to avoid derailing this thread, I'll start a new thread in "Video".
 
Garry Edwards said:
I did. I think, in order to avoid derailing this thread, I'll start a new thread in "Video".
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I moved from premiere to resolve and it’sa lot better. The free version is extremely powerful and only lacks the high end stuff like temporal noise reduction etc. I may have a studio licence for sale soon if he’s interested as I’m about to buy a Blackmagic camera that comes with resolve studio so mine will be up for sale.
 
I'll be announcing the competition with details and prize details in a couple of weeks time.
I'd encourage you @Garry Edwards to put an entry in even if it's early days for you.
 
lindsay said:
I'll be announcing the competition with details and prize details in a couple of weeks time.
I'd encourage you @Garry Edwards to put an entry in even if it's early days for you.
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I'd really like to take part but, apart from my lack of experience, I don't think that it could work as a very short clip.

Think something like this but with a skilled mechanic and in English (North Yorkshire) :)

Excellent idea, maybe another time.
 
May help if one owns a smartphone in the first place which I don't. So sorry count me out
 
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May help if one owns a smartphone in the first place which I don't. So sorry count me out
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As the prize is smart phone related I guess it would be pointless you joining in :D
 
I'm away at present trying to find a house to move into, but I'll get this finalised and started within the next couple of weeks. Sorry for the delay.
 
Been out and about filming some bits here and there as a tester to see what my phone can do and I must say, pro res 4k even on a sensor as small and useless as this is blindingly good! I’m all sorted.. I just need to learn how to tell a story now without losing an audience 5 seconds in.
 
I've posted a short review of the prize: Blogspot: Powervision S1 review
When the dust has settled on the MPB competition, we will announce the smartphone video competition. I'm working up the T&C's now in anticipation.
 
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