Submitting to SMF


Who:

Anyone with a movie can submit.

What :

A short movie that you made or someone you know made. We suggest no movie longer than 7 minutes but allow up to 10 minutes. If your movie is over 10 minutes will will cut it at 10 minutes.

Where:

Alberta Street Public House on North East 11th and Alberta

When:

We will start taking submissions at 7:00 PM. At 8:00 PM we start to show the movies.

How:

The simple way to submit a movie is by giving us a DVD without a menu. However, We would rather you bring it to us as a digital movie file. Read on!

This month we are trying to go HD. So, we are asking people to bring us their movies as an .MOV file on a Thumb Drive, Data Disk, or Hard Drive.

We will be playing the movies off of a Mac using VDMX VJ software. This method of delivery is experimental at this point but we think its the future. The system is Quicktime based and do to a projector bottle neck we can only show movies at 720. So please DO NOT bring us 1080!

To make is as simple as possible we tested the compression settings that Vimeo suggests and found them to be acceptable. If you are new to codecs and file formats Vimeo has a great page that explains the basics.

Eugenia Loli-Queru plus 2 years ago

[[ NOTE: The following tutorials are for HD source footage. For miniDV footage, check the tutorial here vimeo.com/forums/topic:4038 that will give you the best possible quality on Vimeo. ]]

I spent the whole day today installing NLEs and tools and trying them around in order to write a big guide on how to export with these popular tools for Vimeo’s 720p HD service. Using these guides you will be able to achieve de-interlaced 720p footage (no jaggies) at around 5mbps and with a preferred frame rate.

- Sony Vegas Platinum and Pro:
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/11/09/exporting-with-vegas-for-vimeo-hd/

- Adobe Premiere Pro, Elements and After Effects
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/08/exporting-with-adobe-premiere-in-720p/

- Apple iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Studio and Quicktime Pro
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/08/exporting-with-quicktime-in-720p/

- Apple Compressor
Ed McNichol shows us here vimeo.com/2051588 how to encode for Vimeo HD with Apple’s Compressor. You can use his suggestion in the form of a “droplet” too, downloaded from here: mcnichol.com/vimeo.htm

- Windows Movie Maker HD (Vista-only)
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/08/exporting-with-windows-movie-maker-hd-in-720p/

- Ulead VideoStudio Plus and MediaStudio Pro
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/08/exporting-with-ulead-in-720p/

- Magix Movie Edit Pro
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/08/exporting-with-magix-movie-edit-pro-in-720p/

- Handbrake v0.9.3+ (multi-platform)
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/images/handbrake.png

- KDEnLive (Linux/BSD)
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2009/07/06/exporting-with-kdenlive/

- Freeware tools for Win/OSX/Linux: Avidemux2, ffmpeg, Mediacoder, SUPER, Mencoder
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/08/exporting-in-720p-using-freeware-utilities/

- Pinnacle Studio Plus/Ultimate
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/09/exporting-with-pinnacle-studio-in-720p/

- Avid Liquid
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/10/exporting-with-avid-liquid-in-720p/

- Avid Xpress
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/12/13/exporting-with-avid-xpress-in-720p/

- Canopus Edius Neo/Pro
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/04/19/exporting-with-canopus-edius-in-720p/

- CyberLink PowerDirector
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/05/31/from-cyberlink-powerdirector-to-vimeo-720p-hd/

- AVCHD to h.264 (use this if you don’t own any video editor)
eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2008/05/04/avchd-transcoding-using-free-tools/