Dwight,

Email me privately about this; I think I sent you an email about some ideas!

Thanks,

heath

Hey cool! I was away on a shoot this week in Canada and I just got back! How far along is this HD Fest??

I'm requesting that shorts be no longer than 3 minutes, so we can keep the file size larger and quality higher. After all we're trying to promote this new standard (partly anyway).

Murph

Everyone,

Thanks for all your input. I'm working privately with Dwight on this, as our contacts and experience can really put something together. We're at the very beginning stages, so there's not much to report.

But we are planning on using some of the ideas everyone has posted up. And Murph, 3 minutes and under may be a great idea! But don't ever tell that to my film school students; many of whom feel anything less that 15 minutes ISN'T a short film! :-)

heath

I do hope you all continue to post your ideas about this potentially historic/fun event. Your ideas are great and much appreciated. Heath and I are doing our current best to make this happening happen. As things develop we will keep you posted.

Is this dead? If so, let's see if we can create an online place to post HDV videos.

I'm thinking the Prelinger archive might be a good place. The guy has like a zillion gigs with video now, and he's allow people to post open archive videos. We could probably post our videos up there in MPEG-4 format no problem.

Anyone have an account there already and posted stuff?

Murph

Murph,

I have a couple hundred Gigs of space on my Mac and a pretty fast Cable connection. I'd be willing to give this a shot. What kind of server should we use? I have KDX server on it. KDX is Mac/Win compatible but it does have a shareware fee to be legit.

http://www.haxial.com/products/kdx/index2.html

I could have it up and running in no time but I'd like to use a server that makes sense for everyone and is no cost.

Bryan

Right now, I'm waiting on some people to contact me about the contest, so sit tight. I have contacts in high places, and they seem interested in a contest. But it's a LOT of work.

Thanks,

heath