Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:28 pm
If I may add my tuppence to this...
The original 10Mb limit was introduced due to technical constraints of GMail 'back in the day' (tm) when all entries were emailed in, collated and posted on my own host, or (kindly) by Ed Green on his Khite server.
Then the internet changed allowing larger emails and YouTube came to the fore, which gave VF a few alternate means of uploading videos. HD camcorders etc. grew up and became affordable which gave an additional aspect to the possibility of ever-spiralling file sizes.
However, as Mike has already stated VF is *not* a kite based video-making competition, it's a video based kite-flying competition - Please don't lose sight of this just because it's now technically possible to create a 90-second sequence thats over 20mb! For the purposes of the competition keeping any individual entry under 20Mb won't have a detrimental impact on any given entry - I remember one of the 1st rounds had an entry filmed on a mobile phone! - and will keep life simple for folks wanting to review the videos and for the poor soul who is giving their time to collect and collate all the entries.
Mike's work in the past few rounds has been exceptional, especially given the volume of entries of late. Let's not get distracted from what VF is trying to do.
Davey
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Nope, I hadn't fallen off the map. Although one would be excused for thinking so...