Unicycle.com Video Comp - Entry Thread

[Eroick]

Here it is. This is the real one. Enter your videos here. The only changes to rules will be getting rid of any catagories with no entries.

Rules for the Unicyclist Video Compition:

1. Each person may only submit one video per catagory.
2. Videos must be your own creation
3. Your video must be in WMV or QuickTime format, or uploaded to YouTube, Google Video, or a simular website.
4. The video must be less than 5 minutes 30 seconds and longer than 1 minute and 30 seconds.
5. Compliation videos will only be judged under the compliation video section.

To submit your video you must:
1. Identify yourself into one of the following skill levels: Novice or Expert and into one of these types: MUni, Trials, Street, Freestyle. Try your best to catagorize. If we do not agree, we will change it.
2. Give us a direct link to your video.
3. Release your video under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License (see here for details) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/. This basicly means that we can do anything with your video but use it for Commercial uses. Just trying to stay legal.

Catagories and criteria:

MUni:
Best Novice
Best Expert

Trials:
Best Novice
Best Expert

Street:
Best Novice
Best Expert
Biggest move (most spins, varials, flips, whatever in one trick)

Freestyle:
Best Novice
Best Expert

Other:
Best Compilation
Best BC wheel

All:
Biggest bail (You know what we are talking about)
Entertainment (Make us laugh!)
Community's Favorite! (Chosen by the community based on what they like)

The contest is open to everyone on Unicyclist. Yes, even Jonny Peacock, if he wants to enter. The judging process will depend on the number of entries. You are being marked for overall riding. Some consideration will be given for editing and music though.

Have fun! All videos are due December 5th, 2006.

[rabbithunter018]

Is Putfile an acceptable site to upload my entry on? or the gallery?

[Eroick]

gallery is good.
just make sure its a WMV or Quicktime, because I dont like downloading codecs.

[forrestunifreak]

Doess 'best compilation' mean a compilation of different riding styles (one person) or a compilation of several riders?

Because I'm starting on my video, and I was planning on having 4 styles in it (street, trials, muni and freestyle) mostly street and trials though. Do I have to make it mainly one style, or what?

[Loosemoose]

Can you define Novice/Expert? Is Expert 'placed in a national or international competition' 'competed in a national or international competition' or something else?

Loose

[jackzm]

This is a compilation video but i don't know if i'm novice or expert. I'll enter it in novice because I've only been riding for about a year and a half but if you want to change it that's fine. The movie is on Putfile and unicycle.tv. Here are links to both.

http://media.putfile.com/Roberts-Creek
http://www.einrad.tv/pages-eg/mainframe/sendungen1.php

It's called "Muni video" on unicycle.tv

Thanks for doing this contest, its an awsome idea.

[picado]

hahah this will be so fun

[Eroick]

compilation: more than one rider in the same video

try to catagorize yourself in expert or novice. The judges will have the final say on which one you are. If you don't know, just say that you don't know.

[max_pfeifer]

ok here is my problem: i have a vid and it is mostly me but there are like 2 short clips of other people. it has all of our names in the credits byt can i still enter it as a solo vid?

Cheers,
Max

PS yeah im not sure about novice or expert either - i think you need something to define expert so that people will be forced into that catagory. otherwise everyone will go in novice and say its not fair when the judges move them into the expert catagory. i think skill-wise i am towards the top of novice or the bottom of expert so its a difficult decision.

[skrobo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCuGDXAnlkA

theres my entry for now, I might change it if I feel like videoing, but i think im done w/ that for a while

[zfreak220]

the thread title says "unicycle.com video comp". is this sponsered by udc at all? what are the prizes for winning?

[unicycle dave]

how comes nobody is entering videos in this thread?

Im working on mine:)

[iridemymuni]

i will be making one

[abbabibble]

i think i'll make one this weekend.

i'm waiting for stuff for the DVD so i'm free for a bit.

[manu2015]

Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to use the CC license when we use in a video, a song from a notorious artist as the soundtrack.
Anybody got an idea ?

Manuel

[unicycle dave]

Here is mine.
classified Best creation
Here is the link
http://www.unicyclist.com/index.php?page=gallery&g2_itemId=284583 (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/../index.php?page=gallery&g2_itemId=284583)

[evil-nick]

Hi,

I wonder if it is possible to use the CC license when we use in a video, a song from a notorious artist as the soundtrack.
Anybody got an idea ?

Manuel

Pretty sure it's not... Try googling "Podsafe" or "Creative Commons" music... I know there are some out there. (Only one off the top of my head is Wayne & Wax)

[Eroick]

It isn't, but I am not going to pay attention to something like that. It is illegal to use copywritten music (like all mainstream stuff) in any video online. But we do it anyway. The only reason for the CC lisence is so I could consolodate all the videos or the best of into one place...

And on that note, please, PLEASE check out the new video website VODPOD. There is a unicycling pod at http://unicyclists.vodpod.com/. This site is great and I would think better than youtube. They are a new startup and they are looking for videos. The owner contacted me to ask if I could use their service and offered to help out. So, I am giving them a plug for being nice.

[Eroick]

the thread title says "unicycle.com video comp". is this sponsered by udc at all? what are the prizes for winning?

I forgot the ist. There are no prizes for this, just pride :) . It is in no way sponsered by UDC and I would change the title, but I cant. Thanks for pointing this out.

[Probailer2]

I wanna enter the Unicycle.com video contest:

Trials
Novice

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?doc...38215387&hl=nl


Peter Maessen

[unicycle6869]

^^ The above link doesn't work....

[Probailer2]

^^ The above link doesn't work....

My bad.

I wanna enter the Unicycle.com video contest:

Trials
Novice

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-1760711062638215387&hl=nl


Peter Maessen

[bcwheelriderguyhehehehehe]

No offense or nothin but can you do anything else besides acid drops and long rolling hops skrobo?

[unicycle dave]

Here is mine.
classified Best creation
Here is the link
http://www.unicyclist.com/index.php?page=gallery&g2_itemId=284583 (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/../index.php?page=gallery&g2_itemId=284583)

sorry i ment best compilation

What was I thinking??

[domesticated ape]

sorry i ment best compilation

What was I thinking??

Playing God?

[abbabibble]

Here be my submission.
Not my best riding ever, as it was just filming a weekend's fooling around.
Submitted under Novice Compilation, and BC wheel categories.

[abbabibble]

here you go:
downloadage for my video:
http://www.unicyclist.com/index.php?&g2_view=core.DownloadItem&page=gallery&g2_itemId=290427

[tobbogonist]

i would enter, but alas i have no video camera and the only video camera we had amoungst the whole 'friend group' was mounted to close to a bomb and copped a blast thus it no longer works. got some great footage though.

[The.Mars.Volta]

oh i might as well put mine on. its my first video. so yeah. what the hell. i just realised someone commented to my video and said "i didnt know you were pro". thats weird hey. haha. cos im not pro:confused: . ok here it is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l2_j8cifJY

[Jerrick]

Good vid. I enjoyed it. =p

[Eddbmxdude]

Leo and I were going to try and make a video for this. We started filming and got some footage, then I uPD'd onto the camera equipment and buggered the camera. I had finnished the last section of the movie but none of the rest.

I have decided to enter the competition with the last section from our video. We were trying to make something a bit different.

I hope you enjoy it (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=287105)

That is a download link, by the way.

We are entering the best compilation catergory. (From what I can tell, that is the only catergory we can enter because there are two riders)

Rock on!
Edd

[olarf]

@ Eroick:
To be honest, I can't understand what you like on that unicyclist vodpod.
There is a page for videos and its free from commercial stuff. Those Vodpod guys want to make money with their page (as youtube do). They ask many people for videos and they are not interested in unicycling or what ever, they only need content to show cause they have nothing.
I try to fugure out their upload policies but its needed to make an account to do that and I don't want to do that. Normaly they should be able to do what they like after you upload your video.
I hope I'm wrong but I think I'm right but feel free to do as you like.

[Fredrik_Justnes]

I think my vid will be som longer than 5 minutes 30 seconds. Is it ok?
I don't see the point having a limit for how long a video can be..
:)

[Fredrik_Justnes]

Here's my vid!
It's 5 minutes and 26 seconds long.
Hope you all enjoy.

:D

Link (70Mb) (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2112955430534837517)

Link (20Mb) (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7046872930123560248)

[vodpod]

hello olarf, i'm one of the vodpod guys and just wanted to respond briefly to your questions/points.

@ Eroick:
To be honest, I can't understand what you like on that unicyclist vodpod.
There is a page for videos and its free from commercial stuff. Those Vodpod guys want to make money with their page (as youtube do).
-- This is true, some day we do want to make some money someday. But we won't ever put an ad on someone's pod (like the unicyclist pod) without their permission. If filmmaker, or a group of filmmakers, want to run ads to help make some money, we'll try to help them. If they want to start a subscription service, we'll try to help them. In many ways, our service is like a blogging platform, except for videos and groups of friends or communities.

I should also note that we've funded this ourselves; we're three guys in San Francisco trying to build a cool new service, not some big corporation.

They ask many people for videos and they are not interested in unicycling or what ever, they only need content to show cause they have nothing.
-- We're testing the site now, we're not public yet. We got in touch with unicyclists on this board because (a) we really liked the videos we saw, (b) we wanted to work with a strong community like this one to figure out how to make our service better. We saw a lot of folks here using YouTube, and thought we could offer a better solution.

It is true we're not unicyclists here. We ride bikes (we're all bike commuters & avid cyclists). We don't have the skills to ride a unicycle.

I try to fugure out their upload policies but its needed to make an account to do that and I don't want to do that.
-- The reason we require an account is in case we have problems with someone uploading illegal content. It's pretty standard for almost all video sharing sites.

Normaly they should be able to do what they like after you upload your video.
-- Nope, that's not right. We're really clear that you own the rights to any video you upload to us. We don't own the rights. We just ask for permission from you to distribute the video on the site, that's it.

I hope I'm wrong but I think I'm right but feel free to do as you like.

Hope this clears things up, Olarf. We'd love to work with you, Unicycle.TV, and anyone on this board who'd like to give VodPod a try. My e-mail is mark@remixation.com, don't hesitate to write me an e-mail if you have a question. Sorry to but in on your board, but wanted to correct some of the things above.

[Spencer Hochberg]

I think you should make the site so anyone can view a video without making an account. Having an account to upload stuff is understandable but a lot of people don't want to have to sign up for anything to watch a video posted here.

[Job]

I think you should make the site so anyone can view a video without making an account. Having an account to upload stuff is understandable but a lot of people don't want to have to sign up for anything to watch a video posted here.
Ya i totally agree with you! I think it's very strange to let people make an account to only watch videos...

[KlownLife]

I've been told that the reason that they want you to make an account to watch vids is incase you put the video on a site without the owners permission e.g. if "British Invasion" ends up on on Spencer's Myspace page and he hasn't asked my permission, I might be p*ssed, this way they can follow it up, apparently.

Hope that answers your question...

Jas

[Eroick]

Mark from VodPod cleared it up for me in an email.


1. when someone uploads a hi-res video, it doesn't cost people who
watch it a thing
2. we require registration (which is, and will always be, free) in
case we have a problem with someone downloading your video, then
putting it up on a site like myspace w/ out the filmmaker's permission
3. you can always upload "basic" video that anyone can watch, without
any registration. it'll still be as good (if not better) quality than
youtube, myspace. just no downloads, and not as nice as our high
registration video.
4. if you wanted, you could upload a video twice -- once to designate
it as "hi-res" and another time to make it available in "basic"
format. that way people could choose.

[KlownLife]

Since Eroick was sent this email, I have been told by the makers of the site that as of tomorrow, there is no need to sign up to view videos, only to download them, seems fair to me.

Hope everyone is happy.

Jas

[kris.lee]

this is my vid for the comp http://enhjulos.com/filmer/lee.wmv

[Eroick]

Well, this thing is closed now. Get your videos in if you haven't yet! Ill give you until Dec. 6! Please, PLEASE post them here! Thanks!

[kris.lee]

hey, why is there almost no vids out yet?


its just like 4 vids out or something!

[Fredrik_Justnes]

its just like 4 vids out or something!
No, there's more. 8-9 I think.

When do we get the results?

[The.Mars.Volta]

oi whats with this anyway is it a competition? is there a prize or anything?

[abbabibble]

oi!
when's the judging?

I WANT MY SECOND PLACE!

[mornish]

is it too late to join?

[abbabibble]

i think so...
the deadline was the 6th.

[Probailer2]

Just remembered about the comp and searched it back up.
I geuss not enough people entert the comp, so there are no prices :(

Peter M