vj-battles

[fluchtpunkt]

the idea of having vj-battles in the community (yes!yes!yes!!! ) has appeared in several threads (e.g. original content thread & cheese challenge thread ) ; so i figured i'd continue the discussion in a thread of it's own.

here's my suggestion:
make a new forum 'vj-battles' in the content or community (?) section of vjforums. there a battle/contest would be started by simply starting a new thread. to make implemantation easy works would be submitted by providing a link.
every thread would also have a ranking which would work in a similar fashion as the polls do. every logged in user could submit/enter his personal ranking of the contesting vj's (but of course just once - though being able to edit changes would make sense). the momentary overall rankings would be displayed at the top of the thread (...& you could add loads of statistics once enough contests had taken place...). works could only be submitted before a deadline (choice of thread starter). also the (links to) works could be kept in a box of its own, to separate them from the posts, where a discussion could take place.

...so what do you other vjforians think of this suggestion?

[Primebase3]

aaaaight then.. bring the ruckus ^^

[PilotX]

Yep. Lets get this going.
Do we need to agree on specs?

Tom
Syzygy Visuals

[InsideUsAll]

choose your weapons boys [& girls] let battle commence!

[Primebase3]

hmmmz how we gonna defide the bouts indeed: on sound (goa to hiphop and everything in between)? and the size : 160 x 120 ok avi microsoft codec (easy and small)? or going streaming wma'z or ramz? (real and windows media respectively) or good old quicktime cinepak (also always work) let me know.

[AetherPan]

swf's plz.

aether

[sleepytom]

Originally posted by Primebase3
and the size : 160 x 120 ok avi microsoft codec (easy and small)? or going streaming wma'z or ramz? (real and windows media respectively) or good old quicktime cinepak (also always work) let me know.

need to be alot bigger than this - at least 352x288 mpeg1 (vcd) any smaller and you just can't see anything - let alone judge how "good" it is

[LEVLHED]

I agree, VCD rez mpeg1 would be good...either PAL or NTSC (352x240) versions but for sanity's sake maybe we should stick w/ one standard...it would provide decent enough quality as well as be cross-platform..also could be used in some sort of VJF VJ-battle VCD compilation some day...

I think I can arrange hosting space for clips if needed...

[eXhale]

Originally posted by fluchtpunkt
here's my suggestion:
make a new forum 'vj-battles' in the content or community (?) section of vjforums. there a battle/contest would be started by simply starting a new thread. to make implemantation easy works would be submitted by providing a link.
every thread would also have a ranking which would work in a similar fashion as the polls do. every logged in user could submit/enter his personal ranking of the contesting vj's (but of course just once - though being able to edit changes would make sense). the momentary overall rankings would be displayed at the top of the thread (...& you could add loads of statistics once enough contests had taken place...). works could only be submitted before a deadline (choice of thread starter). also the (links to) works could be kept in a box of its own, to separate them from the posts, where a discussion could take place.

i like the idea a lot but i'm afraid it can't be implemented in vbulletin without heavy modifications. doing it on vjcentral may be an easier solution, however i have no time for doing this at the moment... my offer to give access to the server is still open though.

[fluchtpunkt]

Originally posted by eXhale

however i have no time for doing this at the moment... my offer to give access to the server is still open though.

...sure, i'd love to give a helping hand .