OT: Methods for submitting videos for a contest

smhontz wrote on 1/3/2014, 3:09 PM
I have an musician friend who wants to hold a video contest, where he will ask people to submit videos of them dancing along with one of his songs, and then we will edit them together and release it.

We expect people will use anything and everything, from iPhones, iPads, Droids, video cameras, etc. We're asking them to submit about a minute's worth.

What are some good ways for people to submit their videos? I want to make it easy for people to submit their videos, and also not have them be able to see/possibly delete other entries (ruling out a shared dropbox kinda thing).

I've used FilesToFriends before, and that works well, and DropBox, which seems to be a pain to use for something like this. In playing with an iPhone, I see you can e-mail right from the phone, but it limits you to 54 seconds and a crappy 568x320 file. I've used an app called Image Transfer from my iPad which lets you send the full HD file to a computer, but that's $2.99 for that, and then they still would have to send it somehow.

Any other ideas?

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 1/4/2014, 9:17 AM
Is it necessary for you to have the original footage on-hand?

Why not just have everyone post their submissions to Vimeo? You can load pretty much any camcorder or phone format there and it look pretty good.

They can even select the option to make the video downloadable, if you do want to create a master reel of the submissions at some point.
smhontz wrote on 1/4/2014, 1:32 PM
Yes, we want their footage because we will be editing together pieces from each one.
wjauch wrote on 1/4/2014, 6:00 PM
I use wetransfer.com. Free and allows files up to 2GB