[yixak]

[quote=Pat Fairbank]Just a clarification on the video compression: the file format must be QuickTime (.mov), and the codec used must be DV-NTSC.

That's not the way I read it. While I don't know Pat's qualifications (so he might just have the power to say, "Sorry, I don't think so"), I thought the DV-NTSC refered to the "Pixel-Aspect Ratio." Seeing it this way means that the next two lines of the codec regulations are not merely redundant, but simply narrow the field of codecs allowed while allowing each team to compress as they see fits their animation best. Seeing as there are other regulations that are independent of the codec (frame size, frame rate) I figured this wasn't a bad assumption, especially when exporting with the DV-NTSC format resulted (even after 6 hours of tweaking) in a file the five times larger than when using the H.264 codec with much, much worse image quality. Will this still get disqualified? (H.264 is neither cinepak nor a non-standard codec and we set pixel-aspect ratio to DV-NTSC with fps at 29.97 and frame size a 720x480).