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Re: Autodesk upload issues?

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Originally Posted by rastermon View Post
I know this is worth nothing right now, but for next year, anticipate the server strain and upload a day or two early. Every year the server gets hammered, and people have problems. I know there's never enough time to perfect everything in your animation, but give yourself a deadline ahead of the real one. You can always upload a better version the next day if you have time.

We were planning on doing this on Saturday but did it Sunday. Combustion was adding one white frame to the end of our animation - even though everything was black. Drove us crazy! We finally fixed in Quicktime Pro. Anyway, if we ran into that problem in the last hour before the deadline, we would have been hosed.
See, we were nearly ready to submit Sunday (after MANY program crashes) and then we realized we needed .mov... so we spent two days trying to convince 3ds max to render properly in .mov. And so we finally fixed it Wednesday at about 4:30 PST (6:30 CST) and we tried to submit it.
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