question about the animation rule

[Chubtoad]

They probably won't notify you as to if you are DQ'ed, so you might want to contact FIRST/AutoDesk and tell them you did this, and (in case they didn't know) the DivX codec is freely available as a decoder at divx.com . You generally shouldn't submit stuff to someone that doesn't come with windows. This includes if they ask you to send a document, you shouldn't send it in works, or word, you should convert it to wordpad unless they specify somthing else. I agree that DivX is wide-spread but many many non-geeks haven't heard of it and even some geeks. And the people we are submitting it to probably haven't heard of it either. My point being it isn't a pre-installed codec, so I would contact them ahead of time. They might even say "Okay, but re send it compressed under a different codec".

I hope they don't DQ you. We have DivX version but it was only for our own purposes. My friends were argueing over the copyright rule that FIRST put in place vs. the free music use laws. I said it is just better to go with the safest route. They also wanted to put it in other formats such as QuickTime, but I said that it is just better to go with what you know will be on their computers due to past year and not have to worry about any technical difficulties. The Judging is based on content, the extra compression you're going to get shouldn't make the difference in being awared something or not.