CTAP7 Student Film Festival on California K-12 High Speed Network

HOW TO UPLOAD Successfully

While it's not difficult, uploading your film has a couple of wrinkles that you should know about. If you will read these steps, the process will be stress-free.

#1 Set up your teacher K12HSN account NOW - use a school email for near instant access.

    You will need an account to upload, and waiting for a confirmation email @ 11:47 PM on the last
     day is NO fun. If you use GMAIL, hotmail, etc, your account will take more time to confirm.
     One account will do for ALL your videos.

#2 Compress your video correctly - if you send us a 320 x 240 video (too small), that's what we'll judge.

     Watch the Compression video on the Submission page, the ideal specs are:
    MP4 AVC, Less than 200mb, DV/DVCAM = 720 x 480, Analog = 640 x 480,
    75% compression and two pass quality.

    Go to www.squared5.com for the free software (Mac and PC)

#3 Have a JPEG still from the film ready BEFORE you upload - it's REQUIRED and will
     cause your upload to fail if not present .

#4 Know your data - student's names, etc before you start. We suggest printing the blank form and having
     the students pre-fill them.

    To prevent your upload from getting "rejected" - fill in all the boxes, at least with n/a

    If your students made origianl music or have secured rights to commercial music or
    are using commercial royalty free music (Freeplay, Soundzabound) it's worthwhile to note
    that in the Description of the Film box

Attention Macintosh Users!

You will need Microsoft Windows Media Player for Mac to view some of the showcases.
Click here to download Windows Media Player for Mac.