Vurb Moto META Competition

[supercross711]

I am Tristam yes.

[TeamHavocRacing]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Maybe you should be thanking him? Nah.

[supercross711]

Nah

[DJD]

Ok so I decided to make a different video and I'm pretty pleased with it, I think this is the one I'll officially submit. Went for the cheesy 90's instructional video theme. Tried to make it stand out from the rest of em, let me know how it looks.

Dope! It would have epic if you did some voice overs in that 90's narrator voice in the intro. It seems like you tried to rate stretch some of the clips way too much, cause some of the slow mo is perfect then some are really choppy.

The cutting at the 3/4 mark is kinda weird, the slo-mo to rev limiter thing you did. One of the more interesting edits for sure though. Nice job!

Most the other ones are so lame with the stupid interviews and shit. Mine is not that great in terms of creativity either, but at least there no interviews. LOL!

[bdownen323]

DJ, I'd be surprised if you weren't top 6. I could see Kevin's being top 6 as well. I didn't use the interviews or any film burns, and I tried to break the cycle of the "typical white girl META Edit Contest Entry" for my edit although I'm not sure how well it worked.

[Ddavis]

Definitely would be cool to see Kevin and DJ make the top 6.

[Goran267]

Sickest one yet IMO

[KTM57]

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Pretty cool, but unless the font choice was part of the joke, it's pretty terrible.

Lots of good stuff coming out of the MXS community for this, but I have a hard time believing that anything too amazing will go anywhere in this contest. Vurbmoto's standards are really terrible, and the editing on a video is not what makes it cool, so all of the entries are pretty much the same. It's going to come down to whoever found the best music and knows how to do general video editing stuff.

[scheeve3]

Ok so I decided to make a different video and I'm pretty pleased with it, I think this is the one I'll officially submit. Went for the cheesy 90's instructional video theme. Tried to make it stand out from the rest of em, let me know how it looks.

I enjoyed this video a lot!! It's funny, it's good, it's something different ... way to go!!

Only 1 tiny detail, some slomo's got choppy

[damon99]

Lots of good stuff coming out of the MXS community for this, but I have a hard time believing that anything too amazing will go anywhere in this contest. Vurbmoto's standards are really terrible, and the editing on a video is not what makes it cool, so all of the entries are pretty much the same. It's going to come down to whoever found the best music and knows how to do general video editing stuff.

[yzmxer608]

Lots of good stuff coming out of the MXS community for this, but I have a hard time believing that anything too amazing will go anywhere in this contest. Vurbmoto's standards are really terrible, and the editing on a video is not what makes it cool, so all of the entries are pretty much the same. It's going to come down to whoever found the best music and knows how to do general video editing stuff.

I think whichever video wins, I'm NOT going to like it. Almost every entry I've seen starts out the same, and has some sort of either electronic/beats/hip hop-ish indie music (some may love it, but it's just not my thing). Some might say you needed to do a ton of editing to win since it is an editing contest, but I personally just like looking at cool clips (which is why I hardly did any editing, the main editing I did was to speed up some of the slow-mo clips to realtime (fps shot in/24=speed multiplier (24 is the fps the clips were rendered in)). Used one of the only non-copyrighted punk songs I could find too.

[KTM57]

Well said. I think it will be something with electronic music and lots of slow motion, too, which is fine, but that's not really what I personally like for a motocross video.

How is the judging going to be done? Is it a crowd vote kind of thing, or is Vurbmoto actually choosing a winner? I'd bet that there will be at least a hundred videos that are all pretty much the same, so it will be super hard to find videos that are better or worse than each other. The Racer X Film Festival is a lot cooler IMO since winning actually requires the ability to create a video instead of putting clips together.

[yzmxer608]

From the META page

How we select the winners

The vurbmoto team, along with Jordon and RJ, will hand select the top six based on creativity, uniqueness, style, and quite frankly, badassness. From there, it’ll be up to the viewers to vote and pick the best of the best. Further details of the voting system and prizes packages will become available soon.

So I guess they watch all of them, pick their top 6, and have public voting for the rest (which doesn't really matter since the top 4 get prizes).

[KTM57]

I hate that system so much. It always comes down to whoever can rally their friends on Facebook or Twitter or whatever instead of the people actually giving the prize choosing the best entries for the winners. I think crowd voting to find a top 25 or so, then a choice by Vurb would work better, but that's just me.

[supercross711]

I hate that system so much. It always comes down to whoever can rally their friends on Facebook or Twitter or whatever instead of the people actually giving the prize choosing the best entries for the winners. I think crowd voting to find a top 25 or so, then a choice by Vurb would work better, but that's just me.

This.
Im out, fan voting is so stupid.