Video Rules

Video Contest

• 2012 Video Entry Letter
• 2012 Video Contest Entry

All entries for award consideration are to have been shot by one videographer at the time the entry
was shot.  Entries must have aired between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012.  Year-end
contest deadline is January 15, 2013.

All website entries will be accepted for all categories involving newspapers and television
stations.

If more than one photographer was involved in an entry, the person submitting it must have shot a
minimum of 75% of video entry.  Only exception is the Multi-Camera Contribution category and TV
Station of the Year Award.

Entries should come from aircheck tape when possible, but is not required as long as it aired.

This year PPAGLA is offering an alternative way to enter your videos by uploading to PPAGLA:

1.go to the upload site    http://www.sendspace.com/

2. browse for your file to upload and select it

3. enter the ppagla submission email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

4. enter the sender email (your email)

5. click upload

6. compose a new email which will include all the information we ask for on our normal submission form (form will be at the ppagla.org/video website)

7. send the new email to the same address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Video info for upload and data DVD files: Export to Mpeg4 (h.264) Quicktime codec. Export your video at its original resolution (SD or HD) with a bit rate high enough to keep the quality and to stay below the 300MB limit for upload, bit rate around 7000k or more. For longer pieces in HD over the 300MB upload limit, export your entry, then burn a data DVD and deliver it the same as you would an SD Video DVD.

Entries can still be submitted as video DVD as well. Any other format will be rejected. One DVD per entry.  Each DVD should be labeled with the story slug, the date it aired or published, the videographers name and station call letters or media organization name.

DVD entries for award consideration are to be delivered to the PPAGLA office at 3607 W. Magnolia Blvd., Suite H, Burbank, CA. 91505 (Magnolia and Hollywood Way. Parking in rear) The mail slot will only take one DVD at a time.  Contact David Fernandez,  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  cell 818-461-2208 or Scott Meadows with his phone number 818-371-5338 with any questions.

One hundred dollars will be awarded to the first place winners in each sponsored category at the PPAGLA Awards Dinner in March. If no category sponsor, no check, only a plaque. Winners will also receive a plaque commemorating their contribution to Photojournalism.