Video Scholarship Competition Rules

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1. Contest opens October 1, 2009 and closes December 31, 2009. Winning videos will be judged by a committee of members of the Stony Brook Southampton community.
2. Competition requires students to submit a completed application for admission to Stony Brook Southampton, including the $40 application fee, required transcripts, test scores, essay and letter of recommendation no later than December 31, 2009, and upload their video to the designated YouTube group by January 15, 2010. Entrants will need to create a YouTube account if they do not already have one, and join the group.
3. Only accepted students' videos will be judged for the scholarship competition, and students must be admitted and enroll as full-time freshmen in Stony Brook Southampton's Fall 2010 class in order to receive the scholarship.
4. The winner of the Scholarship Competition will be awarded one scholarship to Stony Brook Southampton, including tuition, fees, and room and board for up to 4 years of undergraduate study at Stony Brook Southampton (8 semesters of full-time enrollment). The recipient will need to remain in good academic standing at Stony Brook Southampton to continue to receive the scholarship. Prizes to runner-ups may be awarded at the discretion of the committee.
5. Stony Brook University reserves the right to edit any and all submitted videos and use those videos in future promotional material, with appropriate production credit. All entries will be screened by Stony Brook University before they are posted. Stony Brook University reserves the right to remove any posted videos at any time. By submitting video via the link below, you are agreeing to the stated contest rules.
6. All video entries become property of Stony Brook University.
7. Videos will be posted on YouTube. All YouTube rules and restrictions on posting videos also apply, including which file types can be uploaded. Videos should be no longer than 60 seconds in length.
8. You must have rights to any music used in projects. Without a license or signed release, no more than 10 percent (and in no event more than 30 seconds) of any song protected by copyright may be used. It is permissible to use pre-recorded music (e.g., royalty-free music, a friend's band's music), but you must include a signed release with the submission.
   
   

   A note from YouTube on Uploading video: "YouTube accepts a wide range of video file formats such as .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG transferred from most digital cameras, camcorders, and cell phones. We've found that files converted from .wmv to one of the other formats our webpage accepts generally have a lower playback quality than other file formats. If you have your source video in a format other than a .wmv file, you may want to encode directly to MPEG4 (DivX, Xvid, SVQ3) at 640x480 resolution, with 64k Mono MP3 Audio. If you have a source .wmv in high bitrate and larger resolution you may want to convert to MPEG4 at full resolution and then resizing to 320x240 using a high quality resizing algorithm - this can help reduce the number of artifacts you end up with."