Video Examples Quality Control

I am pretty sure.

I'm still a bit skeptical on uploading videos from MovieClips as they have a very noticeable watermark.

Edited by Agent2583 on Dec 30th 2021 at 8:29:26 PM

Well, from what I looked up, Fandango/Movieclips receives their trailers from film distributors so that sounds "official" to me and they are a reputable movie ticketing company. Watermarks and channel bugs do look ugly whether they are official or not though yeah.

Edited by MacronNotes on Dec 30th 2021 at 11:32:00 AM

This is gonna sound dumb, but how does anyone deal with crackly audio? All I have are my laptop and headphones, everything's been going smoothly except for this one bit from a comic dub that I'm trying to get. It records fine, but then when I play it to trim it, there's always one bit that's slightly crackly. I don't think it's nearly bad enough to get it pulled outright, but it's still annoying me.

I've always just brute forced my way through by recording more takes until the audio fixes itself, or by recording multiple takes and splicing them together. It's a pain in the ass, but that's the only way I know how to fix it, and some of my early videos still have some minor audio wonk.

K so I did the thing, I just need to find out how to upload videos. The Sandbox tells me to go to the Edit Page button and click on Upload Video, but there's nothing there.

I made the sandbox more clear. You need to click “Edit Videos” within the Edit Page screen (or the Video Examples screen) first.

So I've noticed something regarding No Video Examples, Please!. Namely the fact that Jump Scare has video examples blanket banned due to health concerns, but Screamer Prank doesn't.

Isn't that asking for trouble? I would've thought that someone could upload a screamer as bad as a jump scare under that trope, but that'd be OK because the rules don't cover Screamer Prank?

Edited by Snipertoaster on Jan 2nd 2022 at 10:58:55 AM

I think that's because we don't want to also ban in-universe examples like the one from The Amazing World of Gumball, but there's still a lot more Jump Scare type ones. I agree with you that not making them NVEP is probably more trouble than it's worth, even if no one's added a screamer yet in over 2 years.

Edited by RainbowPumpqueen on Jan 2nd 2022 at 10:37:56 PM

In the past, we did originally consider Screamer Prank to be NVEP, but following a TRS discussion, we stripped it out.

That's one thing I wouldn't mind returning to NVEP status. The ones I was campaigning against were things like the gore tropes, where it just felt a little silly and over-protective to worry about those.

Shall we agree the same on Sensory Abuse as well, because we considered it to be a possible NVEP trope?

Yeah, Sensory Abuse also makes perfect sense. I think anything that could cause actual harm to viewers is valid for NVEP.

I think both Sensory Abuse and Screamer Prank should marked NVEP. Better to add them now than have them collect videos later.

Is there a way for a video to be marked as an example of more than one trope, without uploading a duplicated video?

Add the other trope in the media sources, and it'll be listed as a secondary trope on the video example.

Question, is a gif like this too fast to have as a video example? It's all black and white, and the OP didn't tag it as #flashing gif like they do for other things, but I wanted to double check just in case.

Edited by RainbowPumpqueen on Jan 3rd 2022 at 11:10:40 PM

Ideally, you'd edit the video where possible to better showcase one trope over the other. If you can't do that, you can add another trope as a media source to be a "Secondary Trope".

Yeah, too fast. But gifs are allowed in Image Links, so you can upload it there.

Edited by antenna_ears on Jan 3rd 2022 at 4:43:48 AM

There's a video on Designated Hero from from a youtube reviewer on My Little Pony: A New Generation that comes across as the reviewer deliberately misrepresenting the work. Now, if their representation were true, it would fit, but I'm not sure we should use that type of thing as video examples at all. IDK though, maybe someone else who has seen the movie can watch the video and give a second opinion?

I just realized the Does This Remind You of Anything? example I uploaded from Mickey Mouse (2013) has birds chirping in the background. Do I need to re-record the video, or is it not bothersome enough to get the video pulled?

I didn't hear anything that didn't sound like it came from the video, so it should be fine.

Ultimate Custom Night has a video example that is misuse, and appears from the description to be complaining.

How is it misuse? Overly Long Gag is about a joke in which the humor comes from its excessive length, and that’s pretty much the joke about Mr. Hippo’s monologues; they’re unskippable and go on for an excessively long period of time. The description doesn’t really come off as complain-y to me either.

I see no humour.

Maybe you don't, but it's still meant as a joke.

There's a video example from Bluey that is listed under Woolseyism. Judging from what's inside (a clip from the French dub where a character that was speaking French in the original version is now speaking English), I think it would fit better under Keep It Foreign.