The Call For Entries

2012 Call For Entries - pdf
2012 Categories Only - pdf
Emmy® Express - online entry form
PDF entry form - discontinued this year - please use the online form instead

Are you ready for submitting to the 49th Annual Northwest Regional Emmy Awards?
The Call for Entries with all the updates from the National Awards Committee is up
and ready for your review and submittal.

Deadline extended due to weather conditions

Entries AIRED in 2011 (January 1 to December 31) are eligible to be submitted.
The deadline for submittal is 5:00 pm, Wednesday, January 25, 2012.

See the Call for Entries for more details.

New this year

Entries in the following categories will be submitted by upload and will be judged online:

Station Excellence
Community Service
All Daily Newscast Categories
All Craft Categories

Other categories will continue to be submitted and judged on DVDs.

What video formats can I upload?

There are many different video containers, codecs and formats out there. These add up to literally thousands of different combinations. While we do our best to support as many formats as possible, we simply cannot ensure that any uploaded video will work.

Supported formats

Pretty much all the video formats supported by FFMPEG, including

  • WMV (WMV, WMV2, MSMPEG,VC-1)
  • MOV (Sorenson Video 3, H263, H264, animation)
  • MPEG4 (mp4, 3ivx, DivX, Xvid, H264)
  • FLV (VP6 and Sorenson Spark)
  • DV and DVCPro
  • 3GP (mobile phones)
  • MPEG1 and MPEG2
  • AVI (Indeo, Cinepak, Motion JPEG, MPEG)
  • F4V (H264)

Not supported formats

  • Quicktime (MOV) files that use the Apple ProRes codec (part of Final Cut). This codec also produces extremely large files. We advise to do a rough export from Final Cut Pro.
  • Quicktime (MOV) files that actually only contain a raw DV stream (some DV cameras export these). Export these files using either raw DV or H264/AAC Quicktime.
  • Quicktime (MOV) files with 24-bit audio.
  • DRM protected files from Microsoft (WMV) or the iTunes Store (M4V, MOV).
  • CSS encrypted DVD images (VOB).
  • WMV videos using the MSS2 video codec (for screencasting)
 
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