Welcome and thank you for your interest in contributing to Ottica TV.

Submitting your Movie:

Please read the 'About Ottica TV' info first to get an idea about the Channel.
The restrictions are - Submit no more than 2 movies : Total length of all movies 10 mins.
Entry is by invitation or selection from submissions. It is free to send in your movies.

Before you send in :
Please e-mail ottica@a2arts.co.uk to let us know you are submitting.
You can send your movie as a Flash Video file (*.flv) ready to upload, or as an AVI file (*.avi) and we will do the conversion for you.

If you are sending in your movies in Flash Video format (*.flv) :

• Please mail your material on a CD or 'Data' DVD
• Each FLV file should not be more than 30 Megabytes.

Note: The Players use the following specification :

• 480 x 360 pixels (4:3 aspect ratio but can accommodate 16:9 as a 'letterbox')
• 24 fps
• 500 bps data rate
• Stereo

If you are sending your movie in AVI format :

• Please mail your material as a 'Data' DVD
• You should make your *.avi file from your original uncompressed material - i.e. not converted back from compressed mpeg, wmv, etc. files. Your 10 minute *.avi file should work out at about 2 Gigabytes - i.e. 200 megs per minute.
• Further info e-mail ottica@a2arts.co.uk

For both FLV and AVI submissions :

On the same disk as your movies you need to provide us for each movie with :

• A movie still - 480 x 360 pixels @ 72dpi JPEG - titled i.e.: 'myname_mymovie_still.jpg'
• A movie thumbnail - 80 x 60 pixels @ 72dpi JPEG - titled i.e.: 'myname_mymovie_thumb.jpg'

...and the following text - included in a *.txt or *.doc file on the disk -


• Movie title - 60 characters max - including spaces.
• Short text - 20 words max - including run-time and copyright info
• The stream you would like it to appear on ('Cinematheque' or 'Culturetheque')
• Aspect ratio (if known) i.e. 4:3 or 16:9.
• Your name and contact (e-mail) details.
• (Optional) Web address (URL) to any webpage you may have describing the movie.
• (Optional) Longer text describing your movie - max 250 words

Once you have your content on disk

• E-mail first to ottica@a2arts.co.uk to let us know you are mailing your disk and get the 'OK'. We will supply you with a mail address by return.
• *Please* do not e-mail your movie as an attach!!
• The disk will not be returned unless you include an SAE. Alternatively you can specify that you want your disk to be destroyed once the content is uploaded. If you specify neither of these then we hope you do not mind if we retain the disks for archive purposes, in the event we can re-upload the Channel in a higher quality format in the future.