Submit to MiND TV's Themed Months

MiND is offering our members a special opportunity! Each month in 2010, you can submit to have your 5-minute programs considered for a place in a special hour of new 5-minute programs. What are you passionate about? Is it the environment, violence prevention, or maybe the local food movement?

Match up your passions with the MiND featured topic of the month, make a 5-minute program and submit it to us!

“Take a Hike!” & Explore The Outdoors for Healthy Living
This October, “Take a Hike!” with MiND TV! and explore the outdoors for healthy living. Get off the couch, and be part of the excitement! Create and submit a 5-minute program about how you stay healthy and fit while exploring your local outdoors community. The best submissions will earn a place in a special primetime hour of new noteworthy 5-minute programs!

Remember: you must be a current member to submit, and all programs must be 5-minutes long, non-promotional, and contain a learning component. Learn more about our rules.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: September 17th, 2010 at 5pm!

Contact us at membership@mindtv.org or at 215-483-3900 ext. 223

Submitting to MiND for our 2010 Themed Months
Each month MiND is dedicating the airwaves to a particular topic or community, and we want to showcase your programs as part of this special effort. Be sure to submit your 5-minute programs by the deadlines!

Questions about submission guidelines?
Contact us at membership@mindtv.org or 215-483-3900 ext. 223

Don’t know how to make a 5-minute program?
Attend one of MiND’s Video Production Boot Camps: www.mindtv.org/training

All programs must be non-commercial, contain a learning component, and be exactly 5-minutes long. MiND reserves the right to subjectively select the programs for each hour every month. All submissions received, if approved, will air on MiND TV and at www.mindtv.org.

Submission requirements:
To submit, you must be a current MiND member. You can join MiND at www.mindtv.org and click “Become a Member!” Once you are a MiND member, you will have access to all the forms you need to submit. If you have any questions, contact membership@mindtv.org.

Technical requirements:
MiND only accepts DVDs (not CD-ROMs and not file transfers). To prepare a DVD for MiND, please either export as an MPEG2 file and then save the resulting file as a DVD; or save directly to DVD.

If your software provides you with optional settings, please use these settings:

• Format: MPEG2 or DV NTSC
• Size: 720x480 (3/4)
• Frame Rate: 29.97 frames per second
• Audio Sample Rate: 48.0 kHz (or as set for project’s recording)
• Video Levels: 7.5 IRE to 100 IRE
• Video Bit Rate: 6000 kbps (constant)
• Audio: MPEG Layer II, stereo
• Audio Bit Rate: 256 kbps

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